The White House has released President Obama's long-form birth certificate, saying the document is "proof positive" the president was born in Hawaii.
The release marked an unexpected turn in the long-simmering, though widely discredited, controversy over Obama's origin. Obama's advisers have for the better part of three years dismissed questions about the president's birth, directing skeptics to the short-term document released during the 2008 campaign. But as the issue gained more attention at the state level and particularly in the 2012 presidential race, Obama said Wednesday that it was starting to distract attention from pressing challenges like the budget.
President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address
Tonight President Barack Obama will lay out his agenda for the next two years leading up to the next presidential election in 2012.
The big question around the nation is did our President listen to the public and change his direction of massive Government control? Or has he simply changed the words to describe the same thing?
Does investment simply mean spending on a program a person approves of?
Listen carefully tonight for a clear and decisive message. If we hear double talk and clever ambiguous analogies for the future we know we are in for more of the same.
We are still in Iraq - What is the exist strategy?
Iran is looking for trouble and could gain nuclear weapons. Why are we letting them do this?
We are still at war in Afganastan and losing. What is his plan over the next 2 years?
We still have detainees at Gitmo, this was the source of all the trouble according to Senator Obama, why is it still open, what is the status, what will happen now?
We are in a war against terrorists who wish to attack America and Americans, what is DHS and the TSA doing about profiling?
Our borders have become a war zone.Will the President explain why his administation has not only ignored the pleas of the people but actually has sued them from trying to solve the issue on their own.
Obama Care as proved to be NOTHING that was promised. The people have spoken and do not want a massive Government run health care system. How does he plan on accepting the will of the people?
Will he ignore these issues that have never been solved in the first two years? Will we get a high and mighty speech on "Hope" for better job numbers and economic change if we just "invest" (Spend) to do so?
After you watch and consume this speech ask yourself was it about truly communicating an honest assessment of where we are at and what we need to do as a nation to move forward? Or was it simply a posititioning statement setting up his Presidential bid for 2012?
The Obama Administration hands out HealthCare waivers to 111 companies representing over 1.2 million employees. See the list of companies that received ObamaCare wiavers.
Promises: Barack Obama "I will reduce your annual premiums by an average of $2,500."
We were given huge "promises" of Affordable Health Care by Barack Obama as well as Democrat Senators and Congressmen.
Americans want access to affordable insurance and to correct problems with lack of competition, tort reform, pre-existing conditions, and lack of insurance portability to name a few. However, when dealing with such a sensative part of each of our lives Americans need to have access to, and time to understand the details of the proposed changes. We have been promised this access and time for the past 2 years, unfortunately, it has never happened. The law to pass health insurance reform was passed without a public vote, but instead using a legal proceedure to circumvent the vote and pass the legislation without each member of congress voting, Yes or No.
We all want changes to improve our health insurance and resulting care, but we all want to do this in a transparent and clear fashion that the majority of this country agrees with AND is constitutional.
Health Insurance Premiums are now increasing at nearly 30% per quarter and the full impact of this Health Care "reform" has not even hit.
Guitanimo Prison has not been closed.
For nearly two years Senator Barak Obama promised to close Guitmo and end this source of anger around the world. There is no conservative stopping him, yet this promise has gone un-kept. Why? What did he learn that he has changed his mind? The left vigrously protested and ridiculed Bush for having this prison open. Now 2 years have passed, little has changed, yet all the protesting and angst is gone?
We are still in Iraq and completing the Bush plan as he laid out back in 2004.
George Bush's plan for Iraq was a slow draw down only after Iraq had successfully established a "constitution" of sorts, elected leaders and had established an effective military. Clearly, this is a simplified summary, GW refused to put an exact timeline on this however suggested we could be there for 8-10 years to achieve this goal. Its coming up on 8 years and this is exactly where we are at. Slowly leaving Iraq. We applaud Barrack for following the Bush plan, but wonder why he didn't simply tell his followers this was the right way to go?
We escalated the War in Afghanistan with no resolve, little funding and no success.
Unemployment nearly 15% in many states.
Unemployment has increased to nearly 10%. Without the Census jobs and other Government positions created internally the national unemployment rate could be far higher. Many States are above 15%, and this is a very conservative estimate.
There has been no progress on Gay Marriage.
There has been absolutely no progress on Immigration, it has only become worse and more divisive.
Nuclear Enemies
Iran is receiving Nuclear equipment and resources from Russia.
Venezuela and Hugo Chavez are receiving Nuclear equipment and resources from Russia.
Green Jobs, Green Technology
Obama focused all his time and money funding Union based companies to invest in green technologies.
Meanwhile:
China purchased the mineral rights to 89% of the worlds resources for creating "Green movement" components such as solar panels and batteries. How can we control the Green Technology movement when China now owns our debt, and all of the materials needed to build out the Green Technology? We are at their mercy.
