Posted on 04/12/2008 6:41:27 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
-By Warner Todd Huston
At a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama said that small town Americans living in the Midwest are religious zealots, gun nuts, and racists. So much for Obama being the candidate of "working together" and the wondrous architect of a "new politics."
Obama's dismissing of the civility and religiosity of the largest part of America's citizenry is reported to have upset a North Carolina Hillary supporter who was tasked with introducing his candidate at a rally there. Former state party chair Tom Hendrickson got in his high dudgeon at Barack's anti-small-town America rhetoric.
Here is what Obama said in California late last week that got Henrickson’s goat.
"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, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And 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."
Barack’s rhetoric is pretty bad, just as Tom Hendrickson said in North Carolina. So, before he introduced Clinton, Hendrickson lambasted Obama over those remarks. ABC’s Jake Tapper reports Hendrickson's irate words on his Political Punch blog.
"I listened to that quote and I got mad," Hendrickson said, "and I wanted to reach out to Senator Obama and say senator, we are from the rural part of eastern North Carolina. We are very proud of our heritage, we are proud of who we are. We are not frustrated. We are not bitter. We turn to our faith because we believe, and we hunt and fish because it is part of our culture and we enjoy it.
Ok, that's all well and good. We have a candidate in Obama pandering to his far left, elitist California base by telling them he thinks Middle America is filled with racist, hicks. And we have a Southern Democrat playing the good ol' boy card claiming to be "proud" of his fellow hicks in flyover country.
Hendrickson is 100% right, of course. Obama has nothing but disdain for Middle America and he should be called on it.
There is only one problem with Hendrickson's little tale and that problem comes in at the tale end of Tapper's report.
Amos points out that, interestingly, the crowd had little reaction at all. They, in fact, seemed a tad bored.
Tapper says "interestingly" as if it is of but little concern. I, on the other hand, find it disturbing. It says to me that the North Carolina Democrats that Mr. Hendrickson was speaking to, people that are supposedly the sort of average North Carolinians from the same sort of "small towns" that Obama seems to hate so, weren't upset in the least at Obama's comments likening them to racist gun-nuts, etc.
Why is this one might wonder?
Let me posit to you that these Hillary supporters weren't upset because the remarks that Obama made were not that big of a deal to them. In other words, these Democrats AGREED with Obama’s characterization that most Americans are overly religious, racist, gun-nuts. So, when Mr. Hendrickson tired to stir the crowd against Obama's comments, they didn't react because it didn't make them mad in the first place.
And this gets to the nub of the issue. Most Democrats hate the average American. Most Democrats assume that most Americans are racists. Most Democrats agree with Obama that Americans are evil people.
THAT is the Democratic Party of today. A party that hates its fellow citizens. Obama’s charge against his fellow countrymen is garbage, of course. But few in his party think so, few disagree with his mischaracterization of Middle America. And THAT is the most disgusting part of this whole story.
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I’m getting really tired of this punk kid empty suit already.
Thoough I can’t predict whether BHO or HRC will pick up the democrat nomination, I have a feeling that a mighty fist will slam down on whomever their candidate is on the evening of Election night. ,p>And the dems will still be wondering how they could have lost.
And this BOZO is from Illinios? Clearly he's never ventured beyond the expressway for any meaningful period of time.
Obozo.
Relative of yours...?
Shut yer trap, punk.
This plus his wife’s statement that some Americans need to “give up their piece of the pie” so that others can have a slice is pure political gold. Twenty-four karat gold.
“...small town Americans living in the Midwest are religious zealots, gun nuts, and racists.”
The black ones too, Mr. Ivy League ORacist?
"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
In other words, it’s Clinton’s and Bush’s fault the people are ticked that they have lost too many jobs to illegals?
What he is saying is that US hicks turn to God, guns and The Constitution instead of Big Brother Government....he is revealing himself for the Marxist that he is. The people didn’t react b/c they are no longer Democrats. The new party “of the people” is Marxist to the core and they should rename themselves The Democrat-Socialist Party.
Let’s hope so. This is a clear demonstration of Democrats continuing to assert that more government is the cure for all of America’s problems. Religion (and gun culture) are the opiates of the unwashed masses.
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I saw them on Fox a couple of nights ago. She was talking about how people would be just fine to make do with less and that some people have just achieved too much.
"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
Is this your reference?
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTViZjhhNGI1Y2QxYjE0ZDc0YmMwMjJiNmUyZjQ3MmU=
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