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Originally Posted by
scienceman 
| I think a larger "Crap ton" of Americans find themselves in the same boat as i am....don't care one crap iota what color the president is but white black or in between Obama was the wrong man for the job..... |
I think that sums my feelings up pretty well. When Obama first appeared on the scene at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, I thought, "Let's keep an eye on this one. After he's had a term or two in DC and learns how the world works, he might be a serious contender for the nomination."
I never expected that the clown would be nominated in 2008, much less that he'd
win.
Obama can't seem to get it through his skull that once the election is over, so is campaigning. You then have to get on with the job of
governing. He's hot stuff at campaigning, but a six year old throwing darts at a dart board to decide what actions to take, or whether to take action at all, could do a better job of taking care of the nation than Obama has. I'm frankly surprised his approval rating is as
high as 53%. Listening to the people on this forum and in my town talk, I'd expect it to be more like 33%. Or less.
I'm a firm believer in the motto, "Deeds, not words." I really try not to judge people by their ethnicity or their social standing, I really do. That's fairly easy to do with politicians, because when they vote on bills or stand up and argue for or against one, they are on record. You have concrete information to judge them on.
In Obama's case, my conclusion was that he is a dangerous far-left Democrat, someone so convinced of his own righteousness and godhood that he shouldn't be trusted with a toy boat in a bathtub. His friends and associates are all left-wingers; at least two of them are proven terrorists. His pastor, the man of whose church Obama was a deacon for many years, is a black separatist racist who is at
best ambivalent about America. I would not care to speculate about how many of his associates in Illinois are criminals or ex-cons, but I feel safe in saying I can think of a couple without straining a neuron. His wife,
by her own admission, spent most of her life ashamed that she is an American. He never cast a controversial vote that required him to take a stand for or against some principle, voting "present" instead. He never sponsored a bill, either in Illinois or in the Senate. From what I can tell, he took the taxpayers' money and did nothing to earn it. Nice work if you can get it.
Yet this absolutely unqualified clown somehow won the Democratic Party nomination, and then the Presidency. To me, that simply proves that Bret Maverick was absolutely right when he observed, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, and those are pretty good odds."
That said, however, now Obama has to run the US government. But from what I can tell, he's not setting policy and making decisions as the CEO of USA, Inc. is supposed to do. He's running around the world speaking about this, that and the other thing; as if he were still on the campaign trail, not as if he's the president. He is not doing the job he was elected to do.
He is, as scienceman says, the wrong man for the job. We needed a Captain James T. Kirk, someone who isn't afraid to make the hard decisions and take action. What the 52% of Americans who voted for Obama gave us instead is a Major Frank Burns.
Ah well, 2012 is coming. If the gods are kind, the American people elect someone competent to do the job and this term of office will go into the history books as an anomaly on the lines of the Peanut Farmer's.
