Some Thoughts on the Eve of Obama's Coronation

We’re experiencing the worst economic set back since the Carter administration, and Obama is spending an estimated 170 million bucks. The actual swearing-in ceremony will cost $1.24 million, according to Carole Florman, spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The federal government estimates that it will spend roughly $49 million on the inaugural weekend. Most I hope will be going to security. The Bush inauguration cost less, and there was a downturn in the economy then too. The Democrats and their spokesmen in the mainstream press were just outraged! by such extravagance then.


This near hysteria about what he brings is frightening. He brings no experience to the table. He’s a college professor and social activist (I too in my Marxist days was a fan of Saul Alinsky) that was promoted to power by the most corrupt political machine in America. Change will be negligible. He’s rehired the Clinton administration. His nominee for Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, didn’t pay his FICA (Social Security and Medicare) tax from 2001 through 2004. Other tax issues also surfaced during the vetting, including the fact Geithner used his child's time at overnight camps in 2001, 2004 and 2005 to calculate dependent-care tax deductions. Sleepaway camps don't qualify as deductions.

Amended tax returns that Geithner filed recently include $4,334 in additional taxes, and $1,232 in interest for infractions, such as an early-withdrawal penalty from a retirement plan, an improper small-business deduction, a charitable-contribution deduction for ineligible items, and the expensing of utility costs that went for personal use.


So here’s a Democrat, the pro-tax party, gaming the system, and was caught lying about it; the same press and political party that attacked Joe the Plumber for being about five thousand dollars in tax arrears. He is a private citizen that was attacked by the press and the state of Ohio. Geithner is given a pass and promoted, because he’s a liberal.


Then there’s Attorney General Nominee, Eric Holder, that has a lot of legal baggage including the pardon of tax evader and gun runner Mark Rich, as well as the freeing of some terrorists.

I see no change coming from this administration. Race? Obama spent twenty years in a vile racist anti American church. It is in that very racial hatred and hostility in which Obama has been steeped, particularly by mentors such as Jeremiah Wright. Part of the corrupt Illinois political machine is the race machine. Chicago was not only a denizen of racial hatred but the violent black supremacist movement was born there. Martin Luther King said, "Those who are associated with 'Black Power' and black supremacy are wrong."

I see no hope here. I do hope that he tells Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers to stop talking about wanting to bring criminal charges against Bush and Cheney for their political decisions. I see no change here. I see politicians being politicians and taking away the peoples’ money and power. That an African American is elected is a good thing. That he comes with no life experience, only book learning, a Marxist ideology, and is already awash in corruption, concerns me. Obama ran as a projection screen, and his voters projected whatever change and hope they wanted on him. Now he has to make decisions, and be specific. In the morning prayer yesterday in service, our pastor prayed for Obama. I pray that this country survives his administration without so much damage that we can't recover without a lot of national pain; and that includes a homeland terrorist attack if he successfully dismantles, as he promised, the security structure Bush put in place.