Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:07:08 PM
Hillary's campaign strategist, Mark Penn, sends a memo with characterizations of Barack Obama that are truly devestating. Much of this is at the core of conservative's problems with Obama. It's not about race; it's that he's simply not American enough for my taste. Mark Penn's memo on the subject sums it up pretty well.
All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting that in a new light.
Save it for 2050.
It also exposes a very strong weakness for him—his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited.
I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values. He told the people of NH yesterday he has a Kansas accent because his mother was from there. His mother lived in many states as far as we can tell—but this is an example of the nonsense he uses to cover this up.
How we could give some life to this contrast without turning negative:
Every speech should contain the line you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century. And talk about the basic bargain as about the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child and that drive you today. Values of fairness, compassion, responsibility, giving back.
Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t. Make this a new American Century, the American Strategic Energy Fund. Let’s use our logo to make some flags we can give out. Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds.
"Save it for 2050." Gotta love that one. Besides the fact Barack Obama's character is negligent when it comes to American culture and ideals, he is also a flaming Marxist liberal who is able to easily morally equate opposites such as Russia and Georgia, or Israel and Hezbollah. Obama's outlook on the world is simply unacceptable for a President of the United States. He is so terrible as an American that I would sooner have Bill Clinton soiling the White House again than have Barack Obama foisted upon the American People.