In light of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s indications that  President Obama is completely aloof about everything that goes on in his  government (“He doesn’t know anything about Benghazi,” “He knew nothing about  collecting the phone records of AP journalists,” “He knew nothing about the IRS  intimidating conservative and Catholic groups”), I feel it’s time to ask Obama  voters, Where’s your god now?

Either Obama is a man whose competence and benevolence rival only that of  Abraham Lincoln, or he’s a bumbling, out-of-touch screw-up with no control over  his own administration, the goings-on of which he is completely ignorant.

The realization that it must be one or the other might be what is driving  some Democrats to actually begin criticizing these scandals, as opposed to their  usual habit of criticizing the whistleblowers of the  scandals; they would rather Obama be looked upon as ineffectual than a Nixonian  crook. “Obama didn’t know anything about anything, but he does need to fire some  people” seems to be the general consensus among Democrats.

There’s a large part of me that hopes we don’t get to the bottom of these  three scandals anytime soon, however; I get so much entertainment from watching  the different members of this administration squirm and flounder uncomfortably  now that some in the media have begun doing their primary function of asking  questions.

The denials, deliciously pathetic, reveal an arrogance the level of which we  haven’t yet witnessed in Obama, which is saying something. Of course, the press  is to blame for Obama’s over-confidence in his ability to get away with  corruption, but now that one of their own has been the target of spying by the  Justice Department—Obama’s Justice Department—some journalists are dusting off  their journalism degrees and finally putting them to use, the temerity of which  resulted in White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeating ad nauseum, in an  effort to sound convincing, the uncomfortably disingenuous statement that Obama  is a “firm believer in the need for the press to be unfettered.”

But of course Obama knew about the IRS and the Justice Department; what  transpired there was classic Chicago politics. Obama is from Chicago; he knows  how to play politics, as he has proudly stated in  the past. And it was Obama, Commander in Chief, who (fine, “allegedly”) told  American troops stationed just outside Benghazi to stand down and not to try to  help the four diplomats being tortured and killed by Islamic savages, a  non-story in Obama’s eyes (“There’s no ‘there’ there,” he said).

The head of the IRS may have been appointed by President George W. Bush, but,  like Bush, he is obviously no conservative. The IRS has already admitted that  they did exactly what they are being accused of having done, but Obama still  felt confident to deny this reality, calling it outrageous only “if” it were  true. (If it’s true that the IRS engaged in the criminal  activity they already admitted they engaged in….)

If Obama is comfortable living in that reality, can we please let him live  there just a little while longer, if only for the enjoyment of seeing him twist  and turn? It lends legitimacy to mascot of the Democratic Party.