..in order to form a more perfect Union .....

These words appear in the first sentence of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. Obama, just like all his predecessors, swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the said Constitution but it could well be that he has never even read it and, if he has, he does not seem inclined to make good on his solemn promise.

In the last seventy odd days we have seen ominous warning signs that this is indeed the case including specific decisions about confiscatory taxation of AIG bonuses and retroactive legislation to authorize it. Both are clearly prohibited by the Constitution he is committed to preserve. Now while these measures have no chance of passing the scrutiny of the judicial system, the very fact that Obama and his cronies on the Hill seriously contemplated them shows their contempt for the Constitution.

Now though, he has gone even further and it would have been bad enough if he’d done it here but instead he chose to go abroad in order to trash his country. On his recent trip to Europe he had the unmitigated gall to say that he wanted to see an America closer to the model of the European Union. This left me almost breathless with anger as well as disappointment.

Does this man not understand that we are a nation of united states already? And we have a common currency and we send representatives to Washington to govern those aspects of society that are not reserved to the states by Constitutional fiat. And there is free mobility of labor and interstate trade uncluttered by legislative barriers. And on and on ………..

Instead he wants to emulate a system that has never elected a black man to be prime minister in any of its member countries, has widespread and undisguised anti-Semitism and has seen race riots in the last couple of years that we here in the “primitive” United States have long put behind us. Then add the stagnation of their economies including staggering unemployment rates and you perhaps can begin to understand my outrage. I could go on and on as I know what I’m talking about as I used to live there but there is one other that I feel bound to mention especially now; just before Passover.

Do you remember the racial cleansings in the Balkans? This was an entirely European affair and yet this “compassionate” Union simply wrung its hands in impotent desperation and refused to do anything substantive without the lead of the United States. American aircraft and crews flew more than 80% of the missions in the entire conflict and there are still thousands of American boots on the ground in that theater. Without our intervention, the Europeans would have simply stood by and watched another potential Holocaust.

But Obama wants us to be more like them and goes abroad in order to announce it!

There was one patch of blue sky, though, about his trip abroad; the market went up. Now he’s coming home soon and, in anticipation, the market has tanked again as I write.

Draw from this whatever you will.