It will be a huge disappointment and mistake if Mubarak steps down. I am quite sure that, while Obama publicly take a stand-back approach on this issue, that there is a lot more going on behind it that Obama can be responsible for than we will ever really know.

As much as what is taking place in Egypt is described as the Egyptian people wanting their freedom, it is not what it is really about, and I believe the Egyptian people will regret having taken to the streets to fight for this. In fact, despite the numbers that have, I am willing to bet there are far more people worried about what is taking place in their country. They can see the writing on the wall.

This administration is playing down the power of the Muslim Brotherhood--under-estimating it intentionally while Obama himself is secretly angling for them to get into power. It fits with his agenda and what he is really about.

If what Obama, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gibbs and others in the administration seem to be contradicting themselves, it is not because they were caught by surprise by what was taking place there. I think they helped to make it happen. The lack of cohesion in the administration regarding this issue I think indicates to me that it was not so much surprise at what had taken place, but more that each was trying to cover something up in some way.

And part of the reason this might be happening right now is to divert attention away from the decision about the health care bill. It is what Obama seems to do at times like this. He creates another “crisis”.

America needs to keep up with what is going on with this president. We cannot always be put on the defensive about these things; reacting to the things he is doing. We need to see Obama as he is--one who is out to “fundamentally change this nation“. The problem with Obama, however, is that he does not do it from heart that looks to make things better for all. He takes from the rich to give to the poor.

That may have sounded very noble when Robin Hood did it, but Obama has shown me how wrong it is, and I will never look at Robin Hood in the same way because of it. What Obama is looking to do is to level the playing field. Doing that does not bring out the best in people. Obama may speak of Americans doing great things, but just as his policies are job-killers, his ideology, likewise, will end up killing the Spirit of America.

We saw how Obama acted trying to get his health care bill through. Now he is acting much more smoothly, and he can because he has gotten the hardest things out of the way. Obama will eventually get the economy moving again, and people will respond to him because of it.

People who have been hardest hit by this financial crisis will be relieved when things get moving again. But we must not be so fickle as to believe it is because Obama has succeeded in pulling us out of what he would have us believe was some horribly difficult situation.

Get people working on finding out what really took place, and what this administration has really been doing, and I am quite sure you will find that all this has been purely MANUFACTURED for great and wonderful changes Obama wants to make. But it will not be for the betterment of the United States. What Obama is doing is making things look good on the surface, while all the maneuvering takes place underneath to bring about something we really will not be happy with--especially if he succeeds in bringing sharia law to America.

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Wm. Scott Francis

The whole reason Clarence Thomas is being targeted right now is just because of the health care bill. Obama has to do something with the Supreme Court to turn the tables in his favor to keep from losing it.

This bill CANNOT be allowed to slowly make its way up the appeal process. That is one thing Obama wants. He wants to stall it until he can somehow change things in his favor. The tea party movement needs to take advantage of the ability to fast forward this bill to the Supreme Court before that Obama can do that, and they MUST do it will all fervor to accomplish it.

We have to realize that the health care bill is THE most important thing to Obama, and because of that, Obama will do all and everything he can to keep it from being repealed, In the case of Clarence Thomas, if he will cause him trouble or somehow intimidate him enough to get him to resign or retire early. If not him, it will be some other judge. Then he will put a judge in that will be more favorable to his views and say the bill IS constitutional.

Conservatives have to hit this bill on MANY sides to get it repealed. Any bill that is as large and comprehensive as the health care bill is too long. It allows for too much manipulation to make it fit what unscrupulous people would want.

The Republican leadership cannot play politics with the health care bill. Obama cannot be allowed to talk Boehner and Cantor into finding just some “middle ground” and modifying only parts of the bill. This bill is FAR too massive with legalese to be kept around as is. The legalese will be used by Obama and the Democrats to use it any old way they want. It needs to be kicked off the shelf and redone with a KISS--just Keep It Simple, Stupid!

There is NO reason for our health care system to be reformed in a single, comprehensive bill. Break it up into smaller parts, and start from the bottom and work up to fix our existing health care system that is the world’s best…and show the world how it can be even better.

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Wm. Scott Francis

I hear all this talk about reducing the deficit, and that means finding ways to cut the budget. But what I do not hear ALONG WITH it is the URGENCY in which we have to create jobs in this country because without doing that, we will not have the revenue coming in either that will help in reducing the deficit.

As well, all the talk about reducing the deficit is about cost-cutting. The Obama administration has spent trillions. But on what, exactly? Bail-outs? What really happens to the money when we “bail-out” a corporation? How much has been paid back? Will it be paid back? If the stock market is doing so well, the corporations first priority is paying that money back to Americans who are suffering.

People lost their jobs supposedly because of what they were doing. Obama just told the Chamber of Commerce how corporations should be “spreading the wealth around” (while telling Bill O’Reilly that he was not about doing that sort of thing). I do believe corporations can always do more of that, but it IS up to them. It should not be legislated, and they should not be forced to do it. You then have to decide how much is to much. And who is to decide that?

Jesus saw no problem with a man who hired laborers for his vineyard and paid them a penny a day, even though the man paid the same amount to laborers he hired early in the day and other that only worked an hour at the end of the day. It was his right to do so. “Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?” Christ saw no problem with a man doing what he wanted with his money.

What Obama wants to do in spreading the wealth may be appealing to those who have not, but legislating it is not the way to go. Any such spreading of the wealth needs to be done voluntarily, and many have given much quite freely. Americans have always given freely, but what I learned about giving, however, is that it is not enough to just give from your abundance. That is easy to do. Giving out of the little you have is what much more difficult.

Sharing the wealth is not something that should be legislated. It is something that should be fostered. That is why we have charitable donations in the tax code--to help do that. But I believe Obama has removed that as a taxable deduction. That is where Obama is really missing the mark. He looks to legislate everything to death.

If you take the good out of “goodwill“, a person is only left with what they “will” do…

This president has only given lip-service to his creating jobs, and is using propaganda to convince people that the economy is doing better. He points to activity in the stock market, but that is only artificial. It goes back to Obama saying this will be a “jobless recovery”.

No one has every gotten this president to explain what that means, and why it should even be that way. If Obama WANTED to create jobs, he could have done so very easily.

Lower the corporate tax rates so it is among the lowest in the world and corporations that have gone overseas will come racing back. Scrap the health care bill and do it right, stop heaping other job killing policies--like the 1099 rules on small business, and the economy will come ROARING back to life.

Obama has taken every opportunity to tell us about Bush’s failed policies. Obama’s policies are far, far worse. Not only do they not work, he will do a great job trying to make people believe that they are.

Are you any better off today than you were before Wall St. fell? Do you see a job market that is has more jobs than people to fill them yet? If not, how can you believe in what this man tells you?

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Wm. Scott Francis