Posted on 04/13/2008 12:42:50 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
And now to add to the ever-lengthening list of Obamessiah apologists comes TV and Radio talker Alan Colmes to say that Barack Obama is right, Middle America IS filled with racist, overly religious, gun-nuts.
On his LiberalLand blog (the formerly secret blog he was hiding from the greater world), Sean Hannity's co-host said the following:
And just where is he wrong? Pointing out why people may be bitter or frustrated, that there is xenophobia, that people sometimes cling to religion or feel paranoid about the government and embrace guns doesn’t mean you hate or disdain a portion of the population.
First of all people do not "cling" to guns and religion because of what a government does or does not do. It is especially demeaning to people's religious sentiment to say that government is their reason for "clinging" to their religion. And secondly, Obama did not mean to say that people were merely frustrated. He was clearly trying to paint Middle America as racist, gun-nuts that were too stupid to understand what was going on around them.
It is also impossible, Mr. Colmes, not to see that he was singling out a "portion of the population" when he was quite specific in his target. It is also telling that he was speaking before some elite, West Coast liberals, too.
You have quite a dilemma, Mr. Colmes. If Barack really doesn't feel disdain for all those Middle Americans like you say, then he was pandering and lying to those West Coast lefties before whom he was appearing.
So, your only choices by which to assess Mr. Obama's remarks, Mr. Colmes, are two. Number one he really disdains Middle America. Number two, he doesn't and was just lying to the West Coasters. So he either hates a large segment of the country, or he is a panderer and liar.
Neither choice shows your messiah in a very good light, Mr. Colmes.
No wonder you tried to keep your blog a secret. Were I you, I would have too.
My point is that the political elite of this country, including the Reps, share the same feelings about the American public. Rove has been a disaster for the Rep party.
Colmes and Obammer are a couple of snakes..
As someone who has lived 25 years of his adult life abroad in 9 different countries and travelled to more than 60 others, I would say unhesitatingly less when compared to the rest of the world. There is no more tolerant and welcoming country to immigrants than this one.
“Obama makes blanket statements and categorizes “typical white people” all the time.”
Which should have ended his run right there, right then but it didn’t. They are still looking for more reasons to not believe that this man is a socialist, racist, anti-American black man, when the evidence is in every word he has said.
from the comments
I think that you go into some of these left-wing blogs, and like a lot of self-proclaimed “liberal” enclaves, they perceive that their true died-in-the-wool leftist candidates have been gone now since 1968 and nobody has replaced them. They saw huge losses in the 80’s, and then later with Kerry and Gore… so it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to environmentalism or Marxist dogma or antipathy to people who aren’t like them–anti-religious sentiment, perhaps–as a way to explain their frustrations. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that they latch on to some vague, ethereal concept of “change” to give purpose to their lives.
If what Obama said is so spot on, so accurate, and so understandable if heard in full, then nobody should have a problem with it being played over and over and over and over for the next 7 months.
And it will… oh, it definitely will.
Exactly true, as corny as it may seem to some metro types.
Get yourself a copy of it on DVD Obama.
I'd say in the vast configuration of things, Alan is just one more scurvy little spider's helper. :)
And that goes for you too!!!!
Obama’s church clings to xenophobia too. Perhaps he should’ve used this line in his chastising Pastor Wright.
Barack Hussein Obama (I use the middle name ‘cause that’s how your mother would always call you out when you were playing in the street with your friends and got in trouble plus the medis does it when listing criminal names so as to reduce maximum confusion; it ain’t about xenophobia about his middle name, his other names are muslim too) is a lousy bigot and unfit to serve as president of these United States.
Properly identified!
They cannot "get through" (lie to) voters who's issues are "2nd amendment", "pro-life", "traditional definition of marriage", opposing the homosexual agenda...
Even black Democrats don't stand with the Democrat party on abortion, homosexuality, and school vouchers. But largely in speaking about "small town America" (Bush Country, the OVERWHELMING county opposition to Democrat policies in "flyover country) Obama was speaking about white people "the United States of You People".
Back to the issues, the Democrats and Obama will not bend on these positions (although he's trying to court pro-life Democrats with a series of lies). The lib billionaires in San Fransicko he was talking to agree on these issues. So how does the party "get through" to the "gun nuts" those with "religious convictions and morals" and vote Democrat ANYWAY...
In "clarifying, he said that government can do it better. Is this the same government that his mentor said was responsible for the blowback of 9-11-2001? Is this the same government that Obama claims small town America is ALREADY wary of?
He's an idiot.
New campaign button for blind Obama supporters.
And for Obama, it has been just a single utterance of “typical white person”, there have been numerous such references.
Remember that the media killed Ross Perot(I)’s campaign (in 1992?) over a single use of “you people” when talking to gathered black audience somewhere, no?
I just saw where KENYA President appointed new coalition leaders for the country and OBAMA’S COUSIN is now new Prime Minister....check this out:
“2008 Barack Obama’s cousin Raila Odingo (a radical Muslim African Arab) planned and executed the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Kenya’s Rift Valley,” ...
NOW Raila Odingo, OBAMA’S COUSIN, is the Prime Minister of Kenya, Africa...HELLO OUT THERE IN OBAMA LAND...Notice the word AFRICAN ARAB,,,COUSINS,,I KNOW YOU GET IT. PLEASE pass it on. My last post was deleted about this muslim issue.
Sorry. Seems the author may have gotten that wrong.
(the formerly unknown blog , a secret the world was hiding from)
Alan...sit down and shut up.
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