Giving Obama a chance.

The time has come. My head is slung low. I am in shame because my country has openly elected a Socialist to be President. Today is the last day of the George W. Bush Administration and he is not going to waist any time getting out of Dodge.

Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those total GW fans that swoon every time his name is mentioned. There is plenty I have railed against GW on during his eight years in office. The biggest thing I hated was most of the Patriot Act.

There were plenty of other things as well but that goes for just about any President. I didn't always disagree with Bill Clinton but it is safe to say that I disagreed with him more than I agreed.

So now we will begin the era of Barack Obama. Already right out of the gate, I don't like him. Now I keep hearing the line “give him a chance.” I have thought about that long and hard. At first I said of course I will give him a chance. But as I thought about it, what am I giving him a chance on or for?

He has not really done anything since being elected to warrant my giving him a chance. In fact in one of his speeches since being elected, he has stated that “only government can fix...” Hold on a minute. That is not freedom. That is socialism. I will not give someone a chance to turn my country of freedom and liberty into the land of France or Sweden or even Germany.

Our nation has been in economic troubles before and we have always come out of those troubles. Usually without a ton of government intervention or programs. But we seem to be heading down the road to socialism with smiles on our faces.

We are collectively patting ourselves on our backs having had the “courage and strength” to elect a non-white man to be our President. We shouted for joy as Obama preached about “change.” We got tingly feelings running up our legs overtime Obama spoke.

We are a nation that now views appearance or substance. Thank you MTV and Hollywood. If it looks cool and pretty, then we buy it. If it sounds neat and cool then we buy it. Forget the reality or the substance of the thing or person in question.

Have you taken a walk down a mall recently? Seriously think about how much substance there is in that mall vs. the appearance. Everything looks beautiful. All the models that show the clothing you are supposed to by are thin and beautiful even if the clothing is for “bigger” people, those big models are still rather shapely and beautiful.

We are made to believe that if we buy those closes, or get that hair style or dab on that cologne, we will be as beautiful on the outside as those models. Now we have a president that sounds beautiful, to many he even looks beautiful and to be certain he has a beautiful family. Tall, thin, looks to be in great shape. He tells us stories we want to hear. Yet there is no substance there at all.

Its like walking down a hall in a political mall. We have chosen everything we think will make us beautiful to the rest of the world and we don't care how ungly it is under the surface. But now we have the beautiful people about to take office.

We are now about to come face to face with appearance over substance. So will I give him a chance? Not on your life. Not if all he wants to do is take my sweet land of liberty and turn it into the largest socialist nation in the history of our planet. Would you give someone who wants to do that a chance?

I didn't think so. Maybe there are just enough of us out there that prefer substance over appearance. Just maybe the 57 million people who did not vote for Obama will stand up and demand that the rest of the nation stop acting like teen age girls and boys and act like grown adults that understand it their responsibility to make their lives better, not the governments.

Time to stop the whining. Time to peel back the beautiful surface and get down to the ugly truth. Its time to grow up America.

I am all grown up. Are you?

The Immaculate Inauguration of Obama, not so Holy after all

I have to take this moment to just say how sick I am of the Obama inauguration. I mean if all you watch on TV was CNN, then you would think we are having a coronation of the King of Kings. Seriously it makes me sick.

This guy is spending some $150 Million bucks. Now didn't this same station deride President Bush for spending about half of that 4 years ago? Yes I think they did.

And watching CNN, you would see them reporting on how Obama played basketball. Alexi Giannoulias is a friend of Obama's from back in Chicago. He played basketball with him. Now this guy talks about how when Obama was on the court, he would take charge of the team and be the leader.

Is it me or is everyone trying every possible way to promote this guy as a leader? Last time I checked, a true leader didn't need everyone he knows telling the rest of the world how much of a true leader they are. The actions of a leader speak louder than any words a friend could every shout.

This gives me the creeps. Seriously. Our nation has elected someone who has no leadership skills at all. This would explain why Obama has appointed so many former Clinton Administration officials including Hillary herself as Secretary of State. This guy is surrounding himself with retreads instead of striking out on his own and finding those qualified people who could help him lead the nation. How is having Clinton Administration officials in your cabinet and upgrading Carter ideas any kind of CHANGE?

I tell you one thing this guy is good at. He is good at making speeches and getting people emotionally charged without saying a damn thing. Even now, when he is about to take the helm of the most powerful, most prosperous nation in the world, he still can't give details about anything he wants to do.

You and I were not born yesterday. Yet many of us are running around acting like star struck teen age girls. The media fawned over Obama in HI on the beach without his shirt on. Yea, he is skinny and looks to be in good shape but give me a break. This was more important than finding out if this guy truly is a natural born citizen?

The media has spend hours talking about his Blackberry cell phone. I have a Blackberry. I love it. But this is the first time you have ever read anything about it. What will we have to look forward too with Obama. Well if the media has its way, it won't be anything of worth.

Now how does this affect your liberty? It affects it big time. You see, we heard how bad President Bush was for giving us the Patriot Act. Yet you don't hear a word about Obama NOT getting rid of it. You heard how bad and horrific Guantanamo (Gitmo) is but you don't here a peep about how Obama is backing away from closing that base.

It was horrible that Bush wanted tax cuts if you only listened to the media. But Obama talks about tax cuts during a down economy and he is being hailed as a messiah to our economy.

Not to mention, Obama gave a press conference where he stated "only government can..." and not a word from the media about that but if Bush had said those things, we would not have gone an hour without someone in the media commenting on it.

Now you might be saying, come on Rod, this guy was elected, like it or not. (No I don't like it but you would be correct, he was elected.) Now give the guy a chance.

Don't be silly, of course I will give him a chance, but honestly, so far he is blowing his big chance. Not to mention giving him a chance does not mean I have to agree or like everything, if anything, he says or does. I didn't like everything President Bush did. I even verbally thrashed the man on more than one occasion because I felt he was wrong based on what I think the Founding Fathers would have done or approved of and our Constitution. I will give the same fair treatment to a President Obama.

But I will not participate in this coronation of Obama. I will not accept his socialist ideas. I will not view bringing back the Clinton Administration as change. I will not let the media get away with giving this guy a total pass because he is half black or because he is a liberal democrat. I don't care how many first this guy has, he will not get a free pass on my liberty. He will not get a free pass to destroy the very fabric of a nation I love so dearly. He will not get a free pass to endanger the freedom and liberty of the very people who put him in office.

I am going to go on record as saying Obama is dangerous to our freedom, our liberty, indeed our Constitution. Period.

Funny how it is a Muslim raised half African that gets to occupy the White House first instead of Jesse Jackson, Alan Keys or any number of other high profile political American Black man or woman. Now you gotta ask yourself, why is that?

All I can say is hold on to your wallet, keep your gun loaded and don't get all your information from the main stream media. Hold our government's feet to the fire and if they screw up, vote them out. Simple.