A Small-Town Pennsylvanian's View of Arrogance

13 April, 2008 | joanie-f

[joanie-f]

I am a ‘small town Pennsylvanian’. There is no amount of explanation, or any claim of ‘mis-statement’ that can erase for me Barack Obama’s recent diagnosis of what ails small-town Americans.

I resent the fact that Barack Obama sees my faith, my belief in my right to keep and bear arms, and my negative opinion of those who have illegally invaded my country, as abnormal behavior, in need of remedy, and evidence of personal weakness and shortcomings on my part.

I suggest to Senator Obama that offering such unsolicited advice and diagnosis is evidence of deep arrogance and elitism the likes of which used to be unheard of in America’s ‘public servants’. Since when do those who ‘serve the public’ take it upon themselves the duty to mold that public into their own image ... and to define as abnormal those beliefs and characteristics that do not conform to that image?

Senator Obama, you possess some of the characteristics of one who envisions himself a god in human form. Such men must not attain positions of leadership in a free society. In serving as a United States senator, you have ascended far higher than your elitist mindset should allow. And I will do everything within my power to see to it that you ascend no further.

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 twenty-five 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.

I am not bitter. I am not frustrated. And for you to tell me that I am … and to offer a diagnosis for my non-existent symptoms … simply because I choose to place value on different things than you do, reveals volumes more about you than it does about me and my fellow small-town Americans.

A rough translation of your condescending statement above:

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Americans who live in (Pennsylvania, and other) rural communities are turning to Christianity because they are experiencing difficult economic times. Their Christianity is a crutch and the scripture teaching, for where two or three have gathered together in my name, I am there in their midst, has little to do with their reason for attending church with fellow believers.

Gathering on Sunday morning in the Lord’s house with others of like mind and purpose in order to worship the God who gave us breath … and to fellowship with others whose faith is focused on Him … is simply not a sufficient reason to ‘cling to religion’.

Instead, the fact that our all-powerful, omniscient government has somehow ‘let us down’ has transformed us into wretched creatures who have no alternative but to surround ourselves with other fellow wretches and ‘cling to religion’ as a foundation of last resort, since the God of Government has somehow failed to provide us jobs and economic security.

We treasure our right to keep and bear arms for the same reason. Our wretchedness causes us to cling to antiquated symbols of ‘worth’ and ‘power’. Our desire to own a gun has nothing whatsoever to do with a right bequeathed to us by our Founders, or to an increased awareness that our government is systematically stealing from us every freedom granted by God and secured by our Constitution. And our ‘fascination’ with guns has nothing to do with our educated awareness that the declaring of gun ownership as ‘criminal’ has preceded the imposition of total tyranny over countless numbers of oppressed people throughout the history of modern civilization.

No, we are simply weak, paranoid, redneck wretches who haven’t the wherewithal to obtain a sense of personal security or self-worth without having a weapon within arm’s reach.

The fact that we ‘small-town Americans’ resent the millions of criminal malcontents who have taken up illegal residence in our country is not due to the facts that:

• these criminals are enjoying many of the benefits of residency here without contributing to those benefits as American citizens are, and they are sometimes even receiving preferential treatment from a government that answers more to special interests than it does to its electorate

• many politicians in Washington are pandering to these criminals, to the detriment of the American citizen and those whose charge it is to protect our borders

• these criminals are committing crimes (many of them deadly) against the citizenry of this country at a significantly higher rate than the rest of the population

• a contingent of these criminals is here with the specific intent of ‘reclaiming’ large portions of the southwestern United States as their own

• many of these criminals are making no attempt to assimilate into American society, but instead are fomenting division, hatred and balkanization in the locations in which they take up residence. They are demanding that legal Americans alter their lives and laws in order to accommodate them and their native language and heritage.

The above considerations are, however, irrelevant. ‘Small-town Americans’ harbor a negative opinion of these criminals simply because they aren’t like us. They are of a different national origin, and we are closed-minded bigots. We are ‘taking out our frustrations’ on them simply because we are a small-minded people.

