It’s been over two months since General McChrystal, our top commander in Afghanistan, put out the call for more troops.  President Barack Hussein Obama continues to hem and haw and hold endless meetings to discuss the issue.  Maybe he’s too busy having parties with J-Lo and friends, compiling his enemies list, pushing healthcare, playing B ball and campaigning for fellow Dems to worry about such trivialities as warfare.  Meanwhile, things get worse abroad and more of our soldiers are paying the highest of price for an indecisive commander-in-chief.

Obama’s stalling is a perfect example of his methodology: vacillate and ignore a problem or fixate on discussion rather than action.  It’s inertia vs. movement.

President George W. Bush was all about action and movement.  People denigrated his cowboy diplomacy but he acted in the best interests of his country and those at risk.

Obama is standing still. He’s acting as if he were posing for an oil painting while America suffers.  He seems more interested in his celebrity status than the people he was elected to govern and protect.

When we do see Obama move, it’s to advance his personal legacy.  Consider that he still claims to have put an end to torture in the context of military interrogations when we never advocated it.  Consider that he continues to work to close Gitmo and bring terrorists to American soil.  (The Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens are under attack on a daily basis with Obama and his Marxist and Mao-loving camp, even as known terrorists will be given constitutional rights and tried in American courts.  OK imagines that so much of the information that could convict the terrorists will need to be omitted during their trials due to national security.  In other words, it's hard to feel confident that justice will be served.)

And Obama promises to make Cap and Trade a reality.  This on the heels of growing evidence that Al Gore's global warming is a hoax (and a profitable one that’s made the ex-vice president rich in spite of thousands of scientists who counter the issue and want to debate Gore on the issue; he refuses. He even had a reporter’s microphone cut when the questions concerning discrepancies in An Inconvenient Truth grew too warm and inconvenient).

Moreover, Obama promises to make national healthcare come to pass.  This is yet another power grab designed to dismantle the greatest healthcare system in the world.

In other words, when it comes to radically changing our country – for the worse – Obama hops to the task with a lilt in his step.  But when it comes to directing necessary attention to foreign policy and winning a war, he checks out.

How’s this for cowboy diplomacy:  “the strategic nuclear power of the United States has been so greatly modernized and expanded in the last 1,000 days, by the rapid production and deployment of the most modern missile systems, that any and all potential aggressors are clearly confronted now with the impossibility of strategic victory – and the certainty of total destruction – if by reckless attack they should ever force upon us the necessity of a strategic reply.”

Who spoke those words?  No one, actually – but President John Fitzgerald Kennedy would have, if he had lived long enough to make it to the Dallas Trade Mart the afternoon he was assassinated.  The differences between John Kennedy and Barack Obama – between being a Democrat in the Kennedy era and being a Democrat in the 21^st century – are profound.  JFK spoke often of peace in the world, but he understood the price that had to be paid in order to attain it.  His administration engaged in numerous clandestine activities designed to ensure America’s freedom and safety.  Obama’s vision of a pacifist world, on the other hand, is pure fantasy - a utopian dream.  Ultimately, it’s about ignoring a problem and hoping it goes away, rather than acting to fix it.

Obama’s M.O. also involves using the lamestream media to set up smokescreens and divert attention from a lack of decision on Afghanistan and our country’s most pressing issues.  We hear more about balloon boy hoaxes than about energy bills that will kill our already depleted bank accounts. We hear about Obama’s vow to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the military while our soldiers are imperiled abroad.  We hear about how baaaaaaaad FOX News is, how Obama will not grant it any interviews until at least 2010 and how it isn’t a true news facility.  The latter from Obama advisor David Axelrod, who also told ABC that FOX is undeserving of being treated as a true news organization: “the bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we're not going to treat them that way” (Ann Sanner, “White House Continues Attack on Fox News,” October 19, 2009, http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/october/1019_wh_fox.shtml).

Here’s another line from John Kennedy’s undelivered speech:  “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”

Thankfully, more and more Americans – including many Obama supporters – are getting tired of the endless wordplay. They’re growing exasperated with the stalling and smoke and mirrors.  They comprehend that Obama is more about inaction than action.  The president’s approval rating has hit a new low. Obama's loyalties or lack thereof are drawing attention. Fewer are laughing when the birthers cry out that being a Natural Born Citizen is an important issue for U.S. presidents.  More Americans are questioning why Obama didn't embrace his Muslim root system until after he was elected.

By Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge

President Obama’s Gatesgate was such a tempest that it de-railed most other Obama news, including healthcare issues. There’s one exception: the “birthers” – those who insist that Obama needs to show America his birth certificate – weren’t silenced during Gatesgate. They claim Obama violated Article II, Section I of the Constitution, which states that “No person except a natural born Citizen” can become a U.S. president.

Now Congressman Bill Posey (FL.) has put together a bill (H.R. 1503) that will “require the principle campaign committee of a candidate for the office of President to include with the committee’s statement of organization a copy of the candidate’s birth certificate, together with other such documentation as may be necessary to establish the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution.”

Let’s see if the bill passes. If it does, it may require Obama to produce an authentic and official birth certificate by 2012 and his re-election campaign.  No more blurry pixilated web versions, thanks.  Let’s see the real thing.

