It’s All About Culture: Values and Background

Here are the results from the latest Wall Street Journal / NBC News Poll to the question of whether the candidate had a background or values that the respondent could identify with:

For Sen. John McCain, 60% of the respondents said the Senator did have such a background or values. Thirty-three percent said he did not.

For Sen. Barack Obama, only 50% of respondents said the Senator had a such a background or values. A whopping 40% said he did not.

I don’t know the exact correlation between background/values and culture but I think there is probably a very close one. Based on the definitions I just read, it seems like values are a subset of culture and as prominent a component as any. When you add “background” to “values” then I think you pretty much get “culture”.

And that is Sen. Barack Obama’s huge problem and one that he will not overcome by the election. Matter of fact, as more people get to know the Senator, the worse he is going to perform on the background/values question.

Sen. Barack Obama is jamming his Pacific roots down our throat. The liberal extremists who control the media are making our acceptance of Sen. Obama as some kind of demonstration of global appreciation.

Sen. Barack Obama is pineapple.

The culture of America is a Coney Island hot dog. Sen. Obama and his apologist al Fediraban American allies think the only good Coney Island hot dog is one with pineapple relish. Sen. Obama and his friends in the media would have you believe that if you don’t eat a Coney Island hot dog with pineapple relish that you are a racist xenophobe.

The culture of America is a barbecue contest in, heck, pick a state, North Carolina? Georgia? Missouri? South Dakota? All of these states and more have local and national contests. I assure you, no one is putting pineapple in their meat rub.

The culture of America is Friday night football in Texas. Pineapple wedges at the snack bar? Please. But, because there isn’t, you got it, racist xenophobes.

The culture of America is ice fishing in Minnesota. There is no pineapple in the fishing huts sitting on the feet-thick ice. The anglers are all racist xenophobes, you know.

The culture of America is anything that any third grader would tell the class about a State she was assigned to present to the class. Skiing in Colorado and Utah. The rodeo in Wyoming. Hunting in just about all the States. The beach in those States lucky enough to border an ocean. I could go on but you should get the point by now. None of these things need pineapple.

Turn Sen. Obama’s anti-America message to the world around: imagine us insisting the Spanish matador eat pineapple while he was working. Why do we have to respect exactly how the Spanish conduct the bull fight?

Imagine us "encouraging", by guilt or shame, some martial arts class in any country where martial arts is part of that country’s culture that they have to snack on a Coney Island hot dog.

This list of examples can go on forever as well but hopefully you get the point. Exactly how every other country is doing what they are doing is exactly what Americans will respect but every thing we do we should try to change to appease some other culture. I say, “no way”.

Sen. Barack Obama is going to lose badly because he rejects the culture of America. He apologizes for it too much and Americans are going to tire of it.

If the young ladies in-line skating at Venice Beach are not eating pineapple wedges while they’re skating, well, that’s one change that I think I could support. I’ll bring the napkins.