Happy 100 days, Mr. President!

Today is President Barack Obama's 100th day in office. Everybody wants to give him a grade. I'd like to give him a D-. The only reason I'm not giving him an F is because the American flag is still flying on our flagposts, at least for now. On foreign policy and national defense, I must give him an F for several reasons.

First, Obama is reducing our defense budget by about $50 billion. This includes shutting down the F-22 Raptor jet fighter program and reducing missile defense. He's also going to great lengths apologizing about American greatness and kissing up to world dictators. He even went to France and claimed that America was arrogant. Our military cemeteries are filled with the graves of soldiers who paid the ultimate price to defeat oppression around the world for over 200 years. If that is arrogance, I can't imagime what humility looks like. Obama has done noth-ing to keep our enemies at bay. He should've shot down North Korea's Taepodong-2 missile that traveled over Japan. He is also making us captive to China as that country is buying more of our crushing debt.

Now his administration is thinking about bringing charges against the Bush administration for using interrogation techniques on terrorists. Although these techniques have given America valuable information in preventing future attacks on its own soil, Obama wants to bite the hand that kept it safe. And then on Monday, Air Force One flew by at low altitude in New York City for the sake of a photo opportunity with the Statue of Liberty! Obama has gone too far this time. That stupid stunt costs $328,835 according to Fox News. It also scared thousands of New Yor-kers who still remember 9/11 very vividly. No wonder Obama wants to blame Bush for using harsh interrogation methods. He practically inpersonated the terrorists who killed 3,000 of our brothers and sisters! Neither Mayor Michael Bloomberg nor the public was notified of this. It was as if Tom Cruise's character Maverick in 'Top Gun' buzzed the city and scared everybody to death. One 9/11 was tragic enough. We don't need any reminders.

The Obama administration will last 1,461 days and hopefully not a minute longer. Let's ride out the remaining 1,361 days and pray it gets no worse. In this era of higher taxes, bigger govern-
ment, and a shrinking economy, we now have to worry about our own President hitting us with an airplane. I might have to change my D- to an F very soon.

G.J. LaRouche, 29 April 2009