"The Road to Perdition!"

Most Human Resources managers review countless job applications over the course of a calendar year. The most common way to eliminate a candidate for a job is untruths on his application. What I mean by untruth is a stretching of the facts, inflating the good points and ignoring the low points, perhaps even leaving them out completely. Everyone wants to look good when applying for a job; some will embellish their accomplishments for the singular purpose of weaving an image that doesn’t actually exist. In literature, we used to call things like this a “tall tale”, a “myth” or “spinning a yarn”; entertaining, but not always truthful.

Our President Barack Hussein Obama is now in full campaign mode, although I don’t believe he has ever left campaign mode since taking the Oath of Office in 2009.

A new video narrated by Tom Hanks has now been released and is called “The Road We’ve Traveled”, touting the “accomplishments” of Barack Hussein Obama over the last 3+ years.

Hanks said during the video that Mr. Obama “didn’t dwell in blame” but was committed to the “remaking of America”. I believe I have been in America every day since Barack Hussein Obama took office and I surely remember a constant barrage of blame being cast at George W. Bush on nearly a daily basis. He has castigated Mr. Bush on his “inherited debt”, yet Mr. Obama has already surpassed Mr. Bush’s eight years accumulation in less than 4 years. This fact is not mentioned in the video.

Mr. Obama’s “salvation” of the auto industry was lauded, yet nothing was mentioned of the only corporation that refused government bail-out funds and remained solvent throughout the crisis; Ford Motor Company stood on free market principles and succeeded without billions in taxpayer dollars. This was not mentioned in the video.

Nothing was said about Mr. Obama’s “green initiative” that has resulted in HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WASTED on “green projects” and companies that went “belly up” at the taxpayer’s expense. I wonder why this wasn’t mentioned in the video.

Mr. Obama’s judicial appointments were said to be legal minds of great experience: Elena Kagan has never even tried a parking ticket in court, and Justice Sotomajor is a social activist who has record of legislating from the bench. Those things are not mentioned in the video.

Several Presidential appointments have been questioned, as the Congress was circumvented in those actions, although it was still in session and a constitutional question has been raised. This was not mentioned in the video.

Blame was cast at the Bush Administration over the mortgage crisis, although it has been proven that George W. Bush asked for more oversight of FANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC, and it was dismissed by a Democratic Congress in 2006. This is not mentioned in the video.

Reparations to the national infrastructure was applauded, even though those programs weren’t nearly as “shovel ready” as the Administration said they were, and countless funds ear-marked for those projects still remain unused. This is not mentioned in the video.

Mr. Obama’s “crowning achievement” is cheered on by Mr. Hanks; “Obamacare” a program that has already surpassed the projected costs by BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but has yet to be implemented. The healthcare bill was passed on strictly partisan votes, when the American public was shown to be 71% against its passage. This was also not in the video!

Mr. Obama is claiming we are now drilling for more oil than we did when he took office, yet he fails to mention that the drilling he is talking about was authorized by the Bush Administration, and he had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!

What are Barack Hussein Obama’s real “claims to fame”? I believe we can talk about unemployment that is still at about 8 ½%, loss in our homes’ values and huge increases in fuel cost, along with that record National Debt he has accumulated. This will not be in the video!

I listened to Tom Hanks go “on and on” about how “great” Barack Hussein Obama is for the entire video, and I’ve come to this conclusion: if you have a brain like “Forrest Gump” you will buy into this baloney. I also believe if we re-elect Barack Hussein Obama, America will be on a fast track toward the “Road to Perdition”, because that is the path of the “Road We’ve Traveled” thus far!!