I have been proud of Barrack Obama at somepoints during his campaign.  I do think that Obama is the lesser of two evils when up against Hillary.  I am proud that a state that was part of the Union, but really a slave state more than a free one now boasts as the home of the first African American candidate.  I am proud that he came from a single mother home, and with education became successful in life.  But there are many times I have not been proud of this man.  

Recently this list has added one more event.  Just yesterday Obama refused to officially put his presidential campaign on hold to do what he was already elected to do.  He refused to put off campaigning for, at most, a week.  He has been campaigning for 18 months, one week will not kill his chances, especially considering his opponent had already done so.  Obama is not our president, he is my senator.  He is elected as my senator, and I am appauled that he would rather run for an office that he might not get, than to actually do the work for the office that he already holds.  He has been my senator for almost 3 years now, and more than half of that time he has been running for president.  Does this mean that during his whole run for president he has been putting that in front of being a senator? Lets look at his actions.

One event that shows me that he has been running for president these 18 months and not my senator is his much publicized trip to Europe.  I understand that senators make trips overseas, and infact they have many reasons to head overseas, but you must realize that Obama's trip was not as a senator, it was as a president.  He was briefed on the situation on the ground (possibly doing an act of treason in the process) while the whole time he focused on his political talking points of getting out of Iraq as quickly as possible.  When given the oppotunity to visit our wounded, he had the nerve to not go.  He chose to not go visit our wounded because he was on a political campagin trip instead of a trip as a senator.  He couldn't take his press corp with him so he decided that it would be better for him to not see them.  What nerve he must have.  As someone who has not served, you should be more thankful that we do not live in a country like Iran where all men at age of 18 have to serve in the military.  He was able to make the decision not to serve, yet he has refused to go see those who did, and were injured while over there.  

Another event that is much closer to me that proves that he was always running for president above being my senator happened close to home.  A local soldier was killed while serving in Iraq.  Obama, who was in Springfield at the time during a senatorial recess, did not come to the funeral, though the IL Governor said that his trip could be covered by the state.  Yet the next day Obama, with his own money attended the funeral of an African American boy from a neighboring state that was killed in a car accident.  Now given I am sure that the accident was a tragic event, but that boy was from another state, but ironically he was a member of a prominent African American family in St. Louis.  Does that sound like something a senator would do?

Now given these two circumstances, does it sound like he was ever just my senator?