Posted on 06/14/2008 8:55:10 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Who will get the disenfranchised bitter religious vote?
No. As a Radical Leftist Nutcase who has Muslim roots--and they won't have to "paint" him as one--it's what he is.
Oh for heaven’s sake, nobody thinks of Hussein as a “haughty intellectual.”
You could not be more of an Obama hater than I am, and I can’t stand how PHONY he is. He’s an actor, an inexperienced fraud who has never sat down in an office he was elected to and actually done anything whatsoever, much less anything of note.
Not an intellectual, and not haughty. Arrogant, yes. Not so grand as “haughty.”And he’s a MARXIST. Which makes him STUPID.
Add it up. He’s an arrogant stupid Marxist phony.
And I assure you, I eat far more arugula than he does.
Mind you I don’t know whether you’ve really considered the advantages of owning a really fine set of modern arugulas.
The libs in the MSM will cry racism all the way to the ballot box, but pigmentation has nothing to do with it.
You might want to talk to some people who voted for him. That "above it all" mentality, which looks down at the unwashed masses with pity, is exactly what the libs love about him. (That and the fact that they get to assuage their white guilt.)
The Weekly Standard’s Noemie Emery disputes the media’s facile, predictable racial interpretation of Obama’s poor showing in Appalachia. It’s not because of race, but rather reflects a deep national divide between action-oriented Jacksonians versus clerical, paper-pushing Brahmins:
Let us call this rival approach the Barone Manifesto, after its author, political analyst Michael Barone, who crunched the poll numbers for Obama’s primary battles with Hillary Clinton and discovered that while the former did exceedingly well with white voters in university towns and state capitals, he did poorly almost everywhere else. From this, Barone broke the electorate down into two large divisions–academics and state employees who live in these places, whom he calls Academicians, and Jacksonians, who live elsewhere, especially in the regions close to the Appalachian mountains.
Yep, that’s it. Academicians eat arugula, and worry about its price at Whole Foods. Jacksonians don’t.
There’s nothing wrong with being an academician or eating arugula (hey, I do), you’re just going to have a hard time selling yourself to Jacksonian America as the kind of bold leader they’re looking for. Even if you were the bestest “community activist” in all of Chicago.
Emery’s last paragraph is interesting:
Now let us imagine a different candidate, one who looks like Barack Obama, with the same mixed-race, international background, even the same middle name. But this time, he is Colonel Obama, a veteran of the war in Iraq, a kick-ass Marine with a “take no prisoners” attitude, who vows to follow Osama bin Laden to the outskirts of Hell. He comes from the culture of the military (the most color blind and merit-based in the country), and not the rarefied air of Hyde Park. He goes to a church with a mixed-race congregation and a rational preacher. He has never met Bill Ayers, and if he did he would flatten him. He thinks arugula is a town near Bogota and has Toby Keith on his favorites list. Would he strike no chords at all in Jacksonian country? Does anyone think he would lose 90 to 9 in Buchanan County? Or lose West Virginia by 41 points? For those Jacksonians who would be fine with a black man in the White House (not as tiny a group as Newsweek thinks), Colonel Obama is the one we are waiting for. When we will get him is anyone’s guess.
I don’t know about Colonel Obama, but there’s one politician on the scene this year running for Congress in Florida who completes Emery’s List (heh) pretty nicely: Lt. Col. Allen West. What an amazing biography– and he’s even against amnesty:
In my time spent in Afghanistan I saw first-hand how an unprotected border can destabilize an entire country. All you hear coming out of Washington is foolish rhetoric about writing new laws and creating new government programs that sound good on paper but do nothing to solve the problem. Our border patrol officers put their lives on the line every day protecting our borders and engaging in high-powered gun battles. The duties they perform go beyond those of an immigration official. They are defending our borders and it is time we equip them with the tools they need to secure our border. As your congressman, I will push to move the Border Patrol out of the INS and into the Department of Defense. This is not a social issue; this is a national security issue.
Furthermore, something tells me LTC West isn’t going to be very patient with the Supreme Court’s handwringing on interrogation.
LTC West’s feelings about arugula remain unknown, although I think we would be willing to overlook a few youthful indiscretions of that nature.
UPDATE: via Robert Stacy McCain, here’s a sample of LTC West speaking:
Not too shabby. (I think he’s wrong about American weapons going to bin Laden through our assistance to the mujahideen in the 80’s; OBL was in a separate group funded by the Saudis.) But seriously, good speech.
