President Obama a brand unto himself, appears to be greater than the brand and nation he is charged with representing  – the United States of America.

This notion reared its ugly head shortly after he was elected President when he made a number of foreign trips abroad, making excuses for America’s past and how he was going to bring a change to the US on a number of fronts.

The focus was his Bush-bashing phase, while he was trying to formulate his modern day Alinisky philosophy of failure for America by appeasing the middle class with the thesis of wealth redistribution.

It began a year-and-a-half into his administration when he was asked in Strasbourg, France by a Financial Times correspondent Ed Luce whether he subscribes, as his predecessors did, ” to the school of American exceptionalism that sees America as uniquely qualified to lead the world.”

It occurred during his first trip overseas as president and it was a blatant response and set the stage for the image of today and what he truly believes about America’s exceptionalism.

His answer to the question: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

William Galston, a former policy adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution said at the time that his comment was, “a respectable way of raising the question of whether Obama is one of us.”

I don’t happen to think “he is one of us,”  by his policies – Obamacare in particular -  his bailouts, his spending in the short time he has been in office increasing our deficit to $14 trillion and putting the dollar as the world’s currency in jeopardy.  These policies drives a country to failure, which we have seen in history globally.

Obama went on at the time to further clarify his comment by saying, “We have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality, that, though imperfect, are exceptional.”

It is interesting here to note that as blatant his comment was with respect to denigrating the US and exceptionalism, the subtitles in his foreign speeches may very well go unnoticed, especially when it comes to the Constitution.

As a Constitutional lawyer you would think he would know something about the Constitution, but today a Judge ruled that Obamacare was Unconstitutional, this as everyone knows will be going to the Supreme Court for a final decision – how soon will depend on Obama’s political-driven legal delays.

Now for the subtleties of Obama’s manipulation of words in the constitution:

There is a letter circulating on the Internet today which was sent to President Obama and signed by 42 representatives of Congress on December 6, 2010.  The letter is validated, was sent and received, but to the best of this columnists’ ability we have no evidence that the President responded to or met with the representatives to discuss the issues raised, which was requested.

President Obama on November 10, 2010 said in a speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, “But I believe that the history of both America and Indonesia should give us hope.  It is a story written into our national mottos.  In the United States, our motto is E pluribus Unum – out of many one – our nations show that hundreds of millions who hold different beliefs can be united in freedom under one flag.”

E pluribus Unum is not our national motto.  In 1956, Congress passed and President Eisenhower approved the law establishing ‘In God We Trust’ as the official national motto of the United States.  This motto is also referenced in our national anthem and is engraved on our coins and currency.

The Congressional letter, went on to point out that during three separate events in 2010 when quoting from the Declaration of Independence, you, (Obama), mentioned that we have  inalienable rights, but consistently failed to mention the source of the rights.  The Declaration of Independence definitively recognizes God our Creator, as the source of our rights.  Omitting the word ‘Creator’ once was a mistake; but twice establishes a pattern.

The letter went on to say, “In your speech in Indonesia, you mentioned being unified under one flag.  The Pledge of Allegiance to our flag says that we are ‘one nation under God.’ As President of the United States, you are our representative to the rest of the world.  By misrepresenting things as foundational as the Declaration of Independence and our national motto, you are not only doing a disservice to the people you represent you are casting aside an integral part of American society.”

John Adams said, “It is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.”

The letter pointed out to the President, “If Adams was right, by making these kinds of statements to the rest of the world, you are removing one of the cornerstones of our secure freedom.  If we pull the thread of religious conviction out of the marketplace of ideas, we unravel the tapestry of freedom that birthed America.”

This information, for the most part, has been ignored by the mainstream media, apparently ignored by President Obama, and I too, along with Galston, based upon the facts, question whether Obama is ‘one of us.’