President Obama's allies do more damage in days than GOP did in four years
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President Obama's allies do more damage in days than GOP did in four years
In a matter of days, the Obama administration has done something that the president's political opponents have failed to do over four and a half years: inflicted serious damage to President Obama's public standing.
Obama has throughout his presidency aggressively combated GOP criticism -- on issues large and small -- mocking the attacks as political theater short on facts.
But with his own administration now embroiled in a flurry of controversies, including IRS mistreatment of conservative groups and the Justice Department's secret monitoring of journalists' phones, the president is coming across not as a forceful defender but as a bystander who claims he didn't know what the people who work for him were doing. That posture, analysts said, will fuel public cynicism toward government and stoke fears of a White House in crisis.
"The Benghazi, IRS and Associated Press stories have a common thread: They deal with how policy is administered," said Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential historian who focuses on White House communication. "Management has been a weak point for the president from early in his administration. That is why these stories hit so hard. He has not been ahead of events but rather has had to rely on news organizations to inform him of what is going on in his own administration."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/president-obama-allies-do-more-damage-in-days-than-gop-did-in-four-years/article/2529781
Obama has throughout his presidency aggressively combated GOP criticism -- on issues large and small -- mocking the attacks as political theater short on facts.
But with his own administration now embroiled in a flurry of controversies, including IRS mistreatment of conservative groups and the Justice Department's secret monitoring of journalists' phones, the president is coming across not as a forceful defender but as a bystander who claims he didn't know what the people who work for him were doing. That posture, analysts said, will fuel public cynicism toward government and stoke fears of a White House in crisis.
"The Benghazi, IRS and Associated Press stories have a common thread: They deal with how policy is administered," said Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential historian who focuses on White House communication. "Management has been a weak point for the president from early in his administration. That is why these stories hit so hard. He has not been ahead of events but rather has had to rely on news organizations to inform him of what is going on in his own administration."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/president-obama-allies-do-more-damage-in-days-than-gop-did-in-four-years/article/2529781
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Re: President Obama's allies do more damage in days than GOP did in four years
I just read an article about how even Chris Matthews is losing his thrill up the leg over Obama! Now that is something!
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