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Will the Real President Obama Please Stand Up!

Mr. Obama is intent on convincing us that he is the champion of the poor and the middle class but his actions belie his words.

According to President Obama, Republicans want "dirtier air, dirtier water, (and) less people with health insurance" (Oct 18).

Additionally, if he loses in 2012 and "you get sick, you’re on your own … you can’t afford college, you’re on your own … you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own” (Oct. 26).

That last statement was made at a San Francisco fund raiser in an attempt to fill the donation bucket. I wonder how $cared his audience was.

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Does President Obama actually read this stuff before he says it?

Does anybody really believe this stuff? Sadly, the answer is yes.

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Mr. Obama is intent on convincing us that he is the champion of the poor and the middle class but his actions belie his words. Mr. Obama attempts to demonize his opponents (usually Republicans who resist him) by stating that the Republican Party is the party of Wall Street and millionaires. The fact is that Mr. Obama raised more campaign money from Wall Street donors for the Democratic Party than all Republican candidates combined. Additionally, Mr. Obama has the backing of Hollywood and I have shown elsewhere that the average salary of our top ten Hollywood celebrities dwarfs the average salary of our top ten CEOs by a multiple of 2.3 times ($100 Million as compared to $43 Million).

The fact is, however, that Mr. Obama wants this information to remain a secret. You see, Mr. Obama wants us to think he is just old, down-home Barry. And how does he accomplish this? Well, he made an unannounced stop, which the White House denied was a campaign stop, at a local eatery, such as Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles in West LA, to rub elbows with regular people and order a “Country Boy.”

And of course the press is in a full court press with everybody getting pictures of Mr. Obama with “the regular people.” From there, however, he made a scheduled stop at the home of James and Mai Lassiter for a fundraiser in Hancock Park where neither you nor I will ever live or visit and where a select few of about 40 Hollywood types paid $38,500 per plate to fraternize with the ‘One.’ From there it was off to the Los Angeles home of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith for another party of about 300 people who paid anywhere from $5,000 to $38,500 per plate to attend. And why would the press be told to wait out back in the yard for most of the main event?

And then there is the undisclosed "secret meet-and-greet" Mr. Obama had with Hollywood execs and the like on Oct. 25. Where was the press for that event? Is there some reason why Mr. Obama is happy to pack in the press while at Roscoe’s Chicken but frequently meets behind closed doors with Hollywood elites?

In another attempt to be the “everyman,” Mr. Obama and company set up a shopping spree at Target. After posing the week before in thousands of dollars worth of bling jewelry, someone must have thought that the First Lady had better show her down-to-earth side so Mrs. Obama went out shopping, as she so often does, at Target. No big deal, no publicity needed, it’s just what Michelle Obama does from time to time when nobody is watching … oh, but somebody was watching and somebody forgot to tell us that the whole charade was planned and that an Associated Press photographer was given advanced notice of the shopping trip and just happened accidentally upon Mrs. Obama and nonchalantly snapped a picture of the First Lady shopping at Target just like you and I. It was just one big coincidence.

Enter the Occupy Wall Street crowd. I’m surprised I haven’t heard President Obama shouting from a bullhorn at one of the events, “I understand your frustration, you see, because I’m one of you!” He’s done everything but that. He is intent on convincing us and the Occupiers that he is one of the 99% but fails to disclose that his financial team (Geithner, Summers, and Bernanke) were right in the thick of the financial collapse of 2008 and walked away with their fortunes intact and right into the White House to run (or should I say, ruin?) the Recovery. How’s that been working out for all of you?

Every time I see President Obama step to the podium I think of the quote, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” Unfortunately for the people of the United States there are two President Obamas—the one who promised as a presidential candidate to "bring Americans together" contrasted to the one who promotes class warfare to garner support for his failing policies and his own political gain to the one who took a pledge not to take money from lobbyists contrasted to the one who has relied on "prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid" (hello, Occupiers, are you listening?).

Honestly, as much as some who will read this did not like George Bush and his policies, and admittedly I voted for him but grew more and more unhappy with him as time went by, at least he was real. What you saw with George W. Bush was pretty much what you got. Frankly, no one can say that about Barack Obama because he is all about show. I challenge our president with the following statement: Will the real Barack Obama PLEASE stand up!

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