Obama's Rhetoric Masks Deception and Manipulation

"In our time" is a fine phrase that unifies, directs and deceives the American people. Senator Obama alludes to Presidents whose strength and courage in their convictions directed their leadership and this country, but he cannot just use a phrase popularized by President Woodrow Wilson to create an image of a Man of Destiny. Unfortunately, Senator Obama operates more as an opportunist feeding on the fears and concerns of good people who need to believe in something REAL.

When television has become less of an opiate and instead a control, members of the media interpret speeches to suit their own and their company's interests instead of reporting. No longer does journalistic integrity exist, but outright manipulation, including failure to publish both sides of the national debate, witnessed in the New York Times, becomes the mantle of our society: Deceive and Deplore.

The media's patriarch, Barack Obama, shares their intentions of creating a false reality of half-truths and exaggerations because that, they believe, they can sell to the American people. If the world isn't a Jerry Bruckheimer film with cars flipping through the air while missiles are blowing city blocks apart all captured in slow motion while panning out and away, then the candidate does not understand the dire, apocalyptic reality in which we live.

Senator Obama is a fraud, who while contending that the current administration is responsible for the excesses and greed in the financial sector, chooses not to consider that greed is a cancer endemic in our society and corporations should fail as a result, and in no way should the government be considered the culprit. Deregulation frees markets allowing for competition that allows Americans to get the best rates possible for loans (in this case) when regulation would have banned that person for purchasing a home. Although companies might not have used the most responsible business practices, if proper risk assessments are made that account for economic stress during the course of a loan, our economic problems might not be as bad.

Although people as well as companies should be responsible for their actions, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson did a remarkable thing when he garnered a deal with AIG that afforded tax payers LIBOR plus 8% and $24 Billion in equity for the two year $85 Billion loan. Senator Obama believes that taxpayers should not be on the hook for government bailouts, with which Governor Palin agrees whole-heartedly, but at the rates Secretary Paulson is getting, a rational taxpayer would want him to strike similar deals whenever necessary with that return on investment. Senator Obama chooses to characterize this as unacceptable, when our officials have taken proper action and responsibility for ensuring the American people that our economy, though faltering, remains robust.

Senator Barack Obama's rhetoric, though bold and charismatic, remains hollow. He cannot take a position on faith when asked to discuss it with a congregation, nor can he define how we should come to leave Iraq beyond contending that we should not be there. Since he never supported the war in Iraq, he believes we should pull out our troops regardless of our ability to stabilize the country and the region through a longer occupation. Senator Obama, as president must take responsibility for the current state of affairs, despite the problems this administration would leave him. Our President takes responsibility for America, something he cannot accept.

Senator Barack Obama blames politicians, corporations, organizations, and agreements for the current state of America. He blames the Bush Administration for leading this country the best way it saw fit, misguided though it might have been. He blames oil companies for making profits when worldwide oil consumption outpaces supply. He blames success for causing people to earn too much money, saying they should be taxed more to make it fair. He blames NAFTA for taking American jobs when it has kept the cost of consumer goods low and brought about better relations with Mexico and Canada.

Democratic President John F. Kennedy said "ask not what this country can do for you but what you can do for this country." Embedded in that phrase is pride and devotion to make this county better. He loved the United States of America. Mr. Obama, who likes the world to think of him as a new JFK or RFK, does not respect our elected and appointed officials, our president, our institutions, our intellect nor does he respect our beloved country. Barack Obama does not want to empower citizens of this country but to bring socialism to our country and the complacency that comes with it. He has yet to accomplish anything for the American people, not a single relevant piece of legislation. He should not be President.