. . . I’ve been saying for a long time he has a sign on his desk, “The buck passes here”.

Close but no cigar. From http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-harry-truman-said-buck-stops-you_648541.html

Ear Leader has a different take on the holder of the buck at the end of musical chairs, YOU.

In a local interview with WJLA, President Obama urges Mitt Romney to say that he was running Bain Capital after 1999, though Romney insists he did not actively manage the company at that time. “Well, here’s what I know, we were just talking about responsibility and as president of the United States, it’s pretty clear to me that I’m responsible for folks who are working in the federal government and you know, Harry Truman said the buck stops with you,” Obama said.

Not me! The buck stops >> over there.

pleeeese.

Bob from Virginia Says

And you know what else is fun? Making up stories about how marvelous Obama memorabilia is when in conversation with Obamites.

And they don’t realize you are putting them on? So much for Demos being the Party of the Intelligentsia. OTOH, that says something about those who consider themselves one of the Intelligentsia.

Go ahead and yield, it is better for one’s health to say nothing of avoiding constant disappointment.

And you know what else is fun? Making up stories about how marvelous Obama memorabilia is when in conversation with Obamites. For instance you can mention that you had an upset stomach once but put a picture of Obama on it and the pain went away. Likewise with toothaches and cancer. My favorite is telling people that I have homicidal tendencies but carrying Obama’s picture around helps me control them and that I know many others who do the same.

However (though, of course, I did write it after all) the problem is that the people who WANT to be fooled about Obama have not gone away and are happy to believe that nothing bad is ever his fault. Plus, there were enough of them to re-elect him. So: he keeps doing it because it’s working really well for him, most of the time.

I’ve been trying hard not to yield to complete cynicism about the American people — but man, it’s getting tough.

Me too, I’ve been saying for a long time he has a sign on his desk, “The buck passes here”. It’s one fo the most disgraceful traits to have for someone claiming “leadership”.

http://www.ace.mu.nu/

Obama: The “It Wasn’t Me” President
–LauraW.

Four years without a budget, vastly spiraling debt, credit downgrade, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the sequester…you can ask an Obama supporter about numerous recent actions and events of this government and they will deny that Obama had anything to do with it.

Then if you ask this person if Obama is doing a good job, they will express giddy support for all his good work for which he cannot be held responsible.

Previously, Janet Napolitano smarmily said that sequester cuts left the administration no choice but to release waves of illegal immigrants who had been detained for breaking other laws.

Then when that decision sparked a backlash, she said it had been made by some faceless drone “…in the field.”

And now that the decision to close White House tours has been called out as a similarly obvious (but less dangerous) ploy, Obama again deflects responsibility.

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It’s your sequester and you live in the White House, but you have nothing to do with childishly cutting off tours to punish people?

Please.

President Obama said his administration was looking at ways to resume White House tours for school groups.

“This was not a decision that went up to the White House,” noted Obama in an ABC News interview aired on Wednesday, saying the directive came from the Secret Service.

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The Secret Service says the White House made the decision to cancel the tours. The White House says it was the Secret Service’s idea first.

This game is getting f*cking stupid.

It’s the major press, of course, constantly reframing everything and keeping Obama’s own actions from tainting his record.

They cannot report on an issue without also building in an excuse or cover for Obama within the same article.

It has become reflex now to look for the excuse or fall guy in every news story about this administration’s dysfunction.