MAY 14, OBAMA'S DIES HORRIBILIS (HORRIBLE DAY)

MAY 14th---OBAMA'S PERFECT STORM or “Dies Horribilis”


Today the refuse hit the fan for Mr.Obama. The President has weathered bad news before. Obama and his birth certificate, his failed promise to close Guantanamo, his minimalist health care solution---still to be implemented, the troop surges and troop deadlines, the drone attacks, the failure to generate gun legislation after the Sandy Hook massacre, his dependency and expansion of distasteful and illegal Bush policies, the assassination of American citizens abroad, and earlier, the Great Recession, unemployment, the economy, Iran, Syria, the Guantanamo hunger strike, etc. etc. etc.

But today, Obama's dies horribilis, the fecal matter hit the fan, when the IRS scandal surfaced (the revelation that IRS was investigating the tax returns of selected groups based on their political leanings), on top of the AP scandal (secret subpoena of AP reporter’s telephone and fax records, ostensibly due to “serious leaks” regarding unidentified foreign policy issues ),on top of the Benghazi scandal, and to top it off, the embarrassing capture and expulsion by Russia of an all-too-obvious-CIA spy (captured wearing a silly blonde wig). The expulsion underscored the fact that the CIA under Obama is more a secret paramilitary organization, rather than an up-to-snuff intelligence gathering arm of the USA. And all these events fell on one day on the White House like the massive building collapse in Bangladesh.

As a result, none of us have left any spare “Obama forgiveness”...or “look-the-other-way-ability” for Obama and his obviously over the top imperialized but inept government. Even the silly charge of Congresswoman Michelle Bachman that the “President costs the nation a billion dollars a year”. That he "employs a dog walker" at taxpayer expense. And employs "five chefs" on Air Force One. These are charges which seem to have “legs”, striking a chord within the public consciousness. Perhaps, it is the public realization that, as it seems now, Mr.Obama is not going to do any better than he has so far. That his presidency is at an end, yet it has some 1300 days and more to go. That his great achievement was a personal one....being the first black president...but he will achieve little to heal his nation. Or perhaps, it has to do with the generalized suffering of our citizenry, who struggle just to put gas in their automobile tanks, stretch to create enough spare time for a second job and search the dark corners of their purses to come up with the necessary cash to buy needed medications. And it all happened within a few months of the President’s great reelection. What happened? Voter and citizen fatigue?

It seems today, some 1300 days before a new election, we as a people no longer believe the Obama myth. To change that public state of mind the President is going to actually have to do something--not half heartedly, or piecemeal, but do something successfully for the nation. Just one thing. To renew our faith in him.

Get the picture?

rjk