Comrade Obama and the "Muslim Nation"

Could America really be shifting towards a socialist state?

Under Barack Obama's oversight, it just might be.

With the government's takeover of General Motors, we have now nationalized one of America's biggest car companies. Obama's government has slowly taken more control over the average American's daily life, from setting a standard for car emissions to deciding what kind of cars Americans will buy, and deciding what will be done with the American taxpayer's money in an astonishingly wasteful stimulus plan.

Here are just a few examples of the most egregious incidents of wasteful spending under the new stimulus package, as discussed by Sean Hannity (http://www.pddnet.com/news-ap-list-of-101-most-egregious-wastes-of-stimulus-mone-053009/) :

"Number 39 comes to us from the State of Mississippi where $475,000 will be spent on beaver management and control. Our own Griff Jenkins got to see this up close and to us it looks like a lot of fun with dynamite.

"Number 38 is a $3.8 million stimulus project for Rochester, New York. Now get this, it's to extend art walk, the city's outdoor museum and their sidewalk art trail.

"Nebraska checks in with number 36, $500,000 of your tax dollars will fund a 10 foot wide one mile wide concrete walking trail that will connect the Wilderness Park Trail and the Bob White Trail. Let's see, a half a million for a short cut?

"Number 35 might sting a little where $1.7 million of your tax dollars will go to researching honeybees at a lab in Weslaco, Texas. We all know that bees are important, but you know what, they've been around for let's say, millions of years. Maybe they can wait before we aren't running these huge deficits before they get more of our money.

"Number 34 really makes no sense at all. New Jersey getting $1.3 million in stimulus to stabilize a bridge that the town is planning to tear down anyway.

"Kansas takes the number 33 spot with $580,000 earmark for karnal bunt research. Yes, I said karnal bunt. It's a fungal disease on wheat which studies have shown poses zero health risk to humans or animals.

"And finally, number 30 takes us to the State of Washington, the Evergreen State will receive $47 million in stimulus money to deepen 103 miles of the Columbia River, making it 43 feet deep instead of 40 feet deep. Now, that sounds like a shovel-ready job."

Aside from these somewhat amusing, yet ridiculously wasteful, plans for *your* money, Obama referred to America as a "Muslim nation."

Um, what?

While there are certainly many Muslims in America who are active and beneficial members of society, the last time I checked, America was a predominantly Christian nation built upon Judeo-Christian values. When I say that, I do not mean to imply that Christianity is or should be the state religion of the United States. Even though our values are built upon a Judeo-Christian premisis, I am sure that the founding fathers did not want to exclude other religions but, rather, to ensure freedom for people of all faiths. However, I think it is both rash and childish to say that America is a "Muslim nation," especially when that remark comes from an individual who repeatedly downplayed his own Muslim heritage (calling his Muslim parents "atheists" and playing up his Christian identity) during the campaign and who has now become a "Muslim-American" once in office. For one thing, Obama's claim is just factually incorrect. It is estimated that the number of Muslims in the United States is between 3 and 5 million at most (http://www.islam101.com/history/population2_usa.html). Another poll says that the United States is 83% Christian (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/beliefnet_poll_010718.html). A Muslim nation, indeed, oh great leader.

In another disturbing comment related to our head of state, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela recently accused Obama of being more far-left politically than he is:

"'Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,' Reuters quotes Chavez joking on a national TV broadcast." (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525055,00.html)

I don't think I like where this is going.

Watch out, America. It's going to be a bumpy four years.