Son of Kenya

This column does not address where Barack Hussein Obama was (or was not) born but rather the direction that he is pushing the United States of America. One glaring facet of rule in Africa is endemic corruption- termed a continent of cleptocracy first I believe by George Will in one of his more cogent moments when he was not waxing poetic about baseball. The ruling elite on the Dark Continent have largely focused not on improving the lot of their citizenry but on enriching themselves and or their cronies just as Obama seems to have done with his patron George Soros who is benefiting tremendously from the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe as he is the largest owner of the Brazilian oil conglomerate Petrobras after the Brazilian nation herself. At the same time that the Obama administration has placed an indefinite but at least scheduled to be six month moratorium on deep water off-shore drilling for the United States before the moratorium was stayed by a Federal judge, the Obama administration has given Petrobras a two billion US dollar grant for deep water exploration for oil off Brazil. On another front, African leaders have often made great show of their magnanimity while the vast majority of their own citizens continue to suffer. Barack Hussein Obama took his Kenyan mindset here again to the G-8 in Toronto, marshalling a great effort to commit the eight leading industrial nations to help mothers and children in the Third World for which Obama pretends his empathy (he could not care that much as his own half-brother still is forced to reside in a tiny hut in Kenya). But while we in America are in the second longest sustained economic crisis to the Great Depression, with infant mortality in my own home state of Tennessee recently termed dire, ranking amongst the five worst US states with a death rate ironically being compared to infant mortality in the developing world, Obama is spending more money that we as a nation do not have on a program that does not assist us at all (beyond the psychic feel-good notion of aiding those no more impoverished than we are becoming under Obama's mismanagement). Africa is not a mere geographic unit, but a mindset where Obama regards our Constitution and laws as an impediment to be overcome instead of enforced and respected as most previous Presidents have done except Nixon as the chief law enforcement officer in the country just as autocrats have always done, where one boosts himself and or his close circle instead of concerning himself with the welfare of his nation, and where the leader squanders resources we do not have on programs we do not need that yield us nothing and cost us much.