SHOULD OBAMA BE PLACED ON MOUNT RUSHMORE?

 I know a sitting president cannot be placed there, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t start thinking about it.  Why you ask?  

1)       George Washington was the first President. Obama is the first black president.  Clinton aside, Obama actually is black.

2)       Abraham Lincoln is credited with freeing the slaves. Obama enabled gay people in the military and country as a whole to live freely in a country that is still struggling to see them as equals. 

3)      Thomas Jefferson helped write the U.S. Constitution, a document about freedom and liberty. Obama is living by that document by allowing young immigrants to live with freedom and dignity in the only country they know.

4)      Theodore Roosevelt busted up big industrial trusts and set aside land for conservation. Obama is defending people against companies that are "too big to fail", and he is an environmentalist in the vision of Teddy.  

And among other things, Obama passed a national health care program that other presidents have been trying to do since Teddy Roosevelt, pursued and killed America’s real “Enemy Number One”: Osama bin Laden. And finally, Obama saved the massive American auto industry and thousands of well paying jobs when others said let them go bankrupt.

Need I go on?  

Therefore, I ask -- is it time to start thinking about it?