Obama caught accidentally being honest!

04/14/08 | Your Future President

[yourfuturepresident]

Speaking at a closed door event, to liberal supporters in San Francisco last week, Obama uttered the following:

"You go into some of 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 and they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate, and they haven't. It's not surprising, then, that 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."

Do you understand what he is saying here? What he means by this? Obama reveals in these comments not only his contempt for middle-class American values , but also for religion. According to these comments Americans are bitter, selfish, hot-headed bigots. There can not possibly be any logical reason to be pro-gun, or anti-illegal immigration in Obama's mind, so it's just because Americans are bitter and looking to explain their frustration. That doesn't even make sense! How does being pro-gun explain or even justify frustration? It doesn't. This is just standard liberal condescension thrown out as red meat for this audience. And as offensive and patronizing as that is, it's not even the worst part.

The truly revealing - not to mention hypocritical - statement is the one he is making about religion. According to Obama, Americans turn to religion because they can't turn to government and use it as a vehicle for bitterness and frustration. Don't believe me? Read the quote again, it's there. While offensive, and patently false, this view of religion is fairly common in the Atheist Part - I mean, Democrat Party. Suddenly it's easy to understand how Obama could sit in church listening to Jeremiah Wright for 20 years. Afterall, that sort of frustrated hate speech is what church and religion are all about. It's what people disappointed in government must cling to in order to explain their frustrations, right?

Obama has begun his attempts to make this look like a misrepresentation of his position and nothing more than a few poorly chosen words. But isn't Obama the candidate saying that words matter?! Yes, he is! That's why you can't believe these words were a mistake. He said exactly what he meant, he just didn't mean for us to hear it. Even if you are deluded enough to believe the exact words were unintentional, the fundamental idea is still correct, as Obama himself said in Indiana on Saturday:

"[I] didn't say it as well as I should have... [though] the underlying truth of what I said remains."

So maybe he did not mean to say people "cling" to religion in order to "explain" their "frustrations" so much as they "turn" to religion as a means to "voice" their "bigotry." Okay, much better. Glad we could clear that up. Odd how the man who claims words should count, that they matter, only wants certain ones to matter and none to count against him.

When the above defense didn't end the story, or even meet with widespread agreement, Obama had to again address the issue and did so with the following comment in Pittsburgh:

"Now it may be that I chose my words badly. It wasn't the first time and it won't be the last. But when I hear my opponents, both of whom have spent decades in Washington, saying I'm out of touch, it's time to cut through their rhetoric and look at the reality."

Okay. While they were in Washington, you were sitting in Trinity United Church listening to Jeremiah Wright and developing your patronizing elitist view of the American middle-class... just taking your advice and cutting through the rhetoric to reality Obama.

[fishhound]

“[I] didn’t say it as well as I should have... [though] the underlying truth of what I said remains.”

Roughly:
“The documents are false but the story is true.” Dan Rather

[llandres]

So, so right - the first words spoken are the true ones.

[Grampa Dave]

"Hussein Obama’s big mouth, small brain, condescending, America-hating, grandkid-baby-terminating, born-alive-infant-abandoning, America-hating-wife, kooky-moonbat-America-hating-pastor, racially-divisive, race-baiting, crotch-saluting, America-flag-disrespecting ... chickens ... coming home to roost ...!"

For an inside look at the real Hussein Obama and his elite hate America backers at San Francisco where Hussein Obama made his elitist remarks,

Go here to see the thread with all The Pictures posted and Here to see another thread about it.

Lots of interesting comments on the threads.