Posted on 10/27/2008 5:05:16 AM PDT by IrishMike
How the advocate for the poor became the champion of the middle class.
Step back in time to April, 1990. Obama is the first “black” President of the Harvard Law Review, and he begins to attack Middle America. This is the Obama thousands of Americans don’t know . . . yet. “I’m not interested in the suburbs,” he authoritatively tells a liberal reporter. “The suburbs bore me. And I’m not interested in isolating myself.”1
You see, in Obama’s worldview, the suburbs are full of middleclass types, who lead bo-ring middleclass existences, apparently. They’re the “isolating” folks, like, say, Joe, the plumber, from Ohio (my guess). Or your mum. Your dad. Or your brother, the fireman.
Certainly, Obama knows what he’s doing, as the President of the liberal Harvard Law Review. “I feel good when I’m engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what’s happening to poor folks in this society.”2
The core issues, evidently, are far away from Middle America. And, the core issue is class warfare. “It’s critical at this stage for people who want to see genuine change to focus locally. And it is crucial that we figure out how to rebuild the core leadership and institutions in these communities,” Obama stresses, at a meeting in a relatively high-end, and isolated Harvard café.3
In Obama’s words, “genuine change” takes place outside the “isolating” suburbs. “I’m interested in organizations, not movements, because movements dissipate and organizations don't," proclaims the anti-suburban warrior.
Harvard’s Obama sees change, then, coming from the liberal, black-majority areas, and most probably a “God damn America” church.
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Today, the Senator claims that he loves the middle classes. He loves the suburbs. The suburbs don’t bore him now because it’s – wait a second – election season. He feels their pain. He relates to them!
If this sounds awfully familiar by now, then there’s a reason. Obama’s political life is connected with a radical ideology in all sorts of ways. But whereas Obama, the President of the Harvard Law Review, talks down to the middle classes in public, Obama, the Senator, talks down to Joe Average in the company of posh liberal friends, outside Ohio.
Just before the Pennsylvania Primary, for example, Obama was secretly recorded at a private function in chichi San Francisco, mocking small-town Americans, from the Midwest, because they “cling to God and guns.” In public, the Senator, then, is happy to call himself a Christian. In private, he takes aim at Americans for clinging to their Christian God. In public, the Senator says he supports sporting shooters. In private, however, he mocks them for clinging to their guns, and therefore America’s Second Amendment.
But where does Obama’s disdain for the “boring” suburbs come from? Is it rooted in black liberation theories, and Chicago’s culture of left-wing activism?
In Sprawl, published by the University of Chicago, Professor Robert Bruegmann from the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago offers this interesting perspective (page 97):
Another common explanation of the growth of the American suburbs and the rise of sprawl is that it was caused by white flight fueled by racism. Although no one would deny that race has played a key role in many aspects of American life, it is significant that urban areas with small minority populations like Minneapolis have sprawled in much the same way as urban areas with large minority populations. It is also the case that when they have become affluent enough to do so, African-Americans have been just as willing as their white counterparts to move out of the suburbs. The suburbs they choose are often ones with largely African-American population. This suggests that there is no simple relationship between race and sprawl.
Still, one hears Obama’s simplistic anger. He’s looking for a scapegoat, and middleclass scapegoats are – in some Harvard circles – great punching bags. In fact, they’re like Jewish scapegoats in Trinity United, Obama’s “God damn America” congregation. Or Christians in small-town America. All easy targets.
So, Obama, the upper-class community activist and Law Review President, likes to fight imaginary racists. Americans are uniquely evil, says the Left. Or are they?
Bruegmann also offers this insight (page 98):
Nor is it plausible to suggest that the segregating out by income level, race, and ethnicity is peculiarly American. These kinds of segregation have been visible not just in American cities and suburbs but in cities and suburbs all over the world, particularly when large disparities in income is a major factor.
As a former London-resident, I agree. And, one wonders: how does Obama help the poor? He hangs out with slumlords. How does he conquer racism? He attends a “hate speech” congregation for twenty-years. How progressive. How now. By all accounts, he’s fashionably liberal, and fashionably boring.
A well indoctrinated man about town.
By his indoctrinator in chief Frank Marshall Davis.
What a communist revolutionary!!
And they the sheeple are going to put him in the White House.
Scary..Very Scary.
