No presidential administration is immune to scandal, and no president can know everything that goes on in the vast and growing federal bureaucracy. Yet, to an astounding degree the current administration has been plagued by scandal and with each new scandalous revelation the president consistently and predictably pleads ignorance.
For example, let’s review a short and not comprehensive list of major recent scandals of which the president has either claimed ignorance until they blew up in the media or pretended they did not exist. In some cases the president claims to have found out about the scandals at the same time and from the same sources as the rest of us.
- Botched Obamacare Rollout
- “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
- NSA’s Domestic Surveillance
- IRS Targeting Of President Obama’s Political Opponents
- The Terrorist Attack on the U.S. Embassy at Benghazi, Libya
- Spying on the Associated Press
- Spying on James Rosen of Fox News
- The Politicization of the Department of Justice
- Fast & Furious Gun Running Scheme
- EPA Anti-Transparency
- Lavish Conference Spending By GSA, IRS, & Other Federal Agencies
These are only a few of the major scandals that have rocked the administration in recent months and have caused a growing segment of the American public to question both the competence and integrity of the president and the federal bureaucracy.
The president either does not acknowledge these scandals or actively claims not to have known anything about them until stories broke in the media. One cannot help but ask, in the history of the American experiment has there ever been a president who openly claimed to know so little about his own administration?