There was a time, not so very long ago, when it was understood that politics stopped at the water’s edge.  What this meant was that, although we would fight tooth and nail over any domestic political issue, when the security of the United States was at stake, we would cease to be Democrats or Republicans,  and just be “Americans.”  This philosophy saw us through World War II.   After being soundly trounced by F.D.R. in 1940, Wendell Wilkie became F.D.R.’s ally in the fight against Fascism, and he traveled the globe for F.D.R.during the war.  Sadly, today’s politicians no longer are Americans first.  Today, we don’t even have a President who puts American security ahead of politics.  In his zeal to “fundamentally transform” America, Obama has shunned our traditional allies, in favor of the type of leader with which he most closely identifies; the totalitarian dictator.  How else to explain why he pushes away our Israeli allies, our Saudi Allies, our British allies, and cozy’s up to a dictator in Cuba and the Iranians.  We are, for some reason, about to pay Iran $140 billion as part of a deal in which Iran can sell all the oil it wants, continue to work toward producing nuclear weapons, and continue to be the world’s leader in State-sponsored terrorism.  I don’t know what we are supposed to get from this deal.  We won’t be getting back our four hostages because, Obama says, “that’s nonsense.”  When politics stopped at the water’s edge, members of Congress, from either party, would not stand still for any President, from any Party, whose actions were likely to compromise American security.  The President would be stopped.  Not anymore.  The chief problem with this situation is that, when politics stopped at the water’s edge, all we had to worry about was an amphibious invasion.  Nowadays, the edge extends into space, from which an Iranian ICBM may emerge at any moment.  Hope and change?  My foot. (and I cleaned that up).