Analysis: On healthcare, spying, questions on what Obama knew and when

I read the article Analysis: On healthcare, spying, questions on what Obama knew and when.  This article discusses both "Obamacare" and the NSA spying on European countries.  More specifically, it discusses how President Obama seems to not know what is going on in his own administration every time something goes wrong.

Republicans and the public are ripping Obama for him saying for years that "If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period," and "no one will take it away, no matter what," when discussing people wanting to keep their current healthcare plans, this isn't the truth.  The healthcare plan actually forces "those who buy their own insurance on the open market" to have their plans cancelled and "replaced with higher-cost alternatives" if the "policies...don't meet minimum standards of the Affordable Care Act".  In defense of this criticism the White House said that "Obama had misrepresented the healthcare law for years" which is just their way of denying responsibility for anything bad that happens because there is a very very slim chance that a Columbia and Harvard Law Graduate who is the leader of the free world failed to understand any part of a bill that he signed into law and has the title "Obamacare".  For a second lets pretend that he didn't understand his own law before he pushed it onto the public, if he didn't understand the law then he clearly isn't doing his job correctly and has no business running the country.  On the other hand if he did understand the bill and is now lying and saying that he didn't he and his entire administration are misleading the entire country.

Then there is the topic of the NSA "spying" on European countries.  The NSA has been collecting records about European country citizens for years with the assistance of each countries' intelligence agency for the purpose of preventing terrorist attacks which it has successfully done.  The only problem with this is that some of those spied on were leaders of U.S. ally countries such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  President Obama is once again denying any knowledge of the NSA spying on European countries and their leaders.  If this is true, it is completely unacceptable because as Republican Representative Peter King, "a key member of the Homeland Security Committee" said "if the President did not know" then it "raises very serious questions about what he's doing as chief executive. The fact he would be going into negotiations and discussions and meetings with Angela Merkel or French leaders -- or any leaders for that matter -- and not be aware that there was surveillance going on of the private phone calls, to me either something is definitely wrong in his administration or he just has a totally hands-off attitude".

In conclusion, I'm not sure how you can run the most powerful country in the world and never seem to know what is going on anytime something goes wrong.