The Sins of a Nation cannot be atoned for by a Sinful Man

Last week, Barack Obama fired one of his foreign policy advisors, Robert Malley for meeting with Hamas. We find this curious because wasn’t it Obama himself who said he would sit down with Hamas and others of their ilk for talks should he become President?

Obama spokesman, Bill Burton, attempted to deflect this axeing by saying: “He (Malley) was one of literally hundreds of informal, outside advisors.” And starring a cast of thousands….
This is a very convenient explanation for Camp Obama as Burton is saying essentially, “He wasn’t a big deal. He wasn’t in, you know, the inner circle”.

But it also reveals a trend of Obama either blaming people on his staff or whacking advisors in his entourage when they are found to be behaving in an unseemly manner. Remember Samantha Power and the “M”-word? Story here.

The man even exhumed his own grandmother for the sole purpose of backing over her so he could get himself off the hook in his Race in America/Reverend Wright speech only to throw the Reverend himself under his (short)bus a while later when he became just too hot of an issue.

This isn’t scandalous behavior by any stretch of the imagination, but it does reveal something about the character of the man and how he would run his Administration. It certainly doesn’t seem the buck will stop with Obama but it will merely be passed to those who aren’t living up to the code of Obama’s Awesomeness.

The Dreaded "M"-word.

Perhaps you’ve heard by now but Obama foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power resigned after it was disclosed that in an off-the-record remark, she called Hillary Clinton “a monster”.

Given our sporting backround, this term is usually used in a positive manner and shows a degree of respect. In this context, however, we’re pretty certain Power wasn’t referring to Hillary’s imposing defensive presence in the paint or her unnatural ability in getting off the edge on a pass rush.

So if it is indeed a negative term we still can’t help but feel the dismissal of Power odd. Afterall, on the Democratic “mean people suck” scale, “monster” pales in comparison to some…? most….? nearly every term used to describe the woman, no?

23/6 does some reading between the lines of Power’s resignation memo, here.

P.S. Gotta think Power was let go because either a) there was dirt on her that was going to come out later that would be more damaging to Obama or b) Camp Obama has painted itself into a corner with their sanctimonious awesomeness and felled the axe to maintain their image.

Update #1: Foxfier links here to a piece in Newsweek that laments the improbability of a Hillary Presidency because... we're all sexist pigs. Well, you are, to be exact - we're as pure as driven snow, brothers and sisters. But if you're scoring at home, you will have noticed the irony here as thus far the most egregious personal attack on Hillary has been made by another woman.

Update #2: Here's an angle that hasn't been discussed much because of perhaps its statistical insignificance, but: We know there are women out there that will vote for Hillary merely because she is a woman and men who won't because she is (and we suppose there is the random beta-male who because of modern technology has been spared his Darwinian sentence that will vote for Hillary because she is a woman)... but what about women who won't vote for Hillary because she is a woman? Trust us. They're out there. Think of that female friend of yours that claims to "have more guy friends than girl friends because girls can be so vindictive, petty and cliqueish" Hey, they said it, not us.