The First 100 days, in one sentence, “I won…I trump you.”

President Barack Hussein Obama campaigned on being a better person than Washington was used to.  He essentially claimed that he would put an end to childish bickering.  He said that he’d pool everyone’s thoughts and ideas and promised to open up the White House to the public, making this the most transparent administration, thus far.  Well, he did, sort of.  If you count exposing anything that Obama seems to think will be damaging to the legacy of the previous administration, National Security be damned. He was going to be truly bipartisan, welcoming all ideas…and he does, so long as they are in step with his own.  He has token republicans in his cabinet, although that is about as bipartisan as he gets.  He was going to stamp out lobbyists influence, until he started appointing them.  He actually signed into law, on his first day as POTUS, an executive order stating that lobbyists could not serve in positions directly related to their prior employer for two years.  What he neglects to advertise is that this same law has a HUGE loophole which essentially nullifies it.  If the administration wishes to appoint a lobbyist, there is a waiver for that.  So basically this law is in place to look pretty.  It makes people think we’re keeping the lobbyists out of power, while making sure that the powers that be are able to put the lobbyists into positions of power. 

He has let Republicans come to the table, just long enough to snap a photo for the MSM.  Who really cares what they have to say, right?

In one of his erroneous statements, our President said, “In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place.”  Well we are in ninth place, but considering we were in 28th in 1995, climbed up to 19th by 1999, and in 2003 we were up to 15th place.  By all accounts then, 9th place is something to be applauded.  Typical of his administration though, Obama chose to use a fact that most American citizens wouldn’t dig deep enough into to realize that the actual statement was a falsehood.  Don’t believe me, my liberal friends, just check politifact.com.    This is an example of the idea that it truly doesn’t matter WHAT Barack Hussein Obama actually says, but what is significant and memorable to his flock is HOW he says it.  They have given him an artistic liberty, if you will.  He’s free to take any factual statement and twist and distort it to suit his needs.  Much like the way he dismissed his prior pro-abortion voting record where he claimed “there was already a law on the books that addressed the issue.”  All the while knowing that the public doesn’t generally actually go back and READ the laws that were on the books.  If he says there was a law, there was a law, right?  Wrong.  There was a law on the books that dealt with protections if an infant was born alive, but that law left it up to the abortionist, who by the way was being PAID to perform the abortion, to determine whether or not the child he would abort would warrant any of those protections.  Most writers that I’ve seen who reference his deceptions regarding the “old Illinois law” simply paraphrase that law for you.  I commend them for at least doing that much, someone had to.  But then again that takes into account the possibility that you aren’t already enamoured with Obama and might actually listen to reason.  If you are one of those who simply brushes off these FACTS as “spin” then click the link above.  This IS the actual “law on the books.”  It’s quite long, and it is quite hard to find, so I wanted to make it as easy as kindergarten.  All you have to do is click and read.  Pay particularly close attention to section 6, subsection 2 (a).   That’s the part that Obama is pretending doesn’t exist.  Obama lied–Ahh, I just heard him on the news in his latest speech as I typed this…”Thank God for ‘change.’”  Yes, that is most definitely what The One has brought us, isn’t it?

Speaking of photo-ops, what a great photo op the government had in NY yesterday!  Terrified citizens running for their lives all the while jets are scrambling in a way that is remniscent of the days of lore.  What was that song?  “Have you forgotten?”  Obviously, the powers that be have forgotten.  Just like Obama seems to have forgotten many of his tag lines from the campaign days.  There is a very clear reason for that though, the POTUS seems to have forgotten that he is not still campaigning.  When the going gets rough, up there in Washington, the latest modus operandi is to launch a whirlwind media blitz.  They don’t actually take any real action, they just make one-liners and have a few staged questions from audience plants.  Bada bing!  They’ve got instant public approval!

Obama promised transparency all throughout the campaign.  He promised to shine sunlight on Washington.  He stated that all “nonemergency” bills would not be signed without giving the American public–that’s you and me–an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.  This was an out and out lie.  But hey, in all fairness, Mr. Obama did take the transparency idea somewhere.  He doesn’t want you to see what he or his administration is doing, per se.  But he has no qualms about shining sunlight on what the blame-it-on-Bush administration did.  Let’s get real though, it’s the first trick any magician learns.  Keep their eyes trained on this hand so that they have no idea what is going on behind your back in the other hand.  With one hand, he’s allowing the tactics that kept you and I safe since September 11, 2001, to be shared with our enemies–thereby undermining our national security.  With the other hand, he’s breaking promises right and left…pushing through bill after bill with the utmost haste.

He promised he would sit down with Ahmadinejad without preconditions.  Well, that hasn’t happened yet, but he did write him a letter.  *crickets chirping*

We all remember the praise that Obama got during the debates for stating that he would go “line by line” to root out earmarks.  Is that another instance where if he says he did that, it must be true?  Because in actually reading the bills, which he did not do, I’m finding that to be another flat out lie.

The administration actually orchestrated a dramatic confrontation between an outspoken talk radio host and members of the Republican party, and then reveled in the results.  If you haven’t been paying attention, this is yet another example of the magician’s trick.  Keep looking at the feuding Republicans, and pay no mind to the man behind the drapes.

In the most shocking turn of events, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report labelling peaceful, concerned citizens as potential domestic terrorists.  Fortunately all of the protestors and picketers who have views in line with the administration escape this sort of “profiling.”  It is perfectly acceptable to assemble, to be staunchly “pro-choice,” to be anti-Bush, or any number of leftist ideologies, in this day and age.  But the second a group of conservatives actually finds their voice, they are villified.  Lord help us and hope that no crimes are committed against any who fall under this category of “potential domestic terrorists” because our government was so irresponsible with their labelling.  I guess they think they are covered as far as vets go since Napolitano clumsily “apologized” for offending the veterans.  Somehow I missed her statements of apology to the conservative soccer moms of America for causing many to think that we might just snap at a moment’s notice and start stockpiling AK-47s. 

 I’ll leave you with an Obama quote, as shown on politifact.com.

“Make no mistake: We need to end an era in Washington where accountability has been absent, oversight has been overlooked, your tax dollars have been turned over to wealthy CEOs and the well-connected corporations,” Obama said at an Oct. 1 campaign stop in Wisconsin. “You need leadership you can trust to work for you, not for the special interests who have had their thumb on the scale. And together, we will tell Washington, and their lobbyists, that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. You have. They will not run my White House. You’ll help me run my White House.”

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Listen to HOW I say it, don’t bother with WHAT I’m actually saying.

 Not too long after this statement, he was quoted as saying, “I won.  I think on this one, I trump you.”  What?  Did he think he was above using the schoolyard phrase as so many of us are used to hearing it?  He would have scored more points with third graders if he’d have just broken out in a round of, “We won, we won, we shot the b.b. gun!  You lost, you lost, you ate tomato sauce!”  In short, the Obama administration’s first 100 days has been chock full of partisan attacks, veiled threats against private citizens exercising their collective first ammendment right to peaceably assemble, and flat out lies.  Gee, I can’t wait to see what they have in store for us next!