Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel

In professional football, it’s considered to be poor football etiquette to run for another touchdown at the end of a game that serves no positive purpose other than to make the other team feel inferior and dominated.

Why? Perhaps it’s because you might be giving the other team an incentive to “even the score” at some future date. By the same token, football players will also sometimes “spike the ball” after scoring in a show what is sometimes called “excessive celebration” on the football field.

Obama never seems to tire telling the American voters how he “got rid of Osama bin Ladin,” and how he has decimated the ranks of al Qaeda.

When I heard Obama brag about his accomplishments at the DNC, I knew that al Qaeda would attempt to embarrass him at the next ripe opportunity—and they did.

Obama was embarrassed and rather than admit he was completely wrong about the influence of al Qaeda, he blamed the 9/11/2012 attack on rioters who were angry because of the film, “The Innocence of Muslims.”

Then he went to the United Nations and apologized to the Muslim world for having experienced humiliation because of this film.

Sir Walter Scott said it best, “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

The series of lies and deceit over the knowledge of the Benghazi attack ought to make us wonder: What would be our reaction if the President was Republican? What would we do? Would we excuse the President’s deliberate prefabrications?

The President owes our country an apology. He also owes an apology to Hillary Clinton, whom he has tried to place the onus of blame upon. He cannot claim ignorance, but he can claim that he acted with guile and deceit.

We deserve better. Can you trust a leader who acts with no conscience when it comes to telling the truth? Charles Krauthammer has made a number of observations that we ought to pay serious attention to:

• It was the policy of the administration. Of course it affects the president. A week earlier they had been proclaiming the death of Bin Laden, of course. And by implication, and often by statement, at Charlotte over and over again, how they had decimated and removed the threat from al-Qaeda. And this is a direct takedown of that claim. So it answers the question, all the stuff that is coming out now, about the lack of security for the embassy, the ignoring the threats, the growth of AQIM, al-Qaeda in Northern Africa that we heard. The fact there were twelve attacks on the embassy in the previous months, including one on April 6th in which two former security guards worked on our side of the fence tossed homemade IEDS into the compound. So, all of that is ignored. The growth of AQIM is ignored. The warning from the embassy and pleading for security is ignored. You’re going to tell me, juan, this isn’t affecting the administration and its claims about al-Qaeda? That is why. The mystery here is why would you go out and have our ambassador to the U.N. on five channels create a fairytale about all of this being an outgrowth of demonstration over a video? The answer is you want to cover up — the answer is you want to cover up the security lapses, intelligence lapses, ignoring of the threat. And the fact that one way to put it, if you want to use the phrase of Joe Biden, “Bin Laden dead, al-Qaeda alive.”

If the President did not know what was going on in Benghazi, why should we trust him what he claims to know about in Tehran? Such recklessness and incompetence deserve an electoral dismissal.

He would much have our country worry about Big Bird or the “Republican war against women” rather than admit his ideas have made the Middle East a much more dangerous place. Mo’amar Ghadafi warned that his government had managed to keep al Qaeda away from wreaking havoc in his country and he warned that if his government fell—al Qaeda would be at Israel’s doorstep and become more powerful than ever.

He was right. Ghadafi must be laughing his head off now in the hereafter.

The Hippocratic Oath demands that the physician should, “Do no harm . . .” and this rule ought to apply to presidents as well.

But Obama has done considerable harm to the world.

• His lackluster leadership has the Middle East teetering on war. He did not reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians.
• Under Obama’s regime, Washington and its NATO partners have ravaged the country mercilessly, killing tens of thousands of civilians, causing widespread destruction, leaving countless numbers homeless, displaced, and impoverished, as well as ending cherished social programs Gaddafi instituted.

No, do not fool yourself; the amateur in the White House has done more to promote violence in the Middle East than any of our enemies could have dreamed of. The Arab Spring is an Arab Nightmare—not just for us, but for the poor innocents who have been victimized by Obama’s incompetence.

Just as former President Jimmy Carter’s single term ended with the abduction of American diplomats in Tehran, Obama is going to have to deal with questions surrounding the fiasco in Benghazi. But unlike Carter, Obama behaves more like Richard Nixon on steroids.

Obama’s vanity and arrogance have now been revealed to the world. Are we—as Americans—going to let this man continue sowing more seeds of violence—and possibly genocide in the world?