Applied Wisdom

After winning the strangest Presidential campaign of recent times,
President Obama pledged his administration would be held accountable.
He said he would hold his people to a higher standard. At the time of this writing 5 of his nominees,
have been caught for not paying taxes. #1. His nominee for Secretary of Commerce.
He withdrew. #2. His nominee for Secretary of Labor. But in all fairness it was the fault of her husband.
He had issues dating back to 1993 so who knew? #3. His nominee for Secretary of Heath and Human Services.
He withdrew. #4. His nominee for chief performance officer to make sure the government runs better?
She withdrew. And #5 is his nominee for Secretary of Treasury.
But of course since he has been confirmed and is now in charge of the IRS everything is fine!
The first question that comes to mind is: just what cracker jack box did these people fall out of? If he were still teaching at Harvard maybe a good subject would be Applied Wisdom. So what is the President's explanation of these events? On NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, he said " I screwed up." Again in all fairness he was a junior Senator who never served a full term. Only in his case he was not arrested, we made him President. Did we screw up? If this is a higher level of government, maybe we are all screwed!

Let's Get to Work

19:58 2/7/2009