President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington.In one of the most chilling, fretful and historically confused speeches in recent memory, President Barack Obama told graduates of The Ohio State University to reject voices claiming that "tyranny is always lurking just around the corner."
That commencement address was on May 5. In the two weeks since, Obama's administration has been implicated in no fewer than four scandals resulting from cover-ups and abuses of power -- making it seem that tyranny has gone from lurking just around the corner to bursting through the front door.
Speaking to the class of 2013 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Obama lamented that students have "grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all of our problems.