Bob McCarty Writes

Barack Obama's campaign promises are like cotton candy.

Describing the way many of his contemporaries deliver “good stuff” instead of “God’s stuff” from the pulpit, my pastor used his sermon this morning to describe such a practice as “cotton candy preaching” — that is, it’s “light, fluffy and sweet, but lacks substance.”  The same can be said for campaign promises made by one of the candidates running for the nation’s highest public office.

Perhaps a result of having hundreds of million dollars in campaign contributions at his disposal, Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama seems most guilty of the practice of giving prospective voters “cotton candy” — that is, telling them what they think they want to hear — instead of sharing worthwhile information about his stands on the most-important issues of the day (i.e., “substance”) and about his background and core beliefs.

Without a doubt, Obama’s messages of “hope” and “change” offer plenty of light, fluffy and sweet rhetoric; however, just like the cotton candy you buy at the State Fair, they lack substance.  When exposed to the light of day, in keeping with the warning on the front of the cotton candy package in the photo accompanying this post, they lose their appeal.