Obama Doesn't Know Us
To The Editor:

Senator [Barack] Obama's recent perverted analysis of why people "cling" to certain traditions reveals a profound ignorance of the American psyche and character.

It was not bitterness that inspired our Founding Fathers to write "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…." Neither is the Second Amendment an expression of frustration and despair.

He is convinced that people during times of hardship and adversity become impotent and "cling" to what he implies are less than worthy ideals and traditions. He is unaware that those traditions to which he alludes are the essence and spirit embedded in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution: it is even emblazoned on our currency: "In God We Trust".

Senator Obama's cynical view of the nature of man is rooted in his belief in the supremacy of an omnipotent state with the power to rid mankind of bitterness, despair and what he believes is its "clinging" nature. The Founding Fathers instead exalted and codified individual rights to the Constitution to protect us from those who see us as helpless "clinging" masses.

The Senator's views are at odds with those of our Founding Fathers and closer to Karl Marx who believed "religion is the opium of the masses". Ed Konecnik Flushing