Suddenly, President Obama is fighting the perception of scandal and being forced to play defense just when he had hoped to take the offensive on immigration reform, climate change, the budget and gun control.
The trouble is that Obama is being thrown off stride by rising criticisms over Benghazi, abuses by the Internal Revenue Service and, most recently, the Justice Department's seizing of phone records from the Associated Press.Actually, Obama's plight fits into a historical pattern. A number of modern presidents also have experienced serious problems in their second terms just as is happening now to Obama. Some historians call it the "second term curse," and it happens when re-elected presidents or their aides overreach, succumb to hubris, make particularly stupid mistakes or lose touch with the country.
this was not the time for this to happen, and i'm sick of those who opininate keep trying to compare him to somebody else, he's proven he's unlike any other Pres. given the fact he's Black and the extra bricks they pile on his back because of it. unsure if Pres. deserves most of the blame given that his staff and dept. heads don't seem to have his back and pull his coat to what's going on he can't watch minute bt minute schedule of his cabinet thats why they have heads so i would think more is on the side of his staff, he needs to regroup don't know if its too late now or would it make any difference.
the republicans are salivating and licking their lips in orgasmic pleasure, thinking theu finally got something they can reall distort and bring down the Admin.
woulsd really hate this historic Pres. go out on a right wing narrative and omission.
Obama's current problems include the IRS's admission that the agency targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny when they sought tax exemptions in the run up to the 2012 election. Simultaneously, congressional Republicans are livid over conflicting administration explanations for why four Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last Sept. 11.
all of which appear to be his staff, does it make him a bad leader, not so much the ones assigned or elected are suppose to fulfill their part of the plan, he does need to make some better form of accountability and responsibility, he needs to question if there are problems he can't fix what he doesn't know is broken, the staff need to do the same and report nothing to small to aware him of, especially in this inviroment of rabib republicans waithing in the bushes to attack him on what ever
