First, let me say that I have no problem with Obama because he is black--of African descent. That would not keep me from voting for him. I do have a problem with his Islamic family background. I do not believe that nearly enough people in this country realize that we are in a life-and-death struggle with Islam. I have some problems with his politics--with what I believe to be his penchant to want to seize, through taxation, the wealth of those who have and redistribute it to those who do not have. I have a problem with his wife's attitude toward this country. I have a problem with his pastor's attitude toward this country.
I HAVE A REALLY BIG PROBLEM with what he recently said about people in small towns and communities being bitter and, because of their bitterness and in their frustration, hanging onto religion and guns and prejudices.
Who, in recent history, has characterized religion as a "crutch?"
Who, in recent history, has stripped the population of guns and suppressed religion--particularly Christianity?
Who, in recent history, has advocated redistributing wealth?
Wealth is a funny thing: it is inextricably tied to the people who produced it. When wealth is separated from those who produced it, wealth disappears, and the poor remain poor. When the communists seized and supposedly redistributed wealth and when they stripped the population of guns and suppressed Christianity, the population became slaves living in poverty under the rule of an elite living in opulence. The state, not God, became the giver, more often the denier, of all things. The only redistribution of wealth that works is when Christians, and like-minded people, CHOOSE to share their wealth with the poor. We have chosen, in this country, to share our wealth in a huge way through the Social Security and other systems, and it has worked enormously well.
I am enough of a Freudian, in my understanding of human psychology, to believe that when a person says something inadvertently, it is probably what he really thinks. Obama's statement speaks worlds to me about what he really thinks about religion and guns--and we poor souls that he looks down on.
If Obama is elected president of this country, with a like-minded majority in Congress, WE WILL HAVE GUN CONTROL and no telling what else that we don't want.