I was thirty years old when Jimmy Carter was elected President. In retrospect I was still young, naieve and idealistic at the time. I voted for Jimmy Carter. I believed that he would make a great President. Jimmy became "my" President.

The oil embargo was just a few years behind us . Gasoline had gone from about 25 cents per gallon to a dollar very quickly. Jimmy promised us energy independence. We were going to have alternative fuels and and we were going to develop our oil shale fields. Jimmy created the Department of Energy to help us attain that independence. It is now 30 years later and we are not energy independent and the DOE really can't say that it has accomplished anything.

About 2 years into Jimmy's term we were hit with terrible inflation and soaring interest rates. Some elderly people on fixed incomes were reduced to eating canned dog food because they couldn't afford to buy people food. The adjustable rate mortgage came into widespread use because it was the only way that many people could afford to purchase a home (yes, that same adjustable rate mortgage that played a large role in our current financial difficulties).

Then the Shah of Iran ran into some difficulties with Islamic fundamentalists and Carter would not help our ally, the Shah. The same rabble that deposed the Shah then took our Embassy and it's personnel hostage. Jimmy dithered for a long time, (like Obama is dithering over more troops for Afghanistan while men die now), and finally decided on a plan to send two (yes, just two) helicopters across the desert with a few special operations people to rescue the hostages. The helicopters went down in a sandstorm after crashing into each other and the rescuers died.

Jimmy Carter had high ideals but he was very poor at planning and execution of his plans. He also did not listen very well to his military commanders. I can thank Jimmy Carter's failed Presidency for my conversion from Liberal Democrat to Conservative Independent. He taught me that Liberal agendas just do not move a country forward nor do they gain a country "respect in the world".

When I say that Barack Obama is not my President I mean that very sincerely. For starters I didn't vote for him. That, all by itself, would not be sufficient reason not to claim him.

Jimmy Carter was a rather benign buffoon. Carter had an agenda but he at least believed in his heart that his agenda would benefit America and Her People.

Barack Obama has no such redeeming quality.

Barack Obama's agenda is designed to bring America to Her knees on the world stage and to subjugate Her people a Liberal, Progressive Tyranny.

If we take each of Obama's agenda items and look at them separately we can debate them as to their relative merits or shortcomings and draw conclusions about how each one will affect our lives as individuals. If we take his agenda items collectively we can see a much different picture emerging. We begin to see an agenda which is designed to fit together seamlessly to capture and to control every major aspect of our economy, our political process and our personal liberties.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and Barack Obama is the most corrupt politician who has ever captured the Presidency of this country.

Here are the key components of Obama's agenda and what they are really designed to accomplish;

Cap and Trade - if this bill passes the Senate all of our energy use at home and in the workplace including our vehicles will be controlled by the government. The measure is really one HUGE tax increase which will give this administration more money with which to fund it's ongoing agenda of control.

Health Care Reform - If this bill is passed into law it will give government full control over 1/6th of our economy AND over all aspects of your health care. Bureaucrats and NOT doctors will be making life and deathe decisions over what health care you can receive. Even if there is no single payor provision or public option the bill will be a "Trojan Horse" which will lead into those two systems.

2010 Census - this administration wants to count ILLEGAL aliens in the 2010 Census. Even though the ILLEGALS cannot presently vote counting them will allow the administration to redraw congressional voting districts and ensure that more are in Liberal, Progressive areas.

ILLEGAL Immigration - the administration and the unions are both interested maintaining ILLEGAL immigration at high levels. The unions can organize the areas where the ILLEGALS work,collect union dues from them and funnel more of that money to the administration and members of Congress for their election campaigns.

Card Check - Card Check will make it easier for the unions to organize, obtain more members, more dues and funnel more money into election campaigns.

Gun Control - if the administration can dis-arm the American people it can avoid any possible rebellion of the American People.

Education/Indoctrination of our students - if the administration can educate and indoctrinate students from an early age they can keep the population subservient and loyal to them.

The Patriot Act - the Liberal establishment has railed against the Patriot Act since it's inception. Barack Obama has chosen to keep certain parts of the Act intact. Why? He has done so because the Patriot act allows un-warrented spying and wiretapping of the populace is why.

It doesn't matter whether you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Liberal, a Conservative, a Libertarian or an Independant. You either love your personal liberty or you dont. My guess is that you do.

This President's plans must be stopped!