Thomas Sowell - Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow The Hoover Institution Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

After the big gamble on sub prime mortgages that led to the current financial crisis, is there going to be an even bigger gamble, by putting the fate of a nation in the hands of a man whose only qualifications are ego and mouth?

Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise– whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team– is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama’s trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges– very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in real world.

The signs of Barack Obama’s self-centered immaturity are painfully obvious, though ignored by true believers who have poured their hopes into him, and by the media who just want the symbolism and the ideology that Obama represents.

The triumphal tour of world capitals and photo-op meetings with world leaders by someone who, after all, was still merely a candidate, is just one sign of this self-centered immaturity.

“This is our time!” he proclaimed. And “I will change the world.” But ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon.

For someone who has actually accomplished nothing to blithely talk about taking away what has been earned by those who have accomplished something, and give it to whomever he chooses in the name of “spreading the wealth,” is the kind of casual arrogance that has led to many economic catastrophes in many countries.

The equally casual ease with which Barack Obama has talked about appointing judges on the basis of their empathies with various segments of the population makes a mockery of the very concept of law.

After this man has wrecked the economy and destroyed constitutional law with his judicial appointments, what can he do for an encore? He can cripple the military and gamble America’s future on his ability to sit down with enemy nations and talk them out of causing trouble.

Senator Obama’s running mate, Senator Joe Biden, has for years shown the same easy-way-out mindset. Senator Biden has for decades opposed strengthening our military forces. In 1991, Biden urged relying on sanctions to get Saddam Hussein’s troops out of Kuwait, instead of military force, despite the demonstrated futility of sanctions as a means of undoing an invasion.

People who think Governor Sarah Palin didn’t handle some “gotcha” questions well in a couple of interviews show no interest in how she compares to the Democrats’ Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Biden.

Joe Biden is much more of the kind of politician the mainstream media like. Not only is he a liberal’s liberal, he answers questions far more glibly than Governor Palin– grossly inaccurately in many cases, but glibly.

Moreover, this is a long-standing pattern with Biden. When he was running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination back in 1987, someone in the audience asked him what law school he attended and how well he did.

Flashing his special phony smile, Biden said, “I think I have a much higher IQ than you do.” He added, “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship” and “ended up in the top half” of the class.

But Biden did not have a full academic scholarship. Newsweek reported: “He went on a half scholarship based on need. He didn’t finish in the ‘top half’ of his class. He was 76th out of 85.”

Add to Obama and Biden House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and you have all the ingredients for a historic meltdown. Let us not forget that the Roman Empire did decline and fall, blighting the lives of millions for centuries.

Barack Obama is your President Elect, like it or not. No doubt many of us suddenly have the same question keeping us up at night… Now what?

Well, so far we know he’s appointed partisan “bulldog” Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of staff and

Rahm Emanuel reportedly sent a dead fish to a pollster he didn't like.

word on the street has John Kerry as Secretary of State… This while Joe Lieberman is trying to fend off being removed from his postion as chair for The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee because of “unfavorable comments” made regarding Obama and the Democrats during the election. In fact, since they obviously don’t need Lieberman to get their sixty seats, there’s now talks of Lieberman caucusing with The GOP… So much for reaching across the isle.

Apparently, with all the fervor around dealing with appointees and disciplining non-believers, somebody forgot to pay Obama’s campaign workers. Law enforcement had to be called to a campaign head quarters in Indianapolis to control an angry mob who had not been paid for last minute canvassing. Many of these workers were paid with pre-paid credit cards.

While I think this is truly a proud moment in American history when we’re able to elect a man of mixed ethnicity to The Presidency, I still find myself wondering, at what cost? The question of Obama’s citizenship seems to have evaporated in the breeze… Even staunch conservative radio host Glenn Beck dismissed a caller this morning who expressed continuing concern of this yet unresolved issue… Suddenly we’ve set the precedent in this country that despite the words of The Constitution, you no longer have to be a confirmed, natural born U.S. citizen to become President. This is insanity.

All my life I’ve had difficulty when put in the position of being held accountable to a person or entity who takes a “do what I say, not what I do” approach to their leadership role. Suddenly, I’m feeling that stink of hypocrisy wafting down over me from a height I never thought possible.

While it’s too early to tell for sure, were we go from here is still cloudy at best. All we can do is watch, and wait… I wish our new President Elect all the best and pray that my fears about him are wrong, for if I am wrong I will be the first to sing his praises and rejoice in the betterment of America. Naturally, that sword will swing both ways.

Former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and life long Democrat Philip J. Berg alleges Barack Obama is Constitutionally ineligible for a run at the U.S. Presidency due to Kenyan birth.

"Prove me wrong and I'm outta here..."

In an interview with radio talk show host Michael Savage on the Savage Nation, attorney Philip J Berg went into great detail as to the reasons and legal grounds for which he has brought suit against Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama regarding his citizenship. At one point in the interview he even claimed to have Obama’s paternal Grandmother on tape claiming that she was “right there” (in Kenya) when Barack was born.

Eventually, host Michael Savage opened the phones to any and all callers who could offer any information to challenge Berg’s allegations. One caller cited the Live Birth Registration found on factcheck.org to which Berg responded not only was that document altered, but factcheck.org itself was owned by The Annenberg Foundation. The same Annenberg Foundation where Obama sat on the board with former Weather Underground Terrorist Bill Ayers.

No doubt this topic has been ignored by the mainstream media and now that Savage’s radio show has brought it to light perhaps others will follow suit. Whether or not you believe this is a legitimate concern or just some tactic being employed by McCain and The Republican Party, one thing remains true… Barack Obama could bury this issue in about five seconds by producing a copy of his original Certificate of Live Birth (NOT the document circulated by factcheck.org). Berg himself said that if Obama complies, he will drop the case immediately.

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