Gibbs' palm reveals administration fortunes

AMERICAN THINKER.COM
By: Laura Ralston

Robert Gibbs is so...Robert Gibbs. Never one to just be a serious man executing a serious job where he simply answers questions for the benefit of the country, the current White House Press Secretary once again allows his inner 7th-grader to rule the day. Here he attempts to ridicule Sarah Palin and her minimalist approach to speech cues as well as deflect legitimate criticism:

But Gibbs'palm reveals more than just his stunted emotional growth. He confirms what we, staunch non-O supporters and former O supporters have sensed for months; that the administration can't move beyond the glory days of the 2008 campaign. All they have is an outdated slogan that has run out of fuel.

Gibbs doesn't have an effective policy or new positive message designed to unite the American people to nonchalantly write on his palm to counter Palin's simple but honest "lift spirits." He doesn't have this because the administration doesn't have anything to give him. As we all know, their ideas have to be "telepromptered" before delivery to the American people to make them palatable.

Not only is the administration devoid of the necessary substance, the situation specific "brilliance" of the 2008 is confirmed as well. For even a 7th grader with zero marketing acumen could tell you that "hope and change" is now a painful reminder of what Obama's agenda has not delivered. (According to what many projected onto Obama) No reasonable strategist or advisor should refer to hope and change ever again in the light of day, much less scribble it on their palm to make a point, if they want to be taken seriously.

But then we're back to that notion of being serious. And this administration is the least serious administration every foisted upon the American people, as evidenced by Gibbs' grubber.

Perhaps this is why no one is laughing anymore, including the press:

Maybe I'm reading too much into Gibbs' palm. On the other hand, maybe it does provide us with a handy capsule, despite what Gibbs' mouth says, of just how out of depth and off track the Obama administration really is.

Gibbs: 'Right decision' to read underwear bomber his rights

Politico.com
January 24, 2010

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Sunday defended the decision to read alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights after just 50 minutes of interrogation, saying that “FBI interrogators believe they got valuable intelligence and were able to get all that they could out of him.”

“That decision was made by the Justice Department and the FBI by experienced FBI interrogators, Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But make no mistake — Abdulmutallab was interrogated and valuable information was gotten by those experienced interrogators.”

After he was read his rights, Abdulmutallab stopped cooperating with investigators.

“The Department of Justice made the right decision, as did those FBI agents,” Gibbs said.

White House adviser David Axelrod, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” also dismissed “this notion that he was lawyered up and didn’t give us information.”

“Many of the people who are criticizing us now were celebrating” criminal trials for terrorists held under President George W. Bush, said Axelrod, pointing to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. “All I can assume is that there are politics at play.”

Asked about the audiotape purportedly by Osama bin Laden released Sunday by Al Jazeera, in which the Al Qaeda head claimed responsibility for Abdulmutallab’s Christmas Day bid to blow up a Detroit-bound plane, Gibbs said, “Nobody’s had a chance to authenticate that tape.

“Everybody in this world, I think, understands this is somebody who has to pop up in our lives over audiotape because he is nothing but a cowardly, murderous terrorist who hopefully, someday soon, will be caught and brought to justice,” Gibbs said.

In another section of the audiotape that Al Jazeera broadcast, the voice says: “God willing, our attacks will continue as long as you support the Israelis, and may peace be on those who follow guidance.”
Posted by Harry Siegel 10:30 AM