Posted on 09/24/2008 9:21:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
When Obama refers to “my Muslim faith,” the verbal gaffe resonates as a Freudian slip because of Obama’s thinly veiled hatred for this country’s unique culture and institutions. Obama sat for 20 years in a church where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr preached “goddamn America.” He only resigned from the congregation when it became politically expedient to do so. When earlier this year, Michelle Obama said “for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” can we conclude that her husband disagrees? Is it not remarkable that Michelle Obama can be so small-minded as to find nothing in the history of the United States that merits her admiration but the personal success of her husband?
What is Barack Obama for? His campaign motto is “change.” But even a 6-year-old child understands that “change” can be either good or bad. Lacking specifics, the invocation of “change” as policy is completely empty. As we witness Obama’s minions mindlessly endorse the meaningless maxim of “change,” it only can call to mind the barnyard animals in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” chanting “four legs good, two legs bad!”
The choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate has been devastating for the Obama campaign precisely because she is everything Obama is not. Palin is not ashamed of her culture or country. She is not embarrassed by being an American, but naively embraces her birthright. Unassisted by affirmative action, Palin has risen to national prominence on the basis of her character, intelligence and natural gifts. In a word, she has guts. This is a woman who is proud of her country, not because it has granted her personal success, but because she respects what America stands for: freedom, opportunity, and individualism.
Obama is a vapid demagogue, a hollow man that despises American culture. He is ill-suited to be president of the United States. As the weeks pass, more Americans will come to this realization and elect McCain/Palin in a landslide.
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DAVID DEMING is an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, but his opinions do not necessarily represent those of the university.
brother tom corrected obamao!
yes Biden said that Franklin looked real good in that cap on TV.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Biden also thinks Franklin got on the radio and pulled the country together during the Civil War.
Agreed.
“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.”
This is grossly untrue. Franklin was not a backwoodsman. He lived in Philadelphia, for pete’s sake. His coonskin cap appearance was an affectation, perfectly suited to the taste for the primitive of the French aristocracy of the day.
That being said, it wasn’t a total affectation. Anything outside of the European continent was backwoods to them. And Franklin’s genius did pop up out of nowhere. He didn’t graduate from college.
unfortunately, biden knows more than most Americans
The question lies in how hollow has America become and if her people will vote for someone like themselves. I am talking majority. How did Clinton win? I will never understand that, and I will continue to reject it. I don’t want to understand the logic, or lies, that lead to his becoming our president. I fear for America, because she may deserve Obamination. How many really intelligent people support him? How many honorable people support him?
Did anyone mention Ayers, Aziz, the Waloo Brothers?
Pfleger, Daly, Raines?
The guy is a clown...he will lose.
He didn’t “graduate” from anything: He was apprenticed to his older brother as a candlemaker in Boston, who “mistreated” him, so he ran away to Philadelphia and apprenticed as a printer. He was very much a self-made man.
Hope he is correct. Far too many Americans loathe the country these days. And their hatred for Bush and all things Republican is psychotic. They will follow Obama off the cliff.
Yep. According to Franklin he decided to go in his own hair because the wigs he’d been supplied were too small. It caught on and as clever as he was, he rode it for all it was worth. That included an infamous number of romantic assignations between the ladies of the court and the “rough frontiersman” - now, I’m not suggesting he had an ulterior motive for letting the illusion persist... ;-)
Fabulous article. Just posted it to my blog.
‘When Obama refers to “my Muslim faith,”’
BHO blurted out “my Muslim faith.”
Nobody EVER blurts out a LIE!
If they BLURT something out; it’s the TRUTH!
Okay, let's help DRIVE them off that cliff.
Franklin also had experience out on the fronteer acording to his autobiography. Things were a lot wilder back then.
This guy is great.
In February 2000, Deming wrote a letter criticizing Yale University student Joni Kletter's February 18, 2000 syndicated article on gun control published in the University of Oklahoma's student newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily - a letter for which the professor was charged for sexual harassment. In her article, Kletter had claimed that "easy access to a handgun allows everyone in this country...to quickly and easily kill as many random people as they want." In his rebuttal, Deming used Kletter's own argument against her, stating[49]
"I just want to point out that Kletter's 'easy access' to a vagina enables her to 'quickly and easily' have sex with 'as many random people' as she wants. Her possession of an unregistered vagina also equips her to work as a prostitute and spread venereal diseases. Let's hope Kletter is as responsible with her equipment as most gun owners are with theirs."
Sounds like Sarah Palin doesn't it.
Obama is a vapid demagogue, a hollow man that despises American culture. He is ill-suited to be president of the United States. As the weeks pass, more Americans will come to this realization and elect McCain/Palin in a landslide.
The absolute truth. I believe the media knows this but wont accept the fact.
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