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On Worldnetdaily, the subject everyone wanted to opine on was Obama's "clinging" comments.  I was happy to read the other op-eds especially Ann Coulter's.  Ann and I wrote on the same subject, but went in different directions.  You can see her "Obama Woos Gun-Toting God Nuts" here.

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Obama's doomed

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Posted: April 17, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

By Matt Sanchez
© 2008

 

 

Vote for me! Even though I think you're a all a bunch of bitter, xenophobic, belligerent, religious people, I'd still like to be your president and set this country straight.

That's the message Obama let slip out of his mouth last week during a fundraiser in San Francisco, when the senator said: "… [I]t'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."

The senator from Illinois may not have known he was being taped, but these comments were as candid as the statements his spiritual guide, Jeremiah Wright, screamed from the top of his lungs. And just like the applauding masses in that Chicago church, none of the San Francisco "wealthy donors" attending the fundraiser protested.

By "bitter," Obama was not referring to the "enlightened" people of San Francisco. San Franciscans have declared their city be a "safe haven" for illegal immigrants and have no hope of obtaining a permit for a firearm – despite a record homicide rate. Obama's words were directed at those small-town Pennsylvania people, but he might as well have spoken of the majority of the United States.

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The idea of Americans deriving hope and change from religion must be confusing for a politician who has made "hope" and "change" the base of his campaign. To be fair, both the media and Obama followers have treated the senator like a deity.

The success of Barack Obama is largely due to the senator's ability to validate voter self-absorption.

Voter Question: "What does Obama make me feel?"

Answer: Hope.

Voter Question: "What will Obama do for me?"

Answer: Change.

Repeat until properly indoctrinated.

After basking in the glow of a "post-racial America," many Obama supporters are stopping to ask who the senator from Illinois really is, but it seems that Obama is the one who does not know who Americans are.

If you believe the country's borders should be protected and that illegal immigration is a serious problem, as the majority of Americans do, isn't "bitter" just a bit too simplistic?

If you find comfort in prayer and hope in salvation, are you just desperate because you're waiting for someone like Obama to finally become the president?

Long after the bitter memory is gone, the Obama follow-up to his comments is what will linger in the voter's mind. Since the quote became a story, the senator's attitude has been smug and patronizing – not very promising for a politician who needs the common folk to vote for him.

I believe that between Obama's support for Wright, Obama's recent campaign promise to repeal "don't ask don't tell" during a time of war, and the "bitter" speech, the senator has ruined his chance of becoming the next president of the United States.

Hillary has already cut commercials using the "clinging" comments as a battering ram to drive a spike through Obama's self-inflicted wound. Clinton's next step will be to convince delegates, at the Democratic Convention in Denver that Barack Obama is unelectable – she will make a strong case. No one doubts the Clintons will hold nothing back to get the nomination of the party they have symbolized for almost two decades.

While in France debating international journalists on French television, it did not surprise me that all of my fellow panelists from around the world wanted Obama to become the next president of the United States. The reason why? According to my international colleagues, Sen. Barack H. Obama was "the least American" of all the candidates.

Unfortunately, for Obama, Americans expect to elect one of their own.

Comments

[Phil Hall]

Can you say "President McCain"? Not by design, but by default. I am hearing people who will vote for McCain only because they loathe Obama and/or Clinton.

[Yvon Thivierge]

Do you care to add the following to your personal photo album?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Matt+Sanchez&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

[poetryman69]

From a war criminal to a Manchurian Candidate that's the best we can do for the Presidency? Obama, if none of your close personal friends likes America, why do you want to be President?