Comment-wise, this is a great piee of low-hanging fruit. Not quite as good as the self-writing Congressman Wiener jokes…but pretty good:
Obama on Solyndra: ‘People felt that it was a good bet’
In his first public comment on the solar-energy scandal, President Obama said Monday he doesn’t regret promoting the solar company Solyndra as a model before the company went bankrupt and lost $535 million in taxpayer dollars.
“Hindsight is always 20/20,†Mr. Obama told “Good Morning America†anchor George Stephanopoulos in an online interview. “It went through the regular review process and people felt that it was a good bet.â€
A god bet? Apparently the administration can’t tell the difference between gambling and a business plan. Of course this itself is consistent with attribution of the acquisition of wealth to “being fortunate” rather than bing the result of the exercise of entrepreneurial skill in some way.