David Demming: ‘Why Obama Will Lose’
Teri O'Brien on Sep 26 2008 at 2:39 pm | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article
You’ve got to read this concise, brilliant piece entitled “Why Obama Will Lose” by a guy named David Deming, a professor at the University of Oklahoma.
EDMOND — When Benjamin Franklin was dispatched to France as ambassador of the United States in 1776, he won the hearts of the French through his authenticity. Rather than take on an affected and phony continental style, Franklin eschewed the powdered wig of the European gentleman and donned the fur cap of an American frontiersman. Original genius and polymath, Franklin understood that the French would see through any false pretension but respect an authenticity that sprang from an unpretentious and naive love of country.
What a contrast there is between Franklin and Barack Obama. Obama is a Harvard lawyer who is a mile wide and an inch deep. He is only the latest in a long line of shallow elites that consider it stylish and intellectual to despise their own culture and heritage.
Nothing exemplifies Obama’s antipathy for American culture better than his statement that Americans “cling to” religion and guns out of frustration or bitterness. We only can suppose that Obama regards religion or firearms as aberrations that need to be eradicated.Of course, both guns and religion are essential aspects of American culture. The United States was founded by people seeking religious freedom. Does the word “Pilgrim” ring a bell with anyone? Our freedom and the right to self-government were won by farmers with guns.
The American Revolution started when the British marched to Concord with the intention of confiscating colonial arms. Both the right to “keep and bear arms,” and the right to “free exercise” of religion are enshrined in the Bill of Rights. We have come a long way when the presidential nominee of a major political party regards the exercise of fundamental rights as a mental aberration. (more)
Not only does it perfectly encapsulate the problem with Barack Hussein Obama and his malignant Michelle in its substance, the very fact that Mr. Deming is a professor at a university in flyover country speaks volumes about the value of attending college somewhere outside the re-education camps otherwise known as Ivy League institutions.
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