VA Fallout: Boston Globe, LA Times Declare Obama Incompetent

Breitbart:

The scandal at the Veteran’s Administration is rocking the Obama regime and may yet be one of the worst scandals of the Obama era. Already two major newspapers are starting to accuse the Obama administration of utter incompetence.

In fact, a lack of “competence” is exactly how columnist for the Boston Globe Jeff Jacoby put it May 25.

Jacoby points out that Obama ran on the claim that he would be the perfect manager because he would put all the right sort of intellectual, liberal managers in place while he ran herd on them all. As he first vied for president in 2008, Obama got the endorsement of most voters because of his promise of competence.

Voters – encouraged by newspaper endorsements that saw in Obama’s campaign “a marvel of sound management” (The Boston Globe) and backed him because he “offered more competence than drama” (Los Angeles Times) – ate it up. An astonishing 76 percent of respondents in a CNN/ORC poll shortly after the 2008 election agreed that Obama could “manage the government effectively.”

However, as Jacoby painfully points out, today’s reality stands in stark contrast to the fantasy Obama candidate in 2008. With the latest strike of the VA scandal against him, “Five years of Obama’s presidency have certainly shattered that delusion,” Jacoby wrote.

Despite Obama’s “preternatural” self-confidence, Jacoby reports that Americans are at last coming to doubt his competence. A recent CNN/ORC poll, the columnist says, finds that when asked about Obama’s ability to “manage the government effectively,” a “solid majority – 57 percent – said that description does not apply to Obama.” Moreover, Jacoby notes that several other polls have found similar results.

Jacoby wraps up with this damning assessment:

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