Comments on: Kundra back on job, White House dodging; Update: WH finally responds! Update: Missing evidence?

By: seven

seven — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:41:54 +0000

Not even nice shirts shifts the blame on Penneys. What was Penneys thinking about asking 33.50 for not so nice shirts.

those shirts probably have better craftsmansip than 60 dollar shirts. all of course made in
china.

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:47:23 +0000

$33.50 (1996 dollars) is a cheap shirt?????

Where the heck do these guys shop. I’ve never paid more than $20 for a shirt in my life. And that’s 2009 dollars.

By: petunia

petunia — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:21:18 +0000

I’m beginning to think Obama actually looks for criminals to put in his administration. That way he can blackmail them into doing what he wants.

I wonder what things we don’t know about.

By: TN Mom

TN Mom — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:06:35 +0000

Ed,

Today at the town hall meeting in CA, during Q&A, a man complained that he couldn’t find a job due to being arrested years ago.

President TelePromter said ‘he would have to pay for his sins’

Kundra gets a pass from his sins…..

By: jusgottabeme

jusgottabeme — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:19:05 +0000

Obama should put a bust of Boss Tweed in the oval office. Seems more like the climate there now rather than that of MLK’s legacy.

Dr. ZhivBlago on March 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM

HA! There’s a bumper sticker in there somewhere…

By: jusgottabeme

jusgottabeme — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:17:08 +0000

Asked if Mr. Kundra had revealed the arrest during the White House vetting process, officials said they would not discuss the process but pointed out that the reinstatement should speak for itself.

They’re still too busy figuring out what transparency means for the recovery and omnibus bills.

By: Dr. ZhivBlago

Dr. ZhivBlago — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:31:57 +0000

Obama should put a bust of Boss Tweed in the oval office. Seems more like the climate there now rather than that of MLK’s legacy.

By: Ed Driscoll » Black Hawk Down–For Shoplifting

Ed Driscoll » Black Hawk Down–For Shoplifting — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:37:45 +0000

[...] Obama’s chief information officer , and these new allegations prove out, Sizemore sounds like he’d certainly fit the bill–if not pay the check. Filed under: Hollywood, Interrupted, Muggeridge’s [...]

By: Wyznowski

Wyznowski — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:45:03 +0000

The way things are going, you’d think a theft conviction would be a pre-requisite for this administration…

By: drunyan8315

drunyan8315 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:25:36 +0000

I wonder too why someone without a history of petty thievery was impossible to find…

There are plenty of them in the US military and in Red states in general. In the Obama adminstration and Blue states in general… not so much.

By: klickink.wordpress.com

klickink.wordpress.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:25:08 +0000

Myself convicted of a misdemeanor theft 35 years ago and can’t find a job, now I know whereas to look.

Alas the one person I could not work for…wouldn’t ya’ know it!

By: drunyan8315

drunyan8315 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:21:55 +0000

a liberal simply cannot be held accountable for anything committed move than 30 days ago.

Happened less than 30 days ago: still under investigation, and by the way do you realize that the sky is falling while we talk about these distractions in the old-style divisive way?

Happened more than 30 days ago: old news, and Obama was only X years old then, anyway.

By: NoDonkey

NoDonkey — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:09:22 +0000

maybe he stole those shirts because he was hungry. Yeah…he was hungry…….

bloggless on March 19, 2009 at 2:34 PM

Well, I said “if Obama gets elected President, I’ll eat my shirt!”.

So maybe he agreed with me.

Pass the salt.

By: Christien

Christien — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:52:15 +0000

Ed,

I bet it was the JC Penny at Lake Forest Mall in Gaithersburg, MD. That, or the Wheaton Plaza Mall. IIRC, those are the only two Pennys in MoCo, MD. Wanna bet someone in mall and/or store security still has video of Vivek doing his little chor (thief)?

By: bloggless

bloggless — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:34:08 +0000

maybe he stole those shirts because he was hungry. Yeah…he was hungry…….

