Obama Advisor to HuffPo on Obamacare Rollout: 'We Failed
Him'
by John Nolte 22 Mar 2014
Gene Sperling, a
former top economic advisor to President Obama, told the Huffington Post's Sam
Stein that one of his "most painful moments" while working in the
White House was the technical debacle that was the launch of the ObamaCare exchanges. "We all
failed him," Sperling said.
There's no question that that was
a painful moment, one of the most painful moments, because the president had
repeatedly said for two years that what mattered most to him is real people
getting on the Internet site and being able to purchase health care in an easy
way. ... So it is my view that we all failed him. I’m very much against efforts
by anyone to try to scapegoat specific or lower-level people. This was a
failure by all of us who were in senior positions. And all we can do is all you
can do is all you can ever do in life, which is move forward as best as you
possible [sic] can.
The Huffington Post posted the
story in this way:
With Obama's economy in its fifth
year of stagnation (and maybe now in a downturn), ObamaCare not signing up the
very uninsured this massive government takeover was designed to help, and
Obama's lead-from-behind world in chaos, it might just be that the left-wing
media and Obama's own staff have decided to fabricate a "We Failed
Him" narrative in an attempt to get Obama off the hook with history.
Of course, this is the least-worse
spin one can come up with for a president who by every objective measurement
has been a total failure. Rather than accept blame, it is apparently better to
pretend Obama was helpless and never really in control.
Sperling spins the age-old yarn
about Obama saving us from the near-Depression he inherited – but what
President Ronald Reagan inherited in 1981 was just as bad. Both men enacted
wildly opposing policies. Reagan's policies ushered in a generation of
unprecedented prosperity. Obama's policies bounced like a dead cat.
Sperling didn’t fail Obama. He and
Obama failed tens of millions of Americans. One wonders if they even realize
that, or care.
Gene Sperling
Gene B. Sperling
is the director at the National Economic
Council for the Barack Obama
administration, married to Allison
Abner, was a co-writer for The West
Wing, a senior fellow at the Center
for American Progress, and Mario M.
Cuomo’s economic adviser.
Note: Allison Abner is
married to Gene B. Sperling, and was
a writer for The West Wing.
Lesli Linka
Glatter is a director for The West
Wing, and a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client.
Alexa
Junge is a producer for The West
Wing, and a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client.
Lily
Tomlin is an actor in The West Wing,
and a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client.
Aaron
Sorkin is a writer & producer for The
West Wing, a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and Ari
Emanuel’s client.
Ari
Emanuel’s client is Aaron Sorkin,
is the co-CEO & director for William
Morris Endeavor Entertainment, Rahm
I. Emanuel & Ezekiel Emanuel’s
brother.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is Ari Emanuel & Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, Josh Lyman is a character based on him
on The West Wing, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the White
House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Bradley Whitford
is Ari Emanuel’s client, plays the character
Josh Lyman a character based on Rahm I. Emanuel, an actor on The West Wing, and a director at the Alliance for Justice.
Barbra Streisand
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and the founder of the Barbra Streisand Foundation.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
Mario
M. Cuomo is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and his economic adviser was Gene B. Sperling.
Open Society
Foundations was a funder for the Alliance
for Justice, the American
Constitution Society, and the Center
for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and the Committee for Economic
Development.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, Rahm I. Emanuel & Ari Emanuel’s
brother, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Anna Deavere
Smith is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and an actor
on The West Wing.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Beth
A. Brooke is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Gerald Greenwald
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Patrick
W. Gross is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Yotaro Kobayashi
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a trustee at
the Committee for Economic Development.
John
Brademas was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and is a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development.
William H.
Donaldson was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and is a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP for the CGI Group Inc., and
a VP at the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and Obamacare is his signature
policy initiative.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Ari Emanuel
& Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, Josh Lyman a character based on him on The West Wing, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Gene B. Sperling
was a co-writer for The West Wing, a
senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and Mario M. Cuomo’s economic
adviser, is the director at the National
Economic Council for the Barack
Obama administration, and married to Allison
Abner.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, Rahm I. Emanuel & Ari Emanuel’s
brother, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
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