It has only been about two weeks since Obama officially took the office of president, but already the sheen and paint on our newest president seems to be rapidly peeling away, and the American citizen is beginning to grow uneasy about what they are glimpsing underneath. This certainly shouldn’t be a surprise as the majority of Americans voted for Obama, the most secretive presidential candidate to ever run for this office, without a concern. A man who had been reported as the most liberal politician then in office, and even now, almost nothing is known about the man who is our new president, and the most powerful politician in the land; except what he has chosen to tell us. Neither the way he ran his presidential race, nor his many questionable ties and relationships with individuals or organizations, nor his utter lack of substantive political experience, prevented his being handed the keys to the white house.

   Many are only now beginning to blame the media and Oprah Winfrey, but the truth is far uglier. The American voters refused to even ask basic questions of a candidate who would be king, and the responsibility lies squarely with them. The time for questions should have been before we elected this man to his current position, not after the fact. Having said that, it is not to late to at least minimize the damage that he and his looney-toon co-conspirators, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy, Frank Rangel, and all the rest, are preparing to unleash on an unsuspecting populace.

   In just his first two weeks in office President Obama has reinstated the abortions of others fetuses’ at the expense of the American taxpayer. He has ordered that the top CEO’s of companies which accept taxpayer funded bailouts must accept a salary cap of $500,000, an amount less than their vice-presidents and other corporate officers will be making. His first interview was to al-Arabia, in which he said that he intended to restore the “same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.” At his first prayer service he seemed to reemphasize that America will be “good” under his watch and stop offending the poor misunderstood Muslims, which by the way have happily been butchering and terrorizing Americans (and the rest of the world for that matter) for at least the past 30 years.

   What has Obama received for all his love-fest overtures to the Muslim community? Pakistan has released the infamous Dr. Khan from his years of “house arrest.” Apparently Obama’s words have convinced them that they have nothing to fear from him. You may recall this is the same idiot that was happily selling the secrets on how to build your own nukes to any Muslim nation with an interest in such things. It should also be remembered that Dr. Khan was kept from any American investigators who desperately wanted to know what he had sold and to whom, not that that will prevent our government from sending tens of millions of our taxpayer dollars to the corrupt Pakistani government.

   Even Iran’s leadership has been quick to sense their new advantage in Obama as they wasted no time in demanding a formal apology for the atrocities committed against the Iranian people, as just one of the “pre-conditions” they would establish before any direct talks with the new American government.   

   Apparently he doesn’t remember or know that it was America that has unselfishly provided aid in money, food, medicine, and the blood of brave American men and women, in places like Somalia, Lebanon, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, the many Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, and the millions of poor Muslims fortunate enough to have survived the great Christmas Tsunami. Of course for the sake of brevity this is just the short list. This, despite the 9/12 speech of former President Bush, who took great pains to assure the world that our war was with the terrorists, and not with Muslim, their religion of Islam, or any specific Muslim nation. It is certainly true that we have made mistakes along the way but I defy you to provide another nation in the world that has provided the level of aid sent by America.

   In his first two weeks President Obama has also promised to veto any bill that contained a “protectionist” clause that would insist that only American made steel, labor, etc, be used in any “stimulus” proposal. This also happens to be the exact opposite of what presidential candidate Obama had promised. He has also over ruled Gen. David Petraeus (formerly known as Gen. Betray Us within certain liberal circles), and who also just happens to be the only man, who almost single-handedly turned the violence in Iraq around; to insist on pulling our troops out within 16 months, no matter what.

   President Obama and his many minions, such as Rahm Emanuel, have already indicated that they plan to seriously cut our military defense spending, despite the fact that we are in a war on two fronts. Obama’s team has already demanded that the DOD trim its budget by at least 10%. They have made it pretty clear that they have no need for the Strategic Missile Defense program, despite Iran’s very recent launch of its first ICBM capable missile, and have even dropped the term, “war on terror” so as not to offend the sensibilities of those poor Muslims, both near and far. Of course Obama also recently stated that finding and killing Osama bin Laden is no longer “essential.” Yet another complete reversal of what he stressed as candidate Obama.  

   Emanuel stated in a recent interview that, “We have about $300 billion in cost overruns from the DOD,” that’s $300 billion out of this years proposed $527 billion dollar budget! This, in spite of the fact, that much of our military hardware is seriously debilitated from years of combat operations. The Obama team has already indicated that they plan to scrap the F35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F/A22 Raptor fighter, a destroyer, and of course the Ballistic Missile Defense program.

   Those programs alone will save about $25 billion dollars but at what cost to our nations future security? $25 billion seems a pittance compared to the more than $100 billion dollars that the American taxpayer was forced to hand over to insurance giant AIG alone. It also seems to fly in the face of common sense when we know our vastly overstretched military needs billions just to replenish the equipment depleted during the past several years, but which would have the added benefit of almost instantly increasing good paying jobs to American’s desperately looking for one. Yet neither of the so called stimulus packages seems to have spent a dime in this vital sector.

   What of Obama’s highly touted “transparency” by his new “rules” for any senior government officials within his cabinet? Do the names, Governor Richardson (forced to withdraw over allegations of his involvement in a “pay to play” scheme), Tom Daschle (owed more than $140,000 in delinquent taxes), Hillary Clinton (who, along with her husband Bill, had refused for years, to release a list of Bills donors, until of course she wanted to be Secretary of State), Eric Holder (who had served under Janet Reno of Waco Texas, Elian Gonzales, and Marc Rich fame), Tim Geithner (oops, another delinquent taxpayer to the tune of $43,000), and Governor Blagojevich (another Illinois politician, need I say more) ring any bells? So apparently Obama’s strict new “rules” and complete “transparency” only applies when He says they apply.

   Let’s not forget the presidents signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which Phyllis Schlafly accurately wrote in her January 13, 2009 article, “would remove existing statutory caps and allow for unlimited money damages to be awarded, even without proof of discriminatory intent.” Or President Obama’s new fear mongering language over the importance of Republican members of Congress getting on board with his party’s bloated liberal spending frenzy currently known as his “stimulus” package. Has anyone else noted Obama’s proclivity to seem totally unaware of any contrary views from those of his own? When speaking about the alleged Global Warming issue, he insists that every credible scientist agrees in this being a well documented fact. When speaking of the Republican obstinacies to his so called stimulus package, Obama continues to insist that "every" expert and economist “agrees” with his view of the stimulus package. Does anyone other than me have a serious doubt about those statements? I think there are lots of doubters out there.

   Well America, this man currently has the power that “we” the people handed to him. We the people can take it back, unless of course this is the “Change we can believe in” that you not only expected but wanted. Either way it is time for Americans to take responsibility and actually put forth some effort in the governance of our nation.