Really Pissed Off!

In recent weeks, President Obama has been meeting with his military and foreign affairs advisors regarding our mission in Afghanistan. General Stanley McCrystal has openly requested 40,000 more troops to “avoid failure” in Afghanistan. Why the delay in the decision? Perhaps it is a decision as to what our mission in Afghanistan is, and why Pakistan may well hold the trump card.

Aside from President Obama, no one was more surprised than I was when I heard the news that he had been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” It appears that he was nominated twelve days after taking Office in January, but the vote was taken recently. Therefore the Norwegian Nobel Award Committee has had nine months to ponder over their choice.

This is the first time RPO has chosen to re-run an article that is just one year old! It was regarding an idiotic notion that then Presidential Candidate Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen. There are now enough of these idiots to actually give them a name….The Birthers!

Over the past two weeks, President Obama has been criticized by Republicans that he has failed to respond with outrage over the Iranian Election and subsequent civil unrest, which has swept that nation. Both Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham have demanded that President Obama condemn the corrupted Iranian election and subsequent actions of the supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi. On the other hand, Sen. Lugar presently supports the President and did not sleep through his class on American Foreign Policy, which dealt with Iran. It’s obvious that Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham, as well as others did!

For the past five months, the battle for the Senate seat between incumbent Norm Coleman and upstart Al Franken has made Minnesotans blurry eyed, as they’ve counted the votes five ways from Sunday! It may be one way to survive a miserable Winter in the North Country, but the Court has declared Al Franken the winner by 312 votes out of nearly 3 million votes cast.

The time is near when we can speak of President George W. Bush in the past tense, although he leaves a living legacy, which will probably outlive most of those who bother to read this. This legacy has been placed at the feet of President Barack Obama, who will take the responsibility of undoing what’s been done to America over these eight painful years. As the curtain closes on the Bush Administration, the future of America has not looked this dim since the election of Abraham Lincoln and the shadow of a Civil War.

Although I slept through Economics 101 when I was in college, you don’t need a degree in Economics to figure out that the only way to stop this economic landslide is to stop the loss of jobs and to create new jobs for a new “Economy!” The latest figure released for the month of November for the number of jobs lost was 533,000! now that the government has finally decided that we’re in a Recession, which began in December 2007,we’ve lost 1.9 million jobs and counting! What’s the outlook for 2009? That’s a question without an answer!

The votes have been cast and Sen. Barack Obama is now the President-Elect of the United States. How you anticipate his Presidency depends upon how you voted on November 4th. The matter discussed here is how an Obama Presidency appears in the eyes of the rest of the World. Over the past eight years, The United States displayed what could be called Imperial Democracy to an unbelieving world and has lost much of the admiration of a World that had at one time respected us.

With only three weeks left in the campaign, there are few, but a small number of independents who know who they are going to vote for. The pundits and the polls all favor Barack Obama, heading into the homestretch, but the race may be much closer than that. Both candidates, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama are both honorable men.

The scenario…..a Boeing 747 flies at 30,000 feet when suddenly…..a puff of white smoke and everyone is left on the plane but their wallets are gone to Heaven! Are we seeing the End Of Days? Has The Rapture begun? That’s what seems to have happened not only on Wall Street but all over the world.