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Asking oneself simple questions sometimes leads to realizations that otherwise evade us: How could we Americans have put into the White House a man who revealed himself clearly in campaign oratory as a shameless prevaricator and who declared his goal to be the fundamental “remaking” of the U.S.?

Politicians are often not easy to like, and this man makes disliking easy.

I zeroed in on Obama’s precise feelings re his gargantuan up-rooting process: He intensely dislikes the U.S. as it is.

During WWII, all us guys far from home agreed on one fact without argument: We loved our country and were ready to die for it if that became necessary — we hoped it wouldn’t.

Today our president is a man who has paid a very small price to be where he is.

Obama has a modicum of legislative experience and very little more.

One prominent pursuit of Obama’s has been his energetic preoccupation with socialism. Now that he is president, he is bent on turning our proud republic into his socialistic creation.

Whether the people of the U.S. will size up Obama’s aims soon enough, and if so, give him an electoral “smack in the chops,” remains to be seen.

Obama believes clearly enough in sharing the wealth — your wealth — and leveling all power sources that do not add to his own clout.

There are still plenty of us ordinary citizens who think we should go back to a smaller central government .We would relish the production of wealth shorn of corruption.

How many of us wish fervently that things “remain just they are?” — damned few, I would guess.

The status quo is mired up to its knees in the muddy deals of politicians, and we must get unstuck before we can manage any advancement at all.

Wouldn’t it be grand if one day soon we could install a president who would not track shame into the White House?

William J. H. Boetcker wrote, in 1916, words that are eerily fitting today:

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Many U.S. politicians of the past failed to pay proper attention to the wisdom of Boetcke’s philosophical dicta.

Thus far in his presidency, has Obama bettered anything?

There is hardly a historic dead-end that Mr. Obama is not assiduously pursuing, and a man of his frantic imagination will undoubtedly toss in a few more jolting lulus before he’s finished!