By Christopher G. Adamo
October 10, 2008
It is altogether appropriate that last April, when Barack Obama delivered his disparaging commentary in San Francisco about Americans who, in his opinion, "get bitter" and "cling to guns and religion" as a result of hardship, he specifically mentioned the good people of Pennsylvania. It was after all, a past generation of "bitter clingers" in Philadelphia two centuries ago who, looking around them and concluding that "change" was clearly in order, crafted the Declaration of Independence, committing everything they owned to the cause, and asserting a "firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence."
Their audacious effort was backed up by General George Washington, that most resolute of "bitter clingers," whose own reliance on God, guns, and the valor of his fellow patriots in rags finally birthed this nation, shedding their blood on such hallowed lands as Yorktown and Valley Forge. Those great Americans and their modern counterparts have clearly been steeped in a philosophical and spiritual doctrine that is starkly different from anything Barack Obama can comprehend. So it is no wonder that he would malign them.
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