Claiming all of that to BHO is quite correct, but it doesn't require an IQ of 140+ often attributed to him. As a matter of fact, now that I re-read your comment, that could be a really good description of a common bully.

You don't give Obama quite enough credit, Herb (I'm joking here.). He is excellent at intimidation, elimination of his enemies, ensuring message discipline, demagoguery, looting, deception, and countless other evils (I'm not joking here.). We need a Winston Churchill.

You're right. They're both bad. However, it p's me off that the guy and his crew are touted as brilliant, or even smart. I think a bunch of kids in a high school government class could do better. However, I will give them credit for a certain kind of obfuscation that is illustrated in the following, very old joke:
A radio personality was interviewing a very poor family who was about to lose their house to the TVA as the land was to be flooded to create a dam. As he was questioning the mom of the family, a dog walked in and defecated on the floor. Nobody paid attention. Finally, unable to just gloss it over, the interviewer ask what she was going to do to clean it up. Her reply was, "Clean it up? No sir, we just sweep it around until we lose it."

As for WMD's, I had a similar situation to your Metro ride with someone I had previously employed after he graduated. After that, he went to a job that required a clearance that I am sure that he violated during his brief conversation with me.

I like Alan West. He makes one statement, however, with which I disagree. He says that the President "must" appear before the Select Committee. The Presidency is equal in power and authority to the Congress, and is not subject to Congressional oversight. The Cabinet Departments are, but the Presidency is not. Therefore, Congress cannot compel Presidential testimony. He can apply Executive Privilege to himself and to his staff who are not under any of the Departments.

Hello Herb7734,
Malfeasance or incompetence... neither one is acceptable. What is worse?
Respectfully,
O.A.

Hello Mimi,
I understand your skepticism. However, there is a real problem for whistle blowers today. The repercussions can be problematic. Check out this story from USA today. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/polit...
Going through proper channels doesn't always pay off.
On this particular story I hope proper channels do pay off. Time will tell. I agree, Mr. West should give the names to Mr. Gowdy.
Respectfully,
O.A.

I sometimes think that people are puzzled by the way the Obama regime handles the scandals. They see some clever cover-up attempts, or some clever put it off until everyone forgets it tactic. I think it's merely incompetence. Obama and most of his personally selected underlings are such stumblebums that folks think they couldn't possibly be that bad and then attribute it to strategy. The fact is that they are that bad. The most powerful man in the world is a gross incompetent who knows two things, 1) Fund Raising 2) Recreation. Anything beyond that and he is at a loss. Rather than attributing brilliance to him, it should be noted that he is closer to the protagonist in "Being There" than the brilliant guy he was touted to be. That may well be the reason no information about his education has ever been released. Him and his chosen advisors and Czars are just one degree above an idiocracy.

I once rode a metro train from Pentagon City to DC with a woman who worked at the Pentagon. She was reading the paper. The front page story questioned the existence of WMD’s. Was that 2006?
She quietly ask me if I believed there were weapons. I said I didn’t know. She said that the Pentagon had already found the weapons but that they had been moved out of the country, and that was all she could say.”You could visibly see how fuming she was over the article, though she talked in very low-tones. She didn’t give specifics, but I trust she knew what she was talking about. This is actually the first time I have told this story..why? Because I didn’t have a smidgen of evidence of what she said was true. I always thought if that was the truth, that sooner or later the story would leak out. Still waiting...

Allen West is NOT an elected official representing any interest at this time. He’s just going to make a sticky situation more sticky by interjecting himself. What he should have done is put those who are responsible for handling this in touch with this guy and kept his mouth shut. Don’t get me wrong, I like Allen West, but he should know how to follow protocol, I’m thinking. I’m just being blunt about it. Sorry. I’m disappointed in West on this matter.

Unless, Mister Mysterious suddenly finds himself as a star witness in Trey Gowdy’s investigation, this just seems a premature release of probable evidence.

And why post the facts outside of an official prosecution anyways?

Mitch, IMHO the evidence of gun running is beyond overwhelming. (I can't help but hear George Harrison's song, "Piggies", playing in the background)

I don't believe there is any way impeachment is going to happen. Boehner's gonads are the size of spanish peanuts.

However, if we can find a way to get obama to give up his dictatorship we just might have a chance of throwing him and his adherents in front of a military tribunal and charged them all with treason.

he has done it for Eric Holder-and was still re-elected
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/06/...

It is the real story. I have verified it independently through my contacts in the Intelligence Community.

He can be impeached by the House and then tried by the Senate, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presiding. The Senate has the power to remove him from office if they find him guilty of "high crimes" or "misdemeanors." The Senate is controlled by Democrats who would not convict this President.

The President does not have to appear. Yes, he can be impeached, but what good is that, as was clearly demonstrated in the Clinton impeachment. It just embarrasses him for a short time. Just look at the power and likability of former president Clinton now.

You are absolutely right, Ranter. However, if Obama proclaimed Executive privilege for himself, it would look bad for him, but not that bad. If he kept claiming executive privilege for all others on his staff and in the know, it would destroy him and his presidency and perhaps, for now, the progressive liberals and their socialist, Communist agenda.