Thursday, April 17, 2008<\/p>\n
Obama may not be our next President after all. But he is<\/em> destined to go down in history as a kind of phenomenon.\u00a0 He’ll be known as the Pied Piper whom people almost elected until they discovered who he really was.<\/p>\n The shoe just keeps dropping.\u00a0 It seems each and every day we learn something new.\u00a0 Now it turns out that his connection with the NAZI, Louis Farrakhan is not merely a surrogate familiarity through his ex- pastor, the warm, lovable Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Indeed, Obama himself was there in Washington participating in Farrakhan’s million man march. (Never mind that only several thousand showed up. Obama was still there) How a man who sympathizes with a NAZI\u00a0 demagogue, still thinks his ideas can unite the country is about as perplexing as..oh…say..one who\u00a0 befriends a confessed, unrepentant terrorist, like Bill Ayers.\u00a0 I’m not sure any of this should surprise us since Obama long ago promised to sit down and talk with the vile, Ahamadinnejad.\u00a0 I guess that didn’t matter, not so long as Obama also promised change. But now, it seems people are actually paying attention to the man’s resume’.<\/p>\n Perhaps Obama’s greatest challenge to date is his recent speech in San Francisco where he mentioned that bitter people turn to religion and guns. The fallout comes in part from the fact that both are protected freedoms under the First and Second Amendments and some people in our country actually believe in the constitution. Not to mention that a few of us can think of one or two reasons\u00a0 for religion and guns other than bitterness. How about, oh…faith and a love for hunting\u00a0 (just to name some off the top of my head for a moment) or…gratitude before God and a desire to protect one’s family?<\/p>\n Now, in all fairness, Obama explained his remarks. (He seems to be doing that a lot lately)\u00a0 The explanation took place successively over a series of different speeches.\u00a0 Here are the cliff notes:<\/p>\n “I deeply regret it if my words offended anyone. I could have phrased that better and I have nothing but respect for religious people yet, at the same time, I did speak the truth and everyone knows it’s the truth so give me credit.”<\/p>\n You just keep explaining, Obama. That’s what you do best.\u00a0 And while he explains, McCain laughs all the way to the Oval Office. Obama’s “apologies” are like Trojan Horses with further insults and defenses hidden inside, waiting to spring forth like a Jack in the Box.\u00a0 Hmm…Jack. Maybe he should be President. At least when he promises change, he delivers.\u00a0 Nothing like that new Sirloin Burger.<\/p>\n This is Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday, April 17, 2008 Obama may not be our next President after all. But he is destined to go down in history as a kind of phenomenon.\u00a0 He’ll be known as the Pied Piper whom…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutpolitics","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}