The President as Sergeant Schultz
By Alan
Caruba
The
wonderful John Banner the actor who played the prisoner of war guard left an indelible
legacy with his repeated denials, “I know nothing. I hear nothing, and I see
nothing”; often all three at the same time to avoid being implicated in Col.
Robert E. Hogan’s manipulation of Werner Klemperer’s Col. Wilhelm Klink, the
camp commandant of Luftwaffe Stalag 13.
Obama’s
way of dealing with everything has been to talk it to death and he has been
responding to questions from the press, claiming that the accusations are all
“a sideshow” or that “there’s no there, there.” It is not working. In the case
of Benghazi-Gate, his lies are so blatant that it has gone from an
embarrassment to a full-fledged cover-up.
Similarly,
the Attorney General, Eric Holder, has relied on claiming ignorance and putting
distance between himself and his Department of Justice’s increasing list of
scandals, from Fast and Furious that earned him a citation for contempt of
Congress in June 2012 for his lack of candor. His latest “I know nothing”
testimony regarding the DOJ’s seizure of the phone records of Associated Press
editors and reporters makes one wonder why the President continues to retain
him in office or, for that matter, why he isn’t in jail for stonewalling about
Fast and Furious, an ATF gun-running scheme that got a border patrol and ICE
agent killed.
Those of
us who follow the President closely know that he has been lying consistently
before and since being elected--twice. His two “memoirs” have been picked apart
by reporters who have written their own books on the subject. It would appear
that Obama picked up the habit of lying early on in life as the son of a Kenyan
who had abandoned his mother, the step-son of an Indonesian whom his mother
also divorced, and a man who remarkably was a friend or associate of a long
list of shady characters you might more likely find in a detective novel.
He
dismissed his close friendship with former 60s Weatherman terrorist, Bill
Ayers, as someone who lived in his Chicago neighborhood. He had to throw his
longtime pastor, Jeremiah Wright, under the bus when it became known he said
many bad things about America over the course of the many years Obama was a
member of his church. The man who conducted Obama’s wedding and christened his
children said of 9/11, “the chickens have come home to roost” as if it was
America’s fault it was attacked.
Even so,
this is small potatoes compared to the way the many “renewable energy” companies
received billions in government loans and rapidly went bankrupt. It turned out
that many of the many of the men who created those companies where major
“bundlers” and contributors to his 2009 presidential campaign. Of the most
famous bankruptcy, Solyndra, Obama said, “That was not our program, per se.
Congress-Democrats and Republicans—put together a loan guarantee program…”
Maybe so, but we have not seen such a program lose so much money in such a
short time, betting on solar and wind power projects. The taxpayers got stuck
with the bill. The number of actual “green” jobs ended up costing over a
million dollars each to create.
Of his
failed “stimulus” package, Obama said “Apparently there weren’t as many shovel
ready jobs as we thought.” Before spending millions to allegedly revive the
economy, you are supposed to know such things.
If not
Benghazi-Gate, than the IRS targeting of conservative, patriot, and
constitution education groups could provide the fulcrum to bring down Obama’s
presidency. Despite his denials of knowledge about the program within the IRS
to harass and deny these groups non-profit status, vital to raise donations and
funding, and the firing of the IRS commissioner, this is a scandal with which
ordinary taxpayers can identify, fearful of audits. Imagine now as the
realization sinks in that it is the IRS that will be administering Obamacare!
Up to now
Obama could count on the mainstream media to ignore much of the blunders,
failures and lies that characterized his first term, but the scandals
coalescing as his second term begins have a weight that includes the growing
unhappiness of the White House press corps who are tired of being lied to or
having to listen to press secretary Jay Carney speak to them as if they were a
bunch of witless clowns.
It is said
that “the fish stinks from the head” and what we are witnessing is an
administration whose corrupt political practices have seeped deep into the
government agencies for which Obama is responsible.
It is
still too soon to know which scandal or combination of scandals will bring down
his presidency, but it will only take a few more eye-witnesses and
whistle-blowers to turn Obama into the Wizard of Oz, hiding behind the curtain
and pulling the levers to fool Dorothy and her pals or, in our case, those of
us who still believe laws should be obeyed and power should not be abused.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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