By Theodore King

Throughout the presidential campaign, I feared President Barack Obama would be re-elected because I was convinced the majority of the nation didn't know or care about how bad things really are. In other words, they were ignorant or suicidal or both.

After all, they elected him in 2008 even though during the campaign when asked what experience he had that qualified him to be president, he answered that the experience of running his presidential campaign qualified him to be president. That answer was a "laugh track moment." In other words, laughter should follow. It should have been as big a campaign blunder as 1988 presidential candidate Mike Dukakis's riding in a tank during a television commercial or President Gerald Ford's saying in his 1976 debate with Jimmy Carter that Poland was not influenced by the Soviet Union. Candidate Obama's revealing stupidity should have ended his presidential aspirations.

However, in 2008 and in 2012, there were fawning, guilty, white liberals (affluent people who believe they have succeeded in life at others' expense) in the media enabling him, the same type of people who have enabled him his entire life, academically and politically. MSNBC's Chris Matthews is one such guilty, white liberal who said in 2008 that an Obama speech gave him "a tingle up his leg" and after the 2012 election said he was happy a hurricane hit the east coast just before the election so that Obama could look good. That cruel and callous comment by Matthews should make him infamous to all decent people.

Mitt Romney lost because he is a phony who could never connect with voters. In the Summer 2011 issue of this paper, I predicted that he would lose. I believe that Romney, for the most part, gave it his best effort and that no Republican was likely going to win this time. For a different take on the election (from my own), I recommend "The Lesson of 2004" by Jonathan V. Last in the November 19 issue of The Weekly Standard.

We are stuck with ObamaCare for sometime. However, ObamaCare is so convoluted and expensive it could be repealed partially or completely during the years to come. Governor Mary Fallin was correct in deciding last November not to establish a health-care exchange to implement ObamaCare. And, she was correct in not expanding medicaid in the state. In conversations with representatives of the Oklahoma Policy Institute (a liberal think tank) and the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA - a conservative think tank), both confirmed to me that "state-run" exchange would be only cosmetic. Washington will call the shots on ObamaCare, regardless. I should mention that Jonathan Small of OCPA read the whole bill. As Nancy Pelosi said, we need to pass it to see what's in it.

Newly sworn-in first district Congressman Jim Bridenstine demonstrated in his first vote that he may be a different kind of congressman when he voted against Ohio Congressman John Boehner for Speaker of the House. Boehner is not the leader the Right needs to stand up to President Obama. We need a man or woman to "throw down the gauntlet" and say the Republican majority in the House is willing to take the heat and perhaps even lose their majority for the good of the country. New second district Congressman, Markwayne Mullin, voted to keep Boehner as speaker. Mullin was joined by Congressmen James Lankford, Frank Lucas, and Tom Cole in voting for Boehner.

One area in which Speaker Boehner is not providing leadership has been in his budget negotiations with the White House. As of 7:36 p.m. Central Standard Time, January 19th, the eve of the beginning of President Obama's second term, the national debt was: $16,462,390,700,000; the debt per citizen was $52,230; and the debt per taxpayer was $145,828. Source - www.usdebtclock.org

The national debt goes up by $100,000 every seven to eight seconds. The greatest crisis since the War between the States is brewing now. This financial crisis is greater than either of the world wars America fought in the 20th century, and it is eventually going to shock everyone, including those who voted to re-elect this president.

Regarding the gun debate, I mention a fact to consider: after the shootings at Fort Hood, an army post in Texas, in November of 2009, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, President Obama, had very little to say about them. The day of the shootings, he had only a few brief remarks as he addressed a gathering of American Indians at the Interior Department. The next day, he asked that the public not "jump to conclusions" about the Fort Hood shootings. Later, his administration called the Foot Hood massacre an incident of "workplace violence."

Recently, after the spates of shootings across the country, he has issued executive orders and has proposed legislation to curb what he sees as the dangers of armed civilians. Why was President Obama not as concerned with the safety of our men and women in uniform? Perhaps it is because the Ft. Hood shooter is Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who shouted "Allahu Akhbar" (God is Greatest in Arabic) before killing 12 and injuring 31.

Christians are the only group in America that really matters. All other groups are irrelevant by comparison. It is the Christians who have insisted on the safety in America of religious minorities and non believers. Without the influence of Christian charity and restraint, society falls apart. Christianity is a faith, not a political ideology. Christians may disagree on a variety of issues. Christians may disagree on going to war, how big or how small the government should be, how much we must "render unto Caesar" in taxes and on immigration policy. There are, however, issues that are non negotiable for Christians. Abortion, gay marriage, the adoption of children by gays, and euthanasia are some of the non negotiable issues. This means that later this year when the first "gay wedding" is performed in the National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. that church will no longer be a part of Christianity.

Catholicism maintains there are three groups within the Church: the Church Triumphant (in heaven), the Church Suffering (in purgatory; I know Protestants don't believe in it), and the Church Militant (on earth). It is the third one to which I draw your attention. The Church, including the faithful in the pews, must be militant in this life by standing up to princes and principalities of this world. That is our duty.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"And to all the young people, who did everything right and are drowning in debt, we're gonna invest in [incur more debt for] you." - Elizabeth Warren on election night 2012 after she was elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.