Senator Obama’s speech was without a doubt, eloquent! However, that aside he did not reach the offended American people and it is my humble opinion that he has lost his chance to do so, because the speech was “fundamentally dishonest.”

Senator Obama’s fame to political life was centered on the fact that he could cross all lines of the political and racial spectrum and he was a person who can unite rather than divide! But after calling on the American people to look at America not as blue or white states but the United States, his deficiency in judgment to be part of a congregation with a Pastor who does a disservice to Christ first and foremost, is no small blunder. Senator Obama over and over said to Senator Clinton that it is one thing to be ready on the first day but it is important to be right on the first day. It is evidently factual that his judgment was clouded for two decades plus.

Over time I saw him making that remark over and over again sighting that he was correct in his position against the Invasion of Iraq. However, Senator Obama was in the Illinois Legislature and not a sitting senator whose State was devastated by the 9/11 tragedy. Senator Obama is an educated person and the “authorization to go to war was supposed to be used first as an ultimatum and if there was no compliance, then war was the next step. I am certain that Senator Obama knows this fact!

I do not think that it is fair to blame any of the Senators who voted for the war or against the war, for in the final analysis it was the insipidity of President Bush to remove the United Nations Inspectors and follow Vice President Cheney’s advice in this pre-emptive strike that has now kept us in Iraq for five years. But we are where we are and Senator Obama’s continued repeated statements that he is the only one that can bring the war to an end and bring the troops home within a year that is also dishonest. In the same manner that we cannot separate California from the United States, in the like manner, whether for better or for worse, and I hope it is for the better, we will be in Iraq for a very long time.

I do believe that Senator Obaa is a good person and a person who believes in God and thus I think Senator Obama’s prayer this day should be; “Lord may Your infinite wisdom cure me of the madness of self-confidence!” In doing so, Senator Obama may once again find that humility is our greatest strength and arrogance is our greatest destruction.