IN THE CROSS HAIRS OF HISTORY

"Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim,"

With these words Robert Bergdahl gave the Islamic victory blessing in the White House  Rose Garden while the President looked on smiling.  This moment had been a long time coming as Hillary Clinton after first applauding this prisoner exchange and who now voices her reservation due to the uproar, has to live with the disclosure that direct negotiations were conducted with the Taliban while she was Secretary of State.

This President is also rumored to have had secret and indirect negotiations with Hamas prior to their new alliance with Fatah and with Iran prior to the Russian involvement in the Iranian nuclear program.

In short through word and deed this President and his subordinates have kowtowed to the worst elements of political, terrorist Salafist Islam.  They continue to do it even as everything  now blows up in their face.  They have placed both serving military personnel and American civilians abroad in mortal danger.

This time  he may well have crossed the "Mendoza line" on the road to impeachment.  In releasing the worst of the worst of the Taliban and then lying about the conditions of the release, Obama has violated his oath of office to protect the nation and violated the law by not informing Congress 30 days in advance of his attention to do this as well as giving "aid and comfort" to an acknowledged terrorist enemy.

Many believe that he was seeking something dramatic to take the unfolding and endless scandal of the VA off the front pages.  Others believe that this exchange would be applauded in the same way the killing of Bin Laden was celebrated.  And still others felt that this was so dramatic that it would neuter the predictably negative reaction to the job and economy killing regulations that the radical out of control EPA has just proposed.

Everything this Imperial President does is political.  He has established an administrative state which has neutered our Constitutional Republic.  He operates for himself and his increasingly self evident agenda of making the United States irrelevant in the affairs of the world.  He believes that the US is and has been the problem globally for a long, long time.  He hates all capitalism save  the crony  capitalism which bankrolls his grand design and hence does all he can to make sure the country never recovers from the doldrums that he, after five and a half years in office, has in large part caused.

The case for his removal is overwhelming as he has been at the center of scandal after scandal by either sins of omission or sins of commission.  He and his people  lie to the people with reckless abandon.  He has substituted his "Social Justice" agenda for the rule of law.  He has illegally imposed massive income redistribution on the American people without their consent. 

The litany of official misdeeds is long and  growing.  "Fast and Furious"... refusing to enforce existing Immigration law and then making new Immigration law via Executive Orders...the NSA...the DoJ assault on the Press...ObamaCare with it's 26 illegal amendments and the lies to get it passed...the VA...a massive regulatory assault on the freedoms and property of American citizens...attempts to destroy the Bill of Rights...using the IRS to attack political opponents...giving public monies to  political supporters...attempting to impose "Cap and Trade" despite Congress being unwilling to make it law...deliberately destroying the wealth of the middle class because of ideology...refusal to save entitlements for future generations...making the nation weak and vulnerable by dismantling  our military, our national security and our energy capabilities...telling our enemies what we are going to do before we do it...stabbing our allies in the back as we attempt to woo these same mortal enemies...refusing to prosecute voter intimidation and criminality at polling sites...refusing to take step to guarantee fair elections...Benghazi...refusing to enforce laws he disagrees with...ignoring the Congress and the courts over and over again...creating meaningless red lines in Syria which in turn causes the deaths of thousands, and now exchanging the Taliban core leadership for Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who  may be a deserter and a collaborator who directly or indirectly caused the deaths of possibly eight fellow soldiers.

The chorus is now growing for the impeachment of this President even while his detractors understand that throwing out the first black president may cause in and of itself, a national crisis leading to civil disorder.  This is and has been up to now our unmentionable  political dilemma.

It is also safe to say that had any white Republican or Democrat done what this man has done they would be gone by now.  Moreover Barack Obama knows this to be true and has used it to play the country  and the fawning media like a fiddle.

The truth for anyone willing to listen is that it is not his color but his ideology, incompetence and blatant anti-American agendas that lie at the root of his need to be removed.  He and his disciples have broken their covenant with the nation.  They have broken their oaths of office.

He has openly stated that the Constitution he has sworn to uphold and protect is broken and needs to be fixed... by him!  He and others have in short, committed "high crimes and misdemeanors",  which may well include corrupt and criminal acts which call for impeachment. 

Impeachment is a political act designed by the founders to protect the nation from irreparable harm and the people from losing their rights and freedoms.

 The only question therefore that remains, is what do we the people now demand  our elected public servants do about this crisis, knowing full well that the President and all the President's men and women will take the country down if that is what is required for them to survive.

We are once again as a people in the cross hairs of history and we only have ourselves to blame. Americans no longer have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines as if the preservation of our freedoms is the job of others.  Obama and his people have made us unsafe, unfree and feeble.  As Edmund Burke once said "Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government." 

The country cannot take much more!

ERLANDSSON