Monday, July 7, 2014

WaPo: Obama Worse Than Carter

Writing in the normally liberal Washington Post, Marc Thiessen is unimpressed with President Obama's performance in office. Some samples:
Obama has presided over a recent string of disasters that make even Carter look competent.

The world is on fire — and Obama’s foreign policy legacy is in tatters.

On the home front, just look at the past six weeks: We’ve had the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal ... the flood of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children across the border ... the epidemic of hard-drive crashes at the Internal Revenue Service after Congress began investigating the targeting of the president’s political opponents ... a 2.9 percent economic contraction in the first quarter of 2014 ... and a series of stinging rebukes from the Supreme Court on recess appointments and Obamacare’s contraception mandate.