The Enemy a la BO

I was sitting around with a few friends and one of them mentioned how he thought it was not right that BO is going around campaigning for democratic congressional candidates all over the country. The more I think about it the more I agree that it is not appropriate for him to spend public money which was obtained from all Americans to selectively campaign for democratic candidates. Regardless of the fact that he is a democrat, his election puts him in the position of president for all Americans. He now represents me (not a dem) and I do not support his partisan politics while he is in this position. Its a double slap in my face that he uses my money for his flights, security, etc. on these campaign trips.

Even worse is Michelle Obama who is cruising around the country campaigning for selected democrats. I would have no problem if she did this on her own dime. She is a free citizen who was not elected to office and does not have a position where she represents the people. But my suspicion is that all her expenses are being covered by the taxpayer. This is a blatant misuse of government funds (my money) for their own political benefit and with which I do not agree.

You can argue that Chris Christie should not be campaigning for other republican gubernatorial candidates as he has been doing for the last three months. There is a somewhat nuanced difference in that he is campaigning in states outside of his own jurisdiction. Assuming the NJ taxpayer is footing the bill (although I doubt it), that money is not going to influence NJ political races. I would be opposed if Christie campaigned for republican NJ state senate candidates as he is supposed to represent all New Jerseyans, dems and republicans. Regardless of this nuance, I think elected officials should not campaign for any other political races while in office. This should be the case even if they pay for it themselves and especially if they are using public monies.

But it hardly surprises me since BO at his core is a political ideologue, fierce partisan, and opportunist. He never intended to represent all Americans but only a certain segment of the population. His goal was to redistribute from one group to another that in his warped ideology has been oppressed. He always viewed the republican opposition, the wealthy, business people, non-union white people as the enemy. As he said this past week to a Hispanic group, "We're gonna punish our enemies". He's calling me the enemy? This is my president who represents me? All his campaign promises of post partisan politics and being a uniter not a divider were absolute, calculated lies.

His goal is not to elevate the entire country only to elevate one group versus the other. He is not the president of all Americans. He is certainly not my president. There is only one fact you have to know about this guy to understand where he lives. He has no problem calling his own constituents the enemy but cannot identify Islam as the source of world terrorism.