Obama Chokes on Chick-Fil-A
I absolutely love Chick-Fil-A.
My original affection for the fast food chain has little to do with the recent controversy centered around the topic of traditional marriage. We don’t have many of them in my area, so it is a treat when I get to eat there. The food is always great, and I’m a huge fan of waffle fries..!
Yes, I am a life-long fast food junkie, and since Chick-Fil-A is rarely available to me, it has always been elevated a little higher than the other chains I frequent.
This recent controversy just elevates them higher in my eyes. They handled the entire situation wonderfully, with grace. By all accounts (including my own) people who went to support them during the height of all of the drama had a very pleasant experience. The planned boycott and protests against them fizzled. Angry activists were greeted with the same warm kindness and service standards set for those who came in support.
Now, according to Scott Rasmussen, 61% of people hold a favorable opinion of Chick-Fil-A.
That’s bad for Barack Obama.
Obama’s former Chief of Staff and current Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel was clearly on the wrong side of this debate when he sought to deny the right of Chick-Fil-A to operate in “his” city. It’s no stretch at all to see that Obama and Emanuel have very similar ideologies, or to think that Obama would have held the same position in Emanuel’s place.
Now, I am not naive enough to think that all of those people who see Chick-Fil-A in a positive light are opposed to homosexual marriage, but it is likely that most of them are. Given Obama’s recent flip-flop of his past flip-flop-flippity-flopping on the issue, this does not bode well for him. Because Obama has changed his position so many times, he loses a good deal of credibility. Moreover, his switch in position came at a time when the LGBT community was threatening to withhold campaign donations from him; a very crass and cynical political move. Nevermind that Obama isn’t proposing any actual policy change, or the fact that he was only paying lip-service to the LGBT community.
The real problem for Obama is that same-sex marriage has lost every time the people are allowed to vote on the issue, despite polling that would have indicated otherwise.
The Obama campaign is reading its own polls, and they’re believing them.
If we were to take polling at face value, along with exit polling, we would have had Presidents Al Gore and John Kerry, and there would have been no overwhelming Republican sweep of congress in 2010. Most pollsters today care less about accuracy and more about propaganda. The polls are crafted as a means to sway opinion rather than to gauge it. They stack the deck by over-sampling Democrats, and by polling all registered voters instead of restricting themselves to those who are likely to vote. Sometimes they don’t even bother to try to keep things that accurate; they poll anyone, registered to vote, or not.
The fact that Obama “came out” in support of same-sex marriage indicates two things; he was desperate for campaign cash, and his handlers are buying into their own polling. That’s dangerous ground upon which to tread.
That so many people approve of Chick-Fil-A in the wake of what the media so desperately hoped would be a giant scandal can only be a bad thing for Obama.
Chick-Fil-A Should Make Us All Proud
Okay, I feel like an idiot.
I realize that comment leaves me open to all sorts of snappy come-backs, but it is true, nonetheless. See, I didn’t go to Chick-Fil-A yesterday. I was planning to go, and then I forgot!
Please don’t hate me.
The closest Chick-Fil-A to my house is a good 30 minutes away, but it does happen to be close to the campus where I am attending college this year. So, since I had orientation on August 1st, and that coincided with our day of support for Chick-Fil-A’s right to do business, I thought it was providence! The only problem is that I got so wrapped up in orientation and all of the crap that comes with it, that it was only when I was pulling back into my driveway at the end of the day that I remembered where I had planned to eat.
Suddenly, I lamented my having eaten lunch in the cafeteria (and let me tell you, there was no small amount of remorse for having made that decision even before I remembered about Chick-Fil-A Day).
But you guys didn’t need me, did you..?
Normally I would chuckle at the notion of my being proud of a fast food chain. I mean, why would I be proud? I don’t design their food, or even serve it. There are so few of them in my city that I rarely even get to eat there. And I certainly wasn’t the one who stood up in support of traditional marriage at the risk of my right to operate my business.
But I am proud, even so.
I’m proud to be associated with the great many of you who stood up for Christians under attack by “tolerant” politicians seeking to deny them the right to operate. The massive lines at Chick-Fil-A yesterday buoyed my spirit. A clear message was sent yesterday, and I’m betting that more than a few Democrat operatives and strategists had trouble sleeping last night. I never thought that I would see people getting heartburn from fast food without even eating it!
The liberals have good cause to be scared. Their world is slowly crumbling around them. They truly do not understand what happened yesterday, but they know it doesn’t look like a good thing for them. If only they could fully grasp…
I believe that the turnout yesterday is going to look like a drop in the bucket when conservatives and libertarians show up at the polls in November, and you best believe that I won’t be too wrapped up in my own world to forget this time.
That has me proud… and them terrified!
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An earlier article I wrote about Chick-Fil-A is here, if you would like to read it.
I would like to send a heartfelt thanks to all of the people who have taken the time to read my posts here. This blog remains small compared to some others, but, in less than two weeks, it has grown exponentially because of you. I greatly appreciate that.
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