Keeping the President in the Dark

Remember when "Liberals" assured us that Pres Obama is "The smartest kid in class"?

He is, as guest expert David Gergen noted on CNN after the news conference, not only "up to speed" on the pressing issues of our time but also articulate about addressing them in a friendly, accessible way. He's not the student who wears a button that says, "Smartest kid in class," but clearly he is...

In fact, he's the smartest president ever!

Historian Michael Beschloss: “Uh. I would say it’s probably - he’s probably the smartest guy ever to become President.”

What happened to him?  Because, these days, he looks more like this.

He's the last to know about every piece of bad news that emanates from his administration.  In fact, he only learns of bad news from the same news reports that informed the rest of us.



And he's outraged!  Not outraged enough to actually do anything about it, but trust him, he's outraged!

Apparently, someone in the Obama Administration is keeping Pres Obama in the dark about what the Obama administration is doing.  And they seem to be getting away with it, too, because no one's been held accountable for any of it.

It's such a shame to waste the presidency's most prodigious intellect ever by withholding information from him.

UPDATE: He didn't know anything about the website's troubles either.

OK. On the website, I was not informed directly that the website would not be working as — the way it was supposed to. Has I been informed, I wouldn’t be going out saying, boy, this is going to be great. You know, I’m accused of a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying, this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity, a week before the website opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work. 

So, clearly, we and I did not have enough awareness about the problems in the website. Even a week into it, the thinking was that these were some glitches that would be fixed with patches, as opposed to some broader systemic problems that took much longer to fix and we’re still working on them.

He was not informed.  Whose job was it to inform him?  Is he holding that person accountable?  I like how Mary Katherine Ham puts it.

Neat how his ignorance is proof of his smarts. “I don’t think I’m stupid enough…” 

Then, there's the inimitable Mark Steyn.

So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he’s not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he’s not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they’re in for. But he is smart enough to know that he’s not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he’d already been informed that it doesn’t work. So he’s smart enough to know that if he’d known what he didn’t know he’d know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing. The country’s in the very best of hands. 

Oh, and by the way, buying insurance is hard.

The most telling line, the one that encapsulates the gulf between the boundless fantasies of the faculty-lounge utopian and the messiness of reality, was this: “What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.” Gee, thanks for sharing, genius. Maybe you should have thought of that before you governmentalized one-sixth of the economy. By “we,” the president means “I.” Out here in the ruder provinces of his decrepit realm, we “folks” are well aware of how complicated insurance is. What isn’t complicated in the Sultanate of Sclerosis? 

 Oh, boy....