The Executive Magic Trick

A light slowly brightens on the stage below.  Many of you are in the audience.  Many of you didn't even realize there was a show on.  The magician has been performing for awhile now.  He's talented for sure. His career is on the line and his approval ratings are low.  So many scandals and no where to hide.  His advisers have come up with the ultimate trick.  One that will amaze and confound the most vocal critic.  The curtain remains closed as the MC steps on stage.  He could be any broadcaster from any major news source.  In fact, they're all in on it without even having a clue.  But somewhere and everywhere the trick begins.  A simple red line has been crossed.  For weeks the audience has grown weary from scandal after scandal.  Words such as IRS audits and Benghazi.  Eric Snowden. The Associated Press phone records being searched. United States Attorney General Eric Holder possibly perjuring himself while testifying before Congress.  The ATF Fast and Furious program responsible for weapons being sold to terrorists and used in killing a US Border Patrol agent.  The scandal involving Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency - Health and Human Services, is responsible for regulating.  The scandal involving the General Services Administration holding a $800,000 training conference in Las Vegas featuring clowns and mind readers.  The really bad bet on Solyndra  for Obama's green energy initiative that cost taxpayers a measly $500 million in federal loans.  The head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, going by the name of Richard Windsor in email correspondence to government officials, to evade scrutiny in performance of her duties.  Simple little scandals.  Actually huge monstrosities that continue to add up to one of the most corrupt periods in the United States.  There are other examples but the headaches have been mounting for our Performer-In-Chief.  So what's the magic trick you ask.  Well, slight of hand has been used by magicians since magic was first conceived.  The audience has its focus on one area and the magician will use slight of hand and bring something new or move something around and the audience's brains can't comprehend what was done.  It's magic.  How does a man distance himself so far from so many crisis'?  How can a man take the focus from all of those problems and place it elsewhere?  What could cause the American people to forget how bad things are going within this administration?  What could possibly take their eyes away from what's so clearly visible right in front of them?  The threat of another attack from our country upon Syria?  The threat of another Iraq or Afghanistan?  And now it would seem the crisis will be adverted due to an off-handed remark by the ever vigilant Secretary of State?  We'll just take your chemical weapons and you just forget we even mentioned military strikes against your country?  And Russia and Syria took the ball and ran with it?  Doesn't it seem a little too perfect?  Like it was almost planned?  Am I being a little too conspiratorial?  Probably.  But if I'm right, and this was a orchestrated move between Putin, Assad, and Obama, with all of them winning politically, well that makes for a pretty evil magic trick on all of us.  I enjoy a card trick every once in awhile.  But I don't like it when I don't even know there was supposed to be a show.  And for us, in the United States, the scandals seem to have been forgotten for a little bit.  That's magic.  My name is Rueuhy and I approve this blog.