Obama Fail Blog

The economy is in the tank. President Obama is struggling to save face after mismanaging the Gulf oil spill. Tensions continue to build in North Korea and Iran.

In short, the US is in big trouble.

Time for Michelle Obama to take a va-cay-cay!

Spanish media reports said Michelle Obama and her younger daughter Sasha, 9, would be on Spain's Costa del Sol between August 4 and 8.

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Michelle Obama has reserved about 30 rooms for herself and her daughter, their friends and bodyguards at a five-star hotel in Benahavis near Marbella, hotel sources said.

The US first lady did not make any special requests, hotel owner Ricardo Arranz said, explaining that the hotel would function normally during her stay.

Source: Earth Times

No special requests? Wow, that Michelle Obama is really a down-to-earth gal. What sort of special request could you possibly make when you have reserved 30 rooms in a 5-star European hotel?

The Obama administration is rushing to clean up the oil spill mess. Not the actual "oil," but the political mess that has resulted from President Obama's lack of leadership during the crisis:

The White House has quietly launched an effort to confront the political backlash along the Gulf Coast over its handling of the BP oil spill — giving special attention to Florida, the only state in the region President Barack Obama won in 2008 and one he will need again when he runs for reelection in 2012.

The White House dispatched political and communications aides to the Gulf Coast states on July 12, with Alabama and Mississippi receiving one each, sources familiar with the effort said. Some aides went to Louisiana, while Florida received four.

That battleground state will be a heavy lift. In interviews conducted along the coast, Florida Democrats accused the administration of largely ignoring their calls and letters and complained of a White House that’s out of touch.

Alex Sink, Florida’s chief financial officer and the state’s presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee, even characterized Vice President Joe Biden’s recent visit to the state as “a screw-up,” saying she was “embarrassed” by his speech.

“It was just so off target and out of touch with the reality of what’s going on over there,” Sink said in an interview at the Florida Democratic Party headquarters in Tallahassee.

It’s the type of criticism the White House wants to avoid. The administration aides in Florida function similarly to a campaign. They do rapid response and media coordination, and they report back to senior aides in the West Wing in nearly real time about what they’re hearing on the ground.

Source: Politico

Aides will function as if they are in the midst of a campaign... Unbelievable.

Another judge has openly mocked the Obama administration in the courtroom. Last time, a US District Court judge struck down Obama's oil drilling ban. This time, federal judge Susan Bolton - a Democrat-appointee is questioning the Obama administration's claim that the new Arizona immigration law is unconstitutional:

A federal judge pushed back Thursday against a contention by the Obama Justice Department that a tough new Arizona immigration law set to take effect next week would cause "irreparable harm" and intrude into federal immigration enforcement.

"Why can't Arizona be as inhospitable as they wish to people who have entered or remained in the United States?" U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton asked in a pointed exchange with Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler. Her comment came during a rare federal court hearing in the Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer (R).

Bolton, a Democratic appointee, also questioned a core part of the Justice Department's argument that she should declare the law unconstitutional: that it is "preempted" by federal law because immigration enforcement is an exclusive federal prerogative.

"How is there a preemption issue?" the judge asked. "I understand there may be other issues, but you're arguing preemption. Where is the preemption if everybody who is arrested for some crime has their immigration status checked?"

Source: HotAir

Meanwhile, it seems like Arizona's immigration law is already working - and the law has yet to go into effect, at least according to illegal immigrat Wendi Villasenor:

"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us cornered."

The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.

The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico.

Source: Yahoo News

When the Obama administration jumped the gun and fired Shirley Sherrod before they knew the full story, they created a PR mess that could only be cleaned up if President Obama stood up and acted like a leader.

But to ACT like a leader, one should BE a leader. And President Obama is anything but... So President Bow n' Tax did what a spineless, incompetent community organizer would do - he threw someone else under the bus:

President Obama said Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he dismissed Shirley Sherrod from the Department of Agriculture amid charges of racism.

"He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles," Obama told consumer correspondent Elisabeth Leamy in an exclusive “GMA” interview.

Source: ABC News

Well at least he stayed true to his core principles:

• Blame a white guy for acting "stupidly"
• Blame the "media culture"
  
• Blame the internet and the availability of information
  

Remember when video surfaced of Obama administration official Shirley Sherrod admitting to a crowd of approving NAACP members that she let race affect the way she did her job? Of course you do, that story broke yesterday.

Well, it turns out the video in question only showed part of Sherrod's speech - and the speech was made 24 years ago. The rest of the speech kind of implies that Sherrod has learned that quasi-socialism should trump racism in the way government employees perform their duties. Of course, socialism is encouraged in the Obama administration, so Sherrod should have been allowed to keep her job, right?

Well, yeah, except that by the time the Obama administration learned the facts about the context of Sherrod's speech, they had already forced her to pull over to the side of the road and type a resignation letter on her Blackberry. Only the Obama administration could screw up something so royally.

Click to the 1:40 to hear the details of Sherrod's forced resignation and her insistence that she's all about "fairness."

Cue the apology - not for hiring a formerly racist, currently kinda socialist bureaucrat - but for, well, making a giant mess out of everything:

An embarrassed White House apologized on Wednesday to a black Agriculture Department employee who was ousted for her remarks about race, saying the administration did not know all the facts when she was fired.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the dismissal of Shirley Sherrod an injustice and a mistake and said he was apologizing for the "entire administration." He said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was trying to reach her to extend an apology.

Source: AP/Google

For more information on Sherrod's ties to extremism and, yes, Bill Ayers, check out this piece at the Illinois Review.

Remember the good old days, when Obama administration officials and Nominees were busted for tax evasion or beating up reporters? Now, they are spewing racism in front of TV cameras. Change!

We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.

In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.

Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.

Source: Big Government

Yikes! And now Sherrod has resigned:

The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.

“There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. “We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously.

Source: FoxNews via HotAir

That isn't much of an apology, Mr. Vilsack.