Michelle Obama increasingly looks to be the Martha Mitchell of her day. For those too young to remember, Martha Mitchell was the wife of John Mitchell, Attorney General under President Nixon. She had a habit of speaking her mind freely in a most inauspicious manner. Dubbed "The Mouth That Roared", High Ranking Republicans would cringe every time she let loose a verbal barrage.

During a recent speech at a church in South Carolina, while stumping for her husband, Michelle Obama told the congregation that we are a country that is, "just downright mean…" and are "guided by fear…"

The New Messiah shtick of Obama, in a very real sense presupposes that we are all, in one way or another, sinners (broken souls, fear-mongers, downright mean, etc). If voters don't buy into this crucial predicate of Obama's stock message, then his vapid and vacuous —albeit stirring — rhetoric is not going to ring true. Indeed, The results in Ohio may indicate the limits of his strictly secular "Hope" message. Many of the blue collar workers don't need to listen to a New Age Messiah, because they already get their salvation every Sunday at church. For them, the Obama message just doesn't resonate; indeed, for many, it may smack of a certain shallowness. And these are Democratic Voters we are talking about.

In short, as the election season moves on, the Obamas' may be in for a rude awakening…