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Snob-ama slight a big-time error
NY Daily News ^ | April 13th 2008 | Michael Goodwin

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.

mgoodwin@nydailynews.com


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 04/14/2008 8:16:32 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Nobody seems to remember James Carville’s description of Pennsylvania as “Basically Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabam in between.”...............


2 posted on 04/14/2008 8:19:35 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: neverdem

Geez... what’s all the hubbub?

you would think he ‘misspoke’ about sniper fire or lied about cattle futures or monica lewinsky or norman hsu or ron brown or vince foster or 900 FBI files or travelgate or selling secrets to china or pardons to known drug dealers and tax evaders or something...


3 posted on 04/14/2008 8:19:40 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: neverdem

I have an political cartoon in my head that goes something like this.

Nuclear bomb going off in the US and in the mushroom cloud the faces of all the ememies obama wants to talk to. now picture obama in the foreground looking befuddled saying “ I didn’t say it as well as I should have”.


4 posted on 04/14/2008 8:20:13 AM PDT by lakeman
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To: neverdem
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY
5 posted on 04/14/2008 8:23:26 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: neverdem

It is barely possible that these alienated voters despise any politician trying to resell the repackaged failed politics of the dead socialists/communist regimes from the past. Some of us just are not interested in worshipping some stupid lawyer politician marketing such idiotic and naive notions about “change” for the stuck on stupid.


6 posted on 04/14/2008 8:24:04 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
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To: neverdem

I think this Snob-ama thing is gonna stick.


7 posted on 04/14/2008 8:27:54 AM PDT by gridlock (Proud McCain Supporter since February 8, 2008.)
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To: gridlock

it’s something we freepers knew the first time he looked down his nose at America.


8 posted on 04/14/2008 8:29:07 AM PDT by lakeman
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To: lakeman

Sometimes you just know about somebody. Like the first time I, as a lifelong Democrat, saw Bill Clinton, my skin just crawled.


9 posted on 04/14/2008 8:32:35 AM PDT by gridlock (Proud McCain Supporter since February 8, 2008.)
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To: Red Badger
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.

And how is Hillary any different?! (or any Democrat for that matter)

10 posted on 04/14/2008 8:33:12 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: neverdem

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.

&&&
Exactly.

Guess Ears/nObama has a new name now — snObama. Love it!


11 posted on 04/14/2008 8:34:14 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Position Wanted: Expd Rep voter looking for a party that is actually conservative.)
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To: kcvl

She isn’t, but now she can play the “Gotcha! game” with HIS comments about the “small” town folk to the hilt!.............


12 posted on 04/14/2008 8:35:50 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: kcvl

We expect the princess of lies to make stuff up. The black liberal messiah is perfect...but not so more. He’s sinking in the water from his own racism and stupidity.


13 posted on 04/14/2008 8:39:31 AM PDT by Azeem (Only thing worse than war is peace at all costs.)
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To: neverdem
"I didn't say it as well as I should have"

This is the essential problem with both Obamas. They believe they are never wrong. It is just misinterpreted. Their own word is gospel. And that gospel is hateful and racist.

14 posted on 04/14/2008 8:42:33 AM PDT by montag813
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To: gridlock
Oh my goodness! And I thought I was the only person that happened to....

I will always remember vividly the first time I saw Clinton on television, we were living in Florida and he was campaigning for the primary. I heard his voice on the news and turned the corner and immediately thought, "Who is the slick car salesman?" LOL

The first time I saw Obama, similar reaction, except it was more the "Snob-ama" feeling.

15 posted on 04/14/2008 8:49:47 AM PDT by republicangel
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To: gridlock
Oh my goodness! And I thought I was the only person that happened to....

I will always remember vividly the first time I saw Clinton on television, we were living in Florida and he was campaigning for the primary. I heard his voice on the news and turned the corner and immediately thought, "Who is the slick car salesman?" LOL

The first time I saw Obama, similar reaction, except it was more the "Snob-ama" feeling.

16 posted on 04/14/2008 8:49:49 AM PDT by republicangel
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To: montag813
This is the essential problem with both Obamas. They believe they are never wrong. It is just misinterpreted. Their own word is gospel. And that gospel is hateful and racist.

Everytime a local tax levy fails to pass, a Dem Spokeshead comes on the TV and says, "Well, we just failded to get our message across." The unbelieveable arrogance! It is never "The people turned down this tax because it was too expensive for the limited good it provided."

17 posted on 04/14/2008 8:57:05 AM PDT by 50sDad (Liberals: Never Happy, Never Grateful, Never Right.)
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To: gridlock

“I think this Snob-ama thing is gonna stick.”

Me too. Every time he drops his Sidney Poitier face, we find he hates America.


18 posted on 04/14/2008 9:14:33 AM PDT by y6162
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To: neverdem

This writer appears on Lou Dobbs quite often. He is a liberal writing for a liberal paper, but he has not been slobbering over Obama.


19 posted on 04/14/2008 9:20:17 AM PDT by Biblebelter (Barry, let your Uncle Jeremiah speak publicly, so he can set the record straight himself.)
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To: gridlock
Like the first time I, as a lifelong Democrat, saw Bill Clinton, my skin just crawled.

LOL I know that, for me, the feelings you describe came when Clinton gave the speech that seemed to never end during the 1988 Democratic Convention. My attitude toward Hillary has been cast in concrete ever since the "co-presidency". Obama's response to Rev Wright finished me there totally. Everything Barak has said since, has just added to my dislike of the "snob".

20 posted on 04/14/2008 9:21:18 AM PDT by JimSEA
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