Barry Soetoro is a liar. He has no integrity and believes the American voters are stupid. In that stupid part he may be on to something.

Anyone with half a brain can see his policies are a dismal failure and that he has no plans to change his agenda of crippling our country, of which he has an ingrained hatred.

Class envy is his last trump card and with his self contributed billions of dollars of stimulis money he can buy this election.

I thought we could weather this charlatan but I very well could be mistaken.

If he gets back in kiss this republic good-bye because we certainly cannot weather the morons who vote for him.

A fellow college classmate of Mr. O's says the prez knows exactly what he is doing. He is using a socialist model to collapse the economy, increase the size and reach of the federal government, decrease our national defense, in a plan to collapse this republic, making it ripe and ready for takeover by "progressives" some of whom are card carrying Communists. Or some who face Mecca 5 times a day.

"[I]n 2009, Obama took itemized deductions of $514,819, a foreign tax credit of $59,372, and a deduction for interest on his home of $52,195. He was also able to take a deduction for $49,000 he contributed to his self-employed retirement fund. If he had not taken these deductions, he would have paid taxes on an additional $675,386, which in his income bracket would have meant he owed somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000 more in taxes at the top marginal tax rate of 35 percent. Furthermore, he instructed the Nobel committee to donate his entire $1.4 million Nobel Prize directly to 10 charities, thereby avoiding the necessity of declaring the money as income on which he would have owed an additional $490,000 in taxes. If the president is so appalled at the rich and their ability to hire accountants to take advantage of each and every deduction, why doesn't he simply take the standard deduction on his tax return, like most Americans?" --columnist Linda Chavez

"Obama said. “I can afford it. Warren Buffett, he can afford it." Well write a check. Better yet - don't claim any deductions and pay your taxes based on your gross income. Anyone who feels they don't pay enough - just write a check for more and leave the rest of us alone. Along with writing a check why don't you get the 47% who don't pay a single dime in federal income taxes to cough up some money.

According to the Constitution, equal protection clause, and Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 (before the 16th amendment) everyone is entitled to the same benefits. So why should citizens pay different amounts? We need a true flat tax where everyone pays the same exact amount. It would have an added benefit of no tax forms to fill out and no huge IRS. Doing anything else is pure class envy.

Obama is a Commodore 64 computer stuck in a feedback loop. He can't get outside of his cycle of obsession with black liberation theology's central focus on "economic justice". It's an ideology around which his world-view revolves and he's determined to fulfill his youthful dreams of being the messiah that finally brings justice to the land. He has a super-hero complex and the villains are those fat-cats who don't pay more than the rest of us. He needs to vanquish them and if he doesn't do that with higher taxes then he will have failed at his quest to bring "justice" to the land. How juvenile is his mental orientation. Reality doesn't matter, only his idealistic pursuit of "leveling the playing field".

Obama has a great faith in the power of inspiring words spoken with conviction but their impact on the young, naive, optimistic, and idealistic is quite different from their impact on the disillusioned and hopeless. I was smart enough to not abuse myself by watching his propaganda address but I'll bet that no one got a thrill up their leg due to his well-worn leftist talking points, not when he has failed to do anything effective and legitimate.

Brillant writing Mr. Thomas!

During the 2008 campaign, when

I saw Obama at a town meeting

in Florida where he promised assistance

to a black woman who claimed she

in dire straits, I knew the direction

that he would take as Presdient.

I suspect the sermons Obama really

paid attention to where the ones in

which Jeremiah Wright was bad mouthing America.

Well, Mr. Thomas, what do you think President Obama or any other President should do? It's one thing to be critical; it is another to propose some specific solutions.

The ball in now in your court. If you were President, what would you do?