Obama thinks he's better than you - By Craig R. Smith

Digg submitter basicben gives us a basic description of the column: "Craig R. Smith exposes Democrat candidate as arrogant, tricky magician." I'll go into a little further detail in my analysis of this column below. read more | digg story I agree with Craig R. Smith for the most part, at least in regard to Barack Hussein Obama being an illusionist, along with a few other choice descriptions, like being arrogant with "a tone of pompousness and entitlement." However, there is another theme to this story, if you are reading carefully: Craig says, "Is there really any sane person who believes this guy would make a good president?" I don't have quite the confidence that Craig has in the American voters. Apparently, there must be many voters that feel the guy would be a good President, though I can't really verify if many of them are actually sane. But here's the paragraph that I was most amused by:

I rest rather well knowing that whether it is voting for mayor, congressman, senator, president or even American Idol contestants, Americans always get it right. They are not easily deceived. They know a trick when they see one. They can smell a phony a mile away. And while the illusionist assistants in the media are working overtime to convince America their man, Barack, can lead the country to a new world, they know better. Americans are far more intelligent than the media understands, and this November they are going to get a huge lesson on that intelligence.

What Craig R. Smith says there is the exact reason that I don't rest well! I'm afraid that I don't maintain that much confidence in Americans getting it right. It seems that the people are very easily tricked, usually through manipulation. My favorite line used by the illusionists (the politicians and their minions in the MSM) is, "It's for the children." It always works. It reminds me of a short clip I put on my youtube channel last October (2007), where Chicago talk-radio personality Mancow, while on Fox & Friends, warns us of the use of that line:

Yes, I'm all too afraid that many Americans ARE sucked in by that illusion, that "it's for the children." It works all too often, and it worked here in Iowa when the new Governor engineered an additional $1.00/pack tax on cigarettes, and then went on to mandate restrictions on the use of tobacco in restaurants and bars, without allowing the owners and the marketplace to make their own decisions. It was "for the children." And then there were the following three paragraph's in this column by Craig that I have to comment on:

Many of the challenges we face as a nation have no easy fix. We can't just raise taxes and pay all the obligations that are on the way in the years to come. Properly inflating our tires and keeping our cars tuned are not the answer to the energy crunch. Sending a $1,000 check to every American and sending the bill to Exxon is not an energy policy. Printing money to bail out banks and stop foreclosures is not the answer to bad decisions. Government is not the answer to our problems; government is the problem. The sooner an honest politician declares so and puts forth legislation to shrink government, the better off we will all be. America has a lot of bad, but far more good. This is, and will always be, a great country because of the American people. Most are hardworking, honest, loyal and dedicated people who love their families, country and God. They know the future will not be easy but also realize greatness never comes easily. They just want a president who will tell the truth and work hard on their behalves to do what is right – not what is easy. "Easy-way-out" thinking is half the problem.

Yes, for the most part, Americans are good people. But yet, are the good Americans going to be able to understand what is really facing this country? Are enough of us going to be going to the polls this November armed with the truth? Sure, I realize that the morons who bothered to go to the Democratic caucuses and primaries and made Obama the presumptive nominee of their party makes up a very small minority of the actual voting population, doesn't it reflect a shift in thinking amongst Americans that government is the answer (not the cause) to most of our greatest challenges? While Craig R. Smith has it right about most Americans being "hardworking, honest, loyal and dedicated people who love their families, country and God," I still see a major disconnect with the reality of the politcal scene. There are just too many God-loving patriotic Americans that are just too busy to spend their time thinking about issues, unless of course it is about global warming. For the most part, most people aren't aware of any issues outside of what they hear in church or on their local or major network news programs. Just ask those people that use email for communication how often they just delete any email that comes to them that involve any political issues. Of course, it's just junk, they say. It's hard to argue with that, except for the fact that a few of us are "connected" to the goings-on in the political world, and know how to discern the junk from the realities. But the point is, I'm all too aware of the fact that people actually AVOID being informed. Patrice Lewis recently wrote in her column Real America, a story called Stupivision, about how many hours in a year that Americans watch the boob tube. I can say that mind-numbing butt-fattening habit is just the tip of the iceberg. By the time it's all said and done, with all the things that there is to do, a few people try to educate themselves just enough to be armed with something to talk about at the next social event. Do you get what I'm telling you yet? Craig R. Smith was doing the right thing by bringing attention to the illusions of the Barack candidacy for President. I completely agree with that. But the confidence of there being enough people that will see through the smoke and mirrors, I'm beginning to have my doubts. I am not sure if there will be enough people that will read Craig's column or my blog. I want to believe. I'd rest a whole lot easier if I had Craig's optimistic view of the American voters this fall. Related stories: Stupivision - by Patrice Lewis Why vote for neither - by Joseph Farah How to "Protect the Children": Elect an ultra-liberal - by John Kubicek