Can Obama Unite Small Town Union Mills?

As a “Capital L” Libertarian who believes that political parties should choose their own candidates and taxpayers should not have to pick up the tab for it, I won’t be voting for Senator Obama on Tuesday.  But I am pretty impressed that he took time to visit Union Mills, Indiana on Thursday  http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=12945

With the  “Guns and Religion” comment blown way out of proportion by Clintonistas and media http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obama13apr13,1,6505389.story , Obama could not have chosen a better small town to stop at for a political backdrop than the farm community of Union Mills. Guns and religion are part of what helps to give small communities like Union Mills their special character and represents the ideals that the Founders had in mind a couple of hundred years ago.  Clinging to those ideals certainly isn’t a bad thing.  However, Obama is right on target that there is a lot of “bitterness” in small town America - and no apology should be necessary for speaking truthfully about that. But that bitterness has been principally fueled by the misguided policies of an overly intrusive Federal Government that has been trying to pick winners and losers in a high stakes game of economic roulette.  Like our inner cities, Small Town America has seen firsthand just how well that has worked out under the Republicratic administrations of Clinton and Bushes and certainly has plenty of good reasons to be bitter.  However Federal policies that continue to grow a bigger, more intrusive Socialist government will only worsen that bitterness, not eliminate it.

Like many of the divisive political warfare strategies that the Clintonistas have perfected over the years,  the Rush Limbaugh inspired “Operation Chaos”   http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2008/03/rush-the-vote-i.html  is another prime example of what ails our political process today. Since the LaPorte County Republicans have almost no contested races on the primary ballot, many Zirkle Republicans probably will pull a Democratic ballot to cast a vote for Hillarity.  But a fear-driven Operation Chaos that helps choose America’s Biggest Loser definitely is not in the best interest of building a better America and fixing our problems.    

Obama deserves credit for trying to stay on a message that offers hope and seeks to unite America across racial boundaries instead of dividing America along racial boundaries for political gain.  Perhaps President Obama will somehow discover that Libertarianism of the future just might be a better way to do that than the failed Socialism of the past. Small Town America can only hope and pray that a few more of the already-elected Superdelegates might figure that out too. 

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