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Obama Transition Not So Flawless After All

Blunders show new administration to be quite ordinary, blogger writes

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 4, 2009 2:52 PM CST

(Newser) – News coverage has so far given the impression that Barack Obama’s transition is one of the smoothest, best-executed in history. But with a number of recent blunders grabbing headlines, the administration’s image is coming back down to earth, writes Ed Morrissey for Hot Air. “Most transitions feel embarrassed by one high-profile withdrawal,” Morrissey writes “but Obama’s had three: Daschle, Killefer, and Bill Richardson.”

“Clearly, the Obama transition team doesn’t do its homework,” Morrissey writes, noting that Richardson’s legal problems have been public knowledge since August. Obama’s lapses in following his own ethics rules leave him looking “weak and inexperienced, flailing at his first executive position in government, Morrissey writes, “just as many of us predicted he would do during the campaign.”

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, speaks about executive compensation, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Obama acted as if it meant nothing until it became obvious that he was the only person in the country who didn’t understand how it looked to put tax cheats in charge of major federal bureaucracies.
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Guest

Feb 5, 2009 6:20 AM CST

They aren't chomping at the bit for the country to fail, not even the Pres. They just want to see his radical agenda fail.

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Feb 5, 2009 2:55 AM CST

I see Corona_King is back. Would you care to provide any support (facts, quotes, anything) for your random babbling?

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Feb 5, 2009 2:44 AM CST

Bush is the kind uncle, great speaker and protector. He made America great. (The views of most of the world and most Americans don't count.) Obama needs to fail because he's a failure. (The needs of most Americans for him to succeed don't count.)

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Obama Transition Not So Flawless After All