There's good reason not to trust Obama

Let me say it again – I don't trust Barack Obama, and neither should you. And it has nothing to do with the color of his skin. How can we trust a commander in chief who values playing basketball more than he does giving immediate and full attention to his general's desperate plea for more troops? What other president, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro notwithstanding, has publicly threatened and bullied privately owned companies in his own country for providing accurate information pursuant to what his proposed measures will truly mean for their clients?

Obama promised that his administration would be based on transparency. Yet, it took external news and information sources to expose Van Jones. And to date, Obama still has not revealed that which we are finding out on our own about his other czars, the power they have and their true political affiliations.

Where is his transparency pursuant to legislation intended as payback to unions for their support? Has he taken to his teleprompter to tell the nation that in order for non-union contractors to get government contracts they must hire union laborers, even though they are non-union? Has he told the nation that he is forcing non-union contractors to pay union wages and in some instances even contribute to union pension funds? Has he told us by what constitutional authority he took over the banking and automobile industries?

Speaking of transparency, why won't he produce his birth certificate? Why are his transcripts and most other artifacts that concern his life being kept from public scrutiny?

He is the president that tried to slip the Employee Free Choice Act with its "card check" provision by us. He is the president trying to saddle us with cap-and-trade. He is the president who supports health care for illegal aliens. His is the administration that came up with the "cash for clunkers" program – a program, I argue, that will ultimately serve only to put people in debt for that which they could have easily done without. Now he is using every means at his disposal to convince us we have the worst health-care system in the world, to vilify and threaten the insurance companies and to have us believe that only a government-involved (read: government-run) health-care system will save the day.

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Obama is trying to convince us that the same government that was so spectacularly incapable of handling the $3 billion cash for clunkers program can now handle health care, which is one-sixth of our total economy, with more efficiency than it handles the post office and more cost effectiveness than Medicaid.

We cannot trust Obama or his congressional minions. Not even his loyal surrogates can trust him – just ask New York Gov. David Paterson. Paterson followed the Obama talking points and played the race card, only to watch Obama pretend to be above such thoughts. To further show his appreciation, Obama attempted to secretly undermine Paterson's candidacy and force him into not running – because he believed Mario Cuomo (a white candidate) has a better chance of winning.

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My firm belief is, even if (and believe me, that's a Mount Everest sized if) health-care legislation would be passed exactly as he claims – this is Congress that we are talking about. There is not one program under congressional oversight or control that is not a victim of fraud, mismanagement and waste, at taxpayer expense – from Head Start to Medicaid.

There are avenues the free-market health-care industry can take to provide a more cost-effective and available health instrument for everyone – including the 8 million who are truly without health care – from lawsuit reform to consumers being able to purchase insurance from companies located outside their state.

But in reality, I don't believe this is about providing health care or the reforming of same. It's about government intrusion on a gargantuan scale. If Obama is successful in getting his or any government-involved health care program passed, it will morph into a life-controlling entity – with government defining what is healthy and, ultimately, who gets care and for how long – faster than Gregor Samsa morphed into a giant bug in Kafka's "Metamorphosis."

It is about the control of every American, from the womb to the grave, and nothing convinces me otherwise. Obama's resorting to the tired old lines blaming Bush is simply the desperate rhetoric of an unqualified man cracking under pressure.