Obama’s Worst Personnel Decision?
As Jim Hoft, who alerted me to the cover below put it: You Know You’re the Punchline When They Start Reporting You’re No Joke
Maybe this cover is a joke.
Jennifer Rubin, who has a more honest evaluation of the Vice President (than the MSM who fawn over anything Obama, including his appointees), considered what might happen should the President and Secretary of Defense back the McChrystal approach to Afghanistan:
. . . it would be one more indication that perhaps the worst personnel decision Obama ever made was selecting Biden. Exactly what value has he added? Maybe he’ll make the president (if he rejects Biden’s counsel) look wise — and that’s a critical function for any vice president.
Sometimes I wonder if that’s the reason, the then-presumptive Democratic nominee chose the then-Delaware Senator. Obama makes himself look wise by comparison to the man who had spent over half his life in Washington when the Illinoisan started serving with him (in 2005).
With Biden, the President would have a Vice President who had, when in the Senate, almost never taken a course independent of his party. He likely assumed predicated that once ensconced at the Naval Observatory (Washington home to all Vice Presidents since Mondale), the gaffe-prone sexagenarian would easily to fall into line with all of the president’s initiatives. And Biden ever eager to get along and go along, wouldn’t raise a ruckus, or let it be leaked, if things didn’t go his way, because well, things always seemed to go his way within the Democratic caucus ’cause he always went the way of the caucus.
No one really expects the President to turn to Biden for advice. And let’s hope he doesn’t when it comes time to make a decision on Afghanistan.
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President Obama just was so flattered to be called Clean and Articulate that he had to have Joe on staff.
Comment by The_Livewire — October 20, 2009 @ 7:51 am - October 20, 2009
Let the snarky photoshopping begin.
Comment by Sean A — October 20, 2009 @ 9:09 am - October 20, 2009
A great American (great on defending us, and only 1/2 as bad as Obama on economics) once said, “If bullshit was currency, Joe Biden would be a billionaire.”
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 20, 2009 @ 9:41 am - October 20, 2009
And I love Newsweek’s subtitle: “A Vice President to be Reckoned With”. Yet another example of the MSM’s partisan double standards.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 20, 2009 @ 9:44 am - October 20, 2009
He chose Biden because Michelle didn’t like Hillary. Any other questions?
Comment by Ashpenaz — October 20, 2009 @ 9:46 am - October 20, 2009
Let’s not be too hard on Biden. At the rate Obama is coming unglued, in another 12 months Biden will be President.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 20, 2009 @ 9:53 am - October 20, 2009
I am waiting for the leftist who posts here saying he is better than Sarah Palin.
Comment by TrulyScrumptious — October 20, 2009 @ 11:20 am - October 20, 2009
I’m not sure that Joe Biden is his worse decision there are so many to chose from like the juvenile war on Fox News.
Iraq War -pulling out. Afghanistan War- can’t decide Fox War all out assault…talk about having no idea what they look like to the public.
George Stephanopoulos, was also a guest this morning, on Imus In The
Morning, he must have run the White House gauntlet, and concertina
wire. He appeared this morning with Imus on Fox Business News, and Octomom’s indecent proposal to Jon Gosselin.
Seal Hunter is back blogging. Octomom really lit,. Hunts with Club’s fuse GRIN.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/10/8-8-octostupidity-george-stephanopoulus.html
Comment by keyboard Jockey — October 20, 2009 @ 11:25 am - October 20, 2009
Hey, look at the bright side…. at least it’s not another cover with Obama on it. Actually, I’m surprised it’s not a cover of a scowling Rush Limbaugh, with a tag line trumpeting his failure to gain an ownership position in the NFL.
Comment by Sonicfrog — October 20, 2009 @ 12:44 pm - October 20, 2009
I will give Biden this credit. He is not following in the footsteps of Cheney and Gore, his last two predecessors, and assuming the role of an ultra strong VP.
Comment by Sonicfrog — October 20, 2009 @ 12:46 pm - October 20, 2009
Biden is exactly what Obama wanted: a Type-C with poor character who would never, NEVER throw a shadow over The One’s limelight.
Comment by DaveP. — October 20, 2009 @ 1:46 pm - October 20, 2009
Finally! Someone other than Obama on the cover of Newsweek for a change! Of course, its Obama’s second in command, and Obama is still there in the corner. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro WISH they could get coverage this fawning!
