Barack Obama's First Year as President

I’m often asked “Why don’t you listen to president Obama? He is our president after all, and you should give him a chance.” I have listened to Barack Obama, probably more than most people I know. I have followed him closely for the last 2 and ½ years. He is “well educated”, articulate in some ways, and very intelligent. That does not make him fit to lead our country. He is wrong on the issues (especially the crucial, moral ones), arrogant, petty, thinned-skinned to criticism, manipulative, and sometimes mean-spirited. He uses the personal pronoun “I” more than anyone in recent memory. His State of the Union address last week was a hodge-podge of disconnected ideas, a desperate attempt to please just about everyone. Did you hear his partisan, rude insult to a ruling by the Supreme Court, after pleading for non-partisanship? Apparently, his idea of non-partisanship is to agree with all his ideas. He seems to hide his true agenda after promising “the most transparent” presidency to date. He works in the dark, making secret deals that are repugnant to most Americans, even some Democrats. Most troubling to me, Obama is motivated by political expediency. Again and again, he has thrown people overboard, even his closest allies, if it appears that his association with them will cost him politically. That is very telling to me. He is not prepared to lead 300 million people. He had no executive experience. Who endorses him enthusiastically? The American Communist Party. If you think I’m being unfair, look into it yourself. They praise everything he does. I’m not calling him a communist. I am merely pointing out who loves him the most. There is a difference!

So how did he win the White House? There are many reasons. People were tired of the war, Bush was unpopular, Republican mistakes were highlighted (not always unfairly), McCain was the wrong man to lead Republicans and he ran a horrible campaign, and the mainstream media and Hollywood backed Obama. There were entire news networks dedicated to him. Many conservative people were cowed into silence, lest they be accused of being racist. That’s an old canard that the Left in this country put on their opponents – it often works. I could go on and on about this, but I don’t want to bore you. I don’t like Obama because I don’t like his ideas and I don’t trust him. It is that simple. He has shown his true colors, not by his speeches, but by his actions. Obama is my president and I pray for him. I do not hate anyone. But it is also my duty as a Christian, and as an American, to oppose his reckless, socialist policies. I hope we can be reconciled someday. I hope we are together in the next life. For now, I cannot and must not follow his lead. Too much is at stake.