Posted on 04/14/2008 8:16:32 AM PDT by neverdem
Having grown up in one of those small Pennsylvania towns Sen. Barack Obama sneers at, I know what really makes people there "bitter." It's slick-talking politicians who look down on their beliefs and values.
Small-town people get doubly "bitter" when those pols have the gall to ask for their votes while demeaning their lives. See, even hicks don't like being played for suckers.
When they accused Obama of being out of touch for saying small-towners "cling to guns or religion" out of frustration, Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain were too kind.
Snob-ama is not just out of touch. He's from another planet.
He might consider going back there, because the White House now looks out of reach. All the more so because he later added opposition to gay marriage as another sign of benighted bitterness.
Snob-ama's lame concession yesterday that his mistake was "I didn't say it as well as I should have" only makes the repeated smear worse. He should get off his Ivy League horse and apologize to the millions of Americans he insulted. As it stands, he has confirmed he doesn't understand or respect them.
Through his warped vision, if you own a gun, oppose gay marriage or want our nation's borders sealed, you're just bitter over your lousy job. Amazingly, he even sees the embrace of God as a reaction to the bad economy.
As gaffes go, they don't get much bigger. Then again, it's not a gaffe when you believe what you're saying, as Snob-ama clearly does.
The trouble started when the Chicago Democrat, after saying Washington had failed to stem the tide of lost jobs, dropped a bombshell on his fellow Americans by saying: "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."
In one sentence, Snob-ama de-legitimized every choice people in America are free to make. It's arrogance on steroids, fueled by a secular, elitist view of middle America as filled with ignorant red-necks.
Turn his screed around and it comes out this way: If the hicks had good jobs, they wouldn't need God or guns. Then the borders could be wide open for the enlightened world to come here 'cause our hate would vanish.
Such a dark view of heartland hearts is not very Christian and suggests Snob-ama really did hear the rants of his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The mentor who led him to Jesus Christ seems a bitter man who wraps his hate for America in the trappings of religion.
If Wright's typical of religious people, God help us. Thankfully, he's not. For the people I grew up with, faith is about salvation and at least trying to love thy neighbors, even as they gossip about them. For many, faith begets hope, charity, hard work and patriotism.
They don't "cling" to faith as a bitter reaction to immigrants or free trade, as Snob-ama uncharitably put it. His notions are especially strange coming from a biracial candidate who is his party's front-runner only because he won millions of white and black votes.
Of course, people in small towns want good jobs, good education and good health care. And they don't like it when their government rewards companies that ship jobs overseas or when it lets in poisoned foods and toys.
But faith in small-town America is not faith in the big government Snob-ama sees as the salvation. It's faith in God and commitment to family, community and country. Those are the small-town ideals I still cherish, 40 years after I decamped to New York.
My hometown is little Lewistown, Pa. (pop. 10,000), where my life-long friend Jim Johnson was at work yesterday. Jim, who remains shocked by the Rev. Wright's rants, says his plumbing and heating contracting business is feeling the economic slowdown, but he isn't waiting for Snob-ama to save him.
"What he doesn't understand is that we don't necessarily look to the government to solve our problems," Jim told me. "We don't think of the next government program as the answer."
We talked for a few minutes about our children and about the scholarship program for local athletes Jim and I helped start. As usual, we laughed a lot.
And there wasn't a trace of bitterness.
looking befuddled saying “ I didn’t say it as well as I should have”.
What -- isn't that enough??? ;-)
That sums it up very well.
Thanks for the link.
Looking at Urkel Obama’s voting record, I can’t fathom why he has any support and yet the odds point to him as the next president. He won’t be my president no matter what. “You are either a liberal, or, you are an American.”—somebody on this sight said this and I like it.
There’s a difference between being a corrupt, lying politician, and being a condescending, demeaning, elitest America-hater. The choice is lose/lose, but I think most people would go with the one who doesn’t openly look down on them.
This guy's (Obama's) core values are based on, and descend from, very dark places of Marxism, abject compulsion, and racial hatred. Any one of those, when coupled with the reigns of power, can lead to horrible results. All three? History tells us it leads to genocide and unbelievable blood letting.
So who’s right? Michelle Obama says we’re mean. Barack Obama says we’re bitter.
Mean - Bitter
Bitter - Mean
We must be both?
IMHO, I think it's going to stick like stink on shyt. He's offended just about everyone who isn't a member of the hard left.
I think it's a Godsend.
It’s exactly why Dean, Gore, Carter et al are so keen on declaring a winner and moving on. Both candidates are wrecking each other and themselves, while McCain is doing something entirely different: running for President.
"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
Agreed. SNOBama is now his official new name for me.
Do I give this guy, Michael Goodwin, credit for this, or did someone else coin it, or has it simply oozed its way into the public domain?
Anybody seen this earlier, or heard it?
Michelle Malkin has had SNOB items for same on her website since Saturday. This is the first time I have seen the SNOB-AMA formulation, but do not know from whence it came.
I came up with this website that was using it as early as 11Apr.
It bothers me a little that nobody managed to come up with this long before last week, and there are some indications that it was slightly used before that. It is tough to get good searches, though, because there is a foreign (Czech?) word “snobam” that has “snobama” as some type of declension... I think it may have been used months ago by someone here at FR a couple times, but that person wasn’t me, as I was fixated on the “ODumbo” appellation for more reasons than simply his ears.
SnObama seems so very obvious.
By the way, Malkin is now selling “SnObamaWear” with that great nose in the air graphic on it.
The only problem with SnObama is that it tends to mask his Marxism... and that is the root of his elitism, and in fact is the root of many of the Demodog’s elitism.
I have another political cartoon in MY head that goes something like this:
Big crowd of young obama-kiddies on hillside holding candles singing that seventies coca-cola jingle—THEN cut to bomb going off, etc.
Remember professor Richard Florida’s formulation:
If it doesn’t have a proper proportion of gays, bike paths and latte bars, it’s a hick town.
And I was just calling him Bambi, or O'Bambi for the folks in Rio Linda...
But Snob-ama is just sooooo much better!
Early on, he was allowed to parse his words and avoided serious questions.
Now, every time he, his wife, or his pastor speak freely we learn more about the real Obama.
And he is the front runner!
"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 ...!"
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