Jul 8

Dog Bites Man, Part #3702

Obama Administration cronyism, cult of obama, david axelrod, david plouffe, deval patrick Comments Off

I’m not sure why this should surprise anybody.  Backscratching cronyism has been commonplace in politics for as long as there’s been politics.

Granted, there’s the hypocrisy angle — the guy who promised Hope and Change and transparency and good government turns out to be a typical pol who regards rewarding buddies and fundraisers with cushy government jobs as one of the perks of public office — but anybody paying attention, who declined to get swept up in Mr. Obama’s personality cult or otherwise drink the Kool-Aid, could’ve predicted as much.  For one thing, Mr. Obama is a product of Chicago’s notoriously corrupt political culture.  For another, the campaign and eventual governorship of Deval Patrick, a friend of Mr. Obama’s and another Plouffe/Axelrod hopenchange production, provides a ready example of how these supposedly transformational political figures actually operate once in office.

I’m all for beating both the rubes who bought the hopenchange lie, as well as the activists who peddled it knowing full well that it was a stinking pantload, over the head with reality.  But as revelations, go, this one does not rate particularly high on the Clutch The Pearls And Gasp-O-Meter.