“White House press secretary Robert Gibbs pointedly refused to rule out a firing in the case of the Air Force One backup’s flight that terrified some in New York City on Monday.
Gibbs reiterated that President Obama was “furious” about the decision. …” [Washington Post]
While the media are giving Obama brownie points for momentum in his first 100 days, with lauds such as “Obama’s start has been the most impressive of any president since FDR” (Joe Klien, TIME, 5.4.09), and Obama himself climbs the unsteady scaffolds of invective indignation, I hear a mixed message. What sense letting torturers off with a wagging finger and a tut tut, that’s naughty, while expecting some officious doofus to fall on his petard over an expensive little stunt?
If you get pissed at every stupidity, Mr. President, you’re not going to have much fun. It’s Washington, for goodness sakes. Stupidity is to that city as chocolate is to Hershey PA. Pace yourself.
