It also points to a fact that the honchos and big whigs in the Dem party are starting to realize: He's quite possibly unelectable in the general election. His spin isn't going to help.
Excerpt:
"In Obama's cleaned-up version, religion ("faith") becomes something small town people "can count on," along with community and family, rather than something they "cling to" on account of being "bitter," along with guns and hatred of immigrants and others "who aren't like them." That's a nice try, I guess, but it's hard to believe it will fool anyone."
The Clintonista feminists are all over "The Precious":
"In the end, what Obama's blather today has done is expose the elite myth that working class America is deficient in some way. The elite of the right proclaims the deficiency is natural inferiority. The elite of the left proclaims the deficiency to be intellectual inferiority."
....and:
"What bothers me is the tiresome suggestion that antipathy, or an aversion to those who are different, is a trait owned by working class or poor folks. If hard economic times create antipathy, then poor people must be bigots. There is nothing new about this claim. There is a longstanding 'upper class' practice of attributing all of the negative traits of Homo sapiens to 'lower class' folks. Whites have done the same to Blacks. Men have certainly done the same to women.
Barack Obama made these remarks about "lower class" folks while he was among his "upper class" donors in San Francisco. Coming from a man who boasts of being the unity candidate, it is stunning to hear such a starkly "us vs. them" analysis. Alas, fear and distrust of those who are different from us is a human trait that is found among all economic classes.
Regardless of what Barack Obama meant to say, drawing lines of class division is no way to win an election. And this is just the latest instance of a display of arrogance by Barack Obama."
We won't even start to list the things gun owners have to say about this.
Meanwhile, over at Cone's, the Coneheads/Usual Suspects are righteously indignant that someone actually has the audacity to question the wisdom and the poor politics of their messiah.
Perpetually clueless Ged:
"McCain and Hillary can protest all they want, but they are the ones who are out of touch, not Barack."
"justcorbly":
"People have always turned to religion and other ideologies for solace when their world is falling apart for reasons they don't understand correctly. That says more about people willing to exploit sincere religious faith than it does the faithful."
...and:
"We can't help them get on with their lives if we reward those nasty attitudes by expressing solidarity with their 'blue collar' ways."
And our pal Roch, who gets things way wrong more the majority of times , gives the snarky but simpleton line about Obama's web page providing all the answers we need about him:
"Obama has this nifty new thing called a web site. It's a good antidote to ignorance. On it, one will find very specific proposals on a variety of issues from the economy, to open government, to homeland security, to energy and on and on. Do you want to continue to press the silly notion that Obama doesn't offer specifics or would you rather educate yourself?"
To his credit, Ribar attempts to use common sense, to no avail.
I don't understand why all these elitist haven't done their research & looked at Obamas judgement, racism & connections to shady characters, both in the USA & in Africa. I wish one American journalist would go down to Kenya & report back what the Christians in that country have to say about him.
ReplyDeleteRead "Dreams of My Father" without the rose colored glasses & look for the subtle & not so subtle racism through out the book.
By the way, I read an interesting article this week, with former associates & employees of his white grandmother. The people who knew her as the first white woman to rise to bank vice president level, in Hawaii, had a few things to say about the way her "beloved grandson" had portrayed her. People who had known her for years, said that she was hard working, ethical & they did not believe that she had ever made a racist remark in private or in public.
This leads me to believe as Pat Buchanan suggest, that Obama would throw his own grandmother under a bus, if it suits his purposes.
Slowly but surely we are learning what's inside the would-be messiah. what we have found so far seriously undercuts his credibility and his judgment.
ReplyDeleteWill all this result in Hillary snagging the Dem presidential nomination?
Probably not, but it WILL cause him to lose the White House.
In which case, we will thank God for the preservation of our nation, and the triumph of common good sense over the empty images and sound bytes.
"Probably not, but it WILL cause him to lose the White House."
ReplyDeleteAmen to that!