Posted on 04/12/2008 12:19:36 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Sens. John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday criticized Sen. Barack Obama as a condescending, out-of-touch elitist over remarks made Sunday and again last night in which the Illinois senator said small-town Americans are "bitter" and cling to guns and religion as symptoms of frustration.
"Pennsylvania doesn't need a president who looks down on them," Mrs. Clinton said at a Philadelphia rally yesterday. "They need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, your families."
McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt said that Mr. Obama's initial remarks, made at a fundraiser in San Francisco, "shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking."
In the remarks earlier this week, which surfaced yesterday on the Huffington Post Web site, Mr. Obama told the closed-door fundraiser that "you go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them."
Mr. Obama told the San Francisco crowd that these economic struggles would unsurprisingly make small-town residents become bitter or back conservative social issues.
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If he wins, I hope we are all prepared to be labeled as racists every time we oppose this guy’s policies.
Nope...not me.
Check my screen name.
No one here has had more trouble with a screen name than I have.
Not to mention that I’m from the deep South. lol
The word “racist” doesn’t mean anything anymore.
They have used that word so much that it is meaningless.
So...no worries...let anyone call you that term, and then take relief in the fact that the word “racist” means nothing.
All because they overused it...
Yes, Obama was in San Francisco (the perfect audience!) and didn’t know he was being recorded. And he accuses small town Pennsylvania residents who legally possess firearms for self-defense, hunting, etc. as ignorant and frustrated boobs. To that class he adds those who oppose illegal immigration and take their religious beliefs seriously! I’m delighted that he exposed himself again for what he really is - an arrogant and condescending ultra-leftist who has absolutely no understanding of, or connection to, middle class American culture. Keep talking, Barack!
Boy...this is gonna make a great campaign ad!
Sorry for being a little over exuberant.
Things seem to be upside down, now.
It’s hard to get used to.
I’m well prepared having lived in the Memphis area the last 16 years.
They ain’t bitter, they’re just typical white people.
I'm used to it by now. I'm the racist White oppressor against the Latino majority in my own home. Heck, I think it was even written into our wedding vows. ; )
MY OPINION:
Yes, he is that, and he is also an evil hate white America racist. Make no mistake about it, the far left politicians like Durbin, Kerry, Kennedy, and Dodd know exactly what he is. They are not just enablers, they are supporters and instigators.
Reminds me of some of the comments made by Hanoi Jane and other traitors way back when. Their stated aim was to destroy America, then build a socialist utopia out of the ashes.
Makes one wonder who the real power brokers are behind this racist and his up front supporters.
Absolutely, I say the same things in pulic as I do here no matter who is in the room. I don't care how I'm labled, I know my heart.
As for B. Hussein, I've seen him for what he is from day one, he one dangerous S. o. B.
Well, I will say this much, he certainly seems to have some experience with church going bigots...
Good point. In my opinion, the Democrats made a big mistake by not vetting him. They assumed because he had no real experience and was a fresh face that he didn’t have much in the way of background to look at. Thus, after that one stupid speech at the Democratic Convention he became their instant “messiah” and rock star. Also important, the MSM was in the tank for him and slobbered over him like he was Elvis reincarnate. But that was before the Rev. Wright, Rezko, and his unrepentant terrorist associate from the Weather underground. It was also before they realized that his wife would blabber that America was “mean” and she had never before proud to be American. By the way, I noticed last night that even liberal propagandists like Chris Matthews and David Shuster were having a hard time making excuses for him!
The man’s the one who is on drugs and craves the guns and a religion of satan leadership position to cause havoc and genocide in the US. He might be a deranged individual with strange Jungian projections. Given the type of “mentorship” and “role models” he had, I would not be surprized.
So Obama is telling us which issues are proper to decide how to vote. Does he want to be Preident of a Republic or dictator surrounded by bigots?
Imagine McCain saying:
You go into these urban neighborhood in New York and, like a lot of areas in major cities, the welfare has been drying up now for 15 years and no new government program has replaced it… Each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna stop relying on government handouts and regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to gangs or victimhood or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-white sentiment or conspiracy theories as a way to explain their frustrations.
I’d say Freudian projections!
"In light of this most recent statement, I believe Americans are going to have even more questions about his values. Not only do these comments reveal a condescending elitism, Obama illustrates to us just how out of touch he is with middle-class America." Mr. Gleason said."Only an elitist who attributes religious faith and gun ownership to bitterness would think that tax cuts for the rich include families who make $75,000 per year. Only an elitist would say that people vote their values only out of frustration. Barack Obama thinks he knows your hopes and fears better than you do," Mr. Bounds said.
How does Obama explain Americans who believe in God and support the constitutional right to bear arms, who are not unhappy, bitter, or frustrated with their lives? How does he explain those who think the U.S. borders should be secure to protect the country from terrorists? Those who have real questions about trade deficits and the falling dollar, not out of bitterness or mere frustration but genuine concerns for the economy, jobs, and the common good?
Does he think that all Americans who opposes his policies are paranoid nativists like the caricatures in Richard Hofstadter's books :
Opposition to liberalism based on "bitter" feelings and "frustrations"
"He is the most bitter of all our citizens....
Political life is not simply an arena in which the conflicting interests of various social groups in concrete material gains are fought out; it is also an arena into which status aspirations and frustrations are, as the psychologists would say, projected. It is at this point that the issues of politics, or the pretended issues of politics, become interwoven with and dependent upon the personal problems of individuals. We have, at all times, two kinds of processes going on in inextricable connection with each other: interest politics, the clash of material aims and needs among various groups and blocs; and status politics, the clash of various projective rationalizations arising from status aspirations and other personal motives."
"Such status-strivings may help us to understand some of the otherwise unintelligible figments of the pseudo-conservative ideology — the incredibly bitter feeling against the United Nations, for instance." - Richard Hofstadter, "The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt," The American Scholar, Winter 1954-55.
Is this what he learned at Columbia and Harvard where Frankfurt School social theory holds sway, reducing all questions of ideology to economic and psychological conflicts? Is a man with these arrogant views qualified to be President of the United States?
How can someone lead and "unite" the country while making disparaging and condescending comments about 1/3 to half of its middle-class and working-class citizens? Is this the utopian "change" he talks about? Is this the point of view which all of those giddy, cult-like "Yes We Can!" rallies were really all about? Keep in mind the comments in his book about how talking to white people involved using special "tricks".
Does he think that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison believed in God and supported the constitutional right to bear arms because they were "bitter" and "frustrated" with their lives?
Obama said we folks of PA oppose immigration - - not ILLEGAL immigration - - which is also total bs.
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