By Jayme Evans ——Bio and Archives--November 17, 2008
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• He hired a truth squad of prosecutors to intimidate and suppress opposing opinions during his campaign. He verbally threatened to bankrupt the coal industry and any other dirty industries. • He still won't release innocuous documents from his Illinois Senate days such as memos and calendars. • He threw reporters who endorsed John McCain off of his airplane in the final days of the campaign. • His birth certificate remains under seal, despite the mounting number of lawsuits calling on him to satisfy persistent questions over his US citizenship; lawsuits described as "garbage" that could certainly be avoided if he would simply unseal and release the documents sought by those suing him. • While carping about change and the negative tone of politics, he hired former Clinton artifacts John Podesta and Rahm Emmanuel, one of the most bitter of all political partisans. He is relying far too heavily on ex-Clinton people to help him lead.There is not one shred of evidence to suggest that Barack Obama will lead by consensus or govern from the center. In fact overwhelming evidence points to a hardball Obama Administration bent on socialist wealth distribution, an accusation dismissed by Obama as an illegitimate line of questioning, but the Communist Party USA begs to differ. When I was a young boy and I would do stupid things as young boys do, or I began to succumb to peer pressure, my mother's sarcasm always had a way of bringing back reality. When I got caught, she would ask dryly: "If Billy wanted to stick his head in a bucket of s**t, does that mean you should do it too?" I don't care if the entire world falls in love with Barack Obama. He is still an unknown quantity and because of what he has demonstrated thus far, he will have to earn my trust before I merrily join his bucket brigade. His biggest liability is what he now owes in the minds of the various interests that helped get elected. He will face enormous pressures to act on their behalf with tax cuts, pork programs, further bailouts or economic stimuli. I can only hope he resists those pressures, but we'll have to wait and see. What's that smell, O'Reilly?
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Jayme Evans is a veteran of the United States Navy, military analyst, conservative columnist and an advocate and voice for disabled and other veterans. He has served for many years as a Subject Matter Expert in systems software testing, and currently serves as a technical lead in that capacity. He has extensively studied amateur astronomy and metallurgy, as well as military and US history.