Obama's Legacy: Scandals galore. We the People are getting fed up. But, is it too little, too late? Can America be saved from Chicago gangster tactics?

    Scandal. Interesting word. Too often, scandals involve illicit sex. Somebody, somewhere, getting screwed. Right? Well, yes. And, well, no. We the People, 100% of us, are getting what 51% of us asked for. We’re getting screwed. Scandal after scandal. And, We the People are suffering.

    We have become the laughing stock of the world. Other world leaders, the people of the world (the free world and beyond), make fun of us every day. They snicker, sometimes behind closed doors, more often than not, out in public for the rest of the world to see. Even their journalists, print and broadcast, laugh at us, and even flip us the bird on TV.

    And, why is it that way? Growing up, I quickly learned that we—Americans-- could and should hold our heads high, not so high as to drown when it rains, but to show our pride in what our forefathers accomplished. To be proud of how far we’ve come in such a short period of time, that’s what I learned. You see, in the universe of governments and nations, the United States of America is pretty darn old. When I was in school, this country was less than 200 years of age. Our system of government has survived the tests of time, the tests of good leaders and bad. But, we always survived. Through wars, including a war that divided us into the North and the South. Wars where we were attacked, where we fought back and prevailed. Our system is a good one. And, it’s worked well for us for a long time.

    Throughout all this, we have stuck together. One way or the other. When the chips were down, we rallied ‘round the flag, we banded together, and we beat back our enemies, regardless of who they were. You see, we were like a family. We may squabble among ourselves, but when it comes to someone else picking on any one of us, well…all I can say is that you’d better be careful.

    At least, that’s how it once was. In my day.

    Unfortunately, as I see it today, we have changed. We are no longer united in our stand against what we once considered a common enemy. We bow down, we kiss butts, we do everything we can to buy friends. And, let me tell you, that tactic never---EVER---works. Those kinds of friends will use us until we’re all used up. Then, they’ll move on to another sucker who wants some friends.

    We did it, I hope, out of the goodness of our hearts. We are a compassionate people. And, that’s good. However, there is a time when we need to think about who we’re helping, and whether buying friends will benefit us. We have done it for humanitarian reasons. To help individuals who needed a helping hand. And, that’s a worthy thing to have done.

    But, what good did it do? Other than to make us, perhaps, feel good?

    We didn’t do it to get something in return. That’s not the way charity is meant to work. But, feeding a mad dog that turns around and bites you when you stop feeding it is not the intended outcome, either. As long as we continue feeding the dogs, we’ll be ok. Of course, more dogs will show up, and before we know what’s happened, the dogs of the world will be looking for a handout. And, when we stop feeding them, they will ban together and attack us.

    Back to the scandals. Not the sex kind, though they have certainly made a lot of quiet headlines over the decades. How about the scandals that actually mean something? Of course, most will point at Watergate, a major political scandal that brought down a president. But, that’s just one. How about the scandals of a more recent time? Let’s take a look at the last five years. And, just the high government scandals. We have, apparently, a group of rascals in charge that have virtually no real world experience, who have Chicago-politics as a textbook, and who could care less about the masses in this country. Other than building a huge government, a government that requires a huge budget, a budget that requires more and more money to maintain, do tell me something good that has come from our current administration.

    Let me name a few. We have Benghazi. Four Americans, including an ambassador, were murdered in 2012, and their murders have gone unresolved. We have a liar in the administration who told some administration-concocted story about an unknown internet video causing hate and discontent in the Muslim world, thus justifying the murders of these Americans.

    We have the administration now telling the Department of Defense to turn over all of the documents related to the extermination of the head of the world’s terrorists to the CIA. Why? To keep those documents out of the hands of journalists, journalists who have finally become a bit disenfranchised with the administration that kept them under control, that sold them a bill of goods, for some five years. What is Obama trying to hide?

    This administration has issued more than one executive order to protect itself from public scrutiny. Let’s talk about the failed, but deadly, Fast and Furious campaign orchestrated by the top law dog, the US Attorney General. The scheme, regardless of what you’ve been lead to believe, was to prove that guns were readily accessible to underworld thugs. Well, they are. Especially if our federal agents buy them and sell them to the drug cartel in Mexico. Who was going to stop those agents? They were doing it at the direction of the Attorney General. No doubt, those agents were led astray. They had no idea what the outcome was going to be. The AG did, and he should be held accountable. Those guns were used to murder hundreds of Mexicans and, as we have since learned, one Border Patrol agent. That agent’s blood is all over the hands of the man that our president is protecting under a blanket of Executive Privilege. He will not allow evidence of this illegal and scandalous operation to be made public, even to a Congressional investigative committee. Why, you would want to know? Because it will point to the administration’s unspoken plan to disarm the American public.

   In order for this unknown, inexperienced clown from Chicago to get elected in 2008, he had to convince the voters that he was not anti-gun. Unfortunately, most of the voters fell for the BS. And, he was elected. The plan was placed in motion, and if all had gone as schemed, the American public would have bought into the idea that there were too many guns floating on our streets, and the majority of you would have gone along with a disarmament program. Only an unarmed nation can become subjects.

    The plan backfired, and some of the details were revealed. Enough details to scare the Obama crowd. And, thus was issued the hide-the-facts Executive Order. Protect the AG, at all costs, because if Eric Holder goes down, Obama will soon follow.

    And, We the People did nothing. We re-elected the Chicago hood to a second term. Even as four Americans were barely cold in their graves just two months before that election.

    We have Obama-careless. A plan that no one, including those idiots we elected, have read, much less understand. A scandal full of baloney, one that require several generations of future senators and congressman to study it thoroughly, look back and ask, “what the hell were you thinking?”.  

    And, who can get over revelations that our alphabet agencies are eavesdropping on telephone conversations and checking e-mails? Ok, I’ll give you this one. This is nothing new. And, while most of us suspected this was the case, we believed…and still do, many of us…that it’s in the interest of national security. Still, the defection of a contract worker for the NSA, and his revelation of goodness knows what type of intelligence he may have come in possession of, is scandalous and another black eye for America.

    To every hardworking  taxpayer from sea to shining sea, I don’t know anyone who isn’t a little more than ticked off with the IRS. And, to have these federal brown shirts targeting the conservative among us for special attention brings out the rabid animal instinct in me. Mr. Obama. What are YOU thinking? Taking no action after the revelations came to the surface? That’s just downright irresponsible. But, all too typical for this administration, with a community organizer from Chicago at the helm.

    Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. Bugging the phones and e-mails of Associated Press journalists, again in the name of national security. The administration’s claim that they had American’s national security in their heart, is more political baloney. Making sure that all of us, including those leaking info, knew “they were watching and listening” had the premeditated impact. Sources dried up. Journalists protect sources as a matter of doing their jobs, but they cannot protect them from the Chicago gangland tactics of the Obama administration.

    These are not all of the scandals involving the Obama administration. It just makes me sick and disappointed that we the people have done nothing about it. We had the chance in 2012, but 51% obviously didn’t think the scandals were really all that bad. There’s another opportunity in 2014, when all 435 US Congressmen, and 1/3 of the 100 US Senators are up for possible replacement. If we are to be heard, a strong message, a Lima Charlie message, must be sent to Washington. Until we stand united, with a strong and powerful voice, the 49% of us will have to suffer along with the others who can’t get their heads out of the sand.