America got it completely wrong, not that we had much of a choice. The presidential election of 2008 was driven more by hype about hope than substance. As I said in earlier blogs, "I wish I could have voted for Mr. Obama." I wanted more than anything else in my role as an American citizen to vote for the first African American president. But his politics, ideology and mentors was too much for me to handle. Thus, I voted for John McCain. I must say, I was not too thrilled with him either. But what choice did the American political system give me? Were these two men the best we could offer? Given the plethora of brilliant political minds we have in this great country, was this really our brightest and best?

Now we have children running the greatest country on the face of the earth. We have a president who continues to embrace our enemies and make apologies for America while shunning our friends as he recently did with the Prime Minister of Israel, at least until he saw the political fallout of the Jewish liberal community. Now he is rolling out the red carpet for Netanyahu. He continues to drive this country into a forced socialism, ignoring the will of the people with Obama-care. He has more than tripled the national debt he criticized when running for office with no end in sight. The campaign promise of an open and televised government has become a joke. He continues to bless Islam as a peaceful religion. Most recently he has instructed NASA to become more user-friendly toward Islamic nations. He mocks the Tea Party as out of touch and has thumbed his nose at the will of the people.

I truly believe we got what we knew we had - an immature and inexperienced community organizer at the helm. He continues to "blame Bush" for everything while accepting no responsibility for his policies that have driven our country to the brink of financial ruin. Had he allowed the flow of financial capitalism (i.e. the survival of the fittest) to run its course when he first came into office with no bailouts, no stimulus packages, no bank purchases and no irrational bridge leaps into the massive debt from which we will never recover we would have emerged from this recession by now.

It all comes back to the purpose of government - to protect its citizenry and to punish wrongdoers. Now we have a commander-in-chief who the top generals do not respect. One even went as far as to vent his frustration to the press. He was promptly (and correctly) fired. But what did he actually say to Rolling Stone Magazine? Surely he knew he would be fired, but he did not care. His conscience would not permit him to blindly follow a president who seems more concerned about offending the Muslim world than he does about winning the war.

There is so much more I could say - the horrible choices he has made for the Supreme Court vacancies, his handling of the Gulf oil crisis, the sure to come middle class tax hike, and the denigration of Arizona's new immigration law and the refusal of the Federal government to seal the borders to mention a few. It is time for America to cut its losses and for the first one-term president since George H.W. Bush.

In His grip,

Dr. Chuck Betters

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In this blog since the election, I have tried to give our new president every benefit of the doubt to fulfill his many campaign promises. I did so with the hope that his ideas will work, even though I believed they would not. It is thought that one will campaign from the extremes of his party but then, if elected, governs from the center. Not so for Obama. He campaigned from the left and has governed beyond even the extreme left of his own party. He is making Ted Kennedy look like a conservative.

His answer to our economic woes - we can spend our way out! We now have a debt that is beyond comprehension with no end in sight. Socialism is right around the corner if not here already. His plan for health care reform - nationalized medicine with the certain net result that all of us will eventually be mired in a Canadian-like model where the government makes the decisions on your care. Ask any Canadian if he likes his health plan. They don't and that is why they come to America when they are really sick. His answer to Iran's totalitarian regime and its slaughter of young people in the streets over a rigged election - let's talk and reason together. Check out this site and tell me if these jihadists are even remotely reasonable.

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His laxity in condemning this joke of an election is appalling. Congress had to pass a bill to condemn the slaughter going on in Iran because our president would not. He even went as far as to take credit for what he calls the "debate in Iran" attributing the revolt to his speech in Egypt. This is narcissism at its worst. Only after his own party urged him to be tougher in his condemnation did he do so. When Ronald Reagan stood before the Berlin wall what did he say? "Oh, please Mr. Gorbachev let's talk about how we can learn to respect each others' ideas." No, he said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." That is leadership. That is decisiveness.

Obama has lost an incredible opportunity to effect change in an enemy country, an axis of evil state. I am sure he thought that if only he could talk to their Ayatollah he could use his power of oratory to convince them to hold a new election. Instead, men and women in Iran looking to the U.S.A. for encouragement and support are being brutally suppressed while our president bows to his own immaturity. His solution to the North Korean threat - we will follow your boat and ask for permission to board, but we must say, "Please." And if they say, "No?" "Pretty please with molasses on it."

I am convinced Mr. Obama is too inexperienced and immature to lead this great nation. The hope is that he will not do too much damage before the next election when hopefully someone with greater wisdom can be elected. Until then, we must pray that our nation will not sink into the abyss of the dangerous left-wing agenda.

In His Grip,
Dr. Chuck Betters

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