Barack Nixon

The one thing that no one — not even the rivals so often nicknamed his “enemies” — expected Obama to do was turn into Richard Milhous Obama; no one imagined that he would be likened specifically to Nixon, of all modern presidents. Jimmy Carter, maybe. But this comparison has been brought up incessantly since his first term in office. He’s also been condemned to comparison with the likes of Ronald Reagan, while any similarity Obama may possess to the legendary symbols of U.S. leadership — Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, even Abraham Lincoln — has been relegated to the background.

Only two to three weeks ago Obama was celebrating with Hollywood’s elite. At the height of this idiotic media fest, a short film — a spoof — was shown, featuring Steven Spielberg, who discussed the decision to cast Daniel Day-Lewis in the role of Barack Obama. At the end of the film, Obama said, “That’s not me. That’s Daniel Day-Lewis playing me,” or something along those lines.*

Obama would love to wake up from his governmental nightmare, yell “Cut!” and have it really be Daniel Day-Lewis acting for him. Hey, man! You played Abe; now play Sam. Or at least play Barack. But this is today’s reality: We’ve watched Obama’s presidency enter a downward spiral over the past two weeks, reminiscent of what happened to Nixon when the Watergate scandal broke out in 1973.

It started when Gregory Hicks, [former] deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, told congressional investigators that he was astounded by the lies he heard in announcements made by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice immediately after the deadly attack on the Benghazi embassy on Sept. 11, 2012. Rice’s version of events involved a riotous crowd, furious about a YouTube video mocking the Prophet Muhammad, setting fire to the embassy in Benghazi and murdering four embassy officials, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

This version of events was swiftly undermined by the conclusion that it was a planned al-Qaida attack, but the Pavlovian media continued to support Obama. He just simply had to defeat Mitt Romney. Poor Americans; poor Israelis. It is now becoming clear that Bibi [Netanyahu] might intervene, but it won’t be enough. He won’t devote enough effort, and now it appears that Israel will have to do what everyone expected the U.S. to do.

The Snowball Keeps Rolling

Hicks also related that the State Department did not like the fact that members of Congress arriving in Libya received an incident report from embassy officials in the absence of a lawyer. Two days ago, the White House released dozens of emails, one of which, from David Petraeus, reveals that Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell left out a certain detail from the messages handed to the media: the awful name “al-Qaida.”

Meanwhile, two further scandals were uncovered: The White House, obsessively dealing with leaks, carried out the surveillance of phone calls made by writers from the Associated Press. Simultaneously, it became known that the Internal Revenue Service had focused on collecting excessive taxes from more conservative political entities, in particular the tea party but also pro-Israel organizations.

The reason that this snowball keeps rolling is that the Obama administration is stuck in a motionless state. In the background lies the dotted red line directed toward Syria and Iran, shattered. The leader who inspired a messiah-like hope over four and a half years ago suddenly emerges as yet another belligerent politician from the Chicago school.

* Editor’s Note: This quote, while accurately translated, could not be verified.