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OH...My...BAMA, Magnum!*

I sent this email to the Atlantico list on February 20th, 2008:

Barack Obama's website is absolutely immaculate.

I mean, it's perfect: colors, ergonomics, headlines, slogans, font, navigability, easy-to-read, well laid-out, etc.

This guy is unbeatable, in every category. We are going to see a domination in November the likes of which has not been witnessed since the Warren G. Harding landslide of 1920. Race, age, rock-star quality,charisma, speech, demagoguery, background, name, wife, you name it. Barack's got it all. Substance is largely ancillary in this contest, and even there, I think Barack is chock-full of substance. Maybe not good substance, but he's got plenty of substance.

I have to tell you, I admire this man, in much the same way that the android science officer in Alien admired the alien creature for its sheer, evil, perfection. Barack is beautifully perfect.

He will single-handedly deliver America unto a European-style socialism, and there's not a damn thing that anyone can do to stop him.

It's a little ironic that the only way we were given freedom is that it was forced upon us by an elite few. So-called Americans never really asked for it: at least not the majority. We are too willing to exchange individual freedoms for a slight alleviation in mental and physical labor, for self-reliance and self-responsibility. And now, we as a country, are demanding it. The era of the American Rugged Individual is finally at the culmination of its wane, and we're now ready for the cold comfort of the collective.

It's amazing how much can change in just under two months. Between Michelle Obama's frequent gaffes, and now this:

"...It’s not surprising then [that small-town Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Had they kept their mouths shut and stuck to the empty "change" rhetoric, the Obamas would have sailed through to November. A commenter on Malkin's website sums up my exact feelings on the matter: "What an arrogant, condescending jerk."

PA Democrats aren't like Massachusetts or California Democrats. I think he's going to find this out the hard way.

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