A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll reported that fifty percent of Americans believe that Congressional investigations into the President’s administration is justified.

The trio of scandals facing the Administration have yet to permeate the national conversation, but they have already begun to sully the President’s sterling reputation. The week before last, before departing for a meeting with Syrian rebels, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), flatly stated that the Benghazi Embassy Attack is beginning to sound like a cover up.

Just last week, Paul Rand (R-KY), two months removed from a 13 hour filibuster to defeat American drone assassination, stated on Sunday, May 26, on ABC’s This Week: “I think the constellation of these three scandals really takes away from the President’s moral authority to lead the nation. No one questions his legal authority. But I really think he’s losing the moral authority to lead this nation.”

The Attorney General’s fingerprints are all over the investigation of civilian journalists. The President himself has a history for naming and shaming individual journalists to pry them from the herd of those covering the White House. Perhaps we should be less than shocked that political groups and journalists are kindling the outrage of the citizenry. After all, this is Administration that has used the Espionage Act to identify enemies of the Republic like no one before.

Surely conservative journalists who maligned the Presidency for seeking to ban FOX representatives from Press Conferences in the past aren’t shocked that the IRS targeted conservative and Republican think tanks, like the Tea Party, on the basis of their beliefs.

This is the same President that has barred the press from certain publicity meetings so that the participants could talk at ease. This is the same President who locked the public out of the White House this spring, only to open for celebrity visits.

Still, few have to point the finger sternly at the Administration to take account for the Scandalgate drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike. The details, slow to come to the fore, seem to lead to the President’s own cabinet.

President Obama’s own Secretary of Treasury and former Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, admitted to knowing unscrupulous IRS investigations a full year before the media storm.

The people’s lawyer, Attorney General Eric Holder, has been implicated in the Department of Justice scandal by signing the search warrant to investigate the FOX journalist James Rosen for charges of anti-American conspiracy and activity.

Worst of all, the President reportedly shared a 10pm conversation with former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton following the murderous attack on American soil at the Benghazi Embassy. The meeting, a followup to a 5pm briefing, seemingly OK’d a cover-up to distract from the government’s previous action in the deadly fricassee.

And the Scandalgate continues to grow.

Just two short weeks ago, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for taking cash from insurance companies in the goal of educating the public on the virtues of the President’s ‘ObamaCare’ plan. The conflict of interest of the Health and Human Services Secretary to privately fundraise for the President has garnered an ever-widening circumspection from the GOP.

The straw that breaks the camels back, however, may be the Administration’s new Secretary of Commerce, Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker. Pritzker, tapped to represent the country’s business community, was a major backer of the President’s Senatorial run. Unfortunately, her handling of the Superior Bank melt down forced her to withdraw her first run for Secretary in 2008, when the New York Times began airing the dirty laundry. The confirmation of the union-busting, subprime lending, tax-dodging one-percenter should disgust many a left-wing Presidential supporter and raise the evil specter of cronyism – corruption so repugnant that it may sway even the most cynical liberal.

The President, for his part, continues to sail on the valor of idealism, delivering speeches promising to close GITMO as the Guantanamo prison prepares a 170 million dollar renovation.

Which apparently is where the buck stops. The President’s favorite stomping ground, Jon Stewart’s Daily Show on Comedy Central, has begun lampooning the President, scandalizing the office to the President’s face just two weeks ago and continuing on a torrent against the Democratic party never before seen on the network.

In a bid to sweep Scandalgate under the rung, celebrity anchor Tom Brokaw stated the current whirlwind is but a gust when compared to the Abu Ghraib ‘scandal’ that saw 11 military personnel garner convictions under various charges of cruel and unusual torture practices in Iraq.

Perhaps Mr. Brokaw sought to make a mole-hill into a mountain with his comparison?

Whatever the case for the awkward contrast of Presidential scandals to cruel and unusual torture, the point remains that the once solid Administration of the pioneering Barack Obama is crumbling.

Now only 30 percent of surveyed George Washington professors believe that the President’s peerless countenance will end up on Mount Rushmore, according to Russia Today.

Let us recall that George Washington does employ Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, who enjoys likening the founding fathers to the powerfully corrupt pimps and gangsters of Hip Hop dirges.

Russia Today’s back-handed compliment does, however, point to an increasing trend against Obama mania. In a new poll by Quinnipiac University, the President has taken an overall disapproval rating of 49 percent, contrasting an approval rating of 45.

