Sometimes it’s the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated items that makes a third item pop out. Here’s what we mean:
News item #1: In the early months of his presidency, everyone President Obama tried to appoint to his administration had tax evasion problems.
News items #2: The IRS has forced UBS, the Swiss banking giant, to reveal the names of its American clients with secret Swiss accounts.
News Item #3: While vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, the President is playing golf.
The fact that the president is playing golf is unremarkable in itself, but one member of his foursome is very interesting. Here’s how Politico.com reports it:
[Obama] played some tennis with the First Lady, is going to hit the links today with Congressman Clyburn, Mr. [Robert] Wolf of UBS, and Marvin Nicholson of the White House.
Wolf is the president of UBS, most recently in the headlines for the ongoing case in which it’s accused of helping wealthy clients evade taxes. Which is to say that this new foundation stuff has its limits.
… Wolf is not only President of UBS Americas Group, he is also Obama’s biggest campaign bundler. And yet, just last week the IRS Commissioner said on television that UBS “was facilitating tax evasion.” This seems like one of those cases where the media would have some questions if Obama were a Republican.
No wonder Obama didn’t want the press taking any photos of his vacation.
Source: Politico.com
