Several times over the past month I’ve seen an Obama surrogate asked to identify Obama’s significant accomplishments. After parrying the surrogate’s response of campaign talking points, and pressing for an answer, the interviewer is finally forced to conclude that there aren’t any. The spokesperson has, in every case, been unable to name even one significant accomplishment by the rookie Senator. That’s not surprising, because there aren’t any. No significant accomplishments.

Conclusion: He would be the most unaccomplished individual ever elected to the Presidency.

Let’s consider Obama’s credentials at the time that he announced for President, February 9/10, 2008. That’s to allow an objective look at his qualifications before the influence of his KoolAid-induced adoration. I won’t reiterate his work history here – we’ve all seen his biography and know how he spent the years between graduation from Harvard and announcing for President.

Would any competent business owner have hired Barack Hussein Obama to run his or her business? How about the big ones – the Fortune 500 companies? Those are rhetorical questions because we all know the answer, a resounding NO. If he’s not qualified to run a plumbing business, an auto dealership, a mid-sized manufacturer, or General Motors, how can he be put in charge of the entire U.S. economy?

Conclusion: He has no experience that qualifies him to be President.

We all know about his association with people of tainted backgrounds. Where are his character references? Where are the friends and co-workers who expound on his superior character and good judgment?  

On the other hand, we know quite a lot about Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Rashid Khalidi, the Reverends Wright, Pfleger, and Meeks, et al.

Even today, I firmly believe that a background check would not clear him to be a TSA airport screener, much less qualify him for access to the most sensitive information upon which our national security depends. Obama chose to associate with shady characters, characters known to the FBI, and that alone would have prevented him from being approved. If a person can’t qualify for a security clearance, isn’t that an indication that the person can’t be trusted? Shouldn’t that be enough to disqualify him from becoming Commander-in-Chief?

Conclusion: He can’t be trusted as President.

We expect our President to be a leader, not a rubber stamp figurehead for his party. Like him or not, George Bush has been his own man. He took a position and didn’t let polls or focus groups affect where he stood on an issue. He led. Again, you may not like where he was leading, but he made a decision and stuck with it.

Obama has never led anything. He has taken whatever position was most self-serving to his ambitions. He has voted the democrat party line 97 percent of the time in 2005 and 2007, and 96 percent in 2006 – he was simply following orders; they led, he followed.

I believe that anyone would be hard pressed to show any evidence that Obama can lead. Not encourage, inspire, or reassure – lead. We have every reason to believe that he would simply rubber stamp whatever was put before him by Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid. Remember that Congress currently has a 16.5% approval rating (latest average, RCP) – only slightly above their previous low of 12%, the worst in history. And now we are asked to remove any check or balance from the worst performing Congress in history and elect a Rubber-Stamp-in-Chief to enable their policies?

Electing Obama President would be akin to removing any impediment to Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, Kerry, Kennedy, et al, to entrenching themselves in office for eternity. Once we’ve given Obama, Pelosi, and Reid (oh my) the keys to the kingdom, it’ll be extremely difficult to change the locks later.

Conclusion: We can’t allow Obama to become a Rubber-Stamp-in-Chief to the worst Congress in our history.

Obama has not been bashful about his opinions regarding the Constitution. He believes it to be antiquated and in need of updating. It needs to be revised to incorporate more socialistic tenets and to be more sensitive to the plight of the disadvantaged. He basically wants to incorporate affirmative action policies into the Constitution.

Apparently, Obama believes himself to be the equal of the framers and his ideas to be worthy of inclusion into the most important secular document in world history. Three words come to mind, “egotism,” “conceit,” or “self-importance”? How does his attitude jibe with the oath of office that he would be swear to if inaugurated?

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Note that the oath specifically states: “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution, not “change, modify, and revise.”

Conclusion: His statements indicate that he does not intend to “preserve” the Constitution and will not abide by the oath of office and is therefore not qualified to be President.

Ever heard the term “snake oil” salesman? One common definition of “snake oil” is: an expression applied metaphorically to any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality. Professor Obama might as well be standing on a small platform affixed to a buckboard hustling his magical snake oil elixir (infused with hope and change) to the local rubes.

We see it daily in the wide-eyed, tingly-legged, adoration present at Obama’s events. The rubes are eating it up, believing every word the Professor utters. His magical elixir will cure constipation and diarrhea, hangnails and jock itch, and it can be used as a mouthwash or a weed-killer. It’s good for “what ails you.”

Most of those planning to vote for him will do so because they believe that what he’s selling is exactly what they need – never mind that they can’t describe exactly what he’s selling – they just know that whatever it is, it is just what they need. He’s bumfuzzled the rubes into thinking that his policies will be good for them – that they will be the recipients of all sorts of good, and wonderful, and magical “stuff.”

If we analyze the contents of his magic elixir, we find that the main ingredient is obfuscation. His plans and policies are deliberately vague and couched in inexact Clintonian descriptions so that they can be interpreted in many ways, thereby allowing the rubes to see in his statements what they wish to see.

He is deliberately misleading voters in order to get elected. He knows that he can’t do everything he’s promised – especially in the current economic environment. But he is intent on buying the Presidency and he is outbidding John McCain.

Obama is not telling voters the truth and he knows it. He couldn’t get away with it if not for the willful cooperation of the “old” media. They have become co-conspirators in his “Audacity of Deception.”

Conclusion: Obama is deliberately misleading voters and that makes him unfit for the Presidency

I could go on to mention Obama’s aunt and half-brother living in poverty when Obama is supposed to be “his brother’s keeper.”

Or his campaign’s knowingly accepting credit card contributions without the usual (and experts say required) security to assure that the card is being used by its legal owner. This was done in order to accept money from foreign contributors and to circumvent the contribution limit on individual contributions.

Or the intimidation and reprisals against anyone who dares to question the Messiah, like Joe the Plumber, or the two TV stations who dared to ask probing questions of Joe Biden. As late as this week, three reporters were kicked off of Obama’s campaign plane – their sin – all three newspapers endorsed McCain.

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A final prediction: If Obama is elected, some time after he’s sworn in, (I’m guessing 60-90 days into his reign) Obama will tell us that things are much worse than his advisors had anticipated. The Bush administration has things so badly screwed up that even Obama can’t correct everything quickly and must put some of his promises on hold. He will be “forced” to scale back his “tax reductions” and to scrap some new programs. It wouldn’t surprise me if the speech has already been written.