Barack Obama’s Failed Presidency – Part Two

Barack Obama has demonstrated with authority that, to date, he is
either the most illiterate president this country has ever elected, or
the most pathologically predisposed liar this country has ever elected,
or both. He has left no other avenues to be explored for his
assessment. Either choice is an ingredient for failure, a combination
of the two is an ingredient for a rapid and colossal failure, and Obama
is on track for the latter. With a history completely devoid of
intellectual and leadership accomplishments, especially at a level that
would facilitate the successful leadership of a country, Obama is
performing about as best as could be expected considering his resume
and his predilection for surrounding himself with ineptness and
corruption.

Barack Obama has partially assembled his "team of rivals" as he
would like to think of his cabinet due to his unnatural affinity for
Abraham Lincoln, due to Lincoln’s ability to appoint political
oppositionists to key positions. At one month into his administration,
one needs to use the term "partially filled" because, so far, putting
together a working cabinet for Obama has been a moving target dealing
due to the felonious acts of his appointees and what not. He does have
a partial cabinet assembled notwithstanding the unveiling of future
felonious acts committed by them.

Barack Obama has exercised the same judgment he has vigorously used
during his political career in choosing confidants. His past "team of
rivals" needs no introduction: Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger,
William Ayers, Tony Rezko, ACORN, Rod Blagojevich, and Rashid Khalidi
to name a few.

When Obama’s cabinet is filled in its entirety, and if they can
withstand future illegal scandals and stay intact, he will have
assembled a band of tax cheats, plagiarists, inepts, and flawed
characters that will be instrumental in the continuation of his
administration’s accelerating failure.

Obama’s team of rivals:

Vice President, Joe Biden: Joe Biden has a long history of soundly documented plagerism dating back to his days as a college student. Biden
was caught plagiarizing a law review article he wrote while at Syracuse
Law School. He was given an F, but was allowed to take the class over.
He went on to graduate 76th out of 85 in his class. Biden was chairman
of the powerful Judiciary Committee in the Senate in 1987. While
simultaneously running for the office of President, and heading up the
Judiciary Committee during the Robert Bork confirmation hearings-that,
under Biden’s control, was an aspersion party rather than a hearing–he
unceremoniously had to drop out of the presidential race because he
again plagiarized a stump speech from British Labor leader Neil
Kinnock. Biden has such a rich history of plagiarism, fabrication of
lies, misdeeds, and such over-the-top exaggerations; he is
pathologically incapable of anything original, including thought. And
staying true to his anemic discernment of bad character, Obama has
rewarded Biden with the honor of overseeing the $1 trillion plus
stimulus package.

Sec. of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack: Vilsack
is the former Governor of Iowa and is a staunch advocate of genetically
engineered crops, and larger corporate farms’ interests. In direct
nonobservance of Obama’s pledge to eradicate lobbyists from his
administration, Vilsack was a registered lobbyist for America’s largest
teachers union for nutritional programs that is administered by the
Agriculture Department he now oversees. To bolster Vilsack’s conflict
of interest, he has also received farm subsidies from the Department of
Agriculture for his farm, and stated that he will only forgo them as
Secretary of Agriculture if the law requires him to do so. In other
words he will only be ethical if forced to be so by law

Secretary of Commerce, Bill Richardson: The pay for
play Gov. of New Mexico had to withdraw his name because of his
impending scandal over New Mexico contracts being awarded to a
California company only after receiving campaign donations from them.
After Richardson’s withdrawal, Obama nominated Judd Gregg who
promptly withdrew his name after Obama announced his plan of
transferring the Census Bureau from the Department of Commerce to the
White House in a Machiavellian move to control congressional elections.
Obama has recently nominated Gary Locke as commerce secretary.
Locke has passed the excruciating vetting process of the Obama team.
Perhaps during his hearings he can get past being investigated by
Congress for improper campaign fund raising. Following in the manner of
Bill Richardson, as Washington’s governor, he gave Boeing a $3.2
billion tax break after covertly paying $715,000 to a private
consultant of Boeing for advice. He has a tangled history of
involvement with convicted campaign finance money-launderer John Haung,
and he raised cash for Clinton in the 1990’s via Haung.

Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates: Gates,
since taking over from Rumsfeld, during the Bush administration, has
done an excellent job. Keeping him on for a period of time keeps
continuity in an area where is it needed. Gates is, to date, the only
individual on Obama’s cabinet that has a proven record of being able to
lead forward rather than backwards.

Sec. of Labor: Hilda L. Solis Solis
is a garden variety California liberal. She is a Congressional Hispanic
Caucus leader. She was as pro-union and anti-business as a member of
the House of Representatives could be. She voted against updating FISA
for the purpose of stopping terrorists. She voted for a
bill to withdraw all troops within 120 days from Iraq from passage of
the bill. She voted against funding the troops in Iraq unless withdrawal deadlines
were set. She voted to increase the minimum wage. She also had to
address the issue of her husband not paying certain taxes since 1993,
and, as with Health and Human Services nominee Tom Dashle, and Treasury
Secretary nominee Timothy Geitner, decided to only address and pay
their past tax transgressions after being nominated.

Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan:
Regardless of who is nominated as the Secretary of Education, the
department will continue to be the abject failure it has been since
Carter created it. It will continue to fail because, quite frankly, it
is run by the federal government, which has a long standing track
record of being incapable of operating anything with success. According
to the NAAL (National Assessment of Adult Literacy), 14% of adults in
the U.S. are considered illiterate. This progressing illiteracy
rate is a poignant result of the Department of Education, reflecting
not only the Department, but the history of the federal government’s
involvement, and what can be expected going forward. What better person
to head up a failed department than Arne Duncan, who was head of the
worse school district in this country.

Duncan’s achievements in the Chicago school district: Only
17% of 8th Graders in Schools overseen by Obama’s Secretary of
Education can read at grade level; according to NEAP assessment, only
16 percent of the Chicago School District’s eighth graders were at or
above grade level in science; Duncan approved a special public high
school for homosexuals to include notable gay and lesbian figures in
its curriculum. Add Bush’s contribution to the decimation this
country’s education through the "no child left behind" debacle, and the
Chicago schools failed a failing program by not meeting the Illinois state standards set under the No Child Left Behind Act for the last five years. Gud luk wit dat, Dunkin.

Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu:
Chu, in contrast to Biden, supports a variety of energy plans,
including clean coal plants, nuclear power, and solar. Chu is a well
educated and prominent scientist with a Noble Prize in Physics. While
director of the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, Chu stated that
gas prices in the U.S. should be on the level of Europe. When gas
prices were $4 dollars per gallon in the U.S., Chu’s plan would have
called for approximately $9 per gallon. Chu has since blended science
and economics and recently stated that high oil prices might be a
threat to the economy. Chu is in favor of a tax on carbon emissions
(CO2), the same CO2 you exhale when you breathe.

Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle:
Dasche has argued that all Americans should be required to buy health
insurance. Daschle wants to create a Federal Health Board to manage and
monitor citizen’s medical treatments. Daschle is a Washington lobbyist,
and Obama believes he knows how to revamp this nation’s health care,
even though he is not a doctor and has no prior experience in the
medical field. His potential accomplishments and future accomplishments
are moot since he didn’t pay his taxes and had to withdraw his
nomination. What better person to propagate Obama’s obsession with
abortion, especially late term abortion, than Kathleen Sebelius.
Sevelius is the Governor of Kansas and is currently holding the dubious
title of the most pro-abortion governor in the U.S. She has vetoed any
bill presented to her that would strengthen the Kansas abortion laws.
She has wined and dined George Tiller at the governor’s mansion.
Tiller, incidentally, is a medical doctor who specializes in
abortions–he specializes in abortions during the third trimester. He
has also claimed to have performed over 60,000 abortions. Tiller is on
the fast track to become Obama’s Surgeon General if he can maintain
this pace. Sebelius is another proclaimed Catholic that harbors an
atheist’s foundation of amorality.

Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano:
As governor of Arizona she presided over Phoenix, the city that is only
second to Mexico City in kidnappings in the world. The kidnappings
revolve around illegal immigrations and Mexican drug cartels crossing
the border, a border that she opposes building a fence along. She
signed a law barring Arizona from taking part in the Real ID program
that bolsters the security and authenticity of driver’s licenses. She
was against a state initiative that would deny non-essential services
to illegals. Considering that the Homeland Security Department was
established because of the 911 terrorists’ attacks on this country, she
gave a congressional testimony and never mentioned the words
"terrorism" or "Sept. 11". She told Congress that drug-related violence
at the Mexican border was beyond the capability of the Department of
Homeland security to handle. She ordered an investigation into a raid
by ICE at an engine plant in Washington that resulted in the arrest of
twenty-eight illegals in her first weeks as Secretary of Homeland
Security. The raid and arrest were inconsistent with her position of
law breakers.

