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Contributed by Sam Minervino 2009-02-04

Portland — It is hard not to be proud of president Obama. He has been president almost a month, inaugurated in an unprecedented ceremony funded by an orgy of spending that sent shivers up more liberal legs than an arctic blast in a nudist colony. Hard decisions were made right out of the starting gate by our new president. Let’s review the first few weeks;

Obama, within hours of being nominated, signs an executive order that might someday, perhaps in the future look into the necessity of maybe setting up a panel that could possibly review, at some time the option of the idea that it might be necessary if possible to perhaps move or maybe even, if deemed realistic in some respects, to close, if it is theoretically considered as an option, Gitmo.

Obama goes public that he is considering the possibility of perhaps singing another executive order that may, in the future, if deemed necessary, and after further discussions with experts in the arena of expertise in the topic of off-shore drilling and with future considerations concerning out-lying effects of the options presented to him by the aforementioned experts, that it may be prudent in some way to consider the option of banning in the future at some time, to be scheduled at some point, off-shore drilling.

Obama nominates Timothy Geitner to be Treasury Secretary who is subsequently approved by the democrat led senate 60-34. He will be head of the IRS but is despite the fact “he had failed to pay more than $34,000 in self-employment taxes while working for the International Monetary Fund.”- http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-03-ethics_N.htm?csp=34

Obama nominates Gov. Bill Richardson as commerce Secretary. “New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew from consideration as Commerce secretary last month because of a grand jury investigation into state contracts. The panel is investigating whether contributions of $110,000 to Richardson’s political committees from 2003 through 2005 were related to a 2004 state contract

that earned nearly $1.5 million in business for a donor’s firm,”- http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-03-ethics_N.htm?csp=34

Obama nominates Tom Daschle as secretary of health and human services. “Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination Tuesday as secretary of Health and Human Services over revelations that he failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes for consulting income and the use of a car and driver.”-http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-03-ethics_N.htm?csp=34

Obama nominates Nancy Killefer as chief performance officer (whatever that is). “Nancy Killefer, a former U.S. Treasury official who oversaw an IRS overhaul, withdrew her candidacy Tuesday as the U.S. government’s chief performance officer. In 2005, the District of Columbia had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failing to pay unemployment compensation taxes for a household employee”- http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-03-ethics_N.htm?csp=34

But never fear because the President is doing everything he can for the middle class. He appointed Joe Biden, a champion of the average American despite the fact that he has been in government since he was 29 and is now 66 and never held a private sector job, to head the “White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families. Such bold moves as this, and in accordance with signing orders that prevent tax dollars from going to contractors that suppress unions (and) require contractors to inform employees of their collective-bargaining rights”, according to tusconcitizen.com, should really get the economy rolling. Very “stimulating”.

Perhaps President Obama put the opening days of his presidency in a nutshell when yesterday, February 3rd, he said, “I screwed up”. From the grumblings beginning to be heard amongst the less deluded of my fellow Americans, his feelings are mutual.