"Surrounded!"

Do any of you remember the date of June 25, 1876? Do any of you remember the name George Armstrong Custer? Do any of you remember the name Sitting Bull? These names engaged in a memorable battle quite a while ago, with an outcome that has been revisited in countless movies and television shows.

George Armstrong Custer finished last in his class at West Point, was a difficult student and a headstrong commander during battles. He was given the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War due to an error in the Union Command, but did help in some turning point battles because of his willingness to pursue victory at all cost.

At the time of the ”Little Big Horn”, Custer was a colonel and commander of the Seventh Cavalry, and was best known for his flowing blond hair and buckskin jacket. He was also famous for his arrogance in his decisions during battle situations. His command consisted of about 600 troops, all battle hardened Indian fighters. His assignment was to find an Indian encampment and engage hostiles. Custer decided to split his forces in three sections of about 200 men each. Custer decided against bringing a Gatling gun, the most impressive weapon of the day, capable of firing between 400 and 1200 rounds per minute. Custer believed this weapon was too cumbersome to haul for his mission.

Custer wasn’t expecting more than about 50 to 75 warriors when he entered the valley of “Little Big Horn”. What the colonel didn’t know was surrounding him, was a force of approximately 2,000 warriors from the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho nations led by the highly skillful Chief Sitting Bull.

Seeing he was surrounded, Custer made the fateful decision to dismount his troops and make a stand from a small rise; he and all of his men were massacred in short order. Why Custer dismounted was never found out, as it gave all chance of escape impossible, and that Gatling gun could have given them a distinct advantage, had it been there. Custer’s arrogance was responsible for the defeat and deaths of all his men; not the “hero” depicted on television or in the movies we have seen. Custer underestimated his opponents and his arrogance led him to disaster.

Over the last few months, we have seen our President, Barack Hussein Obama, try to soft peddle the Benghazi terrorist attack, but more and more it looks like it has been a huge cover-up from the Obama Administration; one scandal.

Over the last few weeks, we have seen the IRS revealed as a political attack dog for the Obama Administration to pursue conservative organizations and individuals in an effort to dissuade them from “making waves” for Barack Obama and his agenda; scandal number two.

We have now seen that AP, New York Times and FOX NEWS are under investigation by the Eric Holder Justice Department; e-mails and phone taps with questionable evidence of any wrongdoing by any of the parties being harassed. Holder stated he knew nothing about these investigations but he was the man who signed off on all of them; a little suspicious, to say the least; scandal number three.

It seems that the American people are finally waking up to the “Colonel Custer” we now have sitting in the White House, and his arrogance in leadership. It appears that Obama believes his “surprise” of these events is none of his responsibility and he has made noises of concern about these abuses of power. Do you believe him? This is the same man who preached “punishment” during the election by voting for him to send a message to conservatives.

The Obama Administration is now surrounded by “Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes” and he doesn’t have that Gatling gun to help him. It must be awfully lonely standing on that hill; I wonder if “Colonel Obama” will send up a white flag?