Guilty as not charged.
Got him, right? He’s guilty, right? Everybody knows,
everybody says so; finally justice will be done.
If you think that, you’ve been listening to the wrong
people. A man on the street said, “The IRS thing looks bad, but I think we can
get away with Benghazi.”
Huh? Get away with it? Why yes, folks. That’s what it’s all
about. Getting away with it. You know the boiling frog anecdote? You start the
frog in cold water and very slowly heat it up; the frog never notices and
finally gets cooked.
That’s what’s happening to us. We’ve been tempered. Sensitized.
The administration escapes one scandal after another. They knowingly or
unknowingly, let an ambassador and some brave supporters, get killed in a
faraway embassy that they did not protect. As a result, our other embassies are
now at risk; they’re seen as defenseless. So are you. They told us the cause
was a YouTube flick that insulted Mohammed. Everyone involved knew that it
wasn’t, but it was good enough for us, because we’ll pretend to believe
anything. Either they knew what was going on and did nothing, or they didn’t
know it was happening. Either way, bad.
The IRS, the appointed army to collect the taxes for
Obamacare (You didn’t know it was a tax bill? You missed that too?) made sure
that Tea Party groups who might have defeated Obama in the election, did not
get their tax-exempt status, or, therefore, their donors. When we found out
about it, the president implied that heads will roll. And in fact, one did –
the chief, who was scheduled to resign anyway, was chosen to take the fall. Obama
was either in on it, or he told them not to release the information until after
the election, when, like Benghazi, it could do not harm. Either way, bad.
Then there’s the scandal in which the phones and e-mails of
reporters at the Associated Press were tapped and taped, for weeks and weeks.
Their personal and professional information was taken from them, and they’re
fuming mad. But will anything happen? No. Yet the White House either knew about
it and did nothing, or didn’t know it was happening. Either way, bad.
To each of these scandals, Obama’s reply is, essentially, “That’s
not how we do things in America. I’m going to get to the bottom of this, and
punish the people who did it.”
We’ve heard that before. We were misled about Benghazi back
at election time and now his spokesman dismisses it as old news. But there’s no
new news. O is, looking for the real killers – out on the links, like OJ.
Have you noticed that Obama has nothing to do with anything?
He gets the news same as you do, from the TV. Well, he’s a busy man. He’s busy
dismantling our military, busy making sure we have no economy left, busy limiting
our access to energy, busy bad-mouthing us in foreign countries, busy making us
weak, busy making it impossible for anyone to make an honest buck. There are
plenty of dishonest bucks to be made, but they’re all for his friends. The rest
of us can damn well get on unemployment, and apply for food stamps; that’s what
an oppressive, piggish, capitalist society like America deserves.
Were he an old white man, he’d already have been impeached. Ten
times over. But no way is the USA going to impeach its first African-American
president. You’re too proud of yourself for having elected a black man. You’re
not so much in love with Obama, as you are in love with yourself for loving
him.
But your love affair is going to come to a bad end. Cover-ups,
conspiracies, and covert surveillance are just the tip of the iceberg. International
chaos and the unaffordable costs of Affordable Care are coming.
You’ll be sorry you ever dated this guy, let alone married
him.
