Yesterday, we postulated that we have already entered the lame duck era of the Obama administration despite the fact that he still has three years left in his term. We used the three words, humility, humanity, and integrity in conjunction with two major administration scandals, Benghazi and Obama Care, to support our lame duck theory.
From a Benghazi perspective, we pointed out the details from a recent CBS News “60 Minutes” broadcast that proved the administration was aware that the consulate attack in Benghazi was a true Al Qaeda terrorist attack while it was going on. How do we know that? The ambassador, Chris Stephens, actually completed an outgoing call in the midst of the attack stating they were under attack and that Al Qaeda flags were clearly visible, a call he completed before he was murdered.
Despite having this information and other intelligence information readily at hand, the Obama administration via the President, Hillary Clinton, U.N. ambassador, and other administration shills tried to cover up the facts and blame an obscure YouTube video for the attack. They tried to falsely paint the incident as just a street demonstration that got out of hand. The “60 Minutes” investigation shows clearly this was an intentional deception and cover up to keep intact the President’s campaign slogan that Al Qaeda was on the run and on the decline.
Obviously, this President and his administration were out of integrity when they lied about the cause of the Benghazi tragedy, they were void of humanity when the abandoned over 20 Americans in the midst of a terrorist attack, and probably never had any humility since their election year politics were more important than American lives or the truth.
The Obama Care lies are even more obvious. We showed yesterday via numerous video clips that the President often, clearly, and emphatically pledged that no American would ever lose access to their preferred health care insurance plans or their doctors under Obama Care if they liked their insurance policy and their doctors. There is no doubt that is what he meant, no American would ever lose access to their preferred policy or doctor.
However, events over the past week have showed that nothing could be further from the truth. Millions of Americans have either already or will shortly lose access to the insurance policies they desire and the doctors the desire. The President’s promise does not hold water.
But the real integrity hit comes from the fact that NBC News’ investigative journalists uncovered administration documentation from 2010 that correctly predicted the carnage Obama Care would befall Americans’ health care situations. Three years ago those official documents estimated between 45% and 67% of Americans would lose access to their current policies and doctors.
Despite that reality and understanding, the President continued to lie and deceive Americans about what Obama Care had in store for them. We asserted that the President was certainly out if integrity by hoisting that sham promise on the American people while all the time knowing it was not true.
We also noted his lack of humanity by never telling us the truth when it was known three years ago. It would have been a lot more humane if he had given Americans three years notice to adjust their family health care situation rather than waiting until weeks before that situation will change as a result of Obama Care.
We also judged him void of humility since as we have seen this past week he refuses to apologize and make the situation right, e.g. possibly delaying or fixing the mess that the legislation has created. Instead of humility and leadership, we get political spin and smoke and mirrors to try and bury his deception.
When your constituents can longer trust you because you lied about Benghazi and Obama Care, when you show no humanity by leaving Americans to die in Benghazi or by not giving them the true impacts of Obama Care, and you never show any regrets or humility, your ability to convince, to cajole to energize, and to lead a nation is null and void. And null and void is just another name for being a lame duck.
These two scandals are bad enough and sufficient to cause a lame duck status but the lame duck train does not stop there. It turns out that the President has allowed the National Security Agency and other Federal agencies to spy on the leaders of our allies and innocent Americans, as recent news reports have uncovered:
- The Week reported in its September 27, 2013 edition that the President of Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff was besides herself when she learned that the Obama administration was spying on Brazilian government AND private communications. This spying included intercepting her own phone calls and emails. She was so upset that she cancelled a planned state visit to the U.S., a major, major slap in the face to the President.
- On October 28, 2013, the Associated Press ran a long, detailed article on the outrage in Europe over the fact that the Obama and Bush administrations, via the National Security Agency, has been doing massive spying and intercepting electronic messages of European leaders, governments and European citizens. Unbelievably, the agency had tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel's own cell phone! The spying situation is so bad that European leaders and countries are seriously considering sanctions against the Obama administration and the U.S. for such a gross invasion of privacy of our allies. German has joined forces with Brazil, who recently denounced NSA espionage as a “breach of
international law,” to promote the adoption of a U.N. resolution that would
promote the right to privacy on the Internet.
