When I was growing up in southeast Missouri, real scoundrels were often characterized as being “lower than a snake’s belly.” That was the phrase that came to mind when I heard that Obama cancelled his visit with wounded soldiers in Germany. What made the description so apt is the reason for his cancellation.

On the website of the Drudge Report, the links to articles on this subject were quaintly displayed next to each other. The link for one article read “Obama Campaign: Pentagon Nixes Troop Visit …” Immediately below it was a link which read “Pentagon: Obama Campaign Nixes Troop Visit…”

Obama’s reason for not visiting the troops turns out to be very simple. The Pentagon told him that he, his Senatorial staff, and his secret service detail were welcome. They also told him that his campaign staff and his press entourage were not welcome. B. Hussein Obama was offered a chance to visit with the troops and honor their service, but he was forbidden to make a publicity stunt out of it. No photographs of a wayward tear on his cheek at the sight of a wounded soldier. No video of his heartfelt reminder to a paralyzed Marine that “this is our moment.” No carefully orchestrated handshakes and hugs for the public to admire. Obama could have spent two quiet, respectful hours with people who have paid the price for his freedom to berate America in front of a crowd of Germans. He could have met a number of patients and said in the hearing of no one but the patients, “Thank you for your service.” Nobody stood in the way of his opportunity to honor our troops.

If one single event displays the ego and immaturity of B. Hussein Obama, this is it. I thought his speech to the German people showed everyone that he has no respect for the country he aspires to lead, and I thought it showed all of us his complete lack of qualifications, not to mention his unreadiness, to be our president. I thought that hanging a banner at the Western Wall in Jerusalem with his name in Hebrew letters was a completely adolescent stunt. He even allowed his prayer at the Wall to be publicized, and lo and behold, it is all about him. I thought we didn’t need any more evidence that this is not the man we should elect as our president. But then he amazed us all with yet one more messianic moment in which he demonstrated the he himself is more important than anybody, even more important than the warriors who are wounded in defense of our freedoms.

B. Hussein’s unwillingness to honor our troops without an audience demonstrates dramatically that he lacks the character, the maturity, or even the intelligence required to be President of the United States of America.

Barack Hussein Obama is the candidate of hope and change. It appears that we do not need to hope for change in the future. We already have change. Obama is delivering exactly what he promises. What a candidate!

Just look at all the change he has delivered already.

When we first heard a word from the New Messiah, Barack Hussein Obama, he went on record with a commitment to end the war in Iraq. He led us to believe that if he were elected, before he even sat down in the Oval Office, he would get the troops out. No discussion. No alternatives. No kidding.

Now we hear a different story. Something about assessing the situation and adjusting the withdrawal to the realities. What a man! He can change his mind and change his words, and he tells us that this is not a change of message. A real wizard of change is Barack Hussein Obama.

On the subject of NAFTA, we have been hearing Obama lambast the whole idea for months, threatening to confront our trading partners with a demand for new terms if he were elected. When he needed to confront and defeat Hillary Clinton, who, understandably, supported NAFTA, he was aggressive and critical of the whole idea, saying, "I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage to ensure that we actually get labor and environmental standards that are enforced."

But now, Obama, the candidate who promises change we can believe in, has changed his position and declared, “I’ve always been a proponent of free trade.” The candidate of change has demonstrated his skill. We can undoubtedly hope now to see even more change as the pace of the campaign escalates.

We should not have been so surprised. Obama has actually been showing us how to change since the beginning of his campaign. We all remember that when he was still trying to help us know how to spell his name (including directions that his middle name, Hussein, is not to be mentioned), and when he was worried that we would all think he was an Islamic fascist, he made a big point of telling us about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his mentor. The Rev. Wright had supposedly led him to a Christian conversion, officiated at his wedding, baptized his children and counseled him in personal growth. The Rev. Wright was important in his life, and we all waited eagerly to learn more about Obama’s formative years under the tutelage of the Rev. Wright.

However, the candidate who promises change we can believe in made a believer of us for sure. When we found out that the Rev. Wright teaches his church to curse America and hate anybody who isn’t black, we saw Candidate Obama change in a flash. We saw him change the Rev. Wright from a beloved mentor to a casual acquaintance to Jeremiah Who? In the twinkling of an eye the reverend went from a national icon to a has-been. This is change we can all believe in.

Of course, we should have been prepared. Isn’t Barack Hussein Obama the candidate who told us about being reared by his grandmother only to change her value as a human being to zero by calling her a “typical white person?” Barack Obama is the candidate of change, all right.

We need to pay more attention to Obama’s changes. It would appear that absolutely nothing is too important to change. His admiration for his grandmother, his respect for his pastor, his deeply-held concern that free trade harms American workers, and now his commitment to bring the troops home from Iraq – all these ideas were subject to change.

It makes a confused voter wonder. If Barack Hussein Obama were actually elected president, unthinkable though it is, what other wonderful changes could we hope for?