Often writers ask which politician you'd like to have a beer with. With women, the question is implicit: who would you like to go on a "date" with, i.e. sleep with?
We should ask, who do we think has our back? The average citizen is unlikely to have the opportunity to have a beer with a president (no one will with Romney, since Mormons don't even drink coffee), or, now that Clinton's out of the picture, to get in bed with him.
It's the president's job to have our backs. But some Americans, individuals and groups, are excluded from this coverage under Obama. Usually I would provide links to explain all of these points, but if you've missed these stories, it's time to do the work.
If you are an ambassador, you aren't safe, especially in the Middle East. If your job is to protect the ambassador, Obama's State Department prefers to appease rather than to be armed. (Search "Benghazi"). And he thinks it's more important to keep campaigning than to meet with his security council. Although maybe the obsessive campaigning is a cover for ignoring, thus tacitly approving, jihadist anti-Western terror. (Search for Obama's campaign schedule and his security council meeting attendance.)
If you make unimportant films that offend certain people Obama sucks up to, you could go to jail. Blame America first. (Find "Nakoula Basseley Nakoula".)
If you want a job in the American oil or coal industry, your chances for the future are iffy. (See "Ohio coal miners".)
If you want to buy cheap gas for your car, produced from our own resources on our own soil, not on his watch. (Search "Canada oil pipeline".)
If you dream of a job in the space program, go to private enterprise, not to NASA. First Obama changed NASA's mission to flattering Islam, then it folded entirely. (See "Felix Baumgartner".)
If your job is to protect our southern border, Obama's administration will even provide the weapons to kill you. (But self-appointed Obama militia may stand sentry at the polls again.) (See Eric Holder plus "Fast and Furious", and Black Panthers.)
If you want a job, period, your chances have dropped in the last four years. (Look at unemployment statistics. And food stamp statistics.)
If you are Israeli, you aren't safe, and if you are an American Jew, history suggests that the president's favoritism toward the anti-Semitic side of Mideastern politics could trickle all over. (Search Obama + Netanyahu.)
If you are an unborn baby, your life often depends on the whim of a confused woman and the profit margins of an abortion clinic. This would hold true for a baby who survives abortion, if Obama had his way. (Search Obama + abortion + Illinois Legislature vote.)
If your religion prohibits you from paying for abortion, Obama will not stand up for your religious liberty. Churches might be safe, for now, but the hospitals and charities supported by churches with such scruples will fold if they don't comply with the Obamacare insurance mandate. (See the Catholic Church lawsuit against Obamacare; but this also touches other anti-abortion religious groups.)
Here is a link to remind of us the old-fashioned, Norman Rockwell conceptualization of the four freedoms: freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. All four have taken hits from Obama. They could survive.
But, as Obama whispered to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, if he's re-elected, he will have "more flexibility."
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