This morning, I was gratified to see that Barack Obama met with General McChrystal for 25 minutes in Copenhagen. Since Obama has stated that the Afghanistan Theater of the war is the most important part, you would think that he would give it a little bit of his time. I can understand that he ignores Iraq and the rest of the war against Islamo-Fascism. He has said that those actions are not important. But, Afghanistan is supposed to be important. When things are important, you give them some of your time.

I think that Barack Obama is not giving time to Afghanistan because he is caught between a rock and a hard place. The radical left is after him to get this Obamacare bill passed. He needs their votes to get it done. The radical left does not believe that we belong in Afghanistan or any place outside of the US, unless it is not in our interest to be there. So, if Obama gives Afghanistan the time it deserves he will tick off the radical left and make it more difficult to pass his Obamacare bill. If he ignores Afghanistan, he might get his Obamacare bill passed, but more of our brave soldiers will die unnecessarily. As a result, he does not really know how to act. He is tending toward not doing anything, which is his default position.

Barack Obama desperately wants this Obamacare bill to pass so he can have a lasting legacy. Obama thinks that people will look to him as some sort of savior for getting the Obamacare bill passed. He does not understand that people will hate Obamacare.

Right now, Barack Obama is in Copenhagen to try and get the Olympics for Chicago. If he manages to pull that off, he will be paying back the people that put him in office. Those people stand to make millions upon millions out of this deal. They all own slum property right where the different Olympic sites will be built and where the Olympic village will be built. That will mean millions in graft money for each of those involved. It will also mean millions in contracts for the different Chicago unions. The regular people of Chicago will not benefit very much from the Olympics, except for the couple of weeks that the events are held. It is the corrupt Chicago government that will benefit. That is all documented very well by Michelle Malkin. When I saw her documentation, I was blown away by the potential corruption that is there if the Olympics are in Chicago.

Barack Obama has brought Chicago style politics to Washington. Chicago style politics is the dirtiest sort of politics. Right does not matter. Only who you know matters. Corruption is rampant among most of the people that surround the White House. Glenn Beck is having a field day documenting all the corruption in and around the White House. He also asks the question that needs to be answered, “How could this person get access to the President?” When we find the answer to that question, we will unlock the door to the secrets in the White House. Of course, in Chicago style politics, if you find out the answer to that question you may not see the dawn.

Electing Barack Obama to the White House was a historic event. Unfortunately for those who voted for him, it was not the historic event they wanted. They were hoping that electing Barack Obama would lead to an end of racial politics. Instead it leads to an increase in racial politics and a dramatic increase in corruption. I am not saying that there was no corruption under George Bush. I am just saying that the corruption is so rampant under Barack Obama that it is impossible to hide for any length of time.

Barack Obama is caught between a rock and a hard place. The public outcry over his “teaching” the children has caused him to revise his plan. It most likely will make the address very bland and uninteresting. If he tried any tricks, he would be called on it and roasted on a stick. He most likely will just say the usual platitudes when dealing with students. There is still the problem of his face in front of children. I have an objection to that because I do not trust the man. I would not have said that about any other President in our country’s history, including Bill Clinton.

Wednesday, Obama will address Congress in an attempt to change the debate on the healthcare bill. Democrat Senators and Congressmen have been hammered by protesters over their recess meetings. The Obamacare bill is withering rapidly and it is in great need of some help. Unfortunately for Obama, the objections to the Obamacare bill are specific and targeted. The objections are about specific things in the bill that the Democrats have invested a lot of their prestige. This will be a hard thing to reconcile.

The biggest problem with the Obamacare bill is that it asks every American to sacrifice except for the Trial Lawyers. The Trial Lawyers are primarily responsible for the high cost of health care in this country because of lawsuit abuse. But, they give huge amounts of money to Democrats to fund their campaigns. Obama got a large portion of his campaign cash from the Trial Lawyers. That is why he will not ask them to sacrifice. If they have to sacrifice, they will not give as much to Democrats, especially Obama. Without Tort reform, Obama is not serious about fixing healthcare problems in this country. With Tort reform in the bill, Democrats will not get funding for their campaigns from Trial Lawyers, so many will go down to defeat. That is the box Obama is in regarding healthcare. It will be interesting to see what he does on Wednesday. My guess is that meaningful Tort reform will not be part of the Obamacare bill. That will mean he is not serious.

