Posted on 08/09/2008 8:20:19 PM PDT by SmithL
"It's almost as if they take pride in being ignorant," Barack Obama mused the other day, blasting Republicans for ridiculing his exhortation to the nation to make sure its tires are properly inflated.
Ah, behold the open-mindedness and cross-partisan understanding. Remember two years ago when Obama was only a media darling and not yet The Anointed One? Back then, his appeal was the extraordinary sensitivity he had for the views of others. He wrote a best-selling campaign book called "The Audacity of Hope" that was carefully unaudacious in its on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand weighing of the issues, giving the impression that nothing pained him so much as not being able to agree with the other side, though he thoroughly understood and respected its arguments.
That iteration of Obama was tossed under the bus long ago (no word on whether the tires were adequately inflated). It's been replaced by an Obama who betrays a dismissive contempt for all differences of opinion.
"Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face," he said, responding to a John McCain attack ad. Nobody does? Are all those people who vote Republican simply delusional? Or are they pretending to believe things that they really don't to conceal unseemly motivations – power hunger, bitterness, racism?
The most elemental act of political civility is to concede the good motives of your opposition. Obama lately can't even muster that. Of course, sharp elbows will inevitably be thrown in a hotly contested election, but it's no accident that Obama's comments reading his opposition out of polite company – or almost entirely out of existence – came in response to mockery.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
It is easier to take civility out than to put it back. Being the reassuring and charming Black guy is what Obama has going for him. It would not take much for whites to start looking at Obama as if he was Louis Farrakhan.
This is the guy who suggested regular tune-ups on cars when tune-ups are no longer done on cars post 1985. And he calls us ignorant? Obama is both ignorant and arrogant. Obama himself, as well as liberals in general, has long supported higher gas prices to cause hardship and force people not to be able to travel as much and as freely as a means of controlling how much we roam around and where we can live. If someone came up with a solar powered car that ran as well as gas powered car they wouldn’t be in favor of it as it would allow those same freedoms to be exercised.
“So, if you can’t afford to fill up your tank here is the Obama plan - pump up your tires, and go to Jiffy Lube...” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s50_2FRjOo
Good point. Look at how much extra mileage he’s gotten from the MSM overinflating his image.
>>>Are all those people who vote Republican simply delusional? Or are they pretending to believe things that they really don’t to conceal unseemly motivations – power hunger, bitterness, racism?
2 much! may we live in an interesting election year.
It's pretty sad when Paris Hilton get's a joke that Obama doesn't.
Which reminds me that B Hussein was "introduced" to Christianity by Wright... 47 minus 20 equals 27. Was he not introduced to any religion at all before age 27?
If so, I wonder what religion it might have been given it was not Christian...perhaps it was Judaism? No I would suspect something else.
Why is it Michelle Obama almost always looks mad/mean in her photos?
Because she’s almost always mad/mean?
bingo...remember, she is still pi**ed because the messiah often leaves the place a mess. That guy has peck marks all over him.
No Bambi in 2008.
Ignorant?
Obama is calling Republicans ignorant for nailing Obama for his dumb ass statement that inflating your tires and getting tuneups would SAVE as much oil as could be gained from more drilling...
Ignorant? — now THAT was ignorant Obama!
Apparently that high priced education your WHITE grandparents provided didn’t teach you anything about science, logic, gratitude or reality...
He's showing his IGNORANCE about modern technology and thinks autos are still as they were in 1975.
Props to Roscoe Karns for this fine parody of The Overinflated One's latest iconographic faux pas.
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