The pretender

Sen. Barack Obama scares the hope out of me rather than bringing the hope out in me. He is a most frightening potential president. Those who support Obama are a little too in love, and it creeps me out.\nMany who support Obama are blindly following him. Objectively, I have asked many Obama supporters, “Why should I vote for Barack Obama for president?” Many answer: “He’s going to make everything better.” Neither Obama nor any candidate for president is “going to make everything better.” Sen. Hillary Clinton was surprisingly right when she described Obama’s campaigning: “The sky will open ... the light will come down ... celestial choirs will be singing ... and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect!” I am terribly afraid he’s at the point of popularity where his followers will cling to, hope for and carry out every word that comes from his mouth. This type of leadership and following doesn’t make me think of America; it makes me think of Europe. \nAccording to Obama supporters, he’s “qualified” to be president because he “speaks eloquently” and is “smart.” The last time I counted people I know who are smart and speak eloquently, I used both hands. I have yet to see Obama and his supporters give an executive agenda to lead and with which to support.\nHe leads a contradicting agenda and lacks good judgment. \nHe calls himself Christian, yet supports abortion. According to those who support the Christian faith, this does not line up with the Bible and is quite possibly one of the greatest oxymoronic positions from someone who calls himself a “Christian.” \nHe leads a contradicting agenda and lacks good judgment. \nHe attends an elitist church in Chicago with a preacher literally screaming “God damn America,” implied the U.S. brought Sept. 11 on itself and claimed former President Bill Clinton was “riding dirty” on the black community like he did Monica Lewinsky. While Obama denounced his preacher’s anti-American, radical, supremacist, separatist and racist words, it took him 20 years to do so when he just so happened to be running for president. \nHe leads a contradicting agenda and lacks good judgment. \nHe said he would work through economic incentives and personal negotiations with Iran, a country which doesn’t deserve the image nor the opportunity to denigrate the U.S. on the world stage.\nHe’s an elitist. Obama was recently talking to a group of Americans in San Francisco about small-town residents saying: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” This was not only a flaw in causation, but a great example of how out of touch he is with us.\nWhile some of us may have a great disdain for Clinton, even her presidency wouldn’t be as frightening as an Obama presidency. Therefore, I ask everyone to come together and vote “nope” to this false sense of “hope” from Obama. He is not your hope, freedom is. \nVote for Clinton in the Indiana primary on May 6!