What’s that? Washington insiders say that Jay Carney is foundering in his job? But shouldn’t that make him the perfect spokesman for this administration?
This should come as no surprise to anyone who’s ever seen Carney struggle to answer the simplest of questions. He doesn’t want to be there. He doesn’t want this job. He’s wondering what he got himself into. It’s painful to watch.
The Telegraph UK offers these insights:
There is increasing concern in Washington that Jay Carney, the new White House Press Secretary, isn’t up to the job. Even when faced with an innocuous question that requires only that he trot out the official line, he looks completely stunned, as if the questioner is Bob Woodward asking him about Deep Throat. He gathers himself, embarks on a stuttering reply, pauses for what seems like an eternity, then starts gabbling, tripping over his words, rephrasing what he’s just said, then looking plaintively back at the questioner as if to say, “How did I do? Was that okay? Or would you like me to try again?”
“I think he’s doing very badly,” says a political contact based in Washington. “And I’ve heard others say that he’s really struggling.”
This guy always looks as if someone dressed him up in his big brother’s clothes and pushed him out on stage against his will.
To Carney’s credit, though, he has accomplished something we would have thought impossible: He’s made us miss Robert Gibbs.
Source: Telegraph UK
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Carney is a tool for Obama. I cannot believe some of the crap he says. It's worse then Steve Jobs saying a iPhone 3 is revolutionary. Just like the previous models were? Carney truly blindly believes what he says I guess.
No I don't miss Gibbs. Gibbs was a pathetic little man who thought too highly of himself. This guy is also pathetic, but at least he is not as arrogant. I am not looking for anyone in this administration to be competent, when the boss is the king of incompetence.
At least he doesn't have to use a teleprompter to talk about anything, even it is still Bullshi$ like what comes from his BOSS!
The Barack Obama adminstration can best be described in three words: "The Keystone Cops"!
Barack Obama's man made gasoline price predicament :
Open ANWAR for drilling and to produce our own oil instead of buying it from foreign countries at inflated costs while keeping the speculators at bay and to keep our money right here in America
Add up items #1 thru #8, putting the most emphasis on #8 and you will have the cost of America's gasoline costs:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfmvwxxgHM
2. http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=44337 & http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/as-oil-prices-rise-epa-attempts-to-shut-down-alaska-pipeline/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rightwingnews%2FhGmL+%28Right+Wing+News%29
3. The President of the U.S. is now giving $2.84 Billion taxpayers dollars to Columbia to build an oil refinery. I thought we needed jobs here in the U.S.? This President is a complete loser and it now shows he hates America.
U.S. Gov't Agency Plans $2.84 Billion Loan for Oil RefineryIn Colombia
4. http://wizbangblog.com/content/2011/03/11/enough-oil-to-completely-replace-all-imports.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wizbang+%28Wizbang%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
5. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/35840 & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdScVerrBU
6. As Your Gas Climbs To $5 a Gallon Obama's EPA Blocks Access To 27 Billion Barrels Of American Oil - http://www.americans-working-together.com/together_we_can/id36.html
7. Is Saudi Arabia mad at Barack Obama for allowing Egypt to fall? http://grendelreport.posterous.com/saudi-slashes-oil-output-pres-obama-launches
8. The problem that contributes the MOST to high gas prices is Quantitative Easing (QE2) by the Obama administration and here is why: http://www.futuresmag.com/News/2010/11/Pages/Oil-after-QE2.aspx
Printing more money tends to push down the value of the dollar. While that would tend to help U.S. exports, it also risks pushing up the price of oil and other commodities, threatening an inflation surge that could be difficult to stop if the economy picks up.
9. After reading and watching all of the above information provided, there is still one question that needs to be asked and hopefully YOU have the right answer for the 2012 election. How is this "Hope & Change" thing working out for Americans of all parties now? http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/04/hope-change-2.html
Now we have the Republican Party in the House of Representatives to correct this problem:
House GOP Bill Will Reverse White House Efforts to Block or Delay Job-Creating Energy Production
Posted by Katie Boyd on May 05, 2011
Today, the House will vote on the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act (H.R. 1230), legislation that will boost American energy production in order to address soaring gas prices and help create jobs. H.R. 1230 requires the Secretary of the Interior to promptly conduct offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Virginia that have been delayed or canceled by the Obama Administration. Click here to learn more about the bill from the Natural Resources Committee.
This is one of several bills that will be considered in the coming weeks as part of the American Energy Initiative, an effort on the part of the new House majority to stop anti-American energy policies that are driving up gas prices and costing jobs. The House has already passed the Energy Tax Prevention Act to stop the EPA from imposing a “cap-and-trade” energy tax that will drive up prices and destroy jobs – and there are more bills to come. Learn more and follow our progress on the American Energy Initiative at: http://facebook.com/americanenergy.
Fun to watch the carnival barker crack up and stumble all over himself when trying to defend this administration and all the slight of hand actions that keep coming from them.
Give the guy a break. How could anyone handle the job of covering for the empty suit we have as POTUS? It truly is as if the Keystone Cops have gained control of the government.
It truly is as if the Keystone Cops have gained control of the government.
Not exactly, the Keystone Cops may have been incompetent, but they did follow the law!
Stumbles without a telepromter, just like the other guy from the white house.
Maybe if both the reporters AND Carney had teleprompters, the conferences would go more smoothly. And Carney would be said to be a wonderful orator, like his boss.
I just had a funny thought, though. Remember the movie, "Liar, Liar?" Jim Carrey? How hilarious would it be if that spell could be simultaneously put on everyone in D.C.? Film at 11.
It's a tough sell, he's the official Liar-In-Chief for the Liar-In-Chief, it's always hard beeing the second fiddle.
Can't handle the job? I would say that he is qualified to be President.