Obamanation

I don't know if my friend Biz coined the title, or it came from somewhere else.  But I'll be damned if I don't like it and its other hidden meanings.  So, as you have already guessed, I am going to talk about Obama today.  First off, let me tell you that I will never use his name and President (Note the capitalization today.) in the same sentence.  To me he has yet to prove that he is actually allowed to even run for the position.  (I can hear you now, "Great another rant about his birth certificate."  Yes, but it'll be short, I promise.)  He has failed to prove that he was born in this country.  Because he does not meet the other birth requirement of 2 parents being citizens, if he was born outside the United States.  Supporters of Obama have provided an "Official" birth certificate to the press.  However, the birth certificate has been proven to be a true birth certificate.  I still don't buy it though.  Maybe because I just don't like Obama personally.

I think the funniest thing to turn out of Obama's election is the fact that it took less than one year for his public opinion level to drop below Bush's.  And is now the lowest of any President in history.  Can you believe it?  I sure the hell can.  He did not have the experience to be President.  His politics were all wrong and he is more lost than a fat kid in a candy store.  Lets face it America, you put that man in office because he was black.  There was no other reason.  (I can hear the calls of "Racist" now.  I will address that in a bit.)   He really has no clue what he is doing.  He doesn't even know how to chose advisers to help him.  Look at the first 2 people he picked to run the IRS.  THEY HADN'T PAYED THEIR TAXES FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS!  Can you believe that? 

Then there are his Supreme Court Justice nominees.  One, Sotomyer, or however you spell it, is racist.  (If you weren't latino, you got harsher rulings from her.)  But Obama picked her, and though a few valiant Senators tried to slow the process down, to go against the Obamanation is/was political death.  So she was put on the bench.  The other one, I don't remember her name, but she blocked recruiters from coming on the college campus where she worked.  Even though it was in violation of Federal law, because the college received Federal funding, she thought it didn't apply to them.  She later had to reverse her opinion.  And this time, there again was limited opposition.  Oh, by the way, this lady has never been a judge, or lawyer, only a Law Professor.  Some great experience there, huh?

Now I said earlier that I would talk about the whole racist thing and Obama.  Well, here it is.  If anyone says something bad about him, or that they don't like him, one of the first reactions, especially from black people I've noticed, is that the person is a racist.  Hell, I've even had it happen to me.  And everyone that knows me knows I don't give a crap what color your skin is, just what type of person you are.  (And, believe it, or not, I was compleatly speechless when it happened too.)  Just because I don't like the man, or his politics, does not make me racist.  I have personal reasons for not liking him.  And if you think about it, those that voted for him from the minority groups (Is that politically correct enough for you?) voted for him because he IS black.  Isn't that racist?

I said that I had personal reasons that I didn't like him, and here it is.  This may come as a surprise, but I almost voted for Obama.  Yeah, you read that right.  He is a very charismatic individual, even through the TV and I thought he originally had some very good ideas.  But when I was in Bagram during the election campaign he came out on a Congressional tour while he was still a Senator.  The Commander in Bagram would not let the press on base to "document" the event, as it is against Federal law for political events to be held on military installations.  My unit was tasked with flying the Congressmen around the country, which means the crew members of those aircraft were directly responsible for the lives of these VIPs.  Obama was going to the Blackhawk he had been assigned to when the Crew Chief walked up to him and extended his hand to greet the Senator.  Obama walks right around the man as if he didn't exist.  Talk about a slap in the face!  He has total disrespect for the military as an institution.  And remember, there wasn't any press there, so he was free to be himself.

Anyways, they fly the Congressional group down to Kandahar, where since its a NATO base, and not US, the press is allowed to "document" the entire event.  The difference in his attitude toward the military members was astounding.  He couldn't greet enough people and was all smiles and encouraging words the whole time.  See the difference in him when there are cameras around?  Now you are probably asking how I know this.  The Crew Chief that this happened to is a friend of mine and he let me know what happened.  And the next question I bet you have is, "Why didn't you tell people?"  The answer to that is simple.  I did tell very close friends and my family, but I was bound by law, both Federal and the UCMJ, from becoming involved in political affairs while in uniform.  And when you are deployed, you are ALWAYS in uniform.  See, simple, like I said.

However, there is one thing that I must praise Obama for.  (Pick your jaw up.)  Yes, I said praise.  He managed to get people involved in the electoral process and actually vote.  The voter turn out was the largest it has been in years.  All because of him.  That is the only part of "his legacy" that I hope survives his term of office.  (Which, God willing, will only be one term.  I don't think we can survive much more of his begging for world forgiveness.)  Please let us out do the voter numbers next election.


Today I leave with this quote, author unknown, "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."  Kind of relevant in relation to Obama, I think.