Imagine being so down and out that you have to deter people from talking about the economy with the news that you are an accessory to murder."

Obama and the Kingdom of the Concrete Skull

By Clarice Feldman
americanthinker.com


My friend Jane Woodworth looked over her newspaper, put down her
coffee mug, and said , " Imagine being so down and out that you have
to deter people from talking about the economy with the news that you
are an accessory to murder." Nothing better summed up a week where the
economy continued its tumble, the presidential approval rate continued
its downward slide, and the President invoked executive privilege with
respect to the government gun running operation which resulted in the
deaths of hundreds of people including our own border agent, Brian
Terry, and perhaps an ICE agent of ours as well.

There was only one thing left for the failing president to do. Make a
claim of executive privilege, make it late in the game, after months
of his Attorney General Eric Holder's dissembling before Congress
under oath, after repeated retractions of Holder statements which
were proven false, a claim so weak that all it did was distract
attention from the financial news and suggest to even the dimmest wit
that the president himself was an accessory to murder. (Every
respectable legal observer has announced the claim cannot be
sustained. See, this, this and this.)

While Jane picked up the tab, my friend Surfer Doc handed me this
brilliant piece by Matthew Continetti in the Washington Free Beacon,
and the mystery of the preposterous presidential move was solved in my
mind. You see, as soon as Jim Messina was named Obama's campaign
manager he headed out to Hollywood where, as everyone knows the rich
stars live. Very rich stars who one imagines have their fingers firmly
on the pulse of what the ordinary voters believe and want: Stuff like
free contraception, no actual energy just imaginary green stuff, open
borders, gay marriage and warmer relations with leftist dictators.
One of Messina's top advisers from then on was Steven Spielberg and
darn if this campaign -- indeed the remaining days of this presidency
-- wasn't a brilliant screen play in the making: Obama and the Kingdom
of the Concrete Skull.

To start with the plan was to psych out the Republican nominee --
whoever he was -- by building up a giant staff operating out of
Chicago and to loudly boast that he planned to build up a billion
dollar war chest. (Messina shared this "you have no chance" strategy
with Rich Trumka, who unfortunately found it didn't work for him in
Wisconsin no matter how many busloads of make believe Wisconsin
residents he rounded up on election day in Chicago and bussed
north.)

It didn't seem effective for Obama either, when despite The New York
fashionistas' and Hollywood's best efforts, the fund raising fell far
short of the goal. The giant staff in Chicago proved an enormous
python that is eating up more than the fundraisers can herd into its
maw, even given the Administration's well-documented pay to play
style. Meanwhile the Obamas' constant flights from coast to coast
begging for money to feed the beast are more frequent than the
regular United Airlines flights from DC to San Francisco and Los
Angeles. In fly-over country, the unemployed amuse themselves making
bets on which plane will fly over more often each day -- Air Force
One or Air Force Two. It also seems they are making very rude gestures
whichever of the two planes are overhead.

Secondly, the very things the coastal contributors said the people
wanted, they actually didn't care that much about. Those little
people really just wanted jobs; wanted to keep their homes; wanted to
be able to afford food, clothing and education and energy; wanted a
thriving economy, in short. That's how simple-minded and narrow they
are. This the Hollywood geniuses couldn't help with. Neither could
the fashionistas who head up and flog for the schmata business.
Neither, in fact, could the President's most ardent supporters at the
rapidly failing MSNBC, New York Times and Washington Post.

How bad was this vision of what the re-election campaign should look
like?

Even Democratic officials are running away from Obama. Michelle Malkin
writes:


By The Daily.com's count, at least seven Democratic officials will
skip Obama-palooza: New York Democratic Reps. Bill Owens and Kathy
Hochul; Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Mark Critz; three endangered
Democratic politicians from West Virginia, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Sen.
Joe Manchin, and Rep. Nick Rahall; and Utah Democratic Rep. Jim
Matheson.

The Democratic boycotters have dinged Obama on everything from his
election-year illegal alien amnesty power grab to his failed jobs
programs to his destructive war on coal. While "Forward!" may be the
official Obama campaign slogan, "Back Away!" is quickly becoming the
dissenting Democrats' rallying cry.

It's not just fly-over country that's hurting. Black voters, Obama's
most ardent supporters, are suffering the most from his economic
policies -- even in New York Walter Russell Mead:


The New York Times is reporting that more than half of all black New
Yorkers are now unemployed, and that they remain unemployed for a year
on average after losing their jobs. Meanwhile, the number of
"discouraged workers"-people who give up looking for work after a long
period of unemployment-has risen to 40,000 among blacks, much higher
than it stood at the beginning of the recession and nearly twice the
rate for whites.

Numerous businesses have reported payroll increases, and important
professional industries like law and accounting are beginning to
recover. Blacks, however, have been largely left out of this recovery-
including college-educated blacks, who in many cases have been forced
to settle for jobs well below their qualifications.

The screen play plot is so full of holes that even the little people
are noticing. What is it about the scheme to let thousands of guns
walk across to the border to drug cartels that involves the
executive? It is not any discussions with the Mexican government and,
therefore, there can be no national security claim. The facts are
clear -- no Mexican officials were informed of this hare-brained
scheme, (The President himself, before his first run for office was
critical of executive privilege claims not made on a national security
basis.)

As the week drew to a close, CBS's Sheryl Attkisson, a media hero for
her work which alone of all the thousands of Journalists covering
national affairs, kept exposing this scandal, reported even more
damaging information for Holder -- who certainly is about to go under
the Obama bus -- and the President:


Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert
operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules
about gun sales.

In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to
suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the "big
fish." But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a
dangerous practice called "gunwalking," and it put thousands of
weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two
were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in
letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they
discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to
justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would
require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or
"long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the
third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.

If this account is true, we have an Administration which ran an
illegal operation designed to further regulate and therefore diminish
American citizens' constitutional right to bear arms ; when the
scheme resulted in the death of 200 Mexicans and at least one and
possibly two U.S. agents, it lied repeatedly under oath about it; and
the White House was involved in the efforts illegally to cover it up.

As the great Iowahark tweeted, it's "Watergate with toe tags."


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