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Responsibility, Obama Style

Team Obama preaches high standards,
but fails miserably as a role model.

> > Obamas in Chicago on a Valentine's Day shopping spree after Barack Obama ordered lawmakers to work overtime on his bailout bill for the wealthy.

It's been nearly six months since America's dad basher in chief was inaugurated. When he took the oath of office those few short months ago, Obama called on all Americans to make sacrifices and to be more "responsible" -- a word whose meaning has consistently been twisted to abuse divorced dads and non-custodial parents by holding them to unrealistic standards.

In these difficult financial times, many divorced dads and non-custodial parents have been arrested for failure to make child support payments, sometimes for arrearages as low as $50 and in total disregard for the employment status of the non-custodial parent. These policies are carried out to "teach lessons" to non-custodial parents, to make them -- as the President says -- more "responsible".

Well, let us look at what responsibility means when we apply this term to our lawmakers and to our chief executive.

For starters, Barack Obama and his handlers saw fit to throw themselves an inaugural gala to the tune of $170 million dollars while many Americans were losing their jobs and their homes, watching their retirement funds vaporize, and witnessing the financial collapse of their cities and states (see the ABC News Story, "What Recession? The $170 Million Inaugural"). The sum dwarfed an earlier, much criticized $40 million inaugural ball by former President Bush, but despite the hardships being endured by many other Americans, Obama and the rest of our nation's leaders saw fit to party hard.

"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship."

-- Excerpt from Obama's Inaugural Address.

Always striving to be a good role model, Obama's first decisions as President of the United States was to appoint a number of cabinet members and advisors that had considerable troubling paying their taxes. In fact, many were in arrears of as much as $100,000 in back taxes. Unlike many divorced dads who've spent time in prison for being unemployed, these individuals were high office holders such as former U.S. Senator, Tom Daschle.

Obama's Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, and her husband, were also behind on their taxes. As was Ron Kirk, former mayor of Dallas, and Nancy Killefer. But the appointee who really took the cake was Timothy Geithner, an ex-Wall Street big wig who Obama chose to run the treasury Department.

Geithner, despite vast resources, failed to pay two years worth of self-employment taxes and took deductions he should not have taken. Amazingly, Geithner was confirmed by Congress to become our new Secretary of the Treasury, and as such, he is now the head of our nation's all-powerful tax collection agency, the I.R.S. In addition to this, Geithner is in charge of doling out hundreds of billions of bailout dollars to his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street, like the failed insurance firm, A.I.G..

Patriot Obama also showed average Americans just how willing he is to sacrifice by sending kids to one of the most exclusive private schools in the country (see article at CNS News). Then on May 9th of this year, Obama ended new enrollments in a voucher program which would have allowed average DC area parents to send their children to private schools too (see the Washington Post article).

And when Obama wasn't slapping the people who voted for him in the face, he was scaring them out of their wits by buzzing their cities with an ariel stunt similar to the 9/11 attacks, all for a photo op (see the article in Newbusters and this terrifying YouTube footage of Obama-induced panic on the streets of New York City).

But when it comes to planes, Obama just can't help himself. In celebration of Earth Day, he burned up over 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to make personal appearances across the country (see the coverage on CBS News). And he has even used Air Force One to go on -- ahem -- "date nights" with his wife (see coverage on FOX News).

In February, when Obama ordered legislators to work round the clock to speedily pass his stimulus bill, he took his wife on a Valentine's spending spree in Chicago, using government financed transport.

More recently, Obama then used government funds to fly with his wife to New York City and take in a Broadway show.

Both of these romantic escapades cost cash-strapped American cities millions to provide Obama with security (which is already well-provided for him in Washington D.C.). Obama's White House refuses to state the cost of all this, but some bloggers estimate that the travel expenses alone for these date nights could be anywhere from $57,000 to $250,0000!

Ironically, it is Obama's wife who is proving that Obama's message of sacrifice and responsibility is not getting across ... a least not to her. First Lady Michelle recently organized a family trip to Paris on the taxpayers' tab (see article in the Boston Globe). And when it comes to shoes, she's got nothing on Imelda Marcos. The First Lady recently showed off a new pair of designer sneakers valued at $540 -- now how's that for wagging your finger, er ... feet, in the face of the poor.

Welcome America to sacrifice and responsibility!

Now all you divorced dads and NCPs, get out there and start slaving to pay those support orders. It doesn't matter whether your ex has cut off visitation or moved your child to a foreign land. Nor does it matter of you're unemployed or disabled. Pay your bills! Scrimp and save! And work three jobs if you have to!

Because this is the era of "do as I say", not "do as I do".

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