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CHANGE....HOPE.....FUTURE....I CAN.... great mantras....but when undefined they have no substance. This is typical of a society that often has a difficult time using words over four letters. This election is a first in history in more ways than one. Never has a nations media…selected, packaged and marketed a candidate with such a massive and directed PR campaign. It is estimated that the media gave Obama over 3 billion dollars in free favorable coverage to promote their selection for President. With the complete loss of any objectivity…these “journalists” became nothing more than media “prostitutes”. They did not report the news….they distributed propaganda. And it worked. They made him into a rock star. And the majority of the public swallowed it…hook, line and sinker. The demise of critical thinking. As a reporter or news anchor, if you dared to bring up an issue involving character, lack of experience, unfavorable associations, voting record...or any other information that might actually make you think about who was running for office and what did he actually believe....and you would find yourself pulled off the assignment, censured or terminated. After all he is the media's "anointed one". They have created an “Obama Mania” that is on the verge of insanity. There is talk of an Obama stamp, a Obama national holiday, comparisons of Obama to Lincoln and JFK, an official Obama coin, Obama on US paper currency….there are Obama collectors plates, hats, shirts, …everything that can turn a profit. This adulation and worship is for a guy that has accomplished absolutely nothing. His association with communists, anarchists, terrorists and criminals, would prevent him from even passing a security clearance at a Wal-Mart. When I see him I think of Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire Cat. Remember the cat sitting in the tree with the huge smile and then he would disappear...and all you could see was the smile. Great smile, smooth voice and oratorical skills.....but no substance. The media turned a proverbial pigs ear into a silk purse.

His using Martin Luther King as a means to continue this adulation, especially in the black community, is also deeply disturbing. Obama did not fulfill the dream of Martin Luther King.... he betrayed it. Rev. King never had a dream of a black President, or a black Senator. His dream was that our society would grow up and mature...and eventually become color-blind. He prayed that the issue of race....would someday no longer be an issue at all. That his children would someday only be judged by the "quality of their character and not the color of their skin". But Obama was elected by totally ignoring the "quality of his character"...and strictly because of the color of his skin. The media ignored, de-emphasized or censured any adverse character attributes. At the same time they focused on the race issue. Remember when Tom Hanks is asked why he is voting for Obama. His answer was, "because it's time". Time for what? Time for a black man for president. A camera shot of a black man stepping into his pick-up truck outside a restaurant. He is asked by the reporter, "Who are you voting for"? His answer, "Take a look at me, who do you think I am voting for." This was type of coverage repeated over and over again. And the idea that if you did not support Obama...you must be a racist. People did not vote for Obama because of his management experience, his foreign policy experience, his associations and mentors, his legislative experience or his moral and religious beliefs. They voted for him because he was NOT Bush....and of course he is black. Promoted and worshipped by Hollywood airheads and songs created about him by rap artists, a star was created from nothing. I know of no one who voted for McCain because he was white...but I know lots of people that voted for Barack Obama because he was black. That is racism.

Now three days into his presidency one can see already the coming disaster beginning to take shape. Look at some of his appointments. Leon Panetta as CIA director. In a war against terrorist all over the world, placing an attorney in charge with no (nada) experience in the intelligence community or law enforcement. That is like getting a guy from McDonalds, giving him a scalpel and starting him as a brain surgeon. What a slap in the face of every agent and analyst that has worked for years to learn their jobs to keep us safe. If I was a field agent...I think it would be time to retire. How about his choice for Treasury Secretary...Tim Geither? Tim Geither failed to pay over $34,000 in taxes over four years. In fact, he only recently coughed up some of the money only after the nomination process exposed him. A 2006 audit exposed him but Geither still didn't pay the taxes he owed for two of those years, stating that they were outside the statue of limitations. Besides this he employed an illegal alien for domestic help...and was right in the middle of the failed TARP bailout that has already cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. And this guy will be in charge of the IRS. How about his new Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Her only foreign policy experience is getting tea and coffee for foreign visitors at the White House...and covering criminal activity for 8 years by her husband. I am sure she will be deeply respected by our foreign dignitaries in the the way she put up with her husband screwing around with anything in a skirt for decades, so she could have position, power and money. I am so proud.

And let's look at some of the disastrous policy changes he has made already....and will do in the future.

1) Closing of Guantanamo military prison in Cuba. Already over 500 have been released or tried, and those 175 left are the worst of the worst. These are catagory three terrorists. We now have a choice of either releasing these cold-blooded murders so they can go back out into the world and kill hundreds more Americans...and others. Or we can bring them to America, spend million of dollars on slick defense attorneys, tie up the judical system for years, and eventually (after a book of the week, OJ publicity, a TV Movie)...they are released and can kill more innocent people. Brilliant.  The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year.  Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

2) Redefining torture as anything unpleasant...and then totally outlawing it from use with this captured terrorists. So now when we capture a high profile terrorist that has information that can save thousands of American lives, we are only allowed to ask him his name and give him a cigarette. Imagine the interrogation technique. "Tell me when the attack will be. No. Oh, come on...please. No. Pretty please with sugar. No. Ohhhh. Ok" We have never tortured people as defined by the rest of the world. In Iran, Yemen, Korea...etc.. they dip people in acid, electrocution, cut off body parts. The worse thing we do..only in extreme cases, was water boarding. That does not hurt the person...but it does scare the crud out of them. I have several US Marine friends that were water boarded in interrogation school. They said it was so effective they would have told them they were from the planet Venus if only they would stop. By being able to check various portions of the information from the detainee, it has been found to be extremely effective and reliable. Question: If a terrorist is known to have information that could save many American lives and we do not do everything necessary to get that information.....and Americans die. Will President Obama be responsible for those American deaths?

3) Overturning the "Mexico-city" policy. Since the supreme court created law in Wade vs Roe in 1973, over 2 million children's lives per year have been terminated. Only 1 percent of those was for the mothers life in jeopardy, incest or rape. The rest were for personal convenience. It is bad enough that abortions in this country are done with tax payers money, so the "Mexico-city policy" was established to prevent our government from subsidizing abortions in other countries. That has now changed. We are not killing nearly enough. We can do better. So our tax dollars will now go to foreign family planning centers that support or conduct abortions. I am so proud to be an American. Also as he passes the Freedom of Choice Act we can now take 12 year old kids from their school for abortions without ever notifying their parents...well, except when they have to come down to the morgue to identify their dead daughter. But if the child wants an aspirin, they better have a note to the nurse. Besides the elimination of parental notification this Act will also again allow the barbarity of partial birth abortions. This is so sick that if you did this to a squirrel, they would put you jail for the next 5 years.

What else can we expect: Elimination of the "Don's ask/ Don't tell" policy of gays in the military. (Already they have determined that the open inclusion of gays in the military will result in a 20% departure of personal from our military ranks. One of the last bastions of moral sanity, gone.) Gun Control (reinstatement of the assault weapons ban...you know anything that has a magazine of more than 9 or 10 rounds. Like you could not kill someone with only three. Stupid) - (Closing of gun shows) - (Control of ammunition), The Most Massive Tax increases in history (and you thought all these billions ,actually over a trillion, dollars of welfare and bailouts was actually growing on trees....the collapse of our economy and the American dream), Government Controlled and provided Health-Care (socialism at its best...in Canada if you want an MRI and the government says no..or you have to wait 6 months...they just come across the border into the United States. Where will we go...Tiahuana? One more think to insure total socialism. Truly this is the death knoll for our system of government)