It’s stated less blatantly than George W. Bush’s claim that “God speaks through me”, but the meaning is the same. Barack Obama has stated that he thinks it’s possible for him to serve as a channel for the will of God.

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All I did with this speech is replace John McCain’s name with Barack Obama’s name. Sadly, the criticism that Barack Obama sent McCain’s way now applies to him as well.

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We progressives understand that someone can wear a lapel pin of the American flag, and wave the flag around a lot, and still betray the principles of liberty, equality and justice that the flag is supposed to represent. That said, Loren Davis and his idea that the American flag is somehow a tool for demonic forces from Hell is quite insane - and another good reminder of the wisdom America’s founding fathers had in separating church and state.

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Some people have tried to limit the scope of the speech, by saying that it is just about confronting racism. The speech is about a great deal more than that. It’s about what it means to be an American. It’s about how we can reconcile the promise of the American nation, and the reality of American failures, moving forward to form, not a perfect nation, but a more perfect union.

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It seems that Obama is setting up one important foundation of his experience as a campaign asset: His experience as a professor in constitutional law. I just don’t hear John McCain, or Hillary Clinton for that matter, talk about the need to restore constitutional rights in the way that Barack Obama does. It’s no wonder that Senator Dodd chose Barack Obama to endorse.

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Those young voters who chose Obama so overwhelmingly over Clinton are going to be in the ascendancy four years from now, and the older voters upon whom Hillary Clinton now depends will be smaller in number.

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Why should Democrats bother supporting Obama or Clinton when they won’t keep their promises to Democratic voters? Why should either Obama or Clinton be made President when they won’t do the job they have now as senators? If Clinton and Obama won’t act to defend our freedom from illegal government spying now, why should we believe that either one would defend our freedom as President?

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In the NPR Presidential Debate of December 4 2007, Democratic presidential candidates were confronted with the sentiment of a North Carolina resident:
We mentioned that we’ve been taking questions from listeners in recent weeks about this debate, and one is on a small issue that, I think, points to a large concern. It comes from Tally […]

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On December 4 2007, Steve Inskeep of NPR News asked the Democratic presidential candidates whether they, if elected, would encourage American citizens to ferret out and turn in illegal immigrants to law enforcement authorities. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio answered the question by evoking the Americanism of Emma Lazarus:
Rely on the Constitution. You know, […]

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Illinois Senator Barack Obama spoke yesterday on the Fall 2007 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran, which concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program far back in 2003:
It is absolutely clear that this administration and President Bush continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology. And that’s been the problem […]

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