Is he the royal president? ~ By Barbara Simpson

By Barbara Simpson Posted: July 13, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 When you celebrated the 4th of July, did you know what was said in the Declaration of Independence? Did you know it contains a list of grievances the colonists had against the king? Those complaints have an eerie parallel to what Americans face today: a daily erosion of freedom by government on every level. Many colonists came to the new world for religious freedom. Others wanted personal freedoms and less government control of their lives. It worked for a while, until they chafed at mandates from across the ocean; the king lost support. That's what's happening now to our president, for similar reasons. Consider: Despite slipping polls, Barack Obama continues steamrolling efforts to rapidly transform this country. Can you imagine what his January state of the union speech will sound like if he accomplishes everything he intends to do by the end of this year?!? How many times will he use the words "I" and "me"? His campaign promised "change." We got it, with more on the way, ready or not. He also campaigned about "hope" and, yes, people today are filled with hope, but not the kind Obama had in mind. More and more Americans are hoping that things aren't what they seem, because they don't like what they see, and they don't want more. Americans are seeing through the style and rhetoric of the Obama campaign to what those words meant and what they'd do to our system of government and our country. It's clear Obama's goal is to increase the size and power of the federal government beyond what most Americans thought possible. Under Obama, the federal government grows by leaps and bounds. There's more government intrusion into the private sector than at any time in history, with more planned. It's an increase of federal power into virtually all aspects of American life – business, economy, education, culture, banking and real estate – to say nothing of the ravaging of the Constitution and the judiciary. All that created major changes in the political landscape and confusion to our system. Are we the No. 1 Western democracy, or an old-world, European socialist state? [CONTINUE READING]