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What Barack Obama would have us believe is that America is in dire need of a president who is capable of having us recognize the ‘faults’ listed above, and then declare as a national priority the eradication of those ‘faults’. Re-education camps might be in order. Or more gun control. Or more hate crime legislation. Perhaps we can even re-define ‘anti-illegal immigrant’ speech as a hate crime. Yeah. That’s the ticket.

Senator Obama, your brand of arrogance is a threat to every American, and every freedom-loving person on this planet.

I worship only one God, and I am suspect of any man who deems himself one. And any man who defines my devotion to my religion as the result of ‘bitterness’ and ‘frustration’ has stepped over the line of civility and humility.

That you are a front-runner for the office of the presidency, and that you could conceivably become the leader of the free world, is every freedom-loving American’s worst nightmare.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

[joanie-f]

Thanks for the kind words.

~ joanie

[oprahstheantichrist]

Oh,that’s good! Any way you can email it to Paul Shanklin?

[joanie-f]

Nobama is a self described devout Christian. However, he is a big city devout Christian, and that is superior to small town devout Christians.

Thanks for adding this to his interminable list of 'holier than thou' beliefs.

~ joanie

[joanie-f]

Thanks for the kind words.

~ joanie

[Jeff Head]

He is a self-described christian of the Black Liberation Theology mold...and that has nothing to do with traditional Christianity anywhere, big town, small town, no town.

He is an absolute marxist who has subscribed to a religious construct to get useful idiots and fellow marxists into a "religious" mold that they, and his fellow adherants think is more apt to get them elected to positions of power so they can change America alright...but no change that you or I or any other God-fearing, liberty-loving American would ever wish on our nation or its people.

As always Joanie...very well said. I figured this horrid statement by the Obamination would raise your ire and was waiting on your article.

[Quix]

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Thanks thanks.

[joanie-f]

I suspect that Obama is quietly furious that the good people of rural Pennsylvania rely upon themselves and those of a similar faith of Christianity - helping each other through rough times -- rather than y'all relying upon "government."

I think this must annoy BO that y'all do that. You obviously, don't worship at the alter of racial identity politics like he and his church people do.

Every word true, and well said.

~ joanie

[del4hope]

Some find it frightening that a blatant marxist has risen to be a major presidential candidate.

I find it frightening that a blatant marxist has risen to a current seat in the US Senate.

[TomasUSMC]

Wait till small town America hears about Larry Sinclair’s grasp on Obsama.

[buccaneer81]

A seat in Congress awaits you, if you so choose.

Please, consider it.

[joanie-f]

Possibly the nicest thing I've heard all day. :)

Thanks, EV ... and continued best to you and yours, too ...

~ joanie

[rlmorel]

No, thank you for posting it.

This is the great thing about the Internet. In the past, if there was a letter sent to an editor, it was pretty much confined to that community the publication was sold in.

Now, we can all see those opinions that would have been lost or squashed via the whim of the local paper.

[joanie-f]

He is more dangerous than Klinton.

I relunctantly agree. I never believed I would consider Hillary Clinton the lesser of two evils. Just goes to prove the wisdom of the advice, 'Never say never.'

~ joanie

[joanie-f]

Obama is no Christian, though he masquerades as such.

Obama is no American, though he masquerades as such.

He is a trojan horse, a vector of hate, ethnic supremacism, reparations vendettas and fascist-marxist-islamism.

True things come in threes.

~ joanie

[joanie-f]

Thanks. :)

~ joanie

[buffyt]

Since 1973 we have moved to Los Angeles four times and back to a SMALL TEXAS TOWN four times. Guess where we find more stable, law abiding citizens? I don’t often lock the door here in small town America where our crime rate is so low. Obama is a nut case. Every time he opens his mouth, it is just to change feet!

[maine-iac7]

Obamaheretic is a self described Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Nation Of Islam Manchurian Candidate....and a polished, programmed puppet of radical racists.

There. Finished it for you.

[End Times Sentinel]

Atta-gal, joanie!

Spoken like a “typical white person”.

You make me proud to call myself one.

[joanie-f]

Obamaheretic is a self described Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Nation Of Islam Manchurian Candidate.

Bears repeating ... far and wide.

[buffyt]

My husband has said that from day one. Obama is the anti Christ. I said in the beginning of this race that Obama was a good speaker/orator. My husband said SO WAS HITLER!