Why Did Obama Make Robert Gibbs Press Secretary?
To make Scott McClellan look good. That’s almost the only explanation I can come up with. Here’s the latest example of a blunder by Gibbs, the latest of many. Asked for a response to Monday’s tracking poll, which placed Obama’s approval numbers among the lowest of any recent president in December of his first year in office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs mocked the reliability of the widely respected polling firm. “I tell you, if I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said. “If you look back, I think five days ago, there was an 11-point spread, now there’s a 1-point spread. I mean, I’m sure a 6-year-old with a crayon could do something not unlike that. I don’t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is the daily Gallup trend.” This question shouldn’t have been a surprise, and there are many ways Gibbs could have answered it, without insulting Gallup. (For instance: “We don’t pay much attention to day-to-day poll results. We are wo
