Obama was a low-level editor in Reference Services, working on reports describing economic conditions in various foreign countries. By all accounts, he disliked the work, not just because it was pedestrian and boring, but because it was in business. "He calls it working for the enemy," Obama's mother, Ann, wrote after a phone conversation with her son, "because some of the reports are written for commercial firms that want to invest in [Third World] countries." Writing to a former girlfriend, Maraniss says, Obama also "expressed a distaste for the corporate world." And in his engaging but unreliable memoir "Dreams from My Father," Obama described his time at Business International this way: "Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office." . . .
Did the people of the United States really elect Obama man as President?
He’s such an anethema to the American belief system and I include the ‘liberal belief’ sytem in that description. I rarely agreed with President Clinton (and the Lewinski thing was just a complete embarrassment) but, on some level I understood Clinton’s connection to the voters. President Obama, on the other hand, doesn’t even strike me as someone who’s comfortable with the belief system of 80% of the country. Most of us believe in free market capitalism and feel success should be financially rewarded. Obama seems to think the system owes everyone something.
To take this even further it seems as if Obama is trying to divide the country not between left and right political philosophies (which is always a healthy divide I think) but, between white people and non-white people. This would be dissastrous as our political battles would then turn from ‘how’ to best run the country into simply ‘who’ should run the country...regardless of philosophy....kind of like the so called democracy the Sunni’s and Shiites have put togeher in Iraq.
Romney is not always the most comfortable speech-giver and some of his ideas are flawed and probably political but, at least I feel like he (and Ryan) has the best interest of America at his core. Obama just seems to have a big angry chip on his shoulder.