Obama’s lack of experience showing

There were many who felt Barack Obama wasn’t qualified to be president of the United States. You can include our current vice president and secretary of state among those who felt this. As a resident of Illinois who aside from one speech at a Democrat Convention knew of not one accomplishment attributed to Barack Obama, I too had many doubts regarding his experience.

A carefully crafted marketing campaign helped by an over-the-top cooperative portion of the media and a weak Republican opponent, and America elected the junior senator from the extremely corrupt state of Illinois to be our president based on no real history or record.

Now we are past the halfway point of his term and I would have to say our country is in about the worst shape I can recall in my lifetime. The president tries to offload responsibility for many things on Congress or this committee or that council, and he has blamed problems on past administrations, Europe and Japan, but after more than two and half years our current status has his name on it.

A record has now been established and a style is now evident. The record is bad on every front, the economy, national security, foreign policy and overall administration accountability are all in shambles. Regarding style I would say that creating class warfare may have been a useful tool as a community organizer, but I am not sure I see the benefit for anyone when it comes to running the country.

A record is established and if we re-elect Obama in 2012 I foresee an unrecognizable country emerging. Imagine an entire country based on the business plan of Illinois.

Marc Thomsen

Elk Grove Village