Obama: "I Screwed Up" When It Comes To Daschle

Indeed there have been a number of mistakes and screw ups already that go well beyond the nomination of tax evading Tom Daschle, and Obama has only been president for two weeks. To name a few, the first phone call to a foriegn leader going to Mahmoud Abbas was a mistake. The gargantuan special interest free-for-all porkulus spending spree is a screw up. The pandering to the Arab world on Al-Arabiya was a mistake. Obama telling Iran that he would like to open diplomatic channels if Iran should "unclench its fist" and the Iranian response being to unclench one finger just goes to show how much of a screw up that Al-Arabiya interview actually was. His appointment of tax cheat Tim Geithner to Treasury was a screw up. His getting rid of the Mexico City Policy was a screw up. His ordering Gitmo closed within one year without offering even a hint of an explanation at what he intends to do with the prisoners is a mistake. His appointment of viciously anti-Israel Samantha Power to a top foreign policy job at the White House is a screw up. Obama's breaking his own announced rules from his first day in office to not hire lobbyists by allowing Tim Geithner to hire former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson as his chief of staff is a screw up. His nominee for Chief Performance Officer having to withdraw because of tax problem is a screw up. Bill Richardson withdrawing his nomination for Commerce Secretary because of a federal pay-for-play investigation is a screw up. Be prepared, because there is another four years of mistakes and screw ups ahead of us.

Here is the money quote from Obama: “I don’t want to send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards, one for powerful people and one for ordinary folks who are working every day and paying their taxes.” Too late for that, message sent. Obama seems to think that Daschle is the only "mistake" that he has made, when it was one of many and arguably a lesser mistake than many others. But he did not force Daschle out anyway, Daschle only left after outrage continued to rise. Further, the Obama administration claims that they did not ask Daschle to withdraw his nomination but that Daschle withdrew all on his own.

Obama has already clearly sent the message that there are "two sets of standards" as he pushed a man that was exposed as a tax evader through the Senate to become our Secretary of Treasury. Apparently you can slide one tax evader by the Senate, but try two and that becomes outrageous!

Anybody that was stupid enough to fall for Obama's "hope and change" nonsense should feel like an idiot right about now.

Watch Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs make a fool out of himself by making the laughable assertion that the administration has the strongest ethics and accountability rules of any in U.S. history.


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