There are rumors that the Afghanistan portion of the War on Terror is not doing well. I have heard that we need a surge like we had in Iraq. I have heard that we are losing the hearts of the Afghanistan people. I am not sure if any of that is true. I do know that Obama has sent a lot of troops to Afghanistan and the casualty lists for this year are the highest they have been. Afghanistan is now Obama’s war to win or lose. It is interesting that the people that were demonstrating against Iraq and Afghanistan are now silent. The protesters had maintained that they were against all war, not just the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. Just like I thought, they were not telling the truth.

We have Van Jones causing a ruckus by just being Van Jones. He is on tape telling everyone he was a communist at the time of the taping. He also evidently became part of the “Truther” movement in the Democrat party. The Truther movement are people that demanded to know the truth about 9/11. They insist that George W. Bush and the government knew about the attacks before they occurred and demanded to see the paperwork that verified their claims. Van Jones has denied he was a “Truther”. The leader of the movement said that nobody had their name on the list that did not authorize their name be put there. Either Van Jones is not telling the truth or the leader of the Truther group is not telling the truth. My guess is that Van Jones is the one not telling the truth. There is no real reason for the leader of the Truther movement to lie. There is a great incentive for Van Jones to not tell the truth. My guess is that Van Jones is let go within the next couple of weeks. Van Jones is causing too many problems for Barack Obama. He wants people in those positions that are obscure so nobody will shoot at them.

It will be an interesting week ahead for the gang that couldn’t shoot straight and their leader Barack Obama. If things continue as they have been for the past month, Obama may lose control entirely.

One thing that we have not heard much about since January 20 is Iraq and Afghanistan. There are new rules of engagement for both countries. In Iraq, there is also the anticipation that the Iraq security forces will take over most of the security in the major cities. With the bombings in Bagdad yesterday, it is time to look at Iraq and Afghanistan and see how we are doing.

While President Bush was in office, the news media told us every day that the policies that the Bush administration had taken were failing. Every day they gave us body counts on how many American soldiers were killed and injured. They also included totals for Iraqi citizens as a total, not separating out civilians and terrorists. It was all designed to show that George W. Bush was failing. Since Barack Obama has taken office, there has been a virtual news blackout. You would hear a story every now and then. But for all intents and purposes Iraq and Afghanistan have almost ceased to exist.

Yesterday, there was a series of bombings in Bagdad that has killed at least 75 people and wounded 300. Had George Bush been President, we would have almost non-stop news coverage. With Barack Obama as President, it is reported, but not pumped up. The bombings do bring into question the Iraq strategy of having the Iraq Security Forces supply security in the populated areas of the country.

In listening to the Mike Broomhead show on KFYI, I learned the rules of engagement for our soldiers in Afghanistan. The soldiers are not to fire unless they can GUARANTEE that there are no civilians in the area that will be hit by a stray bullet. The priority for the soldiers is to withdraw from the scene. The nonofficial term would be retreat. American soldiers do not retreat, they withdraw. The effect is the same. We are perceived as weak by the Taliban and others that we are fighting when we withdraw instead of fight. There is nothing worse for a soldier than withdrawing when the soldier knows he/she can win the fight. That will destroy morale more quickly than anything you can imagine. I am not sure that is the goal of the Obama administration, but it sure seems like it from where I sit.

