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Monday, January 26, 2009
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Obama?
by Rich Galen
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It can take a "shovel-ready project" like a bridge something on the order of a year from the time the money is approved to the time the first shovel is actually needed.

It will take a mom with an extra $100 in her checking account about 20 minutes to drive to Target and start buying clothes for her kids.

That's a message almost everyone who does not work in Manhattan (and most who do) will understand.

On the Senate side, things are a little different. Republicans currently have 41 seats. If all Republicans stick together they can pretty much stall anything Harry Reid wants to bring to the floor.

The challenge for Senate Republicans is not to just stop a stimulus package - a 73% President will go on TV and blame the GOP for extending and deepening the recession. The job is to have a few non-negotiable items they want in the package and hold the 21% Senate up until they get it.

Whatever those few legislative initiatives are, they have to be easy to understand by people who don't live and/or work inside the Beltway and the individual Senators' offices have to be able to communicate to the folks in their states why they are important.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky) should pick a fight early and make certain that it is an issue which will allow Republican Whip John Kyl (Az) to hold the Republican Conference together so that Harry Reid can't get to the 60 votes he needs to break a filibuster.

The final chart on the RealClearPolitics.com page is "Direction of the Country." Only about 22 percent of Americans think the U.S. is on the right track.

A 21 percent Democrat-controlled Congress leading a 71 percent wrong-track country gives Republicans have a big, bright target to help Americans separate the Obama White House from the Pelosi/Reed Capitol.

That's how you solve a problem like Obama.

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Jan 28, 2009 - 2:59 EST
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Bottomline: The issue of Barack’s eligibility for POTUS candidacy let alone taking the Oath and serving as POTUS will be resolved only by Barack releasing subject to independent verification all records and documents proving his US citizenship, rather than his hiding the information at great expense including to deal with the, at last count I saw, dozen or so lawsuits originating in different states by different plaintiffs – one of them a Hillary Clinton supporter. That will be the only thing that puts the conflicting stories to rest, affirms or denies them, and for some people deals with the mysteries of the Kennedys – Caroline to replace Sen. Hillary after Hillary’s SecState confirmation. Some also wonder about Obama’s willingness to help Hillary pay off her campaign debts, his letting Hillary slide by the 60-something vetting questionnaire especially in regard to Bill’s acquisition of money from foreigners, including a preponderance of Muslim countries. Barack’s release of records on all these matters, including his campaign financing, will show his commitment to “transparency in government” and resolve all speculation. Then he can serve unencumbered by all this, gain much-needed credibility, prove he did not swear a false Oath (erroneously on Jan. 20) repeated later at the WH and possibly remove the US from jeopardy of anarchy, chaos and 3rd-world country status, and risk of all his actions as POTUS being illegal and voided. I hope he does and wish him all success.
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Date: Jan 28, 2009 - 2:56 EST
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That story appeared in the Advertiser a few days after Barack spent $40,000 in campaign funds to go alone except for aircrew and professional attendants, security via Barack One private jet to visit his dying white grandmother, interrupting his campaign to do so. Barack did not attend his white grandmother’s memorial service with her family members and friends after she died. News media reported he intended to attend a private memorial service at some later date.
He returned to Hawaii after the election, stayed with family and supporters, campaign workers and security in a luxury beachfront resort, was photographed shirtless at the beach, etc. No report has surfaced of his attending a private service for his white grandmother - the woman who took him in, raised him, sent him to exclusive private school while he did illegal drugs, met often with a Communist mentor – a black man some say may be his real father. Then Barack/Barry went off to Occidental College from where he visited Indonesia and Pakistan on his Indonesian passport with his Muslim buds from college and stayed in Muslim homes in Pakistan. The story goes on from there, much of it in the two auto-biographical books – Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope. Some say and Barack has never denied William Ayers wrote or edited those books for Barack. On p. 120 of the latter book, title taken from a Rev. Wright sermon where Barack says he sat for 20 years deaf, blind and dumb, never hearing a Wright Black Separatist rant, Barack explains his entire life up to that point as his “exotic background.” There are some other interesting quotes from both those books. (cont.)
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