Reason #2, Why the GOP Nominee Shouldn't Matter: Barack's Resume, or Lack Thereof

If you didn’t get to read the 1st installment of this series, be sure to check it out here.

This entire set of articles is meant to bring two major issues to the forefront in the 2012 election process.  The first is the obvious division in the Republican party throughout the primary process.  We will not defeat Barack Obama with Libertarians, social conservatives, and the establishment each going their own directions.  The second major issue is the fact the party is currently spending their time beating each other up instead of focusing on the major issues ongoing in this country and how Conservatives can offer a solution to those issues.  The candidates need to spend less time talking about each other and more time talking about the extreme failures of the current administration as well as offering simple, clear solutions.

I will remind you all again, I do not have a clear candidate I am supporting in this process, but am willing to vote for any of the four GOP candidates in order to remove the greatest threat to this country, Barack Obama and his socialist administration.  This is reason #2 why…

First of all, I am sad to say, I had to go onto Barack Obama’s own website to complete this article.  I hoped I would never stoop to that level and I hope you can all forgive me.  As I tentatively typed in the url and the page loaded, I came to find a homepage with absolutely no information on President Obama.  I was stuck on a screen seemingly forcing me to enter my email address and zip code before reading any information on the candidate.  At that point, I was more willing to abandon the plan than I was to sign my life away.  After checking it out for a minute I realized if I moved my cursor to the infamous Obama (Pepsi) logo at the top of the page, I could bypass selling my soul to the devil.  After clicking there, I found a second page with absolutely no information. Instead, it was asking for donations.  While this can be found on other candidates sites, it is normally mixed in on the home page with other useful information.  Not on Obama’s site.  Finally, after finding the way around the second useless page, I was able to access his site so I could pull up his resume, or lack thereof.

Here are my findings from Obama’s own website:

After working his way through college with the help of scholarships
and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked as
an organizer to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of
local steel plants.

He went on to Harvard Law School, where he became
the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon
graduation, he took a job teaching constitutional law at the University
of Chicago. He also remained active in his community, leading a drive
that registered more than 150,000 voters in Illinois leading up to the
1992 election.

Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois
State Senate in 1996. During his time in Springfield, he passed the
first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families,
and expanded health care for children and their parents. Elected to the
U.S. Senate in 2004, he reached across the aisle to pass the
farthest-reaching lobbyist reform in a generation, lock up the world’s
most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by tracking
federal spending online.

So he went to school, organized a community, taught a class on the document he has attempted to destroy, and blazed a trail through the political ranks.  I’m personally not sure what part of that makes him qualified to run a country.

Just to compare, let’s take a look at the GOP candidates.

Ron Paul:

• graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of
  Medicine
• served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air
  Force during the 1960s 
• began his medical practice in Brazoria County. Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000
  babies.
• served in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s
• served on the House Banking committee
• was a key member of the Gold
  Commission
• In 1984, he voluntarily
  relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice.
• Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th
  Congressional district of Texas
• serves on the House Financial
  Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee
• serves as the chairman of the Subcommittee
  on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology
• Dr. Paul is the author of several books, including The Revolution: A Manifesto, End the Fed, Liberty Defined, Challenge to Liberty; The Case for Gold; and A Republic, If You Can Keep It. 
• He has been a distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises
  Institute, and is widely quoted by scholars and writers in the fields of
  monetary policy, banking, and political economy
• He has received many
  awards and honors during his career in Congress, from organizations
  such as the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government
  Waste, the Council for a Competitive Economy, and countless others. 

A successful doctor, an Air Force Veteran, a distinguished congressman, an author, a counselor, and winner of multiple awards and honors!

Mitt Romney:

• he was a Cub Scout - This may sound minor, but he probably learned more responsibility there than Obama has ever learned in his career.
• spent most of his life in the
  private sector, giving him intimate knowledge of how our economy works
• elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002.  Mitt made hard decisions that brought state spending under
  control. He restructured and consolidated government programs, paring
  back where necessary and finding efficiencies throughout.  Mitt cast more
  than 800 vetoes as he brought conservative principles to state
  government. He cut red tape for small businesses, signed into law
  job-creating incentives, and fought hard to bring new businesses to the
  state. He eliminated a $3 billion deficit without borrowing or raising
  taxes. By 2007, at the end of Mitt’s term, the state had accumulated a
  $2 billion rainy day fund in its coffers.
• In 1999, the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics was on the verge of
  collapse. Thanks to his reputation as a superb manager, Mitt was asked
  to take over.  He revamped the
  organization’s leadership, trimmed the budget, and restored public
  confidence. He oversaw an unprecedented security mobilization to assure
  the safety of the athletes and millions of international visitors,
  staging one of the most successful games ever held on U.S. soil.
  
