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TulsaToday: ?Obama?s First 100 Days in Trust?

By Phil

From the editorial page of the Oklahoma-based TulsaToday, writer David Arnett presents a general critical survey of the President on the anniversary of Mr. Obama’s first 100 days, including some verbiage on eligibility (excerpted; I have a lengthy commentary that follows):

We live by trust.  We drive the roads, labor, raise children, pay taxes all in trust that others are operating by the same rules.  Rules of the road and laws of the land apply to rich, poor, powerful or powerless equally according to the Constitution.  

Such trust for hundreds of thousands of Americans has been destroyed by Barack H. Obama within his first 100 days in office.  Beyond any specific policy, lack of trust could damn to failure the Obama Administration so why are they not more forthcoming? 

Never have so many individual Americans publicly protested as they did in the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Parties so early into a new presidential administration.  Never have so many Americans rushed to buy guns despite Obama?s repeated promises not to seize or restrict gun sales.  Apparently, huge numbers of Americans don?t believe Obama is a man of his word.

Obama did not campaign on policy specifics, but glittering generalities.  He criticized the administration before him on purely emotional grounds campaigning on Liberal rage, race and celebrity.  It could be said that he won national votes in the same fashion as Hitler and Mussolini.  Using ?crisis? for convenience, he is growing Federal power beyond Constitutional authority and expanding Federal spending beyond sanity. One might question by his recent actions if he is anti-Constitutional rather than a constitution driven Attorney/Professor.

Obama is, by understated word and recent deeds, a dedicated socialist apparently ignorant of American history who shows great distain for individual freedom.  He praises and panders to Fascists, Communists, and, in a first for an American President, bowed to a foreign King.  He is the ?Appeaser and Chief.?  Beyond Obama?s lack of love for liberty worldwide, Michelle Obama stated twice during the campaign she had no pride in America before her husband?s rise to power. 

Obama betrayed his promise to bring the first ?post-partisan post-racial? administration.  According to The Wall Street Journal, ?Tuesday April 21, 2009 is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended.  By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.

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Is Obama two faced, secretive by nature, or the ?Manchurian Candidate? average Americans have worried about for years?  He seems to come from nowhere overnight to become President of the United State of America.  How did it happen? 

Americans know nothing of Obama?s college records: admission, grades, writings, or teaching.  All of those documents have been sealed at his request.  Obama has spent millions to hide the full and complete record of his birth and early childhood.  In fact, there is no proof that Barack H. Obama is not a bastard child born to an underage woman as a result of statutory rape.  His self-authored account of his heritage and childhood is not confirmed and could well be pure fantasy. 

Ms. Orly Taitz, a California attorney working through Defend Our Freedoms Foundation on several cases challenging Obama, said she was presented with an opportunity to ask a status question of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia March 9, 2009.  

Taitz said, “I prepared myself to a lot of booing, however there was no boo-ing, no negative remarks,” she said. “I actually could see a lot of approving nods, smiles, many gasped and listened intensely.  I could tell that even Obama’s strongest supporters wanted to know the answer.? 

“Scalia stated that [Obama?s eligibility case] would be heard if I can get four people to hear it.  He repeated, you need four for the argument.  I got a feeling that he was saying that one of these four that call themselves constitutionalists went to the other side,” Taitz said.  “He did not say that it is a political question, he did not say that it is for the legislature to decide.  He did not say that Quo Warranto is antiquated or not appropriate. No, just get four,” she said. 

She then bought Scalia’s book and waited in line to get it autographed.  “I gave him the books to sign and asked, ‘Tell me what to do, what can I do, those soldiers [her plaintiffs] can be court-martialed for asking a legitimate question, who is the president, is he legitimate.’ He said, ‘Bring the case, I’ll hear it, I don’t know about others.’” 

The Supreme Court today is considered to have mainly a 4-4 conservative-liberal split, with one swing vote on most issues. On the conservative side generally are Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Anthony Kennedy often is the swing vote.  The liberal side frequently includes Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens.  

The American Constitution provides for ?check and balance? by establishing three different branches of government.  Obama now controls two ? the executive and the legislative.  He can only control the court system if the court system allows him to do so, but at that moment America will no longer be a nation of free people living equally under the law.  At that moment, America would be the fascist State of Obama.  This is the fear that again challenges individual trust in our government.

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The last resort for our free people lies with individual states ? at least in the best case until the next election.  States can resist Federal authority and, in the last case, call for a Constitutional Convention to specifically limit the power of the federal government.  Many hope that such a call is not necessary, but with Congress, the Presidency, the Courts, and media all failing ? the American people rally in thousands of cities in numbers greater than has ever been seen so quickly in protest of what they believe is a pathetically incompetent disingenuous if not fraudulent president who within 100 short days has failed to become the leader of the free world. 

Time tells all truth and it?s a shame our politicians spend so much of it to hide truth.  Eventually, real ?journalist? in the true meaning of the word will find publication and public attention as they write the ?rough draft? of history.  

Regardless, the truth will be known and only liars and the truly evil fight to prevent that exposure.  Trust that. [emphases in original]

Suffice it to say that issues such as eligibility are not going away. Furthermore, it is equally true and, I would wager, even more so if, in fact, this President truly does decide to shut down Guantanamo Bay, CIA “black” holding sites around the world, and otherwise continues to both signal and act in a way that severly diminishes America’s ability to protect and defend herself against her enemies, he will work this country towards being exceptionally exposed to attack.

And please do be aware of that, my fellow readers. While there is a difference between having an adversary (someone who merely disagrees with your stances) and having an enemy (someone who doesn’t just disagree with your viewpoint but is acting in some way to either specifically encumber you or, worse, destroy you), America doesn’t just exist because pieces of paper such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution say that it should.

Remember: any law that people make must be enforced. Otherwise, it is merely writing on a piece of paper that simply sounds good, chock full of good intentions. Laws must be enforced and, ultimately, the awesomely effective and efficient forces of the American military are her greatest offense and defense against her enemies.

Not only this, but whether the issue is eligibility or some other wrong that has been hoisted upon the American People and States can be quite easily rectified via the Bill of Rights. It must be understood by all that only States and the American People have rights; the federal government has none. The federal government only has those powers and authority specifically and expressly enumerated within the Constitution; any and all other such powers and authority are reserved to the States or the People to carry out.

Anyone is completely within their right to question their elected leadership anything they wish for the truth. To suggest that any such questioning is wrong or should be condemned is, in my opinion, being unpatriotic (after all, how else is one to hold those who govern us into account?) and being essentially treasonous.

“But, Phil, that’s such a strong word. How can someone be ‘treasonous’ if they’re saying that either you shouldn’t question politicians or that you’re wrong for doing so?” Quite simply, if the American People see wrongdoing on behalf of their elected leaders, and if the federal government will do nothing about it, and if the States aren’t doing anything about it, then, per the Bill of Rights — specifically the 10th Amendment — it is the obligation of the People to uphold the Constitution.

If the People do not uphold the Constitution against elected leaders who are acting unconstitutionally, then it is the People who are actually being treasonous, because it is expressly within their right to do so and subsequently can only blame themselves for such unconstitutional failings.

Even worse, when — not if — another terrorist attack befalls our great country, those who have not held their elected officials to account will have the blood of fellow Americans on their hands.

I think America’s founding fathers were absolutely serious about the type of government they were intending to form. It is the greatest and most demonstrative form of individual government ever created. Yet, if we, the People do not question for the truth, that government shall surely begin the process of disappearing from the earth.

Fortunately, there is a growing number of American citizens who are going to do everything in our collective power to make sure that doesn’t happen.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on April 26, 2009 (boomark / email).