Joan Walsh is the propagandist in chief -- excuse me, the editor in chief at Salon.com, a very liberal pro-Obama website. No matter what happens, Walsh is always sure that problems are the fault of right wing Republicans and everything good stems from a government controlled by the Democrats. Today, she addresses the "pernicious myth" of president Obama's incompetence. Her column is very telling.
First of all, Walsh spends paragraph after paragraph slamming people who have described recent events as revelations of incompetence by Obama. Interestingly, Walsh starts with the GOP, but she gets so far as to slam Bob Shrum, a long time leftist national Democrat figure for daring to call Obama incompetent.
More important than the usual nastiness spewing from Walsh, however, is what she does not say. In her entire article, she never explains why it is that she thinks Obama is competent. For all we know, Walsh thinks that Obama was intentionally lying when he told folks for years that if they liked their policies they could keep them. Maybe Walsh thinks that Obama is a competent liar, so that charges of incompetence are overblown. Or, maybe Walsh thinks that Obama told the truth when he claims not to know about the NSA spying on allies, the IRS attacking conservative groups and individuals, the Justice Department harassing reporters like the AP and Fox News, the Justice Department arranging to supply 2000 assault weapons to the Mexican Drug cartels, the State Department and White House staff deciding to leave the Benghazi consulate essentially unguarded despite the threat of imminent terrorist attack, and all the rest. Walsh may believe that Obama just does not care about government and ignores what is happening around him, thereby making charges of incompetence unfair.
The truth is that Obama has demonstrated that neither he nor his advisors have much competence when it comes to anything other than making speeches. The problem, of course, is that to make a great speech, people need to believe what is being said. With Obama, there is no way anyone could believe that he means what he says. We have all just seen too much.
First of all, Walsh spends paragraph after paragraph slamming people who have described recent events as revelations of incompetence by Obama. Interestingly, Walsh starts with the GOP, but she gets so far as to slam Bob Shrum, a long time leftist national Democrat figure for daring to call Obama incompetent.
More important than the usual nastiness spewing from Walsh, however, is what she does not say. In her entire article, she never explains why it is that she thinks Obama is competent. For all we know, Walsh thinks that Obama was intentionally lying when he told folks for years that if they liked their policies they could keep them. Maybe Walsh thinks that Obama is a competent liar, so that charges of incompetence are overblown. Or, maybe Walsh thinks that Obama told the truth when he claims not to know about the NSA spying on allies, the IRS attacking conservative groups and individuals, the Justice Department harassing reporters like the AP and Fox News, the Justice Department arranging to supply 2000 assault weapons to the Mexican Drug cartels, the State Department and White House staff deciding to leave the Benghazi consulate essentially unguarded despite the threat of imminent terrorist attack, and all the rest. Walsh may believe that Obama just does not care about government and ignores what is happening around him, thereby making charges of incompetence unfair.
The truth is that Obama has demonstrated that neither he nor his advisors have much competence when it comes to anything other than making speeches. The problem, of course, is that to make a great speech, people need to believe what is being said. With Obama, there is no way anyone could believe that he means what he says. We have all just seen too much.
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