Obama's remarks slammed by rivals [Obama smears gun-owners, church-goers as bigots]

Washington Times ^ | April 12, 2008 | By Victor Morton and Stephen Dinan

[JohnHuang2]

Sens. John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday criticized Sen. Barack Obama as a condescending, out-of-touch elitist over remarks made Sunday and again last night in which the Illinois senator said small-town Americans are "bitter" and cling to guns and religion as symptoms of frustration.

"Pennsylvania doesn't need a president who looks down on them," Mrs. Clinton said at a Philadelphia rally yesterday. "They need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, your families."

McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt said that Mr. Obama's initial remarks, made at a fundraiser in San Francisco, "shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking."

In the remarks earlier this week, which surfaced yesterday on the Huffington Post Web site, Mr. Obama told the closed-door fundraiser that "you go into 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."

Mr. Obama told the San Francisco crowd that these economic struggles would unsurprisingly make small-town residents become bitter or back conservative social issues.

[BuffaloJack]

> “It’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,”

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a single sentence that had so many reasons for me to want to oppose this condescending elitist marxist.

[samtheman]

They ain’t bitter, they’re just typical white people.

To Obama, a "typical white person" IS bitter. Until they see the light and vote for a Magic Negro!

[shaft29]

“If he wins, I hope we are all prepared to be labeled as racists every time we oppose this guy’s policies.”

You are 100% correct. There was a time when I cared. Now, it is a badge of honor for me. Whenever I hear someone call another person a racist,it tells me that the person being called the racist, has won the argument.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I am keeping my powder dry. Socialists are dangerous. As soon as they disarm the populace they they start killing them.

I trust no politician especially liberal socialists.

[Jack Bull]

http://www.talk2rusty.com/site/product?pid=18095

“Obama: A Campaign About Nothing.”

The man reminds me of Michael Richards with a tan.

[Red in Blue PA]

Re: “It’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he said.

He SHOULD have said “It’s not surprising when they get bitter over elitist politicians who always talk down to them”

What a.....I can’t even say how I feel about this guy or I’ll be banned.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Who would have ever guessed that a socialist from Indonesia, his loud-mouth race-baiting ex-Muslim preacher, and views denigrating middle-class and working-class Americans in small towns would be the dominant themes of the 2008 presidential election? A year in which the economy and national security should be the major issues.

[Red in Blue PA]

Obama is willing to throw PA voters under the bus but not Rev. Wright?

Speaks volumes about this guys character.

[weegee]

If “the black guy” (as Obama sees himself) wins, then I CANNOT be a racist, as the black liberatards have always insisted that you must have POWER to be racist and be able to ACT on your prejudice.

Black men will hold the highest office in the land. Black people will suddenly find themselves fair game for being labelled racists and I on the other hand can no longer be called “racist”.

[weegee]

Not JUST Pennsylvania voters, but Amish “religious” “separatist” voters.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"He might be a deranged individual with strange Jungian projections. Given the type of “mentorship” and “role models” he had, I would not be surprized."
15 posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:02:31 AM by JudgemAll

"I’d say Freudian projections!"
18 posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:21:33 AM by T.L.Sink

They would suggest Wright is his "shadow self" who expresses things in his libido and unconscious, drives and tendencies, that he is required to suppress in conventional society. The comments about small town Americans in San Francisco were a "Freudian slip." He probably has more ideas like this which he does not reveal publicly because, as he has written, you have to use "tricks" when talking to white people and avoid any "sudden moves." This may have been one of those "sudden moves" he was writing about.

[weegee]

Who would have ever guessed that a socialist from Indonesia, his loud-mouth race-baiting ex-Muslim preacher, and views denigrating middle-class and working-class Americans in small towns would be the dominant themes of the 2008 presidential election? A year in which the economy and national security should be the major issues.

But they ARE the issues. It all depends on perspective:

We are engaged in a lengthy war with international state sponsored Islamic terrorism. Goes back to the days of Qadaffi and Iran before that.

The 9-11 attacks weren't the first stateside attack. We had it in 1993 with the WTC bombing (and poison gas used to kill people in the stairwells incinerated in the initial explosion).

Those embassies and US ships were US territory too.

They'd been hitting us.

Now to hear Obