{"id":8153,"date":"2014-10-19T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2014-10-19T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T15:53:45","slug":"obama-fails-the-nation-with-ebola-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=8153","title":{"rendered":"OBAMA FAILS THE NATION WITH INCOMPETENT EBOLA RESPONSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A toxic president<\/a><\/h1>\n

By Michael Goodwin
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Chalk it up to karma, fate or bad luck. Whatever you call it, the Ebola scare is proof that Bad Things Happen to Bad Presidents.<\/p>\n

The morphing of what is a single case into near panic is, according to medical experts, unwarranted. They point out that, so far, one person from Liberia died in a Texas hospital and two nurses who treated him got sick. Period, end of panic.<\/p>\n

In rational and medical terms, they may be right. But their calculations omit another factor. It\u2019s the X factor.<\/p>\n

In this case, X stands for trust.<\/p>\n

President Obama has spent six years squandering it, and the administration\u2019s confusion, contradictions and mistakes on Ebola fit the pattern. This is how he rolls.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s no chance of an outbreak, they said. Then it was, Oops, we must rethink all procedures for handling cases. Then there was no worry about a \u201cwide\u201d outbreak, yet quarantines for lots of people.<\/p>\n

The irrational fear of an alien pathogen is fueled by rational suspicion of an incompetent and dishonest government. How did the so-called experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give Nurse No. 2 permission to travel by air, even though she had a mild fever?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a great question \u2014 if only the CDC would answer it. \u201cI have not seen the transcript of the conversation,\u201d was Director Thomas Frieden\u2019s lame answer.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the most obvious move, a travel ban from affected countries, is rejected with unpersuasive claims about the need to get aid workers to Africa. It looks and smells like political correctness searching for logic.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t any logic, so bet your hazmat suit a ban will happen soon. It\u2019ll be one way for the new Ebola czar to make a mark.<\/p>\n

But it will take a miracle worker to restore Barack Obama\u2019s credibility. While there are many things to say about his tenure, the one thing you cannot say is that the nation trusts him.<\/p>\n

Poll after poll, on subject after subject, show a collapse. Consistently now, a majority of Americans say Obama is not trustworthy. Most think he\u2019s a failure, many say he is incompetent and the vast bulk \u2014 70 percent in some cases \u2014 says his key policies are wrong for America.<\/p>\n

He is so unpopular that members of his own party don\u2019t want to be seen with him, lest his failures spawn a political plague.<\/p>\n

Against that backdrop, any emergency will cause the national yips. The rise of the Islamic State and its beheadings of two Americans did it, and now Ebola is doing it.<\/p>\n

As \u201cGhostbusters\u201d asked, who you gonna call? Certainly not this White House.<\/p>\n

Credibility is like a reservoir or a bank account. You make deposits in good times so you can make withdrawals when you need them.<\/p>\n

Obama never made the deposits. It\u2019s been all downhill since Day One. He blames others for failures, and when cornered or ambitious, reaches for a lie. Routinely.<\/p>\n

The claim that \u201cif you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor\u201d is a defining example, but hardly the only one. Don\u2019t forget \u201cshovel-ready jobs\u201d to justify a trillion-dollar boondoggle. Or there\u2019s \u201cnot a smidgen\u201d of corruption at the IRS. And Benghazi was caused by an anti-Muslim video.<\/p>\n

His lies are legion and now he\u2019s like the boy who cried wolf. When he makes a national appeal on Ebola, the trust tank is empty.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one encouraging sign, it\u2019s that Obama may sense he\u2019s walking on thin ice. When Ebola started to dominate the news, he canceled two fund-raising trips.<\/p>\n

Talk about miracles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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