• After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1971, he earned
  dual degrees from Harvard Law and Harvard Business School. 
• After working
  as a business consultant for several years, Mitt founded the investment
  firm Bain Capital in 1984. Under his leadership, Bain Capital helped to
  launch or rebuild hundreds of companies, including household names such
  as Staples, Bright Horizons, and The Sports Authority.

Successful in the private sector, has organized the Olympics, has experience running a state (does that qualify as more experience than organizing a community?), and graduated from Harvard Law school along with Barack.

Newt Gingrich:

• architect of the “Contract with America” that
  led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in
  the U.S. House for the first time in forty years
• Under
  Newt’s leadership, Congress passed the first balanced budget in a
  generation, leading to the repayment of over $400 billion in debt. 
  Congress also cut taxes for the first time in sixteen years and reformed
  welfare, leading to over sixty percent of welfare recipients either
  getting a job or going to school. 
• The Washington Times has called Newt Gingrich “the indispensable leader” and Time magazine,
  in naming him Man of the Year for 1995
• received his Bachelor’s degree from
  Emory University and Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History
  from Tulane University
• Newt
  taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for
  eight years
• He represented Georgia in Congress for twenty years,
  including four years as Speaker of the House.
• Newt
  served on the Defense Policy Board under President George W. Bush
• He
  is also the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for
  Major Generals at Air University and taught officers from all five
  services as an honorary Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at
  the National Defense University
• In 1999, Gingrich was appointed to the
  United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, the
  Hart/Rudman Commission to examine our national security challenges as
  far out as 2025
• In 2003, Newt founded the Center for Health Transformation
• Newt also served as the Co-Chairman of the National Commission for
  Quality Long-term Care and the independent congressional Alzheimer’s
  Disease Study Group. 
• Newt and his wife, Callista, host and produce award-winning documentary films, including A City Upon a Hill, Nine Days that Changed the World, Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, and Rediscovering God in America. Together, Newt and Callista also author photo books and record audio books.  Newt is the author of twenty-three books, including thirteen New York Times bestsellers.
  

A successful politician who often took leadership roles, a teacher, an extensive background in national defense, an author, and a producer!

Rick Santorum:

• Former U.S. Senator
  of Pennsylvania 
• elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in
  1990 at the age of 32, and from 1995 to 2007, served in the US Senate
• In 2000, he was elected by his peers to the position of Senate
  Republican Conference Chairman
• Along with John Boehner and Jim Nussle, Senator Santorum
  was a member of the famous “Gang of Seven” that exposed the
  Congressional Banking and Congressional Post Office scandals
• He was also an author and floor manager of the landmark Welfare
  Reform Act which passed in 1996 that has empowered millions of Americans
  to leave the welfare rolls and enter the workforce
• Senator Santorum
  wrote and championed legislation that outlawed the heinous procedure
  known as Partial Birth Abortion as well as the “Born Alive Infants
  Protection Act,” the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,” and the
  “Combating Autism Act” because he believes each and every individual has
  value and the most vulnerable in our society need to be protected.
• He served eight years on the Senate Armed Services Committee where he
  led the fight before the attacks of September 11th, 2001 to transform
  our military from a Cold War force to meet today’s threats
• He was a
  leader on US-Israeli relations, authoring both the “Syria Accountability
  Act” and the “Iran Freedom and Support Act” which he successfully
  fought to pass in spite of initial opposition by President Bush.
• An accomplished author, Senator Santorum penned the 2005 New York Times Best Seller It Takes a Family.
• Santorum earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors in political science from Pennsylvania State University in 1980 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business a year later in 1981. He later returned to his alma matter and earned a law degree with honors from Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law in 1986.
• practiced law for four years at the Pittsburgh law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart

I’m starting to see a trend here…someone who has been successful outside of politics as well as within politics, all while taking on leadership roles.

I have never in my life seen a candidate as unqualified as Barack Obama.  Not only does his resume show his inability to lead, he has given us four years proof of that inability.  Head to head, any one of these candidates has a resume that puts Barack to shame. 

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