{"id":121139,"date":"2014-05-26T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=880173c6dcbc2005be05721128429952"},"modified":"2014-05-26T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:46:33","slug":"democrats-shred-obama-call-him-detached-flat-footed-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/democrats-shred-obama-call-him-detached-flat-footed-incompetent\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Shred Obama, Call Him &#8216;Detached,&#8217; &#8216;Flat Footed,&#8217; &#8216;Incompetent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Duclos<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xQ8OnDr0eRA\/U4MnxgNTPFI\/AAAAAAAATcY\/0DaEnGEk4wE\/s1600\/imcompetent.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xQ8OnDr0eRA\/U4MnxgNTPFI\/AAAAAAAATcY\/0DaEnGEk4wE\/s1600\/imcompetent.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Democrats may appear to be united in supporting Barack Obama in public, in private they are tearing him to shreds, calling him &#8220;detached,&#8221; &nbsp;&#8220;flat-footed&#8221; and &#8220;incompetent,&#8221; according to CNN&#8217;s John King, shown in the video below this article.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>&#8220;Forget for a moment that Republican outrage,&#8221; said King on his CNN show this morning. &#8220;More and more Democrats in key 2014 races are calling for the president to get a spine, they say, and fire his Veterans Affairs secretary. And what more and more Democrats are saying privately is scathing, calling the president and his team detached, flat footed, even incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maggie Haberman,&#8221; said King turning to a panelist, &#8220;that&#8217;s what strikes me, what democrats are saying privately in the wakes of the healthcare.gov problems, they see a president who doesn&#8217;t want to take command, doesn&#8217;t want to act fast. Raising the competence question. Some Democrats, who believe in government, [are saying] this White House doesn&#8217;t appear to have its hand on the lever.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/democrats-privately-calling-obama-detached-flat-footed-incompetent_793544.html?nopager=1\" >Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Showing Obama six years ago flapping his gums about how our troops deserve better, then fast-forwarding to the present day, the VA scandal that just became headline news, has shown that Obama&#8217;s campaign talk was just that.. talk, but no action as the recent deaths, secret waiting lists and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/investigations\/2014\/05\/25\/va-medical-care-woes\/9564605\/\" >so much more<\/a> has dominated private discussions among Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Making it worse, Democrats understand that Obama&#8217;s incompetence is likely to damage them in the 2014 elections, specifically those that are on the ballot and have been ardent, public supporters.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJJuH0DfyvM\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blogspot\/rnoHn\/~4\/sOTCGPqXS_c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan DuclosDemocrats may appear to be united in supporting Barack Obama in public, in private they are tearing him to shreds, calling him &#8220;detached,&#8221; &nbsp;&#8220;flat-footed&#8221; and &#8220;incompetent,&#8221; according to CNN&#8217;s John King, shown in the video below this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}