Country-music legend Charlie Daniels isnt buying the White House line that President Obama simply didnt know about the scandalous actions plaguing his administration.
From the gun-running Fast & Furious debacle of 2011 to recent revelations the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting tea-party groups, Obama has denied knowledge of his underlings actions, even stating he only discovered the improprieties after the evening news reported them.
But in an exclusive interview, the ever-outspoken Daniels blasted the presidents excuses.
If I had a drunk bus driver, for instance, and I told everybody, Dont tell me about that, I dont want to know about it, and that way if we get sued I can say, I didnt know it, basically thats got to be whats happened, Daniels said. [But] when you hide behind plausible deniability, that is not leadership. That is cowardice. Youre not leading the country, youre misleading the country.
Daniels further charged the blame-shifting is pervasive throughout the Obama administration.
Look at the so-called attorney general, who should have been held to task a long time ago, for one thing, not prosecuting the Black Panthers standing in front of the polling place, Daniels said. Then we have Fast & Furious, then we have this thing in B******i, then we have the IRS thing its one thing after another. This administration is out of control!
People have, with reason regardless of whether they support the p**********l administration or not lost any kind of trust, Daniels said. If someone says something, you dont know if its true, if they mean it, if they dont mean it. As far as whats going on right now, we dont have a leader.
And dont even think about defending Obama by pointing back to George W. Bush.
Going back and saying what Bush or Reagan or for that matter George Washington did is a total and complete waste of time, Daniels said.
It makes no difference what they did. This guy was supposed to be in to fix the mistakes any president in front of him made, and hes not doing it. Making excuses for him is not going to help him. He needs to be held to account, he needs to come clean. He needs to get that IRS woman to go back in front of Congress and tell the t***h.
The IRS scandal in particular, appears to have piqued Daniels ire.
Somebody deserves some jail time out of this thing with the IRS, Daniels said. Its like the Gestapo. Its like having your own, private, secret police force to sick on people. Its dirty.
I am not comparing Obama to Hitler; Im comparing politics to politics, the singer explained. In the 1920s and 30s Germany erred in that direction, giving a little bit here, a little bit there, giving the government more and more until they had it all, then all of a sudden the government turns around and says you cant have guns and you cant do this, you cant do that.
This is a dangerous, terrible situation we have going on in this country right now.
Since the 1950s Daniels has been a country singer and famed fiddler, perhaps best known for his hit song The Devil Went Down to Georgia. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2008.
But he also writes frequently on culture and politics, no stranger to bold statements in defense of God and country, and maintains a soapbox blog on his website, CharlieDaniels.com.
http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox.htmI have never in my life seen the United States of America in the kind of shape its in right now, Daniels said. Its time for somebody to do something to bring this country back together.
But whos that somebody, and what can they do?
Daniels decried that so many people in our country are unaware of the severity of the scandals rocking Washington and unwilling to be educated about their own government or the freedoms being slowly sapped from them by the very people they v**ed into office. Far too many, Daniels lamented, dont even know who the speaker of the House is and couldnt find New Jersey on a map.
How much more are we going to let stupid get away with? Daniels asked. The Bible says, My people perish for lack of knowledge its whats going on in this country. If people knew what was happening, it would scare them to death. But they dont know. Theyve got their head in the sand; they dont want to know. Its just like, Send me my check every month and the h with everything else.
Who are they going to v**e for? he asked rhetorically. Theyre going to v**e for the guy that gives them the most.
So can anyone make a difference in Washington?
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