Most discouraging of all, among independents, the bulwark of the President’s battle-ground state victory just eight short months ago, only thirty seven percent approve while fifty seven percent disapprove. In comparison, at the beginning of the month, before Mr. Jon Stewart’s lampooning, forty seven percent approved.

As the facts of the Scandalgate continue to bubble to the surface, will independents continue to rebel against the Administration? Will staunch Democrats ever leave their Commander and Chief as they learn the intricacies that call into question the judgment of the President?

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United Nations Peace Envoy, Kofi Annan, has decided to hold an international conference regarding the ever-growing war in Syria, which has left several killed and severely injured. The meeting will take place in Geneva this coming Saturday, but cause for concern is arising, as the United States is having mixed emotions about being a part of the conference.

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has confirmed that despite the United State’s lukewarm feelings about the conference, it will be in attendance, in addition to representatives from various countries including Russia, China, Britain, France, Turkey, and others from European Union, as well as the Arab League.

According to Annan, the purpose of the meeting, “is to forge a consensus on the terms for a political solution among international players with stakes and influence in the Syrian conflict over terms for a political solution. The U.N. envoy believes that the best hope of pressing the combatants on the ground to observe his peace plan to which they signed up in April but have not implemented, is for the foreign powers on whose support they variously depend to agree on terms.”

And the main problem that needs to be addressed this coming Saturday, is the conflict in different approaches and decisions that Russia and the United States both want to make. One of the countries that has yet to announce its appearance is Iran, which is a key factor in resolving conflict. “I have made it quite clear that I believe Iran should be part of the solution,” Annan said in Geneva last Friday. “If we continue the way we are going and competing with each other, it could lead to destructive competition and everyone will pay the price.”

The reason for both Iran and Saudia Arabia being excluded from the conference is based on the Obama Administration not wanting them there. According to Tony Karan, reporter for Time World, “The Obama Administration cited Iran’s role in backing up Syria’s bloody crackdown to declare Tehran’s involvement a “red line” for participating in the Geneva talks, and Annan presumably left out Saudi Arabia as a compensatory gesture to Russia which insists that those countries arming and funding Syria’s rebels share major responsibility for escalating the conflict.

A state department official told reporters last week that “If Kofi Annan can get the proposed participants to agree on such a plan for political transition then there will be a meeting, but that’s what we need to find out before we go to any meeting. There’s no point in going just for the sake of it.”

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Looking back, many Americans now believe that Hilary Clinton would have been a better president over Barack Obama. Clinton was a 2008 presidential nominee against President Barack Obama, but lost in the race and instead made Secretary of State for the Barack administration.

Although a  popular figure among most Americans, a recent Bloomberg poll conducted this month demonstrated that 64 per cent of Americans currently have a more favorable view of Clinton. The poll also included a study asking if the United States would be better off today with Clinton in the White House than it is under President Obama and 34 per cent agreed.

Only 13 per cent thought that the country would be worse off if Hilary Clinton was in office, along with 35 per cent of people who thought the country would be worse off with McCain as president. A share of 46 per cent think that the country would be about the same with either Clinton or President Obama in office.

After surveying 997 people, participants ranked Hilary Clinton at 27 per cent ‘very favorable’ which surpassed the current president with his 21 percent ‘very favorable’ rating. Dick Cheney even chimed in stating on Fox News while promoting his new book, that “perhaps she might have been easier for some of us who are critics of the President to work with.”

He also said, “I have the sense that she’s one of the more competent members of the current administration, and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president.” Clinton’s recent speech at the U.N event on Monday encouraged women to get involved in democracies throughout the world.

She stressed the importance of a “true democracy” that includes women and was there to promote the future of women in politics. She stated, “If we want a safe, secure, prosperous, peaceful future [...] women must be equal partners and free to realize their own God-given potential.”

Last week Clinton also made an appearance at the UN General Assembly, urging a peaceful solution through negotiations for Israel and Palestine. This speech was intended to smooth over plans by Palestine to ask the United Nations to declare the Israeli-occupied land independent and recognize the Palestinian territory as sovereign.

Unfortunate for many hopefuls, Hilary Clinton thus far has not shown any steps towards entering the 2012 presidential race. She said that she wouldn’t run for president again and was looking forward to retirement in an interview with Anne Curry in 2009.

Her approval rating and popularity might make it hard for her to turn down the opportunity though, and the polls show that many people wish they could get another opportunity to vote differently and elect Clinton into office.

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