Xenophobia, San Francisco style

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/15/8 | Debra J. Saunders

[SmithL]

In case you haven't heard the Barack Obama quote surreptitiously taped at an April 6 San Francisco fundraiser, then broadcast on Huffington Post, here it is: Obama noted that in many high-unemployment small towns, jobs have been gone for decades and neither the Bush or Clinton administrations helped restore them, so "it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

You've heard this song sung before. Before he became Democratic National Committee chairman, Howard Dean voiced the same condescending view of voters in 2003 when he said that Democrats had to stop letting the GOP woo voters on "guns, God, gays" and abortion.

Get it? If any blue-collar workers vote Republican, it cannot be because they had good reason. No, they must have been tricked into doing so, so they can't be very smart.

The attitude is that what these folks believe in is not important - be it the right to protect themselves or that federal immigration laws mean something. Democrats like Obama and Dean know what really is in these voters' self-interest.

Obama later admitted, "I didn't say it as well as I should have." No lie. His big mistake was that he played to the conceit of Bay Area liberals when he was asked how to appeal to Pennsylvania voters, whom, Obama was quick to note, can be "culturally" very different from San Franciscans.

[goldstategop]

So much for the "diversity" crowd. They don't appreciate an America that includes folks in rural areas and small towns.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Earthdweller]

Xenophobia, San Francisco style...is all projection.

[junta]

They don’t even appreciate the “diversity” within their own political coalition. The blog that ran the photos of the Getty fundraiser were a whitewash if you know what I mean.

[manc]

all these liberal dem cities are the same

elitist and up their own arse’s, whether it’s Boston, new york ,san fran chicago,

the people say they want diversity but don’t live diversity

Even when they come down here to flroida they still bring their attitudes, live in a white gated eleitist community, work in a white area, go around white areas, and think that if they go to a mexican restaurant, have a homo friend, and know the one black man in the office then they are living their diversity

if they want diversity then move to miami, pasrts of tampa, etc
there they will find many people who speak no English, have different religion like islam

[MrB]

Seriously, “diversity” is about dividing people into groups, and training them to think about their group membership instead of their individualism.

These divide and conquer

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ARE COMING HOOOOOOOOOME
TO ROOOOOOSSSSST!

[skimask]

You might get a few chuckels out of this

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/

[Always Right]

I am more of a Xenaphobe.

[Red6]

They appreciate a lot; just not apple pie, God, guns, or the The Star Spangled Banner, for which this crowd won't show respect.

This is a new era, and Obama proudly proclaims to be it's leader.

[Tribune7]

If "God, guns and gays" aren't really the main issue, why don't the Dems just concede the points and go on to whatever it is they think are important?

I would say it's because the economic stuff they claim is important is not to them, while the centralization of power -- which requires making the concept of God irrelevant -- is.

[DuncanWaring]

I think the word you’re actually looking for is “Xenaphile”.

[Little Pig]

I always thought her sidekick was better-looking.

Xenaphobe: you’re afraid of Xena?

[OldMissileer]

“...jobs have been gone for decades and neither the Bush or Clinton administrations helped restore them...”

Since when was it the job of the President to find or give jobs to anybody?

[doxteve]

“I always thought her sidekick was better-looking.

Xenaphobe: you’re afraid of Xena?”

From the neck up these two remind me of some of my feminist acquaintences. I have no feminist friends.

[expatpat]

It cannot be an accident that Obama spoke as he did in an area where many two-college-degree Democrats think that, because everyone they know thinks as they do, that all the smart people must be liberals. It does not occur to them that they are cocooned in their own like-minded world, just as guys who go duck-hunting and women who cook for the church bake sale might do.

They dutifully nod when Obama talks about small-town voters who express "antipathy to people who aren't like them" - and they don't even realize they are doing just that.

Right on, Debra. The small-town folks in this country are the 'salt of the earth', this nation's core. It is the city-dwellers who are screwed up (and I say that as a three-college-degree Republican).

[Kozak]

Are you scared of Xena?

Personally I’m more of a Xenaphile....