Does the White House just not vet these people?
The Obama Administration wanted to show the President in a blue collar setting, so they put him at a table with several bottles of Budweiser and some unemployed workers. Note that the President had a Budweiser in front of him, but wisely opted for a Guiness.
In any event, one of the unemployed workers is a guy named Mark McKim. Turns out Mr. McKim was arrested in 2006 for DUI and possession of drugs. In 2007, he was arrested for violating probation.
There might be a reason other than the GOP for Mr. McKim’s unemployment.
Again, does the White House not vet these people?
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Dan Spencer
Jeff Emanuel
Neil Stevens
Do not attribute malice to those who are simply incompetent...
snowshooze (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 11:14PM EDT (link)Is that the saying?
Maybe they did vet them
Brookhaven (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 12:40AM EDT (link)and that’s the best they could find.
After all, he hasn’t been arrested in 4 years. For all we know, that may be way above average for an Obama voter.
Maybe Obama sold him the drugs . . .
radicalrighty Thursday, October 13th at 7:29AM EDT (link).
he hasn’t been arrested in 4 years
jorgen Thursday, October 13th at 11:16AM EDT (link)4 years? I knew it: It was Bush’s fault he was arrested!
Obama likes hanging out with
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 11:27AM EDT (link)losers like himself….
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
They didn't vet Obama so why
ihateliberals Thursday, October 13th at 10:51PM EDT (link)would they anyone else?
Like the smelly, grungy, hairy hippies at OWS
dajeeps (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 11:26PM EDT (link)Oh yeah some of those people looked ready for a job interview – as if potential employers are knocking down the doors to interview a guy with hair down to his rear, some assorted dreadlocks poking out of the mass of the Cousin It wannabe, or perhaps just huge rats, and looks like he hasn’t shaved since he was 15. Some of the girls didn’t look much better, either.
…”I would quarrel with both parties and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.”
–John Adams
A Few Of The Are Employable
Stan Olshefski Wednesday, October 12th at 11:47PM EDT (link)Someone from one of my friend’s office decided to join the Occupy DC people over Columbus Day weekend.
Yesterday morning, he didn’t show up for work. And, he didn’t show up for work again this morning.
He abandoned his +$50K/year job that had health insurance, a 401(k), and potential upward mobility because he “doesn’t want to work for the man anymore.”
Give him a week
txpat Wednesday, October 12th at 11:52PM EDT (link)He’ll be back asking the man if he can have his job back.
The man will say no, and he will not get unemployment for job abandonment.
Everybody's got a hungry heart.
blooch Thursday, October 13th at 11:10AM EDT (link)I know that guy! A friend of the lady who’s the maid of his therapist says he had maaajor issues way before the OWS stuff, and the feds were close to nabbing him for trafficking in child porn on the internet.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
One more reason
ag8tor Thursday, October 13th at 7:48AM EDT (link)other than the economy, that nobody’s hiring!
Erick...
neoavatara (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 11:43PM EDT (link)Are you saying the White House is incompetent?
SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I SAY!!!
www.neoavatara.com/blog
It's hard out there on the streets
txpat Wednesday, October 12th at 11:48PM EDT (link)Can’t get the hygiene products and it’s all Wall Street fault.
I’m sure that would be the excuse.
Here's the delimma for hippies...
easyb (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 1:12AM EDT (link)1. I’m dirty and I stink
2. Hygiene products are made by evil corporations
Result: I’m dirty and I stink.
The Sad Part...
TopGun Wednesday, October 12th at 11:54PM EDT (link)Barry has no clue about the people who have done the lifting to build this country and keep it running, being he has spent his lifetime being mentored in how to tear it down.
That comment from TopGun
mirac777 (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 9:41AM EDT (link)sums it all up perfectly. The man who did nothing but learn how to “transform” our country, ( tear it down) in his pathetic life would not have a clue about what it took to build this nation.
Well said.
United we stand…. Divided we fall.. into the pits of Socialism.
