The Thomas Chronicles

I thought I’d write a post today to confess something obvious to anyone browsing this blog since January. I have a profound mistrust of Senator Obama, and I don’t much like him.

Early in the Primary season, I was actually taken with Obama. I looked at the political stage and found a man actively proposing to move beyond partisanship and race. What he was proposing was a national transcendence from mindless bickering and proposed that we return to the old patriotism of our fathers.

I was heartened to hear his message. And then, as the campaign wore on, it became increasingly obvious that there is a severe disconnect between Obama’s flowery words and his actions, between his high adjectives and appeal to idealism and the more disturbing implications of his words. It was not that he lacked substance. Quite the contrary. But it is his “substance”, the meat of what he says that makes him disturbing.

I won’t delineate all the shadowy parts of his character in this post. I’m sure, if you follow politics at all, you’re aware of a few of them. These are not simply “gaffes” as everyone is fond of calling them. “Gaffes” are the kinds of things that happen in high-end restaurants, like asking for the jelly rather than the Grey Poupon; these are mistakes that could garner embarrassment. For the definitionally challenged, I think the word “Gaffe” lends Obama’s statements a tongue-and-cheek quality that certaintly doesn’t describe it.

There is no question of Obama’s elitism. Ever since I saw him on the national stage running for President, he has used the language of academians, and he has wowed the media and our intelligensia with his vocabulary and his turn of phrase. He speaks the language of a Harvard Law School graduate and also a man who attended the same private school as the Hawaiian Royal Family in Hawaii.

Whatever he is, he is not a run-of-the-mill Joe off the street nor is he a commonplace politician.

I have so many concerns and fears regarding this man who would be President, not least of which is his govern-on-high mentality, that I have to be very careful about harshly judging him. Such a man should invoke my pity not my condemnation.

When he speaks, you can just hear how much he loves himself, and his notion of grandiosity is simply astonishing. He keeps saying that by the very act of voting for him, you are voting for “Change”; in fact, you will be changed and you will have transcendence by voting for him.

What can you say to such megalomania, that refuses to answer questions, that brooks no opposition?

I am writing this to remind myself that Obama is not only the slick, finely crafted public persona on TV. He is also an immortal being made in the Image of God no matter what he has decided to do with it. And he, like all of us, will stand or fall before Jesus Christ on His return.

Obama gives many people good causes for concern, and none of what I’ve written mitigates that. I just don’t want to lose my humanity by denying Obama his.

All I have is my vote, and I intend to discharge my duty as a citizen of our Republic this November.

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