When people apply for membership in one of our elite Military Services, the FBI, the Secret Service or the CIA, their resumes’ are thoroughly reviewed. Records of education, employment and social contacts are all verified and taken into consideration regarding fitness for the position being sought. But there is a dichotomy here that will probably never change. As far as John and Susie Public know, the office of President of The United States of America requires only that the applicant be 35 years of age and was born in the United States.
If the foregoing information is true, why didn’t the President present a long form birth certificate during his 2008 campaign? Donald Trump made it an issue in 2011 and a birth certificate was released in April of that year. The birth certificate shows Mr. Obama’s name at birth on August 4, 1961 was Barack Hussein Obama II, and that his mother was an 18-year-old Caucasian and his father was a 25-year-old student of African ancestry. Has anyone seen Mr. Obama’s student scholastic records from Punahoe, Columbia or Harvard? We seem to overlook his 130 votes of ‘present’ in the Illinois Legislature. We ignored his total lack of experience in foreign relations but we seem to question the experience of the current crop of candidates.
Bernie Sanders is a one-issue socialist who wants to spend other people’s money; having lived off taxpayer gratuities much of his life. Hillary Rodham Clinton is unqualified to be on the stage to debate. Her record of assault on the word ‘truth’ and her past ‘achievements’ represent a corruption of the word; exit polls reflect that just 9% of New Hampshire voters believe that Mrs. Clinton is trustworthy. Her unwillingness to accept the reality of the E-Mail and Benghazi scandals should inspire voters to support any alternative candidate with an IQ equivalent to their age in years. And please don’t try to convince voters that millions of miles and hundreds of hours in an airplane seat generates experience. Being First Lady for eight years only confirmed that husband Bill had obnoxious interests beyond politics.
Folks, look at the facts and try to avoid the certitudes that slip through the lips of the Clintons and their proselytes. When they left the White House in 2001, Bill was a known sexual predator but has slipped the loose-knit bindings of consequences and has become a multi-millionaire. Former First Lady and current presidential campaigner complained that the Clinton family was ‘dead broke’ upon leaving the White House but both Clintons receive several hundred thousand dollars per speech. In 2013, the Clinton Family Foundation enjoyed income of $140 million but spent just $9 million (6.4%) on direct aid.
We simply can’t afford another four years of an administration that is saturated with academic theory and isolated from stark reality. On Friday, January 20th, 2017 the new President must be a man or woman who has the God-given talent to appoint advisors and government officials that understand zero-based budgeting and practice accountability in the government hierarchy. The next President must be a person who accepts the Constitution as a living document, who will remove the bias of the IRS, the waste of subsidies that replace private investment and ingenuity, the restoration of sovereignty of our borders and mitigate taxes and regulation.
The chief difference between liberal government and conservative leadership is the quest for freedom and equality of opportunity rather than equality of results. The USA is the most diverse nation in the world; more people want to share the refreshing qualities of citizenship in our country than all other nations combined. Yet we debate issues of border security and figure out methods of circumventing current immigration laws to accommodate our personal prejudices.
Like Martin Luther King, Jr. who had a dream, many of us have dreams that we will, at the next national election, disregard the voting blocks of ethnicity, the rich, the middle class, minorities, religious sects, LGBT, women, students and vote for a qualified candidate who promises conservative change. Remember that the vote of a penniless welfare recipient has the same impact as the ballot of the richest person in the nation.
Dick Baynton