I am not privy to all the ins and outs of the rules of engagement. All I know is what I hear on radio, TV and the internet. But, I put what I lean from those sources with what I see happening with the rest of the country under Barack Obama and a pattern becomes very clear, very fast. Every time Barack Obama has a chance to put Americans first, he puts them second. Every time there is a chance to advance the interests of the United States, he rejects it. Every time there is a chance to improve the economy of this country, he tries to destroy it. That, to me, is a pattern. The pattern I see is not good. I would have to say that from the pattern I perceive Barack Obama does not have the best interests of the United States at heart. I could be wrong. There may be some plan going on that I am not able to perceive at my level. But, every time Obama has a chance to boost Americans he cuts them off at the knees. Every time he has a chance to boost our long time friends and allies, he cuts them off at the knees or ignores them. Every time he has a chance to help our enemies, he gives them a hand. When a friend and ally acts within its Constitution, he comes out for the person who wanted to be a dictator. It is like we went through Alice’s Looking Glass on January 20. In Lewis Carroll’s, story about Alice and the Looking Glass, everything was backwards when she went through the looking glass. I am getting that impression more and more as time goes on.

One good thing that is happening right now is that Americans are waking up. Americans are standing up to their elected representatives and telling them that they are going too far. This is gratifying to me. It makes me think that there is hope that we will get out of this backwards land at some future time.

For the past few weeks we have been concerned with the financial problems here in the US. It was a big problem and one we need to concern ourselves with. Unfortunately for me and a lot of the rest of you I am sure, we have almost forgotten about one of our main goals, which is to keep this country safe. In that regard, understanding the enemy is important.

This past weekend, Islamo-Fascist terrorists stormed a police training station with 700 police recruits in it. The pattern was similar to that used in Mumbai last summer, so the group is most likely the same. Or, it could be a group that copied the tactics of the group from last summer. The group that pulled this attack off is still unknown at the time of this writing. There was a lot of killing, all of the attackers were killed and some of the police recruits.

One difference between the attack in Pakistan at the police station and Mumbai is that in Mumbai the police are not armed, except for SWAT teams. In Pakistan, all police are heavily armed. They have to be heavily armed because of the terrorist threat that exists there all of the time. That arming of the police enabled the response to be instant and deadly. The attackers had an immediate advantage of surprise, but that quickly went away as the police went into action with greater numbers.

The news reports say that the attack was to show that Pakistan’s government does not have control over the country. I am not sure if that was the reason or not, but it does seem plausible. The terrorists in the form of the Taliban have taken the portion of Pakistan nearest the Afghanistan border. In that area, the Pakistani government has no authority other than in name. The Taliban holds complete control over that part of the country. It will be difficult for the Pakistani government to get control of that part of the country back unless they let us help them. They need a coordinated attack from Afghanistan and Pakistan to catch the Taliban in between. The terrain favors the Taliban in that it is very hilly and easy to hide large groups.

Now, I will give credit where credit is due. The current administration has sent in additional troops to Afghanistan. I remember 17,000 and recently they announced 4,000. Those additional troops will help to control the Taliban in Afghanistan. The problem is that they can still go over the line into Pakistan and be free from US interference. Obama needs to use some of that charm to get the Pakistan Government to allow US troops to follow Taliban terrorists into Pakistan so they can be destroyed. Pakistan cannot be a safe house or we cannot win in Afghanistan. Winning in Afghanistan is a difficult proposition in the best of times. Without being able to get the terrorists at any location will eliminate any possibility of winning.

We need to keep our eyes out on the world to see the enemy. We also need to keep a sharp eye on the Democrats as they also have their eye on the destruction of the US. Between the Islamo-Fascists and the Democrats, I am not sure which is worse. One wants to behead me and the other wants to make me a slave. I am not sure which is worse. If we do not look out for what is bad, we could get one or both.

We need to work on electing good strong CONSERVATIVE candidates that believe in the Constitution. We have too many elected politicians that have no idea what the Constitution is, except that we have one. That is how we get some of these stupid bills introduced and passed like the retroactive tax on the AIG bonuses. That is set out in the Constitution as illegal, yet our elected representatives in the House passed it. If we had a conservative majority that believed in the Constitution, that would never have happened and we would not have to worry about Democrats stealing our liberty any longer.