Obama Trauma

To rephrase a popular question, If Obama speaks in the woods and no one hears him, is he still wrong?

I ask this because I mentioned in public recently that I thought Obama said some stuff in his recent speech that needed sayin'. I didn't say I was voting for him. I didn't say anyone else should vote for him. All I said was that he spoke some words of truth in this speech. Now, I didn't agree with every single word, but still--some of his words were absolutely true. I know because they came right out of scripture.

But when I acknowledged he had some good things to say, you'd have thought I had confused Obama with Osama if you'd seen the reaction I got.

I've heard Repubs and Dems alike say that his candidacy amounts to "just words." But Peggy Noonan once said that what's moving in a speech is the logic. Reagan's "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev" speech was so powerful precisely because--as Robert Frost once wrote--"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."

In the same way Obama embraced his pastor without embracing all his ideas, I embrace some of Obama's words without embracing all of his politics. And I hope that if you are a die-hard McCain supporter or a huge Hillary fan that you won't stop reading my words here simply because I said something nice about Obama.

I invite your feedback. But only if you actually read the entire transcript of the speech before giving an opinion about it, okay?