America's Newest Shooting Star

What goes up must come down. The truth is being learned daily in the economic world. Likewise, the political pendulum swing carries great weight. Attention Democrats, your criminality is showing! Lobbyists taking payoffs, Governor’s selling political rewards, a heavily Democratic canvassing board reversing vote totals in a Minnesota Senatorial race, and a Speaker of the House poised to eliminate Congressional fairness rules. These are the new governmental hallmarks. It sounds like government of old; so much for transparency. Chicago, has come to Washington, so why shouldn’t the secret backroom deals do so also? It is after all the Chicago national pastime. These are the new tones of bipartisanship in Washington.

The unethical nature of the looming four years is already popping its head to the surface, and the inauguration of the new President hasn’t even happened yet! Remember all of the moaning over the corrupt right wing Republicans? Remember the last eight years of constant anti-Bush hysteria? If you bought into the Obama “age of Aquarius,” you are in for a mild shock. Of course you won’t feel it for a while because of the blind devotion. After the rationalization that somehow you are better than what came before fades, the truth will settle upon you. The band “The Who” said it best when they penned the lines “Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.”

Multiple political contacts of the new President, the Governor’s of Illinois and New Mexico to name just two are under clouds of criminal investigation of play for pay scandals. These are hard core Democrats that have rubbed elbows with many in the new administration, including the President-Elect. There hasn’t been so much scandal surrounding a guy before taking the Oval Office since President Clinton in 1992. Look how well that turned out. There were political witch hunts for two consecutive terms by right wing skeptics in the 1990’s. President Bush swept that away, but was lambasted with not only doubters, but down right haters who compared the man to Adolph Hitler, among many of their irrational smears.

Out of the ashes once again rises someone appearing to be from beyond the political scene, ala President Jimmy Carter (another remembrance of four stupendous years can be placed aside the asterisk which accompanies his name). The phoenix this time was marketed as markedly different. He is if you only look skin deep; which many American’s have done. Some gravitated to Obama because of pride in their heritage as African American’s; others because of their white guilt. Finally there are still others who have bought the lie that Obama is “Harvard” intelligent. Of course we don’t really know the truth on that because his handler’s won’t open up information about the President Elect’s college grades. Nevertheless, this rising rocket has shot to the zenith of American political life in a mere four years; the latest shooting star.
People want what looks like a winner. They took hold of his high trajectory and as of yet haven’t let go. For this reason we know little about him and have ignored his associates in a campaign that is designed to be about proper vetting of a candidate.

This ill-advised methodology of "getting to know them as they serve," invites everyone to be witness to the ongoing vetting process like Carter, Clinton, and Bush's (43) required. Was anybody disappointed in what they found out about these guys after they were already in office? The next four years won’t be pretty! Worse than that is the universal truth that shooting stars fall from the sky as quickly as they ascend. This latest missile from Chicago is destined to be tied to the others which have surrounded it. The Richardson, Blagojevitch, Resko, Ayers stars have plummeted, and will continue to do so. Who and what will finally drag down the young upstart President? Know one knows just yet, but if history tells us anything it is that American’s love to create heroes only to turn and destroy them. Keep an eye on the sky; you don’t want to be hit by any falling debris!