• Originally published September 8, 2009 at 5:18 p.m., updated September 8, 2009 at 5:40 p.m.

Boom, the sound whipsawed the meadow rattling windows, it shook me. Lucidity coddled fear as wood burst then light beamed through busted barn trusses. My horse, Ed Post, is a concern. I race to the barn, gun loaded, praying I don't face trouble.

I burst through the barn door. No threat sighted as Ed's onyx eyes level a razor scythe that would cleave diamonds. Defiantly he kicks the barn wall. On the floor lays Obama's book, "Dreams from my Father."

He seethes with anger. Ed, unless he has something to say, normally, is tight-lipped. His verbal avalanche etches my mind indefinitely.

"Get me a treat." Ed chomps the carrot. "I am mad at my president, and so help me if anything I say is fiction, donate me to an Elmer's glue factory."

Bess Truman spent personal funds buying china for the White House. Michelle Obama's staff payroll approaches $2 million annually, accommodating her whims. Congress lambasted the automobile industries' extravagant corporate aircraft usage.

Obama's travel entourage expenses exceed the gross national product of many nations. They jet to Montana for a staged town hall meeting, and instead of enjoying Montana's finest beefsteak, they fly in enough lobster to capsize a small boat. Tony Rezko swindled $15 million for housing projects spearheaded by Obama's recommendations. Rezko manipulated Chicago hospital boards and stacked the deck doubling Michelle's salary from $121,910 to $316,962 overnight, then Obama earmarked the hospital for a cool million in gratitude. Michelle stated for the first time she is proud of America. Two decades of tithing Jeremiah Wright's church, whose racial overtones disgust me, Obama cites poor judgment. No need beating a dead horse. Acorn, Obama claims has his back, is a black-hole beneficiary of mammoth government revenues.

The U.S. Post Office is better qualified to conduct a census. Mailmen know who lives where. Obama's czars are deeply vetted in tax evasion and nefarious activities that would deny them employment in the private sector.

Van Jones, new green-job czar, self-proclaimed communist, sympathizes with Muslims victimized by America, has resigned. Bet he'll still collect government payroll.

On stimulus and opportunity, Obama's cheerleader, Joe Biden, touts success, though unemployment skyrockets and bank failures exceed historical proportions.

Good news, the government budgeted 273,000 new job positions. Multiply by $50,000 a head, then print money on borrowed ink. There's stark difference between health care and treatment.

Health care, you're on the list and bureaucracy decides your fate. Health treatment allows hospitals with doctors standing ready. Medicare, Medicaid, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Social Security and Amtrak are insolvent. Cash for Clunkers proved a tremendous boost, foreign auto manufacturers reaped windfall benefits. Crushed clunkers soon China bound will restock the shelves of Harbor Freight stores.

Obama allocated more time on dog selection than congressional bills, then buried America in more debt than the 43 previous presidents combined.

Obama, I have a problem with him addressing school children. His speech will be good though since forewarned is forearmed, he'll remove the political spin. His health care speech, however, will prove to be an infinite amount of unspecific solutions backed with superfluous rhetoric and ample dichotomy, just like this sentence reads. He forfeited America's trust.

Start fresh. Open the doors to the Lincoln Room, invite the media then roll the cameras. Cradle the Bible, raise his hand and read the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, then vow to uphold it so help him God.

One by one, every politician follows suit. If they waver from those words, expect a butt kicked by my gleaming horseshoe catapulting them over the Washington Monument with terminal velocity aided by gravity sealing their fate. One swing they're out, no three strikes here.

Obama appears relaxed taking beers. Americans might bring beer to the capitol and march Washington's streets. A beer party will resolve the grave situations challenging his agendas.

Bottoms up, Barack, remember John Kennedy's words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." The president and his posse spun those sacred words, twisting them beyond belief to the tune of watch what your country is going to do to you, and trust us."

I locked eyes with Ed. My knees buckle as he bellowed, "We the people!" He kicked the barn so hard, a horseshoe emblem tattooed the wood forever.

"Ed, I know you're upset."

"Really, then pick that book off the floor and read page 93. He's no role model for American children."

Todd Jett resides in Victoria, is a local business owner and a published writer.

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