Comment by American Elephant — October 20, 2009 @ 2:12 pm - October 20, 2009
Biden has the cheesy, plastic smile of a faker whose faking runs so deep that he believes himself and no longer knows he is faking.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 20, 2009 @ 2:15 pm - October 20, 2009
Biden was really the first bad personnel decision our naive President made. He picked Biden the boob before he picked Richardson the crook. Sebelius the tax cheat, long before he tapped Geithner the tax cheat crook. He picked Biden before the choose Emmanual the Chicago thug as chief of staff or cone head Gibbs as press sec.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 20, 2009 @ 2:39 pm - October 20, 2009
The next Newsweek cover should be
“WHY OBAMA IS NO DITHERER”
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 20, 2009 @ 2:42 pm - October 20, 2009
More bad news for the liberals boobs.
Today Rasmussen reports Obamas STRONGLY APPROVE number falls to 28%. STRONGLY DISAPPROVE rises to 40%. A difference of -12. Approaching his worst ever of -14.
56% now strongly disapprove of Obamacare.
When was his last joint session of Congress speech?
Is it time for another?
He can roll Afghanistan, Iran, Obamacare and the Olympics all into one apology, no?
Check out the White House parties as unemployment flies past 10%, Barack and Michelle fiddle….
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gEfUAdYWG5Ysa7CDcGMLMuIZ2xdwD9BEJCEO4
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 20, 2009 @ 3:16 pm - October 20, 2009
Sarah Palin is much better than Biden. She’s stronger, she’s smarter, and she wouldn’t be afraid of MSNBC the way Obama is of Fox. As shown by the fact that she took tough interviews from unfriendly reporters. How many times has Obama done that?
Seriously–I think Obama is gay and I think he’s attracted to older men as father figures. I suspect that was a dynamic in his relationship with Rev. Wright as well. I think Biden was the kind of older man Obama wants to lean on for strength.
Every politician has had rumors of affairs. The fact that there are no such rumors about Obama suggests he doesn’t have a woman problem. If you know what I mean.
I would have picked Jason Statham for my VP for the same reasons, so who am I to judge?
Comment by Ashpenaz — October 20, 2009 @ 4:20 pm - October 20, 2009
What happened to that guy who said he had sex with Obama in a limo or a taxi or something? Is he chillin’ with Vince Foster now?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 20, 2009 @ 5:41 pm - October 20, 2009
There are no rumors about Obama and WOMEN. There’s the limo guy and the choir director who mysteriously died, but none of those embarrassing Clinton-esque bimbos. This vacuum in Obama’s life seems strange for an attractive young man. There’s nothing about any womanizing before his marriage, either–unlike Bush, Clinton, or even Hillary.
So I think Obama is using his political power to appoint himself a father.
I would, too. I would just pick a younger and more muscular father.
Comment by Ashpenaz — October 20, 2009 @ 6:44 pm - October 20, 2009
dear ash,
you’re embarrassing yourself. seriously. please just stop.
love,
bob (aka boob)
Comment by bob (aka boob) — October 20, 2009 @ 10:52 pm - October 20, 2009
So, you don’t think it’s strange that a young, attractive, aggressive politician has never been linked to a woman other than his wife? No ex-girlfriends? And there has never been a hint of unfaithfulness in his marriage? Wow–I guess he is the Messiah! I am embarassed!
He does seem to be surrounded by a lot of older, male mentors, though. Let’s see–how does that old song go?
I will be your father figure
I will be your preacher/teacher
anything you have in mind
I will be the one who loves
until the end of time
I believe the guy who sang that was “straight” at the time.
Comment by Ashpenaz — October 20, 2009 @ 11:57 pm - October 20, 2009
Bzzzzzt, wrong answer: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/john-stephenson/2008/10/13/will-media-investigate-obama-affair-rumors
Also: Who the hell cares, one way or the other? Why care?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 21, 2009 @ 2:30 am - October 21, 2009
(on the gay vs. straight angle, I mean above. If Obama is committing legal perjury or has poor character, or is buggering little children for that matter, we care. Although we already know he has the first two of those, i.e., tendencies toward lying and some other character defects, from watching his political performance alone.)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 21, 2009 @ 2:36 am - October 21, 2009
Sorta shows that he’s not the messiah after all. Not to mention paying two “Finance Directors” and conveniently shipping one off to Martinique.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 21, 2009 @ 4:11 am - October 21, 2009
I had this theory about why Obama chose Biden when it happened. I thought it strange he would choose someone like Biden, but when I realized he was appointing a father for himself, just as he had done with Rev. Wright, et. al., it made sense. Also, it was the sort of thing I would do–if I had all the power in the world, I’d surround myself with replacements for my missing father.
I think Obama has a deep need for masculine affirmation. Along with masculine “affirmation.”
Comment by Ashpenaz — October 21, 2009 @ 9:16 am - October 21, 2009
You mean that part of you is afraid He might be?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 21, 2009 @ 10:19 am - October 21, 2009