Posted on 04/12/2008 5:28:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"And [these small towns] fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not..." Obama reportedly continued. "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." -Senator Barack Obama April 2008, San Francisco
If you go to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then move on to Columbia University and Harvard Law School, you may not understand normal Americans. Their beliefs are so alien to your leftwing viewpoint that you have to seek some psychological explanation for what seem to be weird ideas.
They can't really believe in the right to bear arms.
They can't really believe in traditional marriage.
They can't really believe in their faith in God.
They can't really want to enforce the law on immigration.
Therefore, they must be "bitter" and "frustrated."
This is the closest Senator Obama has come to openly sharing his wife's view that "America is a mean country". Not since Governor Dukakis have we seen anyone so out of touch with normal Americans. It makes perfect sense that it was in a fundraiser in San Francisco that he would have shared the views he has so carefully kept hidden for the entire campaign.
Obama has outed himself and his deep-down rage and hatred for ordinary, hardworking, arms-bearing,church-going Americans. He has revealed his true colors, and it’s not pretty. He is a racist, elitist, gun-grabbing commie, and now we all know it for sure.
Newt doesn’t understand what real Americans are like, either......because he’s got his website in English AND Spanish!
Put any adjective you want in the Obama quote. It still reveals the same snide, haughty, attitude towards the white rubes he is describing.
Newt doesn’t understand what real Americans are like, either......because he’s got his website in English AND Spanish!
CNN's Balanced Coverage Includes Three Panelists Who All Claim Obama Didn't Mean What He Obviously Meant:
Bonus points to Jack Cafferty for likening the same economic desperation that drives Pennsylvanians to Jesus to the poverty that drives Saudis to Al Qaeda:
Actually, Jack Cafferty and Jeffrey Toobin both get doubleplus bonus points for first claiming that Obama never meant to imply that economic privation drives people to Jesus, firearms and xenophobia, and then immediately adding "But Obama's right, economic privation does drive people to Jesus, firearms, and xenophobia."
Ummm.... Jack and Jeffey, I know you're really super-smart guys, being on TV and all, but I'm afraid if this is as "simple" and "obvious" as you assert, you're going to have to choose between the defenses 1) he didn't mean anything so patently offensive and absurd and 2) but by the way he's 100% dead-bang balls-on right.
Fair and balanced, CNN! I love how they focus almost exclusively on the "bitterness" remark (just as Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama decreed,, so it was heralded, so it shall be) and also also accept, entirely uncritically, Obama's explanation that when he said that small-town Americans are driven to xenophobia and hatred of outsiders, he meant that as a good thing.
Joe Baegent who wrote “Deer Hunting with Jesus” calls it the “Obama cult” and Joe is a card carrying raging lefty. Senator Webb call the DNC.
When I lived in Des Moines, we were SO happy to get rid of Jack Cafferty, and then he comes back like a bad penny you can’t get rid of. He was a loon then and is much loonier now. He is Howard Beale meets Keith Olbermann.
He might as well had said, "Religion is the opium of the masses."
It escapes me how failures like cafferty and olbermann end up as heroes to the left. They aren’t bright enough to handle the jobs they had originally (weatherman and sportscaster, in this case), they end up spewing leftist bile on cable, and their fans think they’re great. That says a lot about the typical leftie viewer, but they’re too dumb to see it.
Obama was born to a self-proclaimed radical and atheist mother and a Muslim father who abandoned him. His life went downhill from there. Not materially, but culturally and ethically. By the time he was 10 and dumped on his grandparents, his inner personality was formed. Yet his autobiography shows that he still desperately was searching for meaning and a way to define his identity. He is nominally a “Christian” convert, but to a politicized religion that has nothing to do with a personal relationship to God.
Obama is really not “American” in his ideals, background, cultural identity, or thinking and that’s why we keep seeing these discordant glimpses. HE is the one who is bitter. If he weren’t such a pompous ass, you could almost feel sorry for him. He’s a lost soul.
The same audience of nitwit moonbats made Mikey Moore a multimillionaire too.
If he hadn’t come from a moneyed background, he’d probably be just another street criminal.
It is the American idea of freedom, liberty, independence and individuality that is the revolutionary idea! It is the American,, simple, independent, rugged and free that has fed the world, freed the world, revolutionized the world, brought hope and freedom and liberation to untold millions. It is the American,, the simple American, armed with little more than a musket, Bible and a yearning for independence that was the most forward thinking man of his time,, and still is!
An American, man or woman, black or white, Christian or not,, an American with little to no education, title or money, but appreciates and understand the value of liberty, hard work and freedom and has a yearning to better himself and provide for his or her family,, has a love for his country and a general desire to help his fellow man,, is wiser and greater than a thousand Harvard graduates may ever be.
It is not simple hard working Americans that encourage rapists, kidnappers and murderers to ravage our nation. It is smart, liberal judges from Yale and Harvard!
It is not hard working Americans from rural communities that typically frolic with prostitutes or steal private property from those that get in their way! No,, again,, that would be smart liberals with degrees from expensive universities! The so called best and brightest among us!
Smart liberals with degrees have destroyed our education system, encouraged the sexual exploitation of our children, wrecked our economy, restricted our speech, destroyed families,,,
Yes,, the so called best and brightest among us,, like yourself,, that think nations like Cuba and Venezuela are to be emulated. The so called best and brightest among us, people with expensive and high sounding degrees, that have inflicted more pain and suffering on more people that one can even begin to imagine.
Great summary. What is scary, is that is really obvious to anyone who has taken a close look at this guy’s history and statements, and yet so few seem to realize it.
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