Panetta Book Bombshell: Challenges to Obama's Legitimacy Affected His Presidency

The American Thinker ^ | 10-13-14 | Jack Cashill

[afraidfortherepublic]

Largely lost in the hubbub over former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s new book Worthy Fights is one intriguing revelation. As reported in the New York Times, the accusations that Barack Obama was not what he appeared to be, perhaps not even a natural-born citizen, caused him to become tentative on the national stage. “Those challenges have encouraged the president’s caution and defensiveness, which in turn has emboldened further challenges,” Mr. Panetta wrote.

As the originator of one of those challenges, namely that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Obama with his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, I can confirm the validity of Panetta’s accusation. When challenged, Obama has become not only defensive but also downright dishonest.

Obama’s insecurity has caused him to violate the promise he made to his assembled staff on his first full day in office. “I will also hold myself as President to a new standard of openness,” said the newly minted president. “Information will not be withheld just because I say so. It will be withheld because a separate authority believes my request is well grounded in the Constitution.” As I document in my new book, You Lie, Obama has dishonored this promise in a hundred different ways.

In the last six years, the White House has withheld information large and small, public and private, petty and grand. A perfectly instructive and heretofore unsung incident took place at a CNN studio on September 23, 2009. The guest was bestselling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen. The show was CNN’s "American Morning", and the host was a young woman named Kiran Chetry.

An establishment journalist with credentials of the first order, Andersen was there to plug his...book...Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. Despite Andersen’s credentials and his apolitical background, the interview almost did not take place.

[skinkinthegrass]

and yet, he kept quiet! 😑

[Pollster1]

I made a conscious effort over the past five years to systematically and repeatedly question Obama’s constitutional legitimacy and the legitimacy of his actions in as many venues as possible. My justification for this was that I am not convinced of Obama’s eligibility for the job and that I expected the continuous questioning of his and FedGov’s legitimacy to help in reining in the excesses that the usurper’s first few months in office proved he would find tempting. Considering how many of his actions have been unconstitutional, this questioning was easy to support and clearly justified.

It’s nice to see Panetta confirming that we were at least partially successful. Obama is shockingly evil and has done incalculable damage to the United States as a free country, but he could have done even more harm without the constant drumbeat of questioning not just the logic or rationale behind his decisions but also the legitimacy of those decisions and even of him making those decisions at all. Mission accomplished. We need to continue praying that our country will survive this terrible eight year nightmare under the usurper, but this is nice to hear.

[Chewbarkah]

So, we are to believe that Obama, instead of opening verifiable records confirming his citizen birth, academic records, etc. to public scrutiny, became “tentative of the national stage” precisely why?

Possibilities:
1) Panetta is signaling that he believes Obama is not legit.
2) Obama would only become tentative over accusations if he knew someone was in a position to definitively expose his fraud. VJ? Ayers? Does Panetta know who it is?
3) Panetta is making excuses. Obama is an indecisive, inexperienced, non-executive with an ego problem papered over via fake narcissism. Don’t need no outside reason to be tentative.

Jack Cashill should interview Panetta and ask for clarification.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I’d say all three suggestions are correct.