Sitting pretty here in a small town in California I sometimes hear of what the media reports from United States. The Danish newspapers and TV seem to think Mr. Obama is doing a wonderful job and America is finally on the right track.
Allow me to present another angle:
Mr. Obama is expanding government, killing private businesses, raising taxes and making promises he can never fulfill in order to secure power in perpetuity to his political party. I can forgive him for being ignorant, arrogant and possibly a Marxist. What I can’t forgive him for is putting the nation in such debt that it is mathematically impossible for the inhabitants ever to repay it. This is shameful, because mine will be the first generation that will leave the country worse off than we found it to our children. All other generations have fought hard, made sacrifices, worked all thier lives to give their children a better life. We, on the other hand, have already made life harder for our children and childrens children because they will have find a way to pay back the money we borrowed. By the way, Prez Carter, followed by Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2 got the bloating of the beurocracy and entitlement programs going, but Obama has quadrupled our debt in the short 10 month he has been in office.
According to the constitution, neither the president, congress or house of representatives have the legal right right to borrow money on behalf of present or future generations. Everyone in office should be fired or impeached, because they have all sworn to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States and they are ignoring it at best. If we had a free press (or TV) on the side of the people and truth, perhaps our government would not be able to get away with what it’s doing, but unfortunately most people will rather be entertained that learn something.
The second thing I cannot forgive is being weasel, trash-talking America and lying to the public.

There is a difference between not being able to fulfil on a promise – which Obama has done, and will do plenty of – and stating something knowing it is not true. He promised transparancy, but nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. He said no lobbyists were to be part of his administration and it’s filled with lobbyists – and he would allow “no earmarks” in bills – and the “stimulus bill” had over 9000 special “favors” in it. No “special interests” were to run his clock either, and the biggest union in the country put up 60 million dollars in campaign contributions, buying unristricted access to the White House. We have a president that has no problem lying. Amazingly, other politicians, doctors, scolars & scientists seem to follow his trend.
As I understand it, generating prosperity in a free country is not rocket-science. It’s actually easy. Historically it has been shown over and over that if you cut taxes and cut government regulations the people prosper. Yes, you can still be environmentally responsible, but growing government, debt and taxes invariably leads in the OPPOSITE direction of prosperity.
I do not think Obama is stupid, ergo I must assume he is not interested in creating jobs, energy independance or securing the nation. He seems to view private enterprise as toxic and has no real understanding of the spirit that build the United States of America into the most successful nation in the world in a short 250 years.
What I, and others, think he is interested in is political power for his group of elites, and – it wouldn’t surprise me – a world government, where he could run for president.
My friends in Denmark, I’m sorry if you don’t get better information from the press or TV. Listen to some talk-radio stations in America instead, where they actually care about reality, history and facts. I reccommend (yes) Rush Limbaugh, Roger Hedgecock http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/Default.asp?cchk=yes, Glen Beck (http://www.glennbeck.com/content/tv/) and others.
America was founded on the idea of freedom and personal reponsibility. For decades Americans have been sytematically been told how irrisponsible and mean the country is while being the one power in the world that has done more good than any other nation in history. Obama is saying that people and free enterprize is greedy and cannot be trusted, and a big government is a better way to go.
Socialism/Marxism is an idea that has ALWAYS failed the people, while hugely benefitting the ruling elite. Look at history. Hitler, Mao, Lennin, Castro, Chavez… The leaders say they will take the money from the rich and give it to the poor. Well, they do take the money from the rich, the rich then leave town and take their companies with them and the government rations services to the people. It all seems terribly obvious from here.