Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the American people now have even more reason to have a lack of faith in their government—as well as their Commander-in-Chief's ability to successfully operate it—after 11 members of Obama's Secret Service allegedly hooked up with prostitutes in Cartagena.
Pres. Obama told Americans he would get rid of the corruption in government if they would elect him. Looks more like he is adding to it, not getting rid of it.
Faith in government has been at an all-time low since there appeared a great divide between what the American public wants and what Congress and the Presidential administration gives them. And that's not just this administration, either, folks.
The key difference, of course, is that this administration promised "change" from the status quo only to deliver an even worse product in the end than the one they claimed they inherited—and would change.
How can that be? Is Pres. Obama just incompetent at his job or did he never plan to make fighting government corruption a goal?
Obama's Secret Service actions in Cartagena is the "international crisis" that V.P. Biden predicted would "define" America's leader back during the 2008 election. But Biden wasn't alluding to that kind of international crisis.
Americans watching the Obama Secret Service scandal unfold now have to ask themselves this question:
If a lack of faith in government resulted in Americans voting for a candidate with zero White House experience in 2008, will an even greater lack of faith in 2012 motivate yet another vote to clear out the White House again?
It seems so, since you can't restore confidence in a government being run by someone who has failed to restore that confidence in the past four years they have been given to do so.
(Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images)
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Comments: 16
the miracles happen, esp. in the Easter season: yesterday, I also took a McDonald's vanilla cone- can that be possible: we both like the same icecream!? but I speak more Foreign Languages: Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and, even, Latin! not to mention Spanish. and I still am unemployed!?
Prostitution reduces a woman to nothing more than property to be used and rented out. Most women are forced into prostitution for varies reasons. Whether "consenual" or not participating in prostitution promotes the degradation of women and encourages sex-trafficing. How can we put confidence in men who are suppose to be responsible for protecting the leader of the free world when they can't control their sexual desires?
Human trafficking and forced prostitution are serious violent crimes which should not be accepted or even tolerated in any society. Not every sex worker feels exploited or degraded, however. If it were inherently degrading to "be a sex object," the human race would fail to procreate and die out.
To your last point, I agree that the agents could have compromised their security. For that reason, they may well deserve to lose their jobs.
The agents who were involved in this have shown a complete lack of character and a total disrespect for women. Not to mention the embarassmant it has caused our country. We really don't know and probably won't know how much their actions put the President at risk.
Please explain how Obama, who was not physically present at the time, could have guessed that these guys would hire a hooker? Please explain what else he could do after the discovery of their bad behavior than what he did, hold a press conference to announce that a thorough investigation would follow? I'm a bit offended by the partisan shrillness of your post. Yoo hoo, Obama did not hire a hooker. Do you suggest that he should have all the guys fired before the investigation happens?