If President Obama listened to a certain someone who spoke to Jay Leno about changing Washington nigh on five years ago, he might spend more time talking to them than blaming some in the conservative media.
As readers who remember my blog postings will surely recall, in March 2009, that certain someone said:
And one of the things that I’m trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame. And I think Geithner is doing an outstanding job. I think that we have a big mess on our hands. It’s not going to be solved immediately, but it is going to get solved. And the key thing is for everybody just to stay focused on doing the job instead of trying to figure out who you can pass blame on to.
But, early this morning, Yahoo! was leading with an article reporting:
President Barack Obama is blaming his rocky relationship with Republicans in Congress on Rush Limbaugh, and the constant stream of bad press he receives from Fox News.
In the New Yorker follow-up interview to the magazine’s in-depth portrait of the President, Obama is described as being “particularly touchy” when discussing the notion that his inability to compromise with Republicans prevents him from passing more legislation.
Interesting that the folks at Yahoo! Celebrity headline this as Obama calling out Rush Limbaugh et al., as if he is being bold and daring and standing up to bullies. No, the problem isn’t bullies on the right, but inaction from the White House. When was the last time Mr. Obama invited any Republican leaders for a round of golf or to to a “beer summit” at the White House?
But what they really should be asking is why Mr. Obama doesn’t do as other presidents have done and invite his partisan adversaries to the White House or otherwise attempt to hash out their differences.
Funny that our legacy media aren’t asking why Obama is always looking for someone else to blame.
Pres. Obama doesn’t even invite his own allies to the White House.
I was appalled, but not surprised, when a senior Democratic Member of the House and Subcommittee Chairman commented last year in an interview that he had NEVER personally meet the President…nor had he been invited to the White House since the Bush Administration left-town. …WTF??
But why am I surprised, Obama barely attended any of the meetings or hearings of the subcommittees he was assigned-to as a Senator. He was too busy running for President….
Can you imagine if Obama had to deal with REAL opposition? If he suffered merely a thimbleful of the bile and hate from the Left and the Media (but I repeat myself) that GW Bush did?
This man gets virtually fellated by pretty much everyone BUT Fox News, has an Opposition Party unwilling or unable to call him the criminal he so clearly is, and he STILL whines?
If the Media hadn’t outed itself as the Propoganda Arm of the Democratic Party, this would all be news. But instead we have complicit enablers.
Sorry, Barky. I know Presidentin’ is hard and all,but maybe if you rolled out of bed before ten or eleven, and maybe if you took a fraction of the energy you spend on vactations and compaigning and lying and spent it trying to, you know, GOVERN, maybe things would be different.
He can’t govern because he is incapable of doing so. This is a man who was never had a real job or been an executive of anything. His main career was community agitating. He just had to foment dissent and voila, money fell from the sky because no one wants to be thought of as a racist. His career wasn’t as long and illustrious as Jesse Jackson, but that’s because he had the face for politics, and the pump of white guilt was fully primed. He also is self-admittedly lazy, which he absolutely excels at. The only thing he does better than doing nothing (partially why he leads from behind) is lie. Obama is a world class pathological liar. Lying, to him is as natural as breathing.
Having been around for more decades than I care to admit this guy in the WH has to be the most self-centered and self-absorbed of any president I can recall. Is it any wonder we have so many factions in the country at each other’s throats when the person supposed to be above all the bickering and name calling is leading the blame game? There appears to be one major rule at the WH, ‘protect numero uno at all costs, even if it means to lie or mislead or look like a fool.’ Jay Carney makes Baghdad Bob look like an amateur.