Posted on 04/16/2008 2:59:06 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
The odor of elitism is like onion breath: It’s quick to acquire, hard to mask. Try as he might, Barack Obama cannot camouflage the political stink he exhaled when he dissed small-town Americans as “bitter” Neanderthals “clinging” to their guns, faith, and belief in strict immigration enforcement. It wasn’t the first time the effete Snob-ama revealed himself.
In Philadelphia, he passed up the hometown cheesesteak — gloppy, artery-clogging, and blue-collar (yum!) — for a nibble of Spanish-imported, $100/pound ham. In Iowa, he moaned to voters about the price of arugula at Whole Foods. (Fun fact: There aren’t any Whole Foods markets in Iowa.) And at an Altoona bowling alley, he couldn’t even score his age. Superficial but telling glimpses of a condescending core.
Obama is reportedly flummoxed that his remarks have been interpreted as arrogant. After all, he was a “community organizer” who came from a single-parent home! He is The Everyman. The Uniter. The Soul-Fixer. The Vessel of All Our Hopes and Dreams. How could he possibly be perceived as out of touch?
Well, Beltway elitism isn’t about biography. It’s a corrupted state of mind. Obama can at least console himself with the knowledge that he has plenty of out-of-touch company in both parties in Washington.
Let’s face it. Hundred-million-dollar Hillary “I’m not Tammy Wynette” Clinton, John “$400 Haircut” Edwards, John “French” Kerry and Al “$30,000 utility bill” Gore make Obama look like a peon of pretension. And it’s hard to top the imperiousness of Reps. Cynthia McKinney, Patrick Kennedy, and Sheila Jackson-Lee, who all abused law enforcement or service workers while demanding special privileges as “public servants.”
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His lack of knowledge of history of the how and why the small mill towns if you will got short shriffed is even more telling.
It is all about the flight of capital and the cost of labor. The New England Mill towns got hit, eons ago, no more shoes made their, they went south then eventually overseas. It is something we all do not like, It is hard to the worker to understand, economics/accounting is tough for all of to grasp at times.
What he is not offering everyone is a better environment to compete, portable non-employee centric health care and Corporate Tax rate of 15% would be a good start, but being the neo-marxist he is, he can't go that route.
But is even more condescending is his comments on faith and guns. He is more out of touch than Kerry.
Americans of Faith may gravitate even more to their faith in hard times, but it has always been a part of their life. Ditto that on guns, their love of recreational shooting or hunting is cultural, (as well as based on the 2nd amendment and history)and ironically can put food on the table in hard times. But more importantly, they may not be bitter, sad maybe, trying to cope yes, but via their faith they know they will carry on. Other things are important to them other than money.
If this is the best the DNC can offer, their bench is even weaker than ours.....
These two shouldn't think of themselves as "elite." I read Michelle's "thesis." It could have been written by a 12 year old.
He can't think himself out of a paper bag once he goes off his prepared remarks.
It’s amazing what a haircut and a shave can conceal.
Ding, ding, ding, ding. - Stop the voting, we have a winner for post of the day.
Exactly, spot on, but its hard to tell that to people in the union infested NE states.
Somehow the liberal trash mind cannot understand that labor itself is a part of free market principles and as such is governed by those same principles, just as any other part of the market is governed.
The aspect of this gaffe that I find particularly disturbing is that Barry was speaking to a bunch of SF Billionaires and pandering to them with these remarks.
It’s as if he were telling some sort of private dirty joke, or talking behind our backs because he thought we couldn’t hear him. We can hear him just fine now.
LLS
bitter ad/ Louisiana
Obama......a self-made man who worships his creator.
Can you EVEN imagine a Republican or a Conservative of ANY stripe making and getting away with a statement even remotely as strident as that about ANY segment of American voters??????
I think the problem was he received none. He's a whiny, snivelling, affirmative-action boy.
A real smart fella, that one. Might as well spit on the scrapple, ask for a sub sandwich, ask what's so tasty about a Tastykake, ask what's a Wawa?, or ask where the books are at Bookbinders.
Can you EVEN imagine a Republican or a Conservative of ANY stripe making and getting away with a statement even remotely as strident as that about ANY segment of American voters??????
Of course not! Heck, that one guy who referred to Obamalamadingdong as “boy” practicly had to castrate himself
But its just fine to stereotype and malign all manner of white people.
That BOY needs to hesh up.
And in his heart of heart he knows it. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but not be able to grin at that man in the mirror?
P.S. A kind of aside, but from the pictures I've seen of his wife, w/ or w/o his presence,well, if I would a bettin' woman I'd say that behind closed doors that man is afraid of his wife; not physically, but probably in every other way.
Interesting article about Obama’s father here: http://gregransom.com/prestopundit/2008/04/gregs-guide-to-barack-obamas-d.html
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