The Problem With Obama

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Politico asks “Should Obama hit the reset but­ton on the White House? If so, where might he find it?”

My thoughts as I wrote to Politico and as they have now published:

Should Obama hit the reset but­ton? You’re kid­ding right?! Step One: Obama should apol­o­gize for bank­rupt­ing the coun­try, going around the world and apol­o­giz­ing for us as if it were needed, then bow­ing fealty to the likes of the Saudi king, the Japan­ese Emperor, the Chi­nese leader and, if we give him a chance, maybe even Iran’s Supreme Leader Aya­tol­lah Ali Khamenei.

Obama gave us mas­sive debt to bailout large cor­po­rate Amer­i­can, gave bil­lions to for­eign car mak­ers through a junker car pro­gram, instead of fix­ing health care, tried and failed to replace it, can’t make a deci­sion on ongo­ing mil­i­tary war and occu­pa­tion in Afghanistan and Iraq, gave up pro­tect­ing our bor­ders and work­places from ille­gal immi­grants, still insists on sign­ing us up for costly pro­grams to com­bat now dis­cred­ited global warm­ing, and… does one really need to continue?!

Obama has been a dis­as­ter for the U.S. from day one. His only suc­cess, after a cou­ple weeks in office was to gain nom­i­na­tion for and now receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Embar­rass­ing, really.

Oh, yeah. Obama has had a steady stream of par­ties since arriv­ing at the White House. Even Kobe steak. Really con­cerned about spend­ing our tax dol­lars wisely.

Yes, reset by resignation.

Lou Dobbs Con­sid­ers Pos­si­ble Pres­i­den­tial Run (Fox News)
In this report the $8 mil­lion dol­lar man is leav­ing his options open, includ­ing a run for pres­i­dent. Per­son­ally, I think the next pres­i­dent should make Dobbs head of Home­land Secu­rity where he can put his great pas­sions directly to work for Amer­ica. I’d love to see him given the chance to put his ideas into action.

My orig­i­nal Novem­ber 15, 2008, arti­cle is updated here as this is a cru­cial mat­ter in respect to our Con­sti­tu­tion and who we accept in the office of Pres­i­dent. It is sur­real that Barack Obama has refused to release the records nec­es­sary to resolve the mat­ter of his eli­gi­bil­ity to be pres­i­dent. Ignor­ing this will not change the Con­sti­tu­tion, nor will those con­cerned allow the mat­ter to wither away. Either Barack Obama is or is not eli­gi­ble to be Pres­i­dent of the United States.

In the con­tin­u­ing news sur­round­ing Obama’s cit­i­zen­ship is Janet Porter’s claim that Obama did not get his first pass­port until after becom­ing a U.S. Sen­a­tor. This adds weight to his non-U.S. cit­i­zen­ship as his pri­mary or declared cit­i­zen­ship. Did he travel to Pak­istan using his Indone­sian, Kenyan, or British cit­i­zen­ship? Porter notes that his 1981 travel to Indone­sia and Pak­istan were after his mother’s 1980 return from Indone­sia and divorce from her Indone­sian hus­band. Thus, adding more ques­tions to Obama’s story and cred­i­bil­ity as he claimed to have trav­eled first to see her, then to go on to Pak­istan for a three week visit. She also revis­its ear­lier ques­tions about his allegedly forged birth cer­tifi­cate released by the cam­paign that has been repeat­edly called into question.

As I pre­vi­ous wrote…

A new chal­lenge to Sen­a­tor Barack Obama’s cit­i­zen­ship was filed Novem­ber 12th in Cal­i­for­nia demand­ing that the court stop cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the elec­tion results until the state’s sec­re­tary of state can ascer­tain from Sen­a­tor Obama his legal qual­i­fi­ca­tion to be a can­di­date for Pres­i­dent. This 18 page peti­tion is a quick read. It offers a good sum­mary of what is at stake and the ques­tions that sur­round Sen­a­tor Obama’s citizenship.

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Bruce Walker makes an inter­est­ing obser­va­tion in “The Lawyers Party” when he notes that all Demo­c­ra­tic Party pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates since 1984 went to law school, though Al Gore did not grad­u­ate. Every Demo­c­ra­tic vice-​presidential can­di­date since 1976, except Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school . By com­par­i­son, Ger­ald Ford in 1976 was the last Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date that was a lawyer. He does not iden­tify the last Repub­li­can vice-​presidential can­di­date who went to law school.

Aside from this trivia, I do not agree with the bal­ance of Walker’s arti­cle that rails against lawyers. I believe they serve an impor­tant, vital role in soci­ety and the laws that allow us to seek unfet­tered jus­tice when­ever and for what­ever rea­son we choose are nec­es­sary. Often this is our only recourse when injus­tice or injury is encountered.