Posted on 08/05/2008 3:48:34 AM PDT by suspects
Is Sen. Barack Obama just too weird to be elected president?
Since the day Obama claimed the Democratic nomination, pundits and political pros have been waiting for him to take a significant lead in the polls. Here we are in August, and not only has Obama failed to get the Democrat’s traditional summertime bump, he’s tied with John McCain in the latest Gallup and Rasmussen polls.
In a lousy year for Republicans, against a GOP nominee who combines the youthful effervescence of Wilford Brimley with the soaring oratory of a life insurance seminar, Obama is actually losing ground.
Why?
Obama, sadly, blames race. It’s all about evil Republicans, he claims, trying to scare voters by telling them “I don’t look like those guys on the dollar bills” and “Did I mention he’s black?”
The mainstream media blame the “vicious” and “negative” attack ads of the McCain campaign. The McCain campaign thinks it’s all about oil, gas prices and Obama’s position on offshore drilling - whatever that may be at the moment.
But it was during a conversation with my radio listeners about Obama’s birthday trip to Boston yesterday that I got a glimpse into the Chosen One’s real problem.
We were looking for the perfect gift for “The man who is everything” and I was suggesting the traditional items for someone of Obama’s stature - gold, frankincense and myrrh. I was taken aback by the number of listeners who said the Democratic standard-bearer should get nothing because of a People magazine article about the Obama family’s policy of not giving Christmas or birthday presents to their own two daughters.
I didn’t bring that fact up. My listeners did, and it bothered them.
Now there’s nothing necessarily wrong with parents not giving their kids birthday or holiday gifts, but...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“I read they did not give kids presents on holidays and had a minor start,,who does that?”
The answer to “who does that?” is somebody who wants bitter kids, who feel like victims, who turn to Black Nationalism and to Socialism to give them gifts.
Part of an emerging pattern. We learn the Obamas are NOT like most Americans.
Obama gets 200,000 to his “I’m a Begginer” in Berlin, thanks to a free concert.
McCain gets 50,000 at Sturgis.
When youre a muslim you dont celebrate Jesus’ birthday.
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