Opinion

A Scandal of scandals — with Obama at center

The Issue: The numerous scandals that have emerged recently involving the Obama administration.

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The American public has witnessed a seemingly endless cascade of serious scandals involving the Obama administration directly or indirectly (“The ‘Scandalanche’ & the Data-Mining,” Michael Walsh, PostOpinion, June 15).

All of them implicate the White House, and represent egregious and unprecedented abuses of government power. Each is much more serious than the reasons for which Richard Nixon was almost impeached and Bill Clinton actually was.

It’s stunning that there has been so little talk about impeachment for President Obama, in spite of repeated displays of incompetence and fundamental dishonesty in his administration. One has to wonder why there is such a double standard.John Jaffe

Manhattan

Successful governing is about trust. I would like to believe the president, but even on the matters in which he has succeeded, he has failed us.

Does anyone believe that health-care costs will not rise drastically?

Can we trust that our Department of Justice will ever explain the gun-walking fiasco for which the attorney general has been held in contempt of Congress?

Does anyone still believe that Benghazi was not a cover-up?

Can we accept that the attorney general did not know about tapping into reporters’ phones after his signature is on the search warrant? Are we going to accept that the IRS has gone haywire, but no one is going to jail?

President Obama insists that we will get to the bottom of this. Either they are using spoons for shovels, or the country’s answers are in one hell of an abyss.

Ignatius Giorgio

Brooklyn

When Obama looks into the eyes of Americans, all he sees is his own reflection. We are nothing more than extensions of his greatness.

This is why every emerging scandal is met with “I didn’t know,” or an implication of blame toward George W. Bush.

For Obama, the buck will always stop at Bush, because “We the people” do not matter enough to tell the truth or accept responsibility.

William Gensert

The Bronx