Obama’s Feet of Clay

A lot of Americans who supported Barack Obama in 2008 regret having supported him, sufficiently so that they will not be voting for him this time around – and they’ve said as much. Should Obama be voted out of office on November 6, it is quite probable that so much dirt pertaining to him will subsequently emerge that millions more supporters will be so ashamed they won’t wish to admit ever having supported him.

Obama’s curriculum vitae didn’t merit his being elected to the office of President of the United States. His past, associations, and attendant political baggage should have precluded it. We can add to that the draconian and unconstitutional policies, executive orders, and other actions he has taken during his presidency. Then, there are the criminal acts, such as the Fast and Furious gun running fiasco. Of course, since no formal charges have been made relative to F&F (and may never be) this assertion remains wild supposition by Obama supporters.

Now, it appears as though this president may have been supplying America’s Islamist enemies abroad with weapons under the guise of aiding Libyan and Syrian rebels. Charges have been made that the administration’s apparent failure to provide appropriate security for its foreign service personnel in Benghazi, Libya, or to act to save them during the September 11, 2012 attack had their genesis in Obama’s desire to cover up this out-of-control operation.

While many Americans may not be ready to accept such a conspiracy or evil of this magnitude on the part of their First Black President, I’ll stop short of making a wager that the aforementioned scenario is precisely what occurred. Earlier in CFP (in a column that was widely reprinted sans permission or a byline), I postulated that Chris Stevens, the US Ambassador to Libya, had essentially been “hit” at Obama’s behest due to “embarrassing personal matters, or other chicanery performed in his official capacity.” Certainly, another clandestine gun running operation that threatened Obama’s re-election bid (not to mention his continued freedom) would fall into one of those categories.

Benghazigate: Thomas R. Pickering, chief investigator, Islamist sympathizer

The mutability of official accounts relating to “Benghazigate” have already challenged thinking Americans’ ability to suspend their disbelief beyond limits. The ongoing willingness of the American press to collude with the Obama administration in their deceptions is likely to irreparably damage its credibility, although there are some even among liberal journalists who’ve demonstrated that their journalistic credentials matter more to them than their affinity for Obama.

Obama’s questionable activities have become quite overt in many cases, given his knowledge that the press at large can be counted on to suppress stories that might reflect badly. On October 24, The Blaze reported that Thomas R. Pickering, whom Obama appointed as the chief investigator for the terror attacks in Benghazi, is an Islamist sympathizer with documented ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-funding trial in U.S. history. He is also is also co-chairman of the board of pro-Obama financier and Nazi collaborator George Soros’ pro-Islamist International Crisis Group.

A lot of folks who watched the final Presidential debate on Monday bemoaned the fact that Mitt Romney wasn’t more aggressive toward Obama with regard to Libya and the Middle East. Inasmuch as a lot of us wanted a firebreathing conservative at the beginning of the Republican primaries (someone who would sear Obama’s proverbial flesh at every opportunity), we figured the least Romney could have done was point out that the administration having telegraphed a weak foreign policy led to the “Arab Spring” to start with.

Unfortunately at this juncture, most Americans aren’t yet able to wrap their brains around the conspiracies that do exist and in which this administration plays a part – and there is an election to win. This is a fact, and things are going too well for our side right now for me to criticize that about which I may not have all the facts. 

Regarding Obama, we have all the facts we need. Those who continue to support him appear increasingly deluded, stupid, and/or evil. Even a cursory appraisal of Obama’s deportment compared to that which he exhibited in 2008 has engendered everything from curiosity to deep concern among observers. Obama looks like a loser, a runner up, someone who’s been found out or who can’t keep it together. What’s worse is that Obama knows it, and this will continue to make him dangerous for the duration of his tenure – particularly between now and the upcoming election.