OK has steered clear of the birth certificate circus because so much has been said, shouted and written about it.  But the recent Gatesgate fiasco compels us to comment because we see a strong connection between that incident and the Obama birth certificate mystery.  That connection is firmly rooted in racism – or more specifically, fears of being labeled a racist.

For months, birthers have been clamoring for Obama, his administration, the state of Hawaii – anyone – to produce his original, long-form birth certificate. Andrew McCarthy’s July 30th article in National Review summarizes the controversy surrounding the version of the live birth form that Obama and camp posted on their “Fight the Smears” website. (The website was recently removed from the Web. And Atlas Shrugs also reports that all of Obama’s birth documents have been scrubbed from the Internet. See: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/obama-scrubs-the-web-of-all-birth-docs.html, July 11, 2009.) McCarthy writes,

The information in the certification may be identical as far as it goes to what’s in the complete state records, but there are evidently many more details in the state records than are set forth in the certification. Contrary to the editors’ description, those who want to see the full state record — the certificate or the so-called "vault copy" — are not on a wild-goose chase for a “secondary document cloaked in darkness.” That confuses their motives (which vary) with what they’ve actually requested (which is entirely reasonable). Regardless of why people may want to see the vault copy, what’s been requested is a primary document that is materially more detailed than what Obama has thus far provided. (Andrew C. McCarthy, “Suborned in the U.S.A. – The BC Controversy is About Obama’s Honesty, Not Where He Was Born.” National Review, July 30, 2009.)

The birthers are ambitious and tenacious. Some of their cases have made it to and been filed with The Supreme Court. All have been dismissed. And those which haven’t made it to ‘the highest court in the land’ have been subject to Attorney General Eric Holder and his staff’s interference.

Bottom line: Obama hasn’t produced his long-form birth certificate. It hasn’t happened. And the longer it doesn’t happen, the more rings are added to this circus. The very hospital where Obama’s mom gave birth is now in question.  And both Africa and Indonesia are claiming the president as their native son.

This issue could have been resolved during the last presidential campaign if the McCain camp had the – um, gumption – to challenge Obama on the birth certificate and citizenship issue.  Instead, Citizen Polite decided to steer clear of that territory.  He even muzzled his workers from referring to his opponent by his middle name for fear that calling him Barack “HUSSEIN” Obama might anger American Muslims.  (How convenient that Obama sidestepped that minefield until Inauguration Day, when he asked to be sworn in using his full name.)

Obama’s middle name isn’t an issue these days.  However, his long-form birth certificate remains one.  OK believes that fear of being labeled racists kept Obama’s presidential opponents from pursuing the matter.  And the same fear – combined with an Obama-enchanted media and public that steer clear of any question marks about The One – continues to keep the birth certificate question from being fully investigated.

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly claims to have seen it. So does Hawaii, a state set to receive top stimulus funding. And yet, so does Obama’s paternal grandmother, who claims he was born in Kenya.

Consider how quickly and extensively the media can dig for facts when doing so means bolstering their chosen candidate.  Within hours after asking Obama an innocent question that led the future prez to declare his objective was to “spread the wealth,” America knew way too much about Joe the Plumber.  Within hours of Gatesgate, the media dug into Sgt. Crowley’s past.  Unfortunately, they found no dirt to dish there and their sleuthing backfired.  (Indeed, if anyone related to Gatesgate could be labeled racist, it’s the racism crier himself.  Gates frequently brings up his blackness in his speeches and writings and is on record for copping an attitude during a previous encounter when he was pulled over for speeding.)

White Politicians must have feared that raising the Obama birth certificate issue would have led to charges they were trying to keep a black man from becoming president of the United States.  As a result, only a few American citizens continue to make noise about the birth certificate.  Their reward?  The meanstream media has labeled them a loony fringe:  wacky, tunneled-visioned, racist, tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy buffs.

Yet the birthers won’t go away.  They’re persistent.  So much so, in fact, that conservatives and the meanstream media alike are finally taking up their cry.  Of late, Rush Limbaugh has done a wonderful job poking subtle digs at the prez by way of the birth certificate issue.  And even CNN’s Lou Dobbs has grown relentless about the topic, so much so that he was recently ordered by the president of CNN to cut the birth certificate talk.

OK has four simple questions about the birth certificate issue: 

If Obama has absolutely nothing to hide about his birth, why wouldn’t he assign a team of investigators to dig and once and for all find the original birth certificate, or incontrovertible proof that it was destroyed?

If Obama has nothing to hide about his birth, why did the Army cancel Maj. Stefan Frederick’s July 16 Afghanistan deployment orders when Frederick threatened to defy the orders since they came from a president who hadn’t proven he was eligible to be president? Rather than a court martial, Maj. Frederick got a free pass. 

If Obama has nothing to hide, why has his administration spent over a million dollars fighting birth certificate lawsuits? 

And why did Obama sign an order to have all his records sealed during his first day in office? 

The birth certificate issue may just have some teeth to it – but it became an issue in the first place because people were terrified of being labeled racist and never challenged candidate Obama to produce hard evidence that he was a natural born citizen.  In this respect, racism is a subject that firmly links the president’s birth mystery to Gatesgate.