The World According to John: A Fine... Un-Qualified..........

Before your read this, play the video about Barack Omama below. In this youtube video (taken from the RNC's YouTube page), you will notice that even DEMOCRATS understood what was about to happen. His own party saw what could happen if this man became President.

If we think about the oil spill alone, I think that underscores the incompetence in Washington. In fact, I can recall a preacher talking about a fine leader (and that’s up for debate). But then the preacher goes further. He erupts in to mentioning “but now we have a fine…..qualified…..African American…..named Barack Obama”, with a more than enthusiastic congregation joining in. Canada, Denmark and several other countries have offered help with this oil spill, yet this President won’t accept it. As this saga goes on, I think back to the quote I just mentioned. This preacher (recently retired at 87 years old and over 60 years in ministry), had an indirect connection to Saul Alinsky through the Woodlawn Organization. Alinsky was a consultant through his Industrial Areas Foundation (1).

Over the last few months, I looked back at past Presidents and compared their resumes with our current President. In fact, I went a bit further and compared some key players in the Democratic primary race. What I found was that there were 5 Senators with at least 8 years (Hillary Clinton was the least experienced but the rest had been Senators 13 years or more). I noticed until this President, something was different. Sure, his academic background (which to this day still hasn’t been verified) is equal to past President (if we take it at face value alone). I noticed that each President of modern times had a lengthy background in at least one of the follow areas:

a. Military- lengthy career achieving officer status.
b. Government experience- elected or appointed to a major office in the federal or state level.
c. Business- this would include owning or running a business at the executive level.

You think I’m wrong. Let’s go back to the start of the 20th century. Again, I will do this by list only. Thess are the things they did BEFORE they took office and the years of related experience:
-Teddy Roosevelt - former Lt Colonel, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, Governor, Vice President, President- 13 years (2).
- William Taft - extensive international experience and served as Secretary of War, served as an Appellate Judge, Superior Court Judge, and Governor General of the Philippines and Cuba- 17 years (3).
- Woodrow Wilson- former President of Princeton University, Governor of New Jersey ( also showed “Birth of a Nation” at the White House, typical Democratic form of that time; ole Woody was a swell guy)- 13 years; LENGHTY academic career (sound familiar) (4)
- Warren Harding- owned the Marion Day Star newspaper (which was broke when he bought it), Ohio State Senator, Ohio Lt Governor, US Senator- 15 plus years (5).
- Calvin Coolidge- State legislator, Governor of Massachusetts, Vice President- 20 plus years (6).
- Herbert Hoover- Mining engineer and manager, US Secretary of Commerce- 30 plus years (7).
- FDR- State Senator of New York, Asst Sec of the Navy- 13 years (8).
- Truman- National Guard, Judge, US Senator – over 30 years (9)
- Eisenhower- I shouldn’t need to do this but I will- the radio edit. 5 Star General, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Educated at West Point, President of Columbia University-38 years (10).
- JFK- Naval Officer, Massachusetts House of Representatives, US Senator – 17 years (11).
- Johnson (LBJ): Naval Officer, House of Representatives, US Senate (served as Minority & Majority Whip), Vice President- 20 plus years (12).
- Nixon: Naval Officer, US House of Representatives, Vice President- 20 plus years (13).
- Ford: Military, House of Representatives Member, Vice President- 31 years (14).
- Carter: US Navy Officer/ US Naval Academy, Farm Owner, Governor- 29 years (15).
- Reagan: Governor- 8 years (16).
- GHW Bush (41): Military Officer, Business Owner, US House of Representatives, US Ambassador to the UN, CIA Director, US Liaison Office (China), Vice President, Director of Council of Foreign Relations, Vice President- 30-plus years (17).
- Clinton: Rhodes Scholar, Attorney General, Governor- 13 years (18).
- GW Bush: National Guard, Energy and Oil Sales, Business Owner (Texas Rangers), Governor- 13 years.
- Obama- Illinois (State and US) Senator 13 years total (barely full time US Senator for just over a year).

Now I'm not trying to sway opinion one way or another about the men listed above (those are issues onto themselves). These are the men who served as President going back to Theodore Roosevelt. If you take a look at this list, you may notice an interesting pattern. I counted 3 former Governors, 4 former Vice Presidents, several with extensive military experience, and a few business owners. Obama was a US Senator for barely 1 term. One year private sector business experience and no foreign policy experience. No experience with the military (not even at an ROTC level). There is nothing on this President resume that says he should be President. I can think about the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan when he said these words- "Who selected a Jr Senator who handn't even got his feet wet in the US Senate & made him believe that he from that position could become President of the United States (20)." While I'm no fan, for him to say what he did should turn a head or two at the very least.

I have no problem with a man who wants to make his community better. The world would be a better if people cared more about the people and helping those in need. So you ran a community, and organized local organizations. No public sector experience. First Lady Obama at least worked for the University of Chicago hospital and has some private and public sector business (she was a member of the Treehouse Foods Board of Directors as well as the Chicago Board of Global Affairs). For the record, he wasn't even a tenure track Professor at the University of Chicago but a part time lecturer, as the video below will prove (22):