Attorney General, Eric Holder: Holder is
probably the least qualified individual in the U.S. that possesses a
law license to be attorney general. His comedic resume: under Clinton
he pardoned 16 FALN terrorists who were behind 120 bombings in the
U.S–and they did not even seek a pardon; he pardoned Marc Rich, who
was under indictment for evading more than $48 million in U.S taxes,
and charged with 51 counts of tax fraud; he extended clemency to
Weather Underground bombers Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans–partners
in crime with Obama’s terrorist buddies Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn;
he has a long history and contempt for the 1st and 2nd Amendments; and
in fitting fashion, Holder, who is black, called America a "nation of
cowards".

Secretary of Treasury, Timothy Geithner:
Timothy Geithner, as head of the Treasury Department, will oversee the
IRS and its collection of tax cheats. Timothy Geithner is a tax cheat.
He did not pay $34,000 in federal income tax. When Geithner worked for
the International Monetary Fund, his payroll taxes were not withheld
from his check as is the case with most taxpayers in the U.S. But, the
IMF paid Geithner additional monies to cover all his taxes on his
income. It was an honest mistake, Geithner claimed. He blames it on the
IMF’s Byzantine payroll-tax status. His problem is that he testified in
1998 before Congress explaining how the IMF’s Byzantine payroll-tax
status works. In short, he cheated, he lied, and he was confirmed. A
tax cheat in charge of collecting taxes.

CIA Director, Leon Panetta: Panetta was not
Obama’s first choice, but was a choice that makes manifestly clear that
the Obama administration is not serious about intelligence gathering
for the protection of this country. Although Panetta served as
Clinton’s chief of staff from 1994 to 1997, he has no direct or
indirect experience in intelligence. John Brennan was the first choice,
but withdrew his name because of his role in the CIA’s detention and
interrogation programs in gathering intelligence and doing what it took
to prevent another 9/11 style attack on the U.S.

Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel: Obama’s pick
of Emanuel is partisan politics at its finest. Emanuel is another of
Obama’s picks from the Clinton White House, and is one of the more
partisan politicians in D.C. Clinton awarded Emanuel a board position
with Freddie Mac on his way out, and served on the board during the
financial scandal at Freddie Mac. Emanuel wrote a book detailing the
servitude of young Americans to public service. Obama, at one point
adopted it and had it posted on his campaign website, but as a
mandatory servitude of 50 hours per year as a middle school, and 100
hours per year as high school and college. It was pulled when, more
than likely, Obama and Emanuel were told about the 13th Amendment. Rahm
has a temper and has used it to dictate his partisan politics to the
point he has been nicknamed "Rhambo". Emanuel’s tactics are behind
Obama’s power grab; Emanuel stated, "Never let a serious crisis go to
waste."

Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: What
else can be said about Hillary Clinton’s corruption that hasn’t filled
volumes? If there was a matriarch of American corruption, it would be
Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s own pay for play deal: Robert Congel, a
developer in New York gave $100,000 to Bill Clinton’s
foundation in November 2004, the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham
Clinton secured five million dollars in federal assistance for Congel’s
Carousel Center Mall. Bill Clinton has also received
$500 million for his foundation from international businesses, and
foreign governments around the world, especially a healthy amount from
the middle-East. If $100,000 can get you $5 million for your mall in
New York, what can many millions get you internationally? The Secretary
of State is the nation’s chief negotiator around the world, and went
into that position with a personal financial debt to many countries
around the world–especially the Middle-East–and has already performed
an about face in her position to a stunned Israel, chastising Israel
over its treatment of the terrorists in Gaza.

So there you have it, Obama’s "band of rivals". This is truly a
"band of rivals" on several fronts: they rival honesty, competence,
integrity, the Constitution, economics, the rule of law, just to name a
few. A team of rivals, indeed.

Enjoy your "Hope and Change."