Let me look at the list right now.  I 'cling' to my religion.  I don't have a gun but want the right to own one if I choose.  I am against illegal immigration, although I think legal immigration is great. I don't necessarily have any antipathy towards people who aren't like me, in fact I believe that I have friends who are different in many ways.  I don't see it, but I guess that makes me bitter.
    Well, it may not be politically correct to do this, but the time has come when we have to really take a strong look at this Obama juggernaut that is engaging the imagination of the whole nation at this time.
    First, I think we have to get over the idea that noticing Obama is at least part African-American is not in itself a racist deed.  God made us with the gift of sight and discernment of color, so to notice the obvious should not be equated with a mortal sin.  In my opinion, the argument of whether he was authentically black, was one of the most preposterous issues of public discourse ever uttered by the likes of Al Sharpton.  Consider that Obama's African-American credentials, the son of an African father and an American mother, seem to be the best technical version of an African-American.  The fact that he was not raised in poverty and segregation does not change his lineage of DNA, although it may lead to some of his obvious misconceptions about the rest of the people in the nation he hopes to be the CEO of.
    A number of people have been criticized for making the statement that Barak Obama is getting the opportunity he has been afforded because he is black.  Receiving the modern day version of being ridden out of town on rail aside, it would seem that there is some amount of truth to the observation.  If we were to be honest with ourselves, we would realize that Obama has been absolved from the natural consequences of his political foibles in a way that others have been unable to avoid.  Sergernt Shriver never recovered from his blundered photo op in a Boston bar.  It was intended that he would 'have a beer with the boys', but when someone asked to buy him a drink he ordered "Cavasia with a splash", forever losing his connection with the common man..  Edmund Muskie lost his patience with the Machester Union-Leader newspaper and literally ended his career in tears on the papers' steps.  Michaels Dukakis never looked the same after wearing the tankers helmet while standing in the hatch of an Army tank.  Jimmy Carter never recovered from blaming the inept manner of the way he handled the office in his four years as president and blaming it on the 'malaise' of the American People.  The temptation among many liberals has been to set themselves apart from the mainstream, the bourgeois working class who serve only to provide the comforts that the elite class need in order to pontificate from on high.   
    If Obama were not black, do you think he would maintain his campaign through all of the "little" problems created by himself and those around him.  His wife who until now has never been proud to be an American, his pastor of two decades who preaches hatred of whites, his own view of his 'racist' grandmother who was uncomfortable with being approached by an unknown "black man" who expected money from her at a bus stop.  Wouldn't there be some concern that he had lied to cover up the liberal views he held in the Illinois state senate.  And what about his current formation of an advising group on religious issues that he promises will not change his mind of the ultimate moral issue of our age, partial birth abortion.  As the first 'serious' African-American candidate for the presidency, he has survived many crises that would have crippled if not ended the candidacy of previous candidates in the 232 year history of the republic.
    Now ,though, we have another matter to consider, the supposedly 'private' thought expressed by the candidate openly among those gathered in San Francisco to attend a fund raiser for the Obama campaign.  Barak's comments had the condescending tone of of a classic elitist dismissing the value of those who do not offer their full support and loyalty.  The preference for another candidate  requires that they are "bitter" nad clinging to our religion, our constitutional rights, and our desire for secure borders as the consequence of being frustrated that we are not well endowed as the elitists who largely fund his campaign.
    The elections of 2000 and 2004 were elected by the smallest of margins, and all the signs show that the same is likely to happen in 2008.  This means that roughly half of the citizens of this country will oppose the person who wins the election.  I would be lying if I said that the election of a condescending, urbanite, liberal did not scare me.  As president of all of the United States, even the red ones, can we really expect that he won't govern in a way that affirms his own deep seated prejudices.