Ineptitude:
- Main Entry: in·ept
- Pronunciation: \i-ˈnept\
- Function: adjective
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- Etymology:Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus apt
- Date:1542
1 : lacking in fitness or aptitude : unfit <inept at sports>
2 : lacking sense or reason : foolish
3 : not suitable to the time, place, or occasion : inappropriate often to an absurd degree <an inept metaphor>
4 : generally incompetent : bungling <inept leadership>
Ineptitude at its finest. That’s the Obama administration. Here’s a couple articles:
Obamafusion
Too many are beginning to think Obama is, well, a naïf-and hence dangerous. He chest-thumps speeches Geithner cannot deliver. He says we are near the Great Depression-but then, after the stimulus package passes, suddenly hypes future growth rates to suggest that we will be out a recession, soon after all? Add in all the talk of high-tax, Al-Gorist cap-in-trade, wind and solar, socialized medicine in the midst of a financial crisis, and at best Obama comes across as confused and herky-jerky, and at worse, clueless on the economy-as if a Chicago organizer is organizing a multi-trillion-dollar economy. Talking about ‘gyrations’ and confusion about profits and earnings, and offering ad hoc advice about investing do not restore authority.
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Be Happy
by Oliver North
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s remarkable inability to say or do the right things to aid our sinking economy, stay the collapse of our equities markets, or even build a competent Cabinet is now the stuff of cartoons, talk show fodder and late-night comedy. Who hasn’t heard the one about how “this year’s IRS 1040 allows every taxpayer to claim one Geithner or a Daschle, depending on how much tax you don’t want to pay”? Humor may help us deal with our current financial travail, but national security is no laughing matter.
Unfortunately, this week has proved that the new administration may be no better at protecting us from incoming Iranian nuclear warheads than it is at creating jobs. It started last Sunday, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on NBC that Iran isn’t “close to a stockpile. They’re not close to a weapon at this point, and so there is some time.” That same morning, on CNN, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, was asked whether Iran has enough fissile material to make a nuclear bomb. “We think they do, quite frankly,” he replied. The admiral added, “Iran having a nuclear weapon … is a very, very bad outcome for the region and for the world.” Somehow, it doesn’t seem that both Pentagon leaders can be correct.
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The Waiting Game
by Jonah Goldberg
Obama brags — albeit dishonestly — that he’s only raising taxes on rich people. Ninety-five percent of the American people will get a tax cut, the president insists.
Well, which is it? Do the times demand shared sacrifice from us all, or from just 5 percent of Americans?
If I say to 10 co-workers, “We all need to chip in together to get this done,” and then say, “So, Todd, open your wallet and give five bucks to everyone else in the room,” it would sound ridiculous. But when Obama says the same thing to 300 million Americans it’s called “leadership.”
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He’s My President, But I Don’t Have to Like It
by Burt Prelutsky
If I hear one more person point out that Obama is the president and that it’s our duty to support him, I just might run amok. For one thing, I resent being reminded that he actually won the election and that it’s not all a bad dream from which I’ll awaken as soon as the alarm clock rings. For another, there was a very good reason that I voted for John McCain, and it certainly had nothing to do with my having great expectations of the man, and everything to do with my conviction that Obama was a left-wing ideologue.
Judging by the early days of his administration, I have had to reevaluate him. He’s even worse than I feared. It’s been one disaster after another. His appointments have been a series of embarrassments. His hard sell of the Pelosi-Reid trillion dollar earmark makes him look like the worst sort of fear-monger. And, considering the fact that he was sold to us as eloquent and a fellow who could think on his feet, his use of a teleprompter at his press conference reminded me of the Wizard of Oz, the con man behind the curtain. I guess you can take the man out of Chicago, but you can’t take Chicago out of the man.
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Truth, Lies and In Between 