Some administrations go out with dignity. Obama is going out with displays of spite. There's paying back the pro-Israel Jews. And then the Cubans. Now back to the Jews.
President Barack Obama has appointed one of his closest national security advisers and self-described architect of the administration’s pro-Iran diplomacy to a post on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s council, according to the White House.
Obama on Tuesday selected Ben Rhodes, White House deputy national security adviser who led the administration’s efforts to mislead Congress about the terms of the Iran nuclear agreement, to a seat on the Holocaust museum’s council.
“I am proud that such experienced and committed individuals have agreed to serve the American people in these important roles. I know they will serve the American people well,” Obama said in a statement accompanying the latest postings, which also included spots for White House confidantes Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees.
Appointing his cronies, especially widely disliked ones like Jarrett, Rice and Rhodes who are unpopular even in Dem circles, to boards that they are utterly unqualified for is tawdry enough. It shows the corruption underneath all the Hope and Change.
But there's no apparent reason for shoving Ben Rhodes onto the Holocaust museum council. He's a failed writer best known for the disastrous Iran nuke sellout. Putting the Goebbels in charge of helping a terror state that openly calls for murdering millions of Jews on the Holocaust museum council is obscene.
Rhodes boasted of how he has sold his Big Lie to an ignorant media. His antics made him widely hated in the Jewish community and beyond. The appointment is sheer spite. And that's sheer Obama.
Put the guy who tried to make a second Holocaust happen on the Holocaust museum council. Then snicker all the way to your mansion.