What Obama fears more than terrorists: credibility loss.

In any con game, the main goal of the con man is to gain the confidence of the patsy and then use his good nature and trust against him as a weapon.  The herd is really too big and too powerful to force in any given direction.  It is only by tricking the herd into agreeing with activities that are damaging to the herd that the con men can take control and retain power for any period of time.  Of course, no con ever lasted forever and every con man ever born is acutely aware of this fact.

One huge aspect of Obama's big con is that laws don't matter.   Nixon tried the same thing, saying that if the president does something, that act is automatically not illegal simply by virtue of the president having done it.  Obama has done as much or more to dismantle the freedoms and the privacy of American citizens as any man could have.  Just to show that I am not partisan in this matter I will quickly add that IMO Bush was/is a monster as well and I believe he is a traitor and a war criminal to boot.  Unfortunately for Obama, something happened which shook the herd's confidence regarding the actions of Obama and his fellow con men.  The person responsible for this huge change in the herd's mentality was Edward Snowden.

Snowden proved, beyond any shadow of any doubt (to even the very slowest to see among us) that our government is corrupt, lies directly to congress, is spying on everyone and uses its ill begotten intelligence for political purposes (namely, harassing the opposition and fixing elections).  Why am I still talking about Snowden?  Isn't that already political history??  In short, no, not by a long shot.  The initial shock of Snowden's NSA revelations were bad enough but in my opinion, that first blast was akin to what happened with the dam-buster bomb from the movie, "Force 10 from Navarone".   In other words, it was only the catalyst and the tip of the iceberg, not the entire effect that is now unfolding.

In that movie, Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford are given a bomb to take into the guts of a strategic, Nazi held dam in order to destroy it.  It needed to be placed at a certain location and it had to be done by hand.  Because of this, it was thought to be a suicide mission.  Shaw and Ford light the bomb and then, thinking that the dam will collapse immediately, prepare themselves to be swept away by the flood waters when the bomb blows. When the bomb goes off it is a mighty blast, but not nearly enough to immediately bring the dam down.  Shaw and Ford are furious at their team member who gave them the explosive because they think he made a mistake in the amount of explosive needed.

As it turns out however, Miller (the bomb expert who gave them the bomb) knew what he was doing.  He knew the dam did not need to be pulverized.  All he had to do was weaken it with a properly placed explosive and then water pressure from the dam would finish the job in the fullness of time.  Initially, there seemed to be no real damage to the dam and the Nazis that were supposed to be protecting it just looked around, wondering what happened.  The guards began to return to what they were doing before the blast.  But over the course of several minutes the dam began to develop cracks.  The cracks started out small but they got bigger quickly.  Soon there was water pouring into the inside of the dam and the guards began to panic.  Within a short time, the dam failed completely, catastrophically and suddenly.

Obama got caught with an illegal, unconstitutional spy organization trampling 4th amendment rights.  Instead of being apologetic, he condoned the actions, said it was all OK and that the American people should just move on because there was nothing to see.  He made a swipe at catching Snowden but that failed.  As a result of these things, Obama felt he was starting to lose the confidence of the people.  To a con man, confidence is everything.  Without the confidence of the patsy, the con man cannot use the patsy's own labor as a weapon against the patsy.  Obama saw cracks starting to form in his dam of corruption.  Many were starting to call him a lame duck president.

Seeking to patch up the damage to his dam quickly, Obama seized on the very first opportunity to distract the American patsy with that age old weapon of mass distraction: military aggression.  But the people don't want it.  They have indeed lost confidence in the con man.  Even democrats who were taken in by his lies cannot reconcile how he is spying on everyone illegally and then trying to justify it Nixon style.  Obama's back is up against the wall with Syria now because he knows that failing to attack when he said he would will cause further wakening of the herd.  If there is one thing the herd is good at, it is the detection of weakness and fear.  At the same time, Britain has bowed out and France is edging for the door as well.  They are not doing this because they don't want to attack.  They are doing it because they sense that it will be political suicide.

It's not obvious yet, and because of this many will scoff at my words right now but I'm starting to think that Snowden has brought Obama down.  I think Snowden put an irreparable crack in the herd's confidence in Obama. I think it will play out in a fashion similar to the bridge from Force 10.  I think Obama will try to put a good face on it and get everyone distracted but that the damage is already done.  The pressure of herd awakening from slumber and the insult of having this criminal president violating the 4th amendment rights of everyone in the US simultaneously is going to lead to expanding confidence cracks leading to the eventual collapse of dam Obama.  Good examples of these cracks can be found here and here.

Faced with this reality, Obama is going to have to decide whether to subjugate himself to the will of the people or whether he thinks he is so powerful now that the people no longer matter.  Either way, I hear a bell tolling for Obama's presidency.