Is this what passes for Journalism here?
govreaganfan Thursday, October 13th at 12:39AM EDT (link)National Enquirer mentality catnip, really?
Do you really think this little of your readers / posters?
C’mon Erick, your better than this!
National Enquirer Journalism
edintexas Thursday, October 13th at 8:21AM EDT (link)You mean the National Enquirer that broke the John Edwards story? The John Edwards story which the MSM refused to believe. That kind of journalism?
Journalism is virtually dead in the MSM. “All The News That Is Fit To Print” truly has been replaced by “All The News That Fits”.
Everyone gets to have a little
funwithknives Thursday, October 13th at 4:03PM EDT (link)fun once in a while. A little ‘sand outta the box’ is no big deal and welcome over here.
Plus, I found my dad in The Enquirer and I am surely biased. I discovered he was Xenu’s Apprentice and they took pictures to prove it. REALLY!! I just know it’s Him….
All the news...
ezpatriot Sunday, October 16th at 11:48AM EDT (link)I thought they had changed that motto to “All the news that’s sh!t to print…”
It's not his fault
blcartwright Thursday, October 13th at 6:39AM EDT (link)he has a disability (drinking too much), and will probably sue to get his job back
Compared
robobbob Thursday, October 13th at 8:13AM EDT (link)to the Marxists, communists, socialists, fascists, corporatists, anarchists, and big donor insiders, that fill the White House, McKim IS a model citizen.
Afterall, did anything he do pose a threat to the US republic?
Lol, I hope he paid his taxes when employed
Juggernaut (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 8:18AM EDT (link)Vetting is not a white house priority ho more leadership is expected from Obama.
RomneyCare is Right Wing Socialism –
Romney “severely conservative”? That’s the opposite of a “compassionate conservative” like George W. Bush? Actually, we know what a severely conservative is. It’s Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney is no Dick Cheney.
McKim Might Know Obama
clefi Thursday, October 13th at 8:35AM EDT (link)As Obama is a self-confessed drug dealer which he revealed in Dreams of My Father, McKim might just be one of Obama’s old customers.
Of course he was vetted
wennejunk (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 10:06AM EDT (link)Staffer: “…and the 4th guy, Mr. McKim, he was arrested in 2006 for DUI and possession of drugs. In 2007, he was arrested for violating probation.”
Obama: “Excellent choice! Another chance to show solidarity with our base.”
Staffers in Chorus: “Wise call, oh Great One!”
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ -C. S. Lewis
Are you sure....
paco12348 Thursday, October 13th at 11:12AM EDT (link)With the beers sitting there I figured they were Union workers, like those at GM. Sorry, I forgot, Union workers HAVE jobs, Obama and his friend Trunka, or whatever his name, made sure Union people haven’t suffered in Obama’s depression.
Paco, the guzzlers of which you speak
funwithknives Thursday, October 13th at 4:07PM EDT (link)all worked at Chryco. 5-pointed stars drink, GMer’s blow dope, and eat Ding-Dongs for lunch.
McKim fit right in, the guy has potential, a cabinent spot?
johnt Thursday, October 13th at 12:50PM EDT (link)Maybe take over for Holder. It’s instinct, a sixth sense, a birds of a feather thing, Obama and this loser have a lot in common, at least in underlying nature. I’m sure The O knows and associates with worse.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
C'mon guys, give the drinker...
deuke Thursday, October 13th at 6:36PM EDT (link)a break. He’s been very frustrated with his unemployment situation — that he put himself into. Thusly, he went to jail to think about it for a bit. He was determined not to be arrested for such an offense again.
Later, when he turned to drugs, his walls began to crash around him. He sought help, but couldn’t find any therapists — pro se. So he turned to the only place that was offering something — the White House. He soon discovered that the vicious cycle he’d been riding could be stopped immediately if Obama, would just quit passing the Bud.
McKrimm (or whatever his name) has begun a search for an exploratory committee – pro se – he’s expected to give an announcement soon from Sarah’s back yard, where they will look lovingly toward Russia, or China, she’s not sure; and speak of running for office.