Will the Real OH Bama Please Stand UP

Let him run for president of Germany.

I mean, he's a citizen of the world, after all.If he wants to play act at being president, and he needs some country to lord it over, let him try Germany.
Because we sure don't want him here.We don't want a man whose limited experience should give him humility, but whose ego demands supremacy.

We don't want a man who thinks that because he has the audacity to speak at the Brandenburg Gate that he should have the authority to do so.In this cult of personality which has developed around the Dalai Obama, does he or any honest person truly believe that he has the right to stand where John F. Kennedy stood?

Isn't that kind of delusional?Has anybody in the Obama campaign looked up what John F. Kennedy was doing when he went to Berlin, or what he had done in life to qualify himself to go there?

Like getting elected president?Is pretending to be like John F. Kennedy – by being a poser and attempting to steal the respect and affection the country has for him – a substitute for real ability and experience?
John F. Kennedy went to Berlinafter serving his country in combat, and losing a brother in the defense of our country, and after writing a Pulitzer Prize winning book, and serving successfully in the Senate, and challenging the nation to conquer the moon.

And when he got to Berlin, deep within enemy-occupied territory, he boldly and defiantly challenged that enemy.

He stood at the very front line of freedom versus socialism and and dared the enemy to make a move.
It wasn't play acting, Barack, and it wasn't a photo op. It was not the banal recitation of meaningless slogans, it was leadership.And thankfully the German chancellor had the good sense to say that you weren't worthy to stand where Kennedy stood.

So you found someplace else, a continent and an ocean away from the United States, and you started talking about how this is “our” day, this is “our” time.And that is an odd sense of entitlement.
And it was an odd act of abandonment you displayed when you canceled your stop at the military hospital.
You were in Germany, near a hospital chock full of American servicemen and women who have been injured in the war.

People who really love their country. People who are far from their families and their homes.And you didn't have time for them.

You had time for a crowd of Germans.You had time for every reporter with a microphone.You had time to go to the Wailing Wall.

You had time to hobnob with every no-name Middle Eastern leader who would pose for a picture with you
.But you red-lined the wounded troops.You canceled on them.You didn't even pretend to care about them.

Which probably didn't surprise the troops in Afghanistan. You hadn't been airborne 10 minutes before some young captain was writing home about the cold shoulder he felt you gave him and the others.

If men and women line up to shake your hand in a combat zone, and you blow past them to get your photo op shooting baskets, they're not going to think very highly of you.And, while it may surprise you, neither is the country.

(I guess you got the message that 90% of the service personnel are voting for John McCain so why waste your time talking to them. They already know you. And hopefully we can get 51% of the US to really know who you are... )

Consider this, Barack. The news media is fawning all over you.

You are favorably featured in 50 percent more news stories than John McCain. Americans – including Democrats – feel that the news media is giving your preferential treatment.

Your trip to declare world citizenship is being treated better than a trip by the sitting president.

You have every advantage of money, organization and media support.And yet you are still in a statistical dead heat with John McCain.Shouldn't you be clobbering him?

How is it that, in swing electoral states, he's gaining ground and you're losing it?

How can you possibly be not demolishing this man?

Could it be because Americais seeing through you?

Maybe so.In which case you ought to think about that German thing. If they like you, maybe you can get them to elect you.

Because maybe you won't be able to get the Americans to.
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by Bob Lonsberry © 2008