By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos

In Obamanopoly, players start out with money, a house, health insurance, a retirement plan and savings accounts.  Some have small businesses; others have farms and work for themselves.  Many are working at their career of choice.  Unfortunately, instead of watching their wealth grow, players watch it disappear.

Obamanopoly is a game of luck.  It’s also a game of war as players from the private sector fight to hold onto their assets while racing to reach the vault that contains Obama’s long-form birth certificate.  During play, Obama, Congress and the Department of Justice – a government of endless dishonesty and lacking fiscal responsibility – blankets the board with communism by taking one’s freedom and wealth and redistributing it about the board.

Players try to reach the birth certificate and hold-off the communist takeover.  They are taxed with each roll of the dice.  They can only hope that they don’t land on any community organization or union spaces.  If so, they have to draw a Community (Organizer) Chest card that forces more income redistribution.  Players pay their fines and taxes in “Obama Money.”

By the way, in Obamanopoly, as in the original game, we're dealing with phony money.  It's no effort to keep spending and printing it.  Why should the administration be nervous about asking Congress to raise the national debt ceiling?  It's just a game, right?

Tax increase spaces are liberally spread throughout the board.  There’s also a mandatory health care space and if players don’t or can’t pay, they go directly to jail.  The Cap and Trade, carbon footprint, and greenhouse gas spaces all take 40% of one’s wealth.  The Constitution is written in invisible ink and players soon learn that their money and property belong to the government.

Speaking of property, green and red houses and businesses (what other colors would these be in a game obsessed with green energy and communist takeover?) are ultimately stripped from the original owners and returned to Fannie and Freddie, who in turn deeds them back to the government.  Of course, a lucky few may draw an ACORN card from the Chance or Community (Organizer) Chest piles and keep their property for a few trips around the board.  Then non-fixed interest rates spike and it’s goodbye sweet home, goodbye.

So much for home.  What about work?  Whom do you work for?  Do you happen to own a business, large or small?  It doesn’t matter.  Sooner or later, like those business ownership cards one acquires upon purchase of a property in the original Monopoly, someone else will own them.  In this case, it's the government as Obama & Co. swallow the little guy and takeover big business, moving all players ever closer to socialism.

Of course, if you’re anxious to get there and put yourself out of the misery, hop a ride aboard one of the vehicles slapped together by the bailed out government car dealers that have replaced the original Monopoly’s railroads.

Naturally, the rules of Obamanopoly include amnesty for illegal aliens and rights for all terrorists.  In fact, at all times during the game, one is under threat of a nuclear or terrorist attack.  Because the game is set in a nation governed by a utopian dreamer, there is no recourse for one of these hits except to close the board and accept defeat for all.

Oh, and the game instructions are transparent.  Are you ready to Advance to Go?

Then how about a stay in jail?  As in the original game, there's a detainment center – but no one deserving stays there.  Terrorists, traitors and chiselers are let loose in Bermuda and other exotic locales.

Who gets stuck in the clink?  Who doesn't get to pass go and collect 200 dollars?  You know whom because you’re trapped in the game with the rest of us.

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 Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” – Barack Obama

We the People are Under Attack 

Obama’s infusion of socialism is destroying American liberty. His totalitarian regime tactics fly in the face of our Constitution, Declaration of Independence and free-enterprise system.  Obama took an oath to defend the principles of liberty on which America was founded.  Yet, during his first six months in office he has fed the American people a steady diet of anti-Americanism.  Those who speak against Obama’s agenda are targeted, intimidated, demonized and harassed by the press, the DNC and pro-Obama groups such as ACORN and SEIU (groups which Obama funds with taxpayer dollars).  Such attempts to silence free speech are about control, as is socialism.  Obama and his Democratzi's are recruiting the "brown shirts" of America and quashing any opposition.   

First, those who opposed Obama’s agenda were called racists.  Then, in an effort to prevent constituents and activists from attending and voicing their concerns at town-hall meetings, Democrats filled the halls with members of ACORN and union groups. They AstroTurf, yet Obama's Democratzis accuse tea party participants of such tactics.  Some citizens have been turned away from town-hall meetings, and thugs wearing SEIU shirts have attacked others.  Michelle Malkin reports that the DNC is now decrying “mob rule,” and “lefty bloggers are comparing grass-roots conservatives to Holocaust deniers” (<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/this-is-what-mob-rule-looks-like/>. Aug. 4, 2009).  House Speaker Pelosi accused citizens of carrying images of swastikas outside town-hall meetings.

Obama has encouraged citizens to get in the face of the opposition. He established an Internet snitch brigade last week: a White House-run website for neighbors to report any persons that espouse “fishy” information or opposition to Obama’s health care/insurance reform plan.  These bully tactics by Obama and Democrats are designed to muzzle the American people (Hannity, Fox News, Aug. 7, 2009).  

We the People Want the Same Care that Politicians Get 

Obama has lied to the American people about transparency and accountability.  There is none in his White House.  He’s circumvented the vetting process and appointed 30+ czars. At least two of those czars have criminal records.  And The One hides the White House’s guest list from the public.

Obama’s teleprompter promises regarding health care don’t match what’s written in the bill.  The health care bill targets our elderly; rations care for patients (the government will decide who gets what drugs and services) and assures health coverage for 12 million illegal aliens.  It taxes both businesses and employees, and in effect forces individuals to accept a government run health care plan.  There’s no way out of it because under Obama’s plan, citizens and businesses will be fined for not having government-run health care.  At the same time, Obama and all members of Congress will continue to have a choice when it comes to health care. Why doesn’t this crowd want what they’re voting on for We the People?

A frightening aristocratic attitude permeates our country these days. But what’s scarier is that it doesn’t stop at creating factions of haves and have-nots. Obama is assuring that the have-nots will remain without, thanks to a socialistic and increasingly threatening culture.

Don’t Tread on America

Obama has spent us trillions of dollars into debt, and power grabbed our banks, insurance companies and the automobile industry.  He’s filled his cabinet with tax cheats, cronies and czars, and has flown over the pond to bow to kings, declare his Muslim heritage, and visit with former KGB.  He’s sided with dictators Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Ortega and the Castro Brothers rather than support the people of Iran, who are still fighting to get out from under a brutal regime, or the people in Honduras who overthrew a corrupt leader that was trying to negate their Constitution.  Obama has virtually given away blueprints of our warplanes to communist China, revealed our interrogation practices for terrorists to terrorists, and given millions of taxpayer dollars to fund the extremist group Hamas. 

But that’s just for starters. Recall that he’s also gutting our defense budget, pushing to control every area of our lives through health care/insurance reform - another power grab - and plans to tax all energy consumption through Cap and Trade, which equates to the largest tax in American history.

Our nation’s history, currency, health care and energy systems, its courts and capitalism, the individual and Amendment Rights are all under attack.  Obama and his thugs are using totalitarian regime tactics to silence any informed electorate or concerned citizens that oppose his unapologetic move from liberty to socialism.  Obama and his practices are most definitely not “change we can believe in.” 

Concerned Americans need “to fight for everything that is good and true in America” (Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain).  For the sake of our children, grandchildren and the rights of individualism, we need to stop those who are hostile to liberty.

In spite of the current power structure’s push for socialism and the brainwashed thugs who aren’t opposed to using bully tactics to keep the current administration in power, we need to fight back with our voices and votes. It’s the only way to preserve the great country that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and all the Founding Fathers worked hard to forge.  If we keep out of this fight, Obama will kill America.