Reader’s Write: Obama a product of Chicago machine

The Island Now

The Associated Press and London’s Daily Mail, both claimed that while at college, Barry Soetoro, applied for student-aid as a “foreign” student and then changed his name to Barack Hussain Obama? 

And, they had the proof  to back it up. 

Did it bother you that, as a state senator, Barack Obama came up through the ranks of Chicago’s corrupt Democratic Party machine? 

His tenure as a nondescript, one-term U.S. Senator was quite ordinary. What do you think of the fact that he still refuses to release his college or law school records? What is he hiding? 

Were you at all upset when he never explained his close friendships with left-wing radicals, such as terrorist-bomber Bill Ayers. 

How could the Obama’s attend church services every Sunday, and never react to Rev. Wright’s hate-filled sermons condemning the United States.

Even with all of this, I still wanted to end this blight on American history, and vote for America’s first African-American president. 

But gradually, I changed my mind, when his supporters and the press, started calling anyone, myself included, who dared to question Barack Obama’s credentials or his political philosophy a racist. 

Did you really expect me to overlook his tax and spend agenda, his plans for extensive government involvement in our lives, his reinterpreting our constitution, his changing America’s premier position in world politics, as well as his proposal for a government takeover of our entire health-care system? 

If I objected to his lack of executive or foreign policy experience, should I be called a bigot? Should his lack of economic or private sector expertise just be ignored? How about those radicle friends, who went to prison for bombing police stations or attacking the pentagon? 

So, with much thought and introspection, I decided to take a chance on being vilified, and voted for the man I thought was the most qualified to be president, regardless of race, John McCain.

Illinois has the lowest credit rating of any state in the nation. Springfield, it’s capital and Chicago, it’s largest city, have historic deficits and are heading towards bankruptcy. 

Barack Obama was one of their elected officials who is responsible for this fiscal nightmare. 

So now, it shouldn’t surprise anyone, when the Obama administration racked up a $17 trillion dollar deficit.

Chicago’s new mayor, Rahm  Emanuel, was President Obama’s chief of staff, and must try to solve Chicago’s decades-old, financial problems which were created, in part,  by his old boss, 

State Sen. Barack Obama. However, like Benghazi, the healthcare exchanges and “Fast and Furious”, Barack Obama just walks away and is never held responsible for the mess he helped create. Thank you, NY Times!

In 2012, Illinois capital, Springfield, spent 24.8% of its entire budget on its pension obligations alone! Amazing ! 

This year, Chicago has a pension-system shortfall of $20 billion dollars and Illinois will owe (get ready for this one!!) over $100 billion  dollars!

Gov. Pat Quinn is trying to fix the nation’s most broken state public-employee retirement system. His modest proposals will save $160 billion dollars in 30 years by:

1 – reducing the out of control, cost-of-living increases for retirees only.

2 – slowly raising the retirement age for younger workers to 67, and

3 – capping the salary amount used to calculate pension payments.

Forget-about-it! 

Obama’s Democratic cronies in Illinois are not happy with these reforms, even though Chicago’s payments to it’s local city pension funds will reach $1.1 billion dollars in 2015 . 

Mayor Emanuel’s typical Obama-sounding  response?  He wants help from the state and the federal government !

Another bailout ! Just what we don’t need and definitely can’t afford!

– Who has the lowest credit rating of any state in the country? Illinois !  – Who has one of the worst credit ratings of any city? Chicago!

– Who was President when the United States’s credit rating was downgraded because his administration raised the deficit more in his first four years than all the other previous presidents combined?

Barack Obama !

Barack Obama will go down in history as the man who finally broke the racial barrier by being our first African-American president. 

Only future historians will uncover his sordid past and evaluate his radical economic, foreign and constitutional policies. The mainstream media refuses to do it now.

Dr. Stephen Morris    

North Hills

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