During the presidential campaign last year, conservatives warned that then-Senator Obama was a bad choice for president for a number of reasons. Now, only three months into his administration, all of our concerns about the president have been confirmed. Here are a few examples:
1. He's too inexperienced. Obama supporters pounced on Governor Pailin after she was chosen as McCain's running mate for her supposed lack of experience. However, it is President Obama's naivete that has come to be obvious. The outrageous and moronic stunt of flying Air Force One at low altitude over New York City, inspiring visions of 9-11 in terrified New Yorkers, in order to capture a photo of the plane flying past the Statue of Liberty, is typical of the capriciousness with which the Obama Administration has approached the presidency. Poorly thought-out and inappropriate gifts to foreign dignitaries is another example: the DVD set given to the Queen of England, not to mention the returning of the bust of Churchill, effectively insulting one of our greatest allies. Add to that such diplomatic fumbles as bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and allowing Hugo Chavez to steal multiple photo ops with the president. It makes one shudder to think of what might happen once the president decides to have a sit-down with Ahmadinejad. In fairness, many of these snafus have been failures of members of the president's staff, but when these types of occurrences become the norm, it reflects on the man in charge, because either he is approving of them, or he is sufficiently out of touch with what is happening in his own administration so as to be unaware of them.
2. He's too liberal. We now have trillion-dollar stimulus bills and pork-laden budgets that dwarf the out-of-control spending of the previous eight years. The president complains of the massive debt that he inherited from the previous administration even while doubling that debt in his first 100 days in office. In the meanwhile, he opines on the need for fiscal discipline and pledges deficit reduction; this is much like the fox saying "we really need to put a lock on this hen house". In addition to outrageous spending, the president has advanced an unprecedented expansion of presidential power over the private sector, including the firing of the CEO of General Motors and a proposal to convert government bailouts to common stock that would make the government the majority shareholder in U.S. automakers. We perhaps should revise our warning of his being too liberal to saying that he is in actuality a European socialist.
3. His involvement with organizations like ACORN. Democrats poo-pooed this concern during the campaign, calling it "guilt by association". Now we see ACORN, which was being investigated prior to the election for illegalities in its voter registration practices, is now involved in recruiting workers for the 2010 Census.
