Scandal?! What Scandal?!

A lot of people are dithering about all the supposed “scandals” of the Obama administration but I think it is time to put all this scandal blather in perspective. I’ve never been a big fan of the Obama administration, to start. I think Obama is a bit in over his head and the people surrounding him seem to believe that the key to crisis management is one long siesta or, maybe, a few games of golf. Which isn’t to say that things would be better if the president were out bombing every country on the map, as some of his critics loudly and obnoxiously charge.

Blasting the president has become the national rage. When did this begin? To be precise, it began forty years ago, with the Nixon scandals and the threat of presidential impeachment. Well, dear readers, that was a REAL scandal and America, a scandal tha...t rocked the core of America and the truth is that we all got so used to the idea that the president might not be a knight in shining armor, that we began to suspect–in fact, EXPECT–that our Executive was filled with connivers, plotters and downright dishonest men and women. 

Today, the idea of an administration engaged in one scandal after another seems normal, but is it really? Sometimes, it might help to search back in history and reflect on what a real scandal looks like. Watergate was not Clinton, and it isn’t Obama, either. We all need a sharp dose of perspective–something we’re certainly not getting these days from Cable News.