By: scalleywag

scalleywag — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:27:45 +0000

The job standards are much higher for jobs outside the white house. For example, if you admit that you smoked marijuana back when you were in high school, that disqualifies you for a job on the Dallas Police Force. (But you can be POTUS!) And in Washington DC your credit rating better be sparkly clean or you’re out. (I don’t know whether stealing shirts would lessen your chances of employment with them or not.)

I don’t care that the guy got in trouble as a young man, although he certainly should have known better by that age. I do care that the administration doesn’t hold people in the office to higher standards. And I REALLY get miffed when someone goes looking for what should be in a file and poof, it’s magically disappeared.

By: INC

INC — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:26:46 +0000

Stealing at 22 is not youthful indiscretion. That’s ridiculous.

This WH is not staffed by goofballs. It’s staffed by crooks and thugs with contempt for the rule of law who appoint the same.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:11:20 +0000

Yes there is. You state you’ve done it on the appropriate line of the PSQ, you are truthful in your interview and your polygraph.

The agents are looking to assure you can’t be blackmailed if your record is not clean.

unclesmrgol on March 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM

Potential blackmail is ONE thing they are looking for… not the only thing they look at.

They also look at your history, background, and associates.

As a thief, you don’t pass your clearence screening just because you admit it… although you WILL fail if you don’t admit it.

By: Ed Driscoll » Blows Against The Empire

Ed Driscoll » Blows Against The Empire — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:57:04 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey notes the “youthful indescretions” of Vivek Kundra, the CIO of the Obama administration: We’ve been wondering what happened with [...]

By: unclesmrgol

unclesmrgol — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:49:07 +0000

And there is NO way I would have passed my Security screening if I had this on my record.

Romeo13 on March 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM

Yes there is. You state you’ve done it on the appropriate line of the PSQ, you are truthful in your interview and your polygraph.

The agents are looking to assure you can’t be blackmailed if your record is not clean.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:39:11 +0000

Come on guys,

Do you remember when you were 22? Seriously.

I mean we all did stupid stuff, he was stupid, got caught, and since then there is no (reported) thing hes done wrong since then. Focus more on the investigation to the office not the fact that he was a dumbass and stole 4 shirts.

Also, what straight man steals shirts from JC Pennys?

Yngmarine on March 19, 2009 at 1:14 PM

NO, I don’t remember stealling things when I was 22…

And there is NO way I would have passed my Security screening if I had this on my record.

This guy is the F’n White House CIO… he’s in charge of all the stinking computers!

Heck, give me Admin Rights to the Whitehouse computers and I could really mess around with this Administration…

Knowledge is Power… knowledge is based on INFORMATION… and this guy controls the conduits of information flow.

By: SarahW

SarahW — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:36:51 +0000

Yngmarine, 22 is old enough to resist temptation to shoplifting clothing.
By that age the character is formed. He will have moved on to more subtle ways of taking whatever he thinks he ought to have.

I wonder too why someone without a history of petty thievery was impossible to find.

By: NoDonkey

NoDonkey — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:32:22 +0000

Remember that anal exam questionnaire they supposedly were going to have everyone fill out?

Yes.

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a gun owner?”

At least he didn’t stick up the place to get his shirts.

And now that he’ll be a part of an administration that’s causing everyone to lose their shirts, he’ll fit right in.

By: PatMac

PatMac — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:18:40 +0000

I wouldn’t let this go to your head, Ed. I read where Kathleen Parker had this scoop well before a mere blogger.

By: Yngmarine

Yngmarine — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:14:41 +0000

Come on guys,

Do you remember when you were 22? Seriously.

I mean we all did stupid stuff, he was stupid, got caught, and since then there is no (reported) thing hes done wrong since then. Focus more on the investigation to the office not the fact that he was a dumbass and stole 4 shirts.

Also, what straight man steals shirts from JC Pennys?