I officially retired from the US Army on 1 August 2004 and vividly recall sitting and watching the 2004 Democratic National Committee convention. At that convention, a fella named Barack Hussein Obama gave the keynote speech. He had just become a State Senator in Illinois. Angela and I listened to a rousing, emotional, rhetorical speech using the southern pastoral iambic pentameter rhythm and said to each other...this is the guy the Democrats are going to run for President. We were correct in our assessment from 2004. We all witnessed a meteoric rise of someone whom we had no idea of who they were. As a matter of fact, Obama once quipped that he was a blank slate upon which people could draw upon. What does that mean?

During his presidential campaign, you were not allowed to question him, even when he admitted to the now deceased Joe the Plumber, his belief in "spreading the wealth around."

And so it was, in no time flat, this relatively unknown master of rhetoric went from State Senator to US Senator, where he mostly voted present and never sponsored any major legislation, to President of the United States of America. He was brought into office with high hopes of putting the past into the past and going towards a better future for America. Heck, Obama was given a great participation trophy called the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing. Was it awarded based on what they thought he would do?

Obama's first trip as President included a speech at the University of Cairo where he demanded members of the Muslim Brotherhood be seated front and center.........

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