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"Isn’t this just a corker...The President of the United States and Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces couldn’t get a security clearance?

This brings forth the obvious question: How does one COMMAND the armed forces if one doesn't have the clearance to know what is going on?

IF he wins, and IF they make an exception and give him clearance to know all of our secrets...how long will it be before osama bin laden knows those secrets?

Remembering back to when I joined the Air Force 01/64, we had to answer pages of questions about our PAST and our ASSOCIATIONS before we even got IN the USAF, never mind learning any systems. I remember the John Birch society being on there, and the KKK, and many others.

So, if those ASSOCIATIONS would have prevented me from joining the USAF, how the hell can associations with Ayers, Wright, et al allow Hussein Obama to be President?

After being trained on the systems I worked on, and got a Secret clearance (not a TOP Secret, but a step below), I got letters from family and friends telling me about people coming around my home town asking about me and my past...I think they call it "vetting" now.

Now, if they were that careful then about a 18-year-old joining the military, they should be at least that careful now with worldwide terrorism in our midst.

I think this whole obama thing is coming unwrapped. People are shaking their heads and saying, "How the hell did we get to the point where someone obviously so DISqualified to be president, is this close to getting there?

Have we all gotten to the point where we think the Founding Fathers, the wars, and the sacrifices this nation has made was just a mini-series?

Has the slavery guilt-trip erased all of our pride as a nation. Many, many things - good things - have happened in this nation. The thousands of people who died for our freedoms endured the ultimate sacrifice, just as many slaves did. Those who perpertrated slavery were few in number and most did not mistreat them.

To hear the liberals talk, they would say that the only history we have is slavery. That is bull$h!+ and is used to guilt trip us all into another form of slavery...keeping the left in power. There aren't any cotton fields anymore, but the left are the modern day carpetbaggers and they still want 40-60% of our "pickings". It's ironic that our paper money contains 'cotton'.

A president without a security clearance...Mr. Ripley is turning over in his grave.

This brings forth the obvious question: How does one COMMAND the armed forces if one doesn't have the clearance to know what is going on?

The President is not subject to the background check rules. As the elected head of the Executive Branch, he has the legal power to obtain access to any document or information, no matter how highly classified. The vote of the American people (no matter how foolish) is the only background check required.

I don't know whether Obama would meet the requirements for a security clearance, but it's irrelevant- if he is elected President, he will have access to any and all information. President Bush does not have a security clearance, and neither did any President before him.

Which is as it should be- we the people select our President. The President needs to have access to all documents and government secrets, so any laws regarding security clearances simply do not apply to him.