I've been away, but with so much going on, this seemed like the time to pick up the Blog again. 

I've been following with great interest the firestorm surrounding Barrack Obama in the past couple of weeks.  I've read numerous pundits saying what he should have said or what he could have said and have come to some conclusions.

Barrack Obama's biggest problem is that he is a fraud.  He wanted to keep the focus on the post-racial aspect of his presidency while still drawing the advantage of being a black man...at least in terms of his skin color.  The problem is, Obama didn't have the "black experience".  His father is African, not African-American, he did not grow up in the inner city or have to suffer through sub-standard schools.  He attended the best schools in the nation and married a woman who did the same. 

He could not stand up and tell the truth last week about his membership in a church led by a fire-breathing, racist, radical, because the truth is that he needed the church, with just such a pastor, to burnish his credentials with the constituents he hoped to lead in Chicago. His biggest mistake was in not leaving the church as soon as he was elected to the Senate.  So...he is caught on the horns of a dilema of his own making.  to be successful locally, he had to convert himself into the black man he was not.  To be successful nationally, he has to distance himself from that black man.

Personally, I think the color of Obama's skin is irrelevant.  I think he is an America hating liberal, not necessarily a racist.  My biggest problem is that he is a liar.  I used to tell my children when they were small that lying is the biggest insult of all, because it implies that you think I am stupid enough to believe the lie.  Obama has shown by is actions just how stupid he thinks we are...not only has he lied to us, but he didn't even lie well.  Just how stupid does he think we are?