21 counries have lined up in the United Nations to draft a right of Internet privacy while the furor over the U.S. spying on at least 35 world leaders. Some of the details of this mess can be accessed:
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/oct/29/europe-mulls-sanctions-against-us-over-spying/
- The September 20, 2013 issue of The Week magazine contained an article detailing the fact that the National Security Agency had violated its own privacy rules and regulations on domestic, private citizen surveillance for at least three years. While the agency is expected to show a “reasonable, articulate suspicion” that a phone number and citizen are involved with terrorist activity or groups, official government documents show that over a recent three year period, only 1,935 out of 17, 385 numbers on its “alert list” met that criteria.
- Combine this finding with the knowledge we have already reported on that the Obama administration is collecting just about every single bit of electronic communications of every American and storing this information in a massive center in Utah, you realize the Europeans and the Brazilians are not the only people getting electronically violated by the Obama administration.
- According to a Washington Post article from October 13, 2013, The National Security Agency is constantly collecting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. The article asserts the intelligence officials estimate that the buddy contacts lists of millions or possibly tens of millions of Americans have been collected without due cause or their knowledge.
Scary, scary abuse of power and control. And again, a complete lack of integrity, humanity, and humility. From a lack of integrity perspective, first consider the President’s own words from a Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/politics/obama-nsa-not-collecting-americans-emails/2013/10/15/523988f2-cf95-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_video.html
In his own words, he claims no American is being spied on. But we know from the Washington Post and other news outlets that this is a lie and deception, we are being spied on by this administration.
A second angle on lack of integrity is to not tell Americans or foreign allies we are spying on you, it is all done in secrecy. And secrecy makes it a lot tougher to trust you and believe you and follow your lead, making you a lame duck and the objective you desire that much further out of reach.
From a humility perspective, even after this administration got caught spying on our allies, they were not repentant. In the President’s own words, via the White House, relative to the Brazil spying scandal and outrage, that President Obama “understands the and regrets the concerns that disclosures of alleged U.S. intelligence activities have generated in Brazil.”
Note that the President and the White House do not regret the act of spying and privacy invasion, they regret the “disclosures” of alleged spying. No humility or apologies at all, they are more ticked off that they got caught than from the heinous spying activity itself.
From a humanity perspective, how bad is it when this administration distrusts every American and most of our allies that they have to secretly spy on everything we do and what our allies do? Trust is one of humanity’s most cherished emotions and feelings, but trust is lost on this soulless administration.
We could on and on about the lack of integrity, humanity, and humility in this administration. Remember the lies about the IRS and the White House harassing Americans’ freedom of speech who happened to disagree with this administration?
We were initially lied to and told that only a few “rogue” IRS agents in Cincinnati were harassing Obama’s political opponents. That lie and deception have long been disproven as we know from IRS testimony in front of Congress, by people like Lois Lerner, that the harassment originated and was controlled from the highest government circles in Washington.
Remember the lies and deceit about Fast and Furious, the botched illegal gun running operation with the Mexican drug cartels? That operation is so bad and illegal that Obama has issued executive orders in an attempt to cover that lie and deception.
You cannot not lead when no one believes anything you say based on your past history of lies and deceptions.
You cannot lead when no one believes your humanity, no one believes that you actually care what happens to them when you leave people to die in a far away land, when you force them to change their entire health care safety net for no reason, or when you track their every communication because you have no trust that most Americans are not terrorists.
You cannot lead when you have no humility. When nothing is your fault, when you refuse to admit mistakes, where you show no ability to learn from your mistakes or to be flexible about the needs of others, the lack of humility is not a true mark of a leader.
As we have tried to show over the past two days, this administration is extremely devoid of integrity, humanity, and humility. You cannot lead when that is you history, the lack of those three characteristics makes you a lame duck, going through the motions because no on believes your motions and even worst, no one cares about or trusts your motions.
Bottom line: when your behavior causes your allies and friends to fear you and your enemies not to fear you, your have entered the realm of failure and lameness.
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