Have you ever heard of a coach calling a press conference to boast that his team would have lost by a wider margin without his clever game plan? Well, that’s essentially what Obama is doing when he claims that his stimulus policy is saving jobs while the jobless ranks keep growing. Both claims might be true but just shut up about it until you start winning.

It’s looking like being a student in Chicago is almost as dangerous as being a soldier in Afghanistan. 22 fatalities so far this year. And this is where our president got his start as a “community organizer” — and where many of his closest advisors are from.

It’s now official government policy to be on guard for people with Ron Paul, Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin bumper stickers. The Obama administration also wants to keep an eye on returning war veterans.  It’s afraid these people might actively resist its policies. Never mind all those illegal immigrants and foreign threats, it’s the political opposition and our own soldiers that we’re focused on.

President Obama is boasting about coming in under budget on one of his spending plans. He doesn’t bother to point out that all the money he spent is money the government doesn’t have. He is bragging about the few dollars that he won’t spend.  This is like me bragging to my wife that I only spent $99,000 more than I made this year instead of the $100,000 that I planned to spend. For me a thousand bucks is not pocket change but what’s more important is the $99,000 that I did spend. And what’s more important for the country are the trillions of dollars that Obama is spending beyond what the government will “earn”.

But Obama knows that probably half the people who heard his comment will think he is talking about achieving a balanced budget — that is, no deficit spending. His team probably budgeted more than they meant to spend so that he could make this boast.

Based on a discussion I heard on Morning Joe this morning Obama apparently used the word “privacy” instead of “piracy” in making some remarks on the rescue of the ship captain taken hostage by pirates. He reportedly said something like: We have to take steps to eradicate privacy. Most likely he was reading from a teleprompter and the teleprompter had it wrong. Will this be Obama’s “misunderestimate” moment? Don’t count on it.

Some of the liberal commentators believe that our country is more secure now that Obama has made nice with the G20 members. The idea being that since they like us more they are less likely to attack us. But I don’t think we considered any of the G20 members to be a threat before Obama moved into the White House.

President Obama is embarking on another of his fantasies. He thinks he can rid the world of nuclear weapons. I would like to think that he is launching some very clever scheme to convince everyone else to destroy all their nuclear weapons while we secretly keep our own. But I don’t give him that much credit. I think he actually believes that giving up our nuclear advantage is the right thing to do.

Utopia would be a wonderful thing to achieve, but there is no chance that it will ever be achieved. No matter how nice we try to be there will always be someone looking for a weakness, a crack in the armor, an opening.  I would estimate that 99 percent or more of the world population would like nothing better than to live in peace, but it’s that other one percent that we have to worry about.  Among them are the power hungry and the crusaders. We can not afford to let our guard down for a second.

But that seems to be exactly what Obama wants to do. He wants to start destroying our nuclear capability as soon as the other nations possessing or developing a nuclear capability agree to do the same. I would expect Iran and North Korea to be the first two in line to sign the agreement. And then go back home and continue their development programs while laughing their asses off.

It’s an impossible goal, and Obama should know that. Sure, we can destroy all our nuclear weapons, but there is no way to ensure that everyone else destroys theirs. And there is no way to ensure that new weapons aren’t built to replace those destroyed.

Can you imagine a crime-mob boss seriously embarking on a mission to get the other mobs in his territory to destroy all their weapons and promise not to acquire more? Can you imagine the mobs actually abiding by the plan even after agreeing to it? Of course not. That’s why they’re called criminals. They don’t follow rules unless the rules work to their advantage. It’s a hard, cold fact that many nations are little different from crime-mobs.

Too many nations and factions know too much about the production of nuclear weapons for any kind of control to be 100 percent effective. Unfortunately it only takes one breach of the controls for havoc to be wreaked.

President Obama said today that he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo. Like I said before he was elected, he is a radical socialist.

President Barack Obama wants to develop a process for burning coal without releasing carbon into the atmosphere. He calls this “clean coal.” He says that a nation that put a man on the moon, surely should be able to develop clean coal.

It’s interesting to me that he makes that comparison. Putting a man on the moon was a very expensive government boondoggle. The moon program was conceived primarily as a response to the Soviets having beaten us into space with the first orbiting satellite, Sputnik. After about ten years and billions of dollars, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on 20 July 1969. The last astronauts to walk on the moon did so in 1972. They left a plaque with this message: “Here man completed his first explorations of the Moon, December 1972.” In over 36 years we haven’t been back.

In other words, there was no real point in putting a man on the moon; we just wanted to show that we could do it. 

Actually, I suspect that Obama’s comparison is more apt than he would like to admit. I have no doubt that given enough money and time we can develop a clean coal burning process. But once we’ve done it we will probably realize that it is too expensive to use for any practical purpose.

You can’t turn on the TV these days without seeing President Obama warning that our economy will collapse if we don’t let him spend a trillion dollars. It didn’t take long for the candidate who decried the “politics of fear” to switch from ”I want to be your President” to “I won.”

President Obama on the loss of about 600,000 jobs in January: “The situation could not be more serious.” Mr President, wouldn’t the situation be more serious if we had lost twice that many jobs last month?