Obama picks EBOLA Czar.... medical superstar?

[Juvenal]

As per typical, you're snitting -- that's how you deal with it.

As per typical, that's just you.

[Cow Poke]

The new czar's been chief of staff for two VPs. He'll do.

Yeah, let's pick the guy who community organizes for the second string.

ETA: Would that qualify as the JayVee squad?

[Darth Executor]

very heavy element of bias and partisan nitpicking when one looks at that effort and chooses to snicker.

lol dumbass seriously thinks getting lucky = successful and efficient quarantine

[Juvenal]

Yeah, let's pick the guy who community organizes for the second string.

You do know that "community" had a population larger than Alaska, dontcha? And he did go on to become a state senator and a U.S. Senator, and the President of the United States, twice, not to mention Harvard Law and professor at the University of Chicago, where you can toss one brick with your eyes closed and hit three Nobel laureates. You're just a glutton for schooling today.

You betcha.

Could be you've been hanging on that thread a mite too long. But yeah, his picks have been the most awful we've seen since ... well ... since "Doing a great job, Brownie."

Sam won the thread already, facts, figures, and even demeanor. At this point, you're just moping, and I'm just gloating. Sorry about that. Kinda.

As ever, Jesse

[Juvenal]

ETA: Would that qualify as the JayVee squad?

ETA: You check the body count around Kobani lately?

[Cow Poke]

You do know that "community" had a population larger than Alaska, dontcha? And he did go on to become a state senator and a U.S. Senator, and the President of the United States, twice, not to mention Harvard Law and professor at the University of Chicago, where you can toss one brick with your eyes closed and hit three Nobel laureates.

Yeah, he's doing a GREAT job.... that's why over 60% of the country believes we're heading in the wrong direction.

And, don't forget, he was "awarded" a Nobel Peace Prize for not doing SQUAT!

[Darth Executor]

Yeah, he's doing a GREAT job.... that's why over 60% of the country believes we're heading in the wrong direction.

And, don't forget, he was "awarded" a Nobel Peace Prize for not doing SQUAT!

He was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize to encourage him away from doing stuff like bombing Libya, then going full schizo and trying to bomb both sides in a civil war.

[Spartacus]

The Obama administration has been a series of ever-worsening train wrecks, but this ain't one of them. Ebola is not coming for you. This appointment matters exactly squat in the first place. It's only happening because of scaremongering yellow journalism.

[Jedidiah]

Sam won the thread already, facts, . . .

I did not see any mention of bacon in any of Sam's threads.

[Cow Poke]

He was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize to encourage him away from doing stuff like bombing Libya, then going full schizo and trying to bomb both sides in a civil war.

In return for which he became an overachiever?

[Cow Poke]

The Obama administration has been a series of ever-worsening train wrecks,

Amen

but this ain't one of them.

I think it's a bit early to tell.

Ebola is not coming for you.

Never said it was.

This appointment matters exactly squat in the first place. It's only happening because of scaremongering yellow journalism.

So, as I suspected, it was entirely POLITICAL.

[Darth Executor]

The texas Ebola outbreak could have been avoided if Obola had banned commercial flights to affected areas. As it stands, him and people like Sam, taoist and Spartacus have blood on their hands. Hopefully their body count will remain in the single digits.

[Teallaura]

Which is why we need somebody who actually understands DISEASE and how it spreads, rather than a PR person or another community organizer.

I'd argue it's why we should get the administrators away from microphones and telephones and let the guys who already know what they are doing do it.

[Teallaura]

The Obama administration has been a series of ever-worsening train wrecks, but this ain't one of them. Ebola is not coming for you. This appointment matters exactly squat in the first place. It's only happening because of scaremongering yellow journalism.

This is where you and Sam are making the same mistake. Sam because he mistakenly believes patients won't lie when it is in their best interest to tell the truth (I've had people take a full series of not fun penicillin shots rather than admit they had sex within the last year. Can't count the number of 'virgins' with symptomatic syphilis I've interviewed - it's total nonsense) and I'm not sure why you think so. A virulent contagion that transmits readily is EASY to lose control of - we lose control of syphilis which isn't nearly as virulent nor as easily transmitted. Every epidemic begins with a single case. While it is too early to jump at shadows, it's foolishness to believe that there is no chance of this stuff getting loose. Thus far it's been amateur night at the CDC corral - that alone should give people cause for concern.

[Cow Poke]

I'd argue it's why we should get the administrators away from microphones and telephones and let the guys who already know what they are doing do it.

And that's why I think we need a straight-shooter who's actually an expert on this to be the "face" of the battle on ebola, not just another talking head or community organizer for the jayvee team.