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January 25, 2010

Obama's unsavory group of advisors

Apparently, if you want to cheat on your wife or spurn the mother of your unborn child, cover up and easily settle your institution's criminal efforts to help Americans avoid paying their federal income taxes, or just avoid paying your own fair share, the place to be is on President Barack Obama's economic-recovery advisory board:

... that's where Robert Wolf, chief executive of UBS Group Americas, the U.S. arm of one of Switzerland's largest banks, UBS AG, sits, as do Charles E. Phillips, President of Oracle Corporation, Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management of and Budget, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. One imagines that's where they can get together to compare notes.

And then there's those "propagandists" that the administration refers to as "new media specialists" - that spin the administration's message - paid for with taxpayer dollars:

[...] As Attorney General Eric Holder hunkers down to avoid questions about his decision to try the Christmas Day bomber in federal criminal court and to have the bomber's Miranda Rights protected, more information emerges on the Obama Administration's decision to house propagandist "new media specialists" in most major Cabinet-level Offices of Public Affairs. These bloggers, paid with taxpayer funds, routinely pass along "Administration approved" talking points to bloggers and online journalists, monitor conservative or "adversarial" websites, and post comments in support of the Administration on a number of those sites.

[...] according to a career employee in the Department of Justice, both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees sent formal letters of inquiry to the Department of Justice regarding its "blogging" policies, but DOJ officials have yet to even acknowledge the letters.

This reminds me of old sayings like "Ye shall know them by the company they keep" and "Birds of a feather flock together," etc..., and it speaks much to the character - or, rather the lack of character, of Barack Obama in both his choice of advisors and his method of governance. As Kyle-Anne Shiver noted way back in May 08: "Character is what the Presidency boils down to, and in this regard, Mr. Obama is most ashamedly lacking."

After all, it was crystal clear that Barack Obama lacked character and judgement long before he was elected to office. Unfortunately, the American people chose to overlook the difference between Barack Obama's words and promises, and his astonishing lack of character and judgement shown in his associations with a radical, America-hating preacher, for twenty years, and a long list of Marxists and far-left, radical socialists. It's a mistake that the American people should be leery of repeating.

Posted by Richard at January 25, 2010 8:21 AM

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