We have had 44 Presidents during our nation’s relatively short history. I believe it is safe to say that not every American has been happy with whom ever served in that capacity, at any time during that history. Through it all though, for the most part, a vast majority of Americans have held a healthy level of respect for the office itself. Barack Obama, just like George W. Bush before him, has had detractors. Our nation today is as divided along partisan lines as I have ever seen it. The President, who ever it is at any given point in time, needs for that respect of his office to be in tact. Governing without that respect would be a far more difficult task than with it.
Respect is a two way street however, and in order to ever receive respect, a person must first give it. Respect for the office of the Presidency must first and foremost be paid by the person holding that office. Our nation to date has suffered through three Presidents who have failed to adequately pay that respect. The first to fail in that humbling task was Franklin Pierce. He also stands as the only incumbent President to fail in his efforts to secure his own party’s nomination while seeking reelection. The second President to fail in the task of paying adequate respect for his office was Richard Nixon. Having had his personal paranoia get the better of him, he was forced into resignation before his term ended, and stands as the only President in our history to have done this. The third President to have failed to pay adequately, the respect due his office, or any amount of respect for that matter, is our current President, Barack Obama.
Never before have I witnessed a President so capable of completely divorcing himself not only from the consequences of his policies, but also from any of the day to day happenings within his own Administration. Solyndra, if you recall, was that Green Fairy scam in which his Administration rushed through one of those Stimulus Package loans to a green tech boondoggle owned by one of his donors. The money was forked over literally while the company in question was busy with proceedings in bankruptcy court. Obama gave a speech on the importance of green tech for our nation’s future economic viability, touting Solyndra as a shining example of that success, and a cornerstone of his brilliance in action. Six months later, he was promising tax paying American Citizens that he’d be getting to the bottom of how every single member of his White House could have been so thoroughly hoodwinked. (Yes, we’re still waiting anxiously for the answers to those hard hitting questions that the Bamster has promised to ask on our collective behalf.)
Then there was, and is, Fast and Furious. Putting your adult memory on the shelf for just a little while, never mind the small fact that Barack Obama himself held a joint press conference touting this operation. He held the presser with the FBI, ATF, ICE, and the Justice Department. When two ICE agents turned up dead, shot by Fast and Furious weapons, some very disturbing facts came out. Among those facts was the revelation that our government had been purchasing large amounts of high powered weapons illegally from border state gun dealers and gifting those weapons to Mexican Drug Lords, with the aim of having the ensuing violence convince Americans that the Second Amendment itself was a problem. In the aftermath of course, a befuddled President Obama promised to, “get to the bottom of things.” (Yes, we’re still waiting anxiously for the answers to those hard hitting questions that the Bamster has promised to ask on our collective behalf.) Special note here, this particular scandal has seen a Contempt of Congress order issued, and upheld in Federal Court for Eric Holder, the nation’s Attorney General. This marks the first time in American History that a sitting Cabinet member was found to be in criminal contempt, and had that finding upheld by a Federal Judge.
Please don’t forget about Pigford, the reparations scam that Barack Obama was involved with even prior to his being elected President. The graft in that baby is north of $50 Billion, and has that, “I can’t believe they actually got away with a scam so brazen,” smell to it. This little baby, that Barack Obama has promised to get to the bottom of, featured tenement housing occupants from Chicago and other urban areas claiming that their inability to grown a Boston Fern on their high rise balconies represented an inability to farm, despite best efforts, and netted them all checks for $50,000, paid by the American Taxpayers via the USDA. (Yes, we’re still waiting anxiously for the answers to those hard hitting questions that the Bamster has promised to ask on our collective behalf.)
The latest three, Benghazi, IRS, and the Justice Department’s wiretapping of reporters who actually asked questions, have all been well documented recently, just about everywhere. All three have a similar theme to them. Some people, working in our Executive Branch, have done some very bad things, things that would have seen anyone not working for government while they did them land in jail for a minimum of half a century. Some how, our President, who was touted as being some sort of messianic figure while campaigning during the 2008 election, managed to not know a gosh darned thing about any of it. He has expressed shock that such things could occur, and he is mad as a hornet that anyone would endeavor to act in such a morally reprehensible manner. He has further promised to, “get to the bottom,” of all of it. Next year, I’m sure I’ll be typing the following sentence in parenthesis. (Yes, we’re still waiting anxiously for the answers to those hard hitting questions that the Bamster has promised to ask on our collective behalf.)
Mean while, not a single one of the President’s policy initiatives, or agenda items, has led to anything resembling a positive result. Any one in the private sector with such a record as that enjoyed by our President, would not only have been fired from their current position, but would doubtless be having major league difficulties in having anyone else hire them, to do anything. It is a record of failure that stands as a modern marvel, in that this level of failure, 100%, was previously thought impossible to reach, even for those actively seeking failure. Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice per day.
My entire point is that somehow, our President is seen as a victim of such things, and not the driving force behind them. The Chief Executive of our country has transcended all accountability, both for the scandal and for the results of his Administration. Every other President in my memory has been held to account, at least minimally, for everything that happened, anywhere on the planet, whether they possessed the ability to do anything about it or not. Not so for Barack Obama. He has plausible deniability down to an art form. I would even be willing to bet quite a sum that Barack Obama would be able to deny knowledge of how his own shoes get tied each and every morning.
So the question is, how does a fellow square his ability to, “heal the planet,” “turn back the rise of the oceans,” “turn aside the partisan divide that has afflicted our nation’s capitol,” and “leap tall buildings in a single bound,” with his inability to prevent the most senior members of his Administration from violating every single law we have on our books designed to protect the American People from government malfeasance? Of all of the scandals, perhaps the most chilling was Eric Holder’s swearing out a warrant for James Rosen, naming him a criminal co-conspirator in a completely fabricated crime, for the purposes of intimidating a reporter who had the temerity to ask any questions of the Administration that sought some semblance of accountability.
As our President stands as the Victim in Chief, the guy most ravaged by that now infamous missing buck which used to stop on the desk of anyone who’s work address was the Oval Office, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC., fear not Oh America. For Barack Obama, the man wholly incapable of confirming exactly how his shoes get tied every morning has promised to get to the bottom of all of these annoyances to his fundamental transformation of our once free nation into something that no longer has a First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, or Tenth Amendment, (turns out he and his peeps found a use for the Fifth.) Don’t hold your breath though, Pigford broke in 2009, and four years is a long time to be doing that particular waiting activity.
