JOHANSON: Obama, the wolf in sheep's garb

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By Walker Johanson

COMMENTARY:

It never ceases to amaze me how readily undecided voters - and moderates in both parties - are so willing to be swayed by personalities, by talking points, by 30-second ads, by last-minute program inducements (like Democrats promising to reduce taxes), and by their own knee-jerk reactions to imminent crises, rather than to their core underlying principles and beliefs.

This election is not a choice between "personalities." And it should not be determined by perceived differences in style, age, attractiveness or on whether it's "time" for us to show the world we're willing to put a black man in the White House.

Unlike in the past, when candidates differed little on substance, but significantly on approach, we're now at a point when our two candidates have seismically different views of America.

On the one hand, Barack Obama is a true wolf in sheep's clothing. On the outside, he's nice, pleasant, handsome, well-spoken, has cute little kids, dresses well, looks like someone we would all like to know. But underneath, he resembles an anti-American Marxist who believes the following:

-- Democrats have the answer to the current economic crisis. (Have Democrats ever had the answer to any economic crisis? The very Fannie Mae leaders who took $90-plus million in personal bonuses over the last few years - while causing the subprime mortgage crisis - have advised Mr. Obama's team.)

-- Murdering innocent babies - through abortion - is an inalienable "right." (I think Adolf Hitler supported this same position.)That marriage should be redefined to include homosexual relationships. (Inner-city poverty rates correlate with no father in the home. Imagine what it will be with no mother in the home.)

-- Government knows - better than you do - how to spend your money. (Just compare the lines and personalities at the Post Office and the DMV with those at Wendy's.)

-- It's more important to protect "wetlands" than it is to protect your family and America's industrial might.

-- "Global warming" is a bigger threat than crime, drugs, pornography, unwed mothers and immorality at all levels.