God, Guns, and Obama

Sometimes I wonder if Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are in a contest to see who wants mainstream America’s vote the least.

Before I opined about them, I wanted to give Obama’s recent “elitist” comments (which is how they’ve come to be characterized) a chance to sink in, to see if they made any latent sense to me whatsoever.

All that happened as a result of my additional reflection is that I’m more convinced than ever that Senator Obama is completely unworthy of being elected President of the United States.

The comments at issue are significant for the Obama campaign, because they come on the heels of the publicity accorded his racist pastor, Jeremiah Wright; a 1-2 punch, of sorts.  For those who may have missed it, here are the comments at issue, which were noted while Obama was speaking to a room full of really rich donors in that bastion of Norman Rockwell Americana, San Francisco:

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.  And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.  And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Vile liberals can spin this stuff anyway they choose – it reads only one way to anyone with eyes, a functioning brain, and a semblance of objectivity: Mainstream citizens who heartily embrace traditional American values are ignorant.

Well, I do more than “cling” to the aforementioned – I fully wrap myself in the cocoon woven by the Second Amendment, Christianity, and a nationalism that is rightly at odds with this country’s current position of lunacy with respect to stemming the flow of illegal invaders.  It is clear that Senator Obama was speaking about me, and I know that he was speaking about most of you, as well.

In the end, comments like these help to illustrate that latter-day Democrats are the ultimate hypocrites.  Democrat politicians are supposed to be those people who are especially in touch with the “common man,” who represent everything that evil, capitalistic Snidely Whiplash Republicans do not.  The challenge for this disingenuous slime is to carry on, holding their noses while pretending to like the common man, which they, of course, do not.  Obama clearly regards those referenced in his comments as peasant-folk he finds himself frustratingly unable to win over, and we get to see why: He simply doesn’t like regular people.  We are beneath him; we are, in his mind, as well as in the minds of those assembled with him that day in San Francisco, merely the “Great Unwashed.”

It was the architect of communism, Karl Marx, who famously declared that religion was the opiate of the masses.  To me, the words Obama spoke at that San Francisco fundraiser were another way of saying the same thing.  Granted, I cannot recall as easily if Marx and Obama are also kindred spirits when it comes to guns and nationalism, but given the strong leftist tendencies of each, it would hardly be taking much of a leap to assume so.  What we do know, fellow peasant, is that one of the leading candidates for the office of the presidency views religion and its strongest adherents in the same way as the world’s most famous communist…and while I’ve already been toting around bundles of reasons why I was not going to cast my vote for Obama, it never hurts to have another.

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Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Contributing Editor - www.ChristianMoney.com