I consider myself to be a reasonable and thoughtful guy. While I didn’t really like Bill Clinton or many of his policies, I never thought he was a threat to America. Likewise, I understand and respect the fact that some people didn’t like anything about George W Bush, but it would be a stretch to think him anything less than a patriot. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about the current occupant of the White House. I have yet to find one single policy or position he has taken that I can agree with. You might say, “What about Osama bin Laden? Didn’t he do that right? Well, yes, but it wasn’t really him, now was it? To provide a perspective, I received the following note as an e-mail from a close friend.

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“Let’s be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An American sailor, who Obama just a few weeks ago was debating on whether or not to PAY, did. In fact, if you remember a little less than two years ago, his administration actually charged and attempted to court marshall 3 Navy Seals from Seal Team Six, when a terrorist suspect they captured, complained they had punched him during the take down and bloodied his nose. His administration further commented how brutal they were. The left were calling them Nazi’s and Baby Killers. Now all of a sudden the very brave men they vilified, are now heros when they make his administration look good in the eyes of the public. Obama just happened to be the one in office when the CIA finally found the bastard and our sailors took him out. Essentially, Obama only gave an answer; Yes or No, to him being taken out. This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!!

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Up until now it has been hard to put my finger on the source of my animosity toward Mr. Obama, but his willingness to publicly take personal credit for the acts of incredible bravery by the members of Seal Team Six has finally made it clear what it is about this man I find so offensive and unacceptable. He is quite simply disingenuous. Clearly everything this President does seems designed specifically to promote himself as a political figure. One can understand that strategy when you’re actually running for office, but this guy is in constant campaign mode.

Currently Mr. Obama is off to Europe on the American taxpayer’s nickel, but why? It seems like he’s trying to make Irish Americans believe he’s actually related to them. He’s also meeting with the newlywed royals apparently in an attempt to capitalize on the massive international hype surrounding the wedding, that incidentally he was not invited to. These modern versions of “baby kissing” and “glad handing” are campaign tactics, not the stuff of a sitting president.

What is perhaps more disgusting is how the adoring mainstream media continues to faun over every move this President makes, even if sometimes a bit less graceful than others. I must admit watching “the Beast,” Mr. Obama’s heavily armored limo, get high-centered exiting the US embassy in Dublin to be a ‘laugh out loud” funny moment. I was immediately reminded of the story of the “Post Turtle.” When driving down a country road a Texas farmer happened to see a turtle balanced on top of a fence post, six feet off the ground. The farmer stopped to examine this curious site and watched as the turtle desperately flailed his legs in the air. The farmer quickly came to the following conclusions:

1. He didn’t get up there by himself.
2. He certainly doesn’t belong up there.
3. He can’t do anything while he’s up there.
4. He needs to be taken down from there.

Thank God we have the opportunity to put Mr. Obama’s feet firmly back on the ground on November 6, 2012; a day that at least for me, cannot come soon enough. America needs a true leader, a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief, to get our country off high-center.