YOU! Give me your guns and much of your money. NOW. I must fund and supply my civilian police force!!

I understand that his references to the police force (that’s what I’ll call it for conversation’s sake) have been in other contexts, but you can’t just say that something was taken out of context or could’ve been meant as something else when it leaves the door open for something so important as a plan to begin a separate police force that would be run by the President in whole or in majority. That’s a huge thing and I don’t feel like it’s something that should be left open like that, given the gravity of those comments.

I agree completely with the idea of spending money to “nicen-up” our country and others instead of spending it on wars, political objectives, etc etc. I just don’t think that further strengthening our government’s power over the people is going to help that. I think we should stop giving money to countries that hate us and we should begin to give it to countries that need it and like us or we should just keep our own damn money like so many other well-respected countries!

Thanks DasMaus…was trying to think of a way to express how I feel he is being viewed by the ignorants of this country who have bought into his pretty smile and nice suits almost as a religion. As a side note, those that happen to believe in everything he says because they’ve listened and given good, honest, educated thought to him are not in that group – I don’t want anyone to think that I’m calling all or even most of Obama’s constituents ignorant.

@DasMaus: Yeah, I can’t say that I think you’re wrong about that – I believe that if the public at large actually informed themselves (or were able to inform themselves, as a lot of good stuff is made up and a lot of bad stuff is covered up), there would be a drastically different political atmosphere & makeup nowadays. I wish there was a 1-year buffer for the presidency in that we elected a guy and if he didn’t show promise after 365 days, he was out and we held another election. Four years is a long time to elect a guy for just because he’s black or because he’s the next Republican to vote for.