Note the part where West says his opponent has more money than he does. Hint, hint.
Come on, what do you want, a video of Allen West chewing out CAIR as unindicted co-conspirators and “an insurgency in our country” and taking up for FISA?
MORE: Back on Jacksonians v. Arugulaticians, here’s Cuffy with a pretty good photoshop.
What a wonderful article. I couldn’t agree more. A writer that has put what I’ve been thinking into words.
Yes!
I am a warrior voter. Jacksonian. Love this article.
TWABO - Typical Whites Against Barack Obama.
To whoever provided the quotation on the picture (and I fully realize it may not have been you): this should be “to become dominant.” Using the wrong word, the verb “dominate” seriously undercuts the intended effect.
This article makes many excellent points, but I would quarrel somewhat with the author who identifies both Colin Powell and John McCain as Jacksonians. Colin Powell was never a Jacksonian, despite being in the military, IMHO, and I am not sure that John McCain entirely qualifies, either, though certainly much more than Powell ever did. I base my concern on McCain’s stance on global warming and drilling ANWAR, both Academician positions.
A very well written article that just about nails down the real divide in the American electorate.
There is a black Lt. Col. running for the House in Florida that sounds like he would fit the bill someday (forgot his name though).
A nice paean to Barone’s analysis.
This proclamation means that the author-and by extension Michael Barone-have entered the great battle which defines modern politics: the battle over race in America. The article tells us that the great cleft in America is not race but gown and sword here described as academics versus Jacksonians. I do not believe it.
But I do emphatically believe that the academic versus Jacksonian analysis fashions for us a very useful and desperately needed weapon in the war. It must become respectable for whites to vote their racial interests so long as the left threatens whites by exploiting the issue of race in America. So long as more than 90% of blacks are going to vote their race, race remains the pivot of electoral politics. So long as black racial politics are as vulnerable to the demagoguery of the likes of the right Reverend Wright as they indisputably are, resistance to such a racial demagoguery must remain a prerogative. So long as the Democrat Party can nominate a candidate who cannot pass the racial "but for" test -ie, could this man have been nominated but for the fact that he is African-American? -whites must include that the other party is playing racial politics. So long as one party can insinuate, as the excrable Newsweek article has done, that when whites vote against this black candidate they are behaving as racists, whites must fight back with every legitimate weapon available.
I have posted countless times my belief that tip O'Neill had it wrong, that all politics is not local, but racial. In my about page I have argued that the left is philosophically drained and is held together mainly by their belief that they are superior to conservatives because we are racists and they are not. I have posted that Barak Obama is the perfect figure for the expiation of white guilt, for the redemption of America from its original sin of slavery, and from Jim Crow. As such, Obama is an empty vessel into which they can pour their vanities and their resentments, perfectly immune from rational argument because to assail this figure, this Messiah, is ultimately illegitimate because to do so is racist.
So we have the endless lists of things about Obama that we cannot criticize so brilliantly parodied by Rush Limbaugh ranging from the candidate' s ears to his name. This immunity from criticism illustrates perfectly the "Messiah" effect which the Libs are attempting to exploit. It is fundamentally racist. It is also demagogic and inimical to the greatest tradition of American politics.
Thank you Michael Barone for serving up an intellectual bomb shelter against the missiles charging racism which will be inevitably hurled against those who criticize Obama. I admire Barone as one of the most reliable and fair-minded analysts on the American political scene. His analysis more often than others has the added advantage of often being vindicated. I do not dispute that his analysis here is rightly descriptive of the voting pattern we have seen. It is not Barone's analysis I object to but the premise of it all, that it is somehow illegitimate to vote one's race when the other side is exploiting racism against it. Are these white voters in West Virginia really so obtuse that they cannot figure out the game that is being played against them? Are they not entitled to react against it?
Yes, Tip O'Neill, politics someday might in actual fact not be racial as and when we can come out of the shadows and tell the truth about what is really going on.
There have been two ways to deal with the demagoguery of the left which reveals its most corrosive side when it plays the race card. The one way, the traditional Republican way, is to surrender in a media orgy of mea culpa(witness, for example, Trent Lott). The other way, the Nathan Bedford Forrest way which partly prompted my avatar, is to proclaim to their faces, "damn your eyes."
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