Republicans are often accused by the Democrats and the MSM of trying to create a theocratic government in the United States. Given that some of the rhetoric from the Obama campaign is surprising. Consider this speech by Michele Obama:

"In 2008, we are still a nation that is too divided. We live in isolation, and because of that isolation, we fear one another. We don't know our neighbors, we don't talk, we believe our pain is our own. We don't realize that the struggles and challenges of all of us are the same. We are too isolated. And we are still a nation that is still too cynical. We look at it as "them" and "they" as opposed to "us". We don't engage because we are still too cynical. ...

"Americans are not in debt because they live frivolously but because someone got sick. Even with insurance, the deductibles and the premiums are so high that people are still putting medications and treatments on credit cards. And they can't get out from under. I could go on and on, but this is how we're living, people, in 2008.

"And things have gotten progressively worse throughout my lifetime, through Democratic and Republican administrations, it hasn't gotten better for regular folks. ....

"We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another -- that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."

This speech is talking about an America that I am unfamiliar with, and it is hard for me to believe that it reflects reality. I don't know how old Michele Obama is, but I would guess 40 or 45 years. It is inconceivable that anyone could think the average American is not better off than people were 40 years ago. I reject the notion that the souls of Americans are broken, and that Barack Obama can fix our souls. My understanding is that Mrs. Obama is a Harvard educated lawyer who earns up toward $1,000,000 per year. It seems doubtful that she has had much adversity in her life, so where is she coming from. I was born during the depression, and my Dad was a sharecropper who made no money at the end of the year. I started working as a manual laborer when I was 14 years old. When I graduated from college, my parents life savings amounted to $1000. Despite that my view of America is totally different than that of Michele Obama, who obviously was born into much better financial circumstances than I was. She sees cynicism and some sort of sickness of the soul that I don't see, and don't think exists.