The Thomas Chronicles

I never thought I’d hear a Presidential candidate speak this way. Whereas President Bush sounded like a lawman out in the wild wild West with his “dead or alive” phraseology when addressing terrorists, Mr. Obama sounds like a Chicago mobster when addressing the Republicans.

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, according to pool reports.

“We don’t have a choice but to win,” Obama said, joking that he has heard “folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles games.”

It makes me wonder who he identifies with: the Untouchable, Elliot Ness, who fought the Chicago mobster, Al Capone? Or Al Capone fighting against the federal government establishment? Perhaps he should finish the quote with, “If they send one of ours to the hospital, we send one of theirs to the morgue!“

Upping the ante in the lethality of your opponent is, as they say, the Chicago way. If Obama wins the Presidency, I hope would employ such tactics not so much as on his own fellow Americans as on our enemies beyond our borders. Indeed, if “unity” and “change” and “peace” is what he is truly after, he is not doing a very good job in addressing the conservatives, and thus half the country, in this manner.

Maybe in the future we’d hear him tell Tehran, “If you bring a Scud, we’ll bring a nuke.”

Or is such tough thug verbiage only restricted to his domestic opposition? And if so, can this be called bravery?

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