Obama Becomes the Absentee president We Always Accused Him of Being

Obama Becomes the Absentee president We Always Accused Him of Being

By Elizabeth Nelson

 

Obama has been called and accused of many things, from celebrity president to vacationer-in-chief; even his opponents accuse him of being fonder of campaigning then governing, because he never seems to leave the campaign trail and get to work. 

President Barack Obama is distancing himself from the critical task of repairing his crippled Obamacare website so he can return to the campaign trail.

“The President is a very interested observer in this [repair] process [and] is being regularly updated on it, and is holding that team accountable for results,” Josh Earnest, his deputy press secretary told reporters Oct. 25, while flying with the president to three fund-raisers in New York.

Obama’s departure Friday from the White House illustrates his focus on electoral and ideological gains for progressives, rather than on economic and practical gains for actual Americans.

Obama’s aides say neither he nor they paid enough attention to the website development program during the summer to realize the site, HealthCare.gov, would crash once it was put online. So far, they have repeatedly refused to explain Obama’s management failure.

In the last few weeks, he’s also distanced himself from the budget impasse that temporarily shut down part of the federal government. He’s walked away from upcoming budget negotiations with the elected GOP majority in the House, from the high-stakes national debate over immigration, and from the unfolding crash of his Middle East Foreign policy.

He’s also kept his distance from economic policy. In September, the nation added fewer jobs than it added workers.

Obama’s effort to revive the Obamacare software is now being run by Jeff Zients, a former management consultant at Bain & Company. “Jeff and his team are responsible for sort of the day-to-day monitoring of all this,” Earnest said about the rushed effort to repair the crippled website.. Read more Dailycaller

Have we all spoken his absentee fate into existence, as he seems to be distancing himself from one failing policy to another, and now from this failed and crippled website, or will he take to the campaign trail once again, to save his namesake cancerous website, instead of saving American Jobs and the Economy? Ironically, Obamacare is the poison, not the cure, for creating more jobs and improving our flailing economy, but we wouldn’t know that listening to Obama.