Obama administration scandals grow
Lewis DiuguidThe Obama administration runs the risk in this election year of being plagued by scandals.
More photographs surfaced this week along with more administration apologies of U.S. soldiers posing with the remains of insurgents in Afghanistan. The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday published these pictures.
Other pictures of U.S. troops posing with dead Afghans had been publicized earlier, drawing Obama administration apologies and further damaging U.S.-Afghanistan relations. Let’s not talk about the burning of the Qur’ans incident and the U.S. soldier facing charges now for killing innocent Afghan women and children.
Then there is the mushrooming Secret Service scandal. Allegations continue to build of agents in Colombia ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit last week hiring prostitutes and whether that was an ongoing practice in the agency that guards the president.
Already the controversy has claimed the jobs of three agents. Eight others are on administrative leave, and a bunch of investigations are under way.
Add to that the federal government’s failed $535 million investment in Solyndra and the ongoing investigations, and it begins to look as if the Obama administration has lost control. Obama is unlikely to want to enter the history books, following the presidency of Warren Harding.
Tom Ryan
Crossroads, Kansas City
1 year, 1 month agoHunting shots
Denounce them, Sir!
Of course…deplore
Able
Yet, this is a hunting trip
And hunters will be hunters
You know?
No. I don’t know.
And even those reverential
Tall tales
Moby Dick, The Bear
Are buried beneath mounds
Of buffalo
Bad metaphor, Sir!
And the pictures, well
And hunters will be hunters?
Well, yes it’s part of the…
The what, Sir?
The hot euphoria knowing
Your blood is hot
Cold blood, stiff, trophy
These are children
Like Golding’s
Trophies on wallpaper
Taxidermy’d digital prizes
So what did you do in the war
Daddy, Mommy?
Here, let me show you
Scroll, open, enlarge.
George Hunsucker
Northland
1 year, 1 month agoThis is one sharp tack!!!!
Just more “change we can believe in”…. coming-up on 1100 days without a budget. What a “leader”!
George Hunsucker
Northland
1 year, 1 month agoEven women are abondoning the big 0. He carried women by 12% in 2008, it is now under that….
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/19/obama-holds-slight-lead-over-romney-quinnipiac-pol/
And of course everyone but the kool-aid drinkers know that the community organizer is way over his head on economic things….
Ron Vanlerberg
1 year, 1 month agoLewis,