Posted on 04/15/2008 12:01:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Democratic presidential candidates are doing a splendid job of helping John McCain get to the White House.
Barack Obama violated two elementary rules of political campaigning. A candidate should never play the role of a political scientist or sociologist analyzing a key electoral swing group from afar and should never dissect the motivations of less privileged people when talking to a group of privileged people.
If Obama's comments about working-class voters had come from the mouth of anyone except a candidate, they might have seemed mildly controversial but broadly true. The statement is being shorthanded in the press with the single word "Bittergate." But what did he actually say?
"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," Obama said at a San Francisco fundraiser on April 6. "And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate, and they have not."
There followed the explosive paragraph: "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Much of his answer suggests an Obama who empathizes with working-class voters who feel abandoned. Having lost hope that government could do much for them economically, they vote on the basis of "values" issues.
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One Marxist overlord covers for another.
Obama like any good wacked out lib “clings” to his sociology witchcraft.
“...they might have seemed mildly controversial but broadly true.”
They just don’t get it!
If I eat any more popcorn I’m going to explode! This whole episode has been priceless!
“If Obama’s comments about working-class voters had come from the mouth of anyone except a candidate, they might have seemed mildly controversial but broadly true...”
Except for the fact that they aren’t true.
When these people aren’t sipping on ice water in Hell, I wonder who will be considered privileged?
Prayers for the blind to see the light.
It is amazing they are trying to justify these remarks. In context, they actually look much worse to me. He is presuming that lack of economic progress has made PA people narrow minded and ignorant.
This is NOT analysis. It is amazing ignorance. It also represents the type of generalization that form the core of racisim.
“They just don’t get it”
That’s the same thing that the left says about the “bitter” people -
they just aren’t smart enough to put the elite leftists in charge.
"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
If Obama's comments about working-class voters had come from the mouth of anyone except a candidate, they might have seemed mildly controversial but broadly true.
So Obama's remarks were factually true, but never should have been said by him; especially on the campaign trail.
Such talk is apparently alright when done in smoky back rooms, or over brandy and cigars. I get it.
"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 ...!"
Ah, EJ baby, you’re so dense! You can spin and babble all you want, but you won’t even address the real issues.
Well, not in front of the help, you know, old boy.
It has been sickening over the years to watch Republicans, who always rally to the aid of the country's wealthiest citizens
Its pretty sickening that the wealthiest citizens rally to the aid of democrats.
Highly unlikely there were any "common man" type people attending that SanFran event. I would like to see a name list of these donors. Where do they get off assuming they are my proxies?
This is a true statement. But the cities of posh ignorance towards the American people are Washington DC and NYC. Both cities control the empire of America from a political and financial aspect. It is not forgivable, but understandable that both cities and immediate suburbs are not suffering from high unemployment or lack of anything. I am not resentful of a good job and life, I am resentful that it is these people’s jobs to survey the population, meet with individuals on the street and execute the will of the people. It does appear that the empire of America and those at the top look at the population as useful idiots and serfs. They have forgotten that We the People still can dethrone them, empire or no empire.
Or you could just blame it on "Whitey".
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