Barack Obama: A Picture of Conservatism in Action

If conservatives seek someone to illustrate to the nation their glorious vision of bootstrap freedom, perhaps no better exemplar appears than Sen. Barack Hussein Obama of Illinois.

Child of an immigrant father, Barack Obama has, by all accounts, lived the American dream, cutting a bold path of accomplishment through life, embodying many of the principles to which conservatives cling with righteous zeal.

Taught from the 5th grade on in a private school, he has demonstrated the efficacy of choice in education.

With no help from Affirmative Action, he earned acceptance at Occidental College, then Columbia University where he acquitted himself well enough to eventually gain admission to Harvard University.

There, based on his academic performance and success in a writing competition, he achieved the lofty post of editor of the Harvard Law Review. In the next year, Mr. Obama was elected president of the Law Review, which led to a publishing contract and an advance payment on his first book. He has since gained millions of dollars through his writings. He was graduated with great distinction, earning a J.D. from Harvard -- a degree for which he, doubtless, diligently labored many long hours, forsaking immediate gratification in pursuit of a long-term dream.

Early in his career, he worked for a church-based community group, serving as one the "thousand points of light' of which President George H.W. Bush spoke glowingly. He served in, and helped to start, several non-profit organizations intending to apply his skill and industry to better the lives of others, and thus share the blessings of liberty.

A paragon of family values and respect for life, Barack Obama started his own life un-aborted, and subsequently passed on that blessing to the two children born of a marital union with his spouse...who is a woman.

Mr. and Mrs. Obama have used their skills to accumulate wealth, allowing them to purchase a handsome mansion in a fine neighborhood, to drive quality vehicles, to fly for business and pleasure and to see the world. All of this was, of course, made possible by their combustion of vast quantities of petroleum products.

Living in this land of equal rights and equal opportunity under law, secured by the mightiest military force ever assembled anywhere, Barack Obama has persuaded thousands of his fellow countrymen to vote him into elected office -- first at the state, and then national, level. Now, he stands on the doorstep of receiving a major party nomination for the presidency. Each day he goes about his campaign flanked by men who carry concealed firearms, not as hunting tools, but as weapons to protect human life.

Yes, Barack Obama is the living embodiment of the beauty and truth of conservatism.

However, having eyes, he does not see. Sen. Obama seems unaware of the underlying foundational principles which have made his life one of blessing, wealth, dignity and honor.

Until he awakens to these principles, he is not fit to serve as president. Nothing more endangers American liberty than a child of liberty who spurns his parents.

In the meantime, the McCain campaign should make this simple promise to voters: President John McCain will strive to enhance the kind of liberty that allowed Barack Obama to live out his dreams in these magnificent United States.