Four More Years? Really?

What has happened to the intellect of the American people?  Is the government poisoning our water supply?  Is the media placing subliminal messages in our television programs?  Are aliens coming into our bedrooms at night and placing stupid chips in our brains?

The GOP is going through the ritualistic primary campaign which takes place every four years when a President of another party, has spent the past term dancing on the floor of the oval office.  The difference this with the GOP primary from a Democratic primary however, is that the media tends to dig up every bit of dirt on each GOP candidate.  Magically, the media can turn even the most innocent of issues into a scandalous event, the likes of which the nation has never seen.

By contrast, the most horrific scandals of a democratic candidate can just as magically be turned into innocent, uneventful, back page drivel.  We know for example, that Obama had attended a church for several years and was close friends with the pastor, who was blatantly racist, anti-Semitic and anti-American.  In a recorded sermon which Obama attended, he said, "not God bless America, God Damn America!"  But we did not hear about this on an interview the night before the election - or any other night.

We also know that a good friend and neighbor of Obama was a 1960's radical who set off bombs in this country to protest the Vietnam war.  In a book he authored, he wrote that he was sorry he did not do more damage.  Where was this reported? We also know that Obama had ties to convicted felon Tony Resko, but again, back page news.

However, let the ex-wife of a GOP candidate come out with a story about her husband, 13 years divorced; this makes the headlines.  Less noted in this was the fact that without her husband's knowledge, she was accused by the FBI for attempting to sell his influence for $10 million.  She said she didn't know anything about it, but admitted that she met with "the man". 

Now we have people saying that they will vote for Obama if Newt is nominated on the GOP ticket because they want to teach the GOP a lesson.  Well, the Whig Party is here to teach the GOP and the Democratic Party a lesson too, but we are not stupid about it.  The simple fact is, the nation will not survive four more years under Obama and people need to wake up.

Since he has become President, Obama has blown our nation's debt into hyperspace - nobody living today will ever see this debt disappear through normal spending cuts.  We are literally on the verge of total financial collapse and people must begin to understand what the consequences of financial collapse can mean for our nation.  Unemployment in this country is close, if not higher than it was during the great depression.  We hear about unemployment falling to 9%, but this is only the report of new claims - it does not include those who have fallen off, those who stopped looking for work, the unemployed military, and so on.  True unemployment is well over 20%.  If you do not believe me, test the theory - run a help wanted ad offering minimum wage.  Ten years ago, you would not receive one call.  Today, you will have graduate students lining up.

Since Obama has taken office, we have seen prices on food, gas, utilities, taxes - everything you need to live; go through the roof.  Investments and housing prices however, have fallen and will continue to fall.  During the previous three administrations, yes this includes Clinton, the economy went up...and down.  There were good times and there were bad times.  Gas prices rose and then they fell.  People did not sweat when things turned bad because they knew it would get better.  Under this President however, we have seen nothing but bad and worse.

Obama's new world order!  The move by this President to create global treaties with everything from currency to citizen's rights is what frightens me the most.  There is and never has been a question in my mind that Obama is an enemy of the US Constitution.  Since taking the office, Obama has mocked our system of government time and time again by his constant refusal to show his birth certificate - who among us would have any problem showing our birth certificate.  Obama still has not produced his college records.  He has bypassed the constitutional process several times by pushing through more executive orders than any President before him, again mocking the purpose of the executive order.  With the power of the executive order, this President will sign away our freedom entirely at the rate he is going.

What makes the worst of the worst even more disgusting however, is the arrogance of the President.  This, more than anything is what makes me wonder how anyone in this country can even consider supporting this person for a new term.  For those who remember, during the recession of the 70's, our worst President (to that point), Jimmy Carter, empathized with the suffering of the American people.  He dialed down his thermostat, wore sweaters, cut back on fancy White House dinners.  He spoke to the American people and said that he would not spend money on extravagances and vacations while the citizens were suffering. 

Though Obama has seen more people lose their jobs than any President in recent history; and though he has orchestrated an economy which has placed more people on public assistance than any President in US history and though more people are losing their homes than under any President before him; he still manages to play more golf, take more vacations and work a shorter day than any President before him.  I do not even need to mention the private trips and staffs of 50 that the first lady has taken around the world.

Everything I talk about above relates to the nation as a whole.  Everything I care about is the future of the rights and freedom of all Americans.  I am not about pushing for a candidate that believes in only the issues that I believe in or supports only the causes that I support.  First and foremost, I want a candidate that will abide by the oath of office and support and defend the Constitution of the United States.  If we do not have that person in the White House, nothing else matters!

As a Whig Party Chairman, I agree that our government from the smallest level to the highest, must be reformed.  I believe the Whig Party is the party with the platform to fix the problems in this country and all of it's 50 states.  In this case however, we have a fire that is burning out of control and we must first put out the fire before we can think about cleaning up the mess.