He should be in a concentration camp in North Korea, with Ayers and Dohrn. That's where it's at.
Cheers!
BO couldn’t keep it under raps forever. In these finals days, it’s drip, drip, drip...all the info he’s tried to hide is coming to light.
I’m sure he feels the same way about small-town and rural America. In fact, the only places and people that really count to Obamessiah are the leftist enclaves in the larger metro areas plus college towns, etc.
Time to show Snobama what the rest of America thinks of his condescending, arrogant air of superiority.
From the audio I heard,
he’s interested in the paychecks of those that live in the suburbs,
so that he can give them to the “inner city kids”.
This man will implement not so stealthy “reparations” despite the fact that there have been over $40 TRILLION in “reparations” over the last 40 yrs already.
See tagline.
He doesn’t like flyover country. I guess there ARE two Americas and he wants to take from one to give to the other.
Yet predictably, that's precisely where he moved once he got a little money. ....with the help of his criminal buddy Rezko, of course.
“As a former London-resident, I agree. And, one wonders: how does Obama help the poor? He hangs out with slumlords. How does he conquer racism? He attends a “hate speech” congregation for twenty-years.”
He IS agenda-driven. My husband and I believe that he has been groomed by others who are equally agenda-driven.
....and that agenda is not American. It is also not a healthy agenda for any nation.
A studio full of immigrants with darkened background, each one with a spot light on their head; some from Nicaragua, others from Poland, maybe a few from Cuba, or Mozambique, a Cambodian here, a Vietnamese there, a diverse group of people. Serious looks, all. Straight into the camera.
Each one says one by one, in accented English, and the camera zooms to each one rapid fire, "I fled Marxism". "I fled Marxism". I fled Marxism". I fled Marxism....to come to the States." (Under each person, just a small caption, fades in and out: "Nicaragua", "Poland", "Cuba", "Mozambique", "Cambodia", "Vietnam".)
Then one man in the center speaks for them all. "We are Americans. But, we know Marxism. We each lived it first hand. It was the same everywhere, not matter which country. It is taking from producers and giving to non producers, it is as Senator Obama says, spreading the wealth."
Closing line, right into the camera. "Please, America. We saw this before and we know it for what it is. Marxism. Please don't take our wonderful country, my new country, down with such mis-placed "hope".
It is class warfare that Obama and Biden and Ayers and Wright want, it is class warfare they will get. Meanwhile, the DUmmies over at DU's heads are starting to explode at the conservative MSM and talk radio harping on Obama being a Socialist, a Marxist, I really think they know it is eating into his weak support and the undecided. It is starting to leave a welt. Now is the time to ramp it up. This is a winner of an issue. Push that sucker clear back over to the extreme left where he belongs, take the center and right of America from him on Election Day.
It’s on youtube. I’m looking for a transcript.
This from a man who lives in a McMansion
>> This is the Obama thousands of Americans don’t know . . . yet. “I’m not interested in the suburbs,” he authoritatively tells a liberal reporter. “The suburbs bore me. And I’m not interested in isolating myself.”
This particular quote isn’t exactly a disqualifier. Lots of people don’t care for the suburbs ... its a slower life, a closer-knit community. There are people for whom fast-paced urban living is the end-all be-all.
Personally ... I couldn’t stand living in an urban area. Its loud, crowded, fast, and stressful. The suburbs are relaxing and peaceful. But, the fact that I don’t care for urban living doesn’t make me a racist or a yokel ... and the fact that Obama doesn’t care for suburban life doesn’t necessarily make him anti-middle American.
I think Obama is anti-middle American ... but I don’t think this quote is particularly demonstrative of that. His “redistribution” suggestions, “clinging to guns/religion” quotes, and connection to Reverend Wright are better evidence.
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“i’m not interested in the suburbs, the suburbs bore me.”
how brilliant he is. so intelligent, so filled with wisdom, knowledge, limitless intellect, unbounded brilliance, and most of all a bottomless fund of hubris.
(just who the &*^% do these liberal Pr*&^s think they are. arrogance quite doesn’t cover it. it seems the english language is inadequate to describe the cosmic evil that infuses their bones)
IMHO.
Excellent Ad! Do it! Do not forget those who fled the Sovit Union. I know a couple that came over in the 70’s & they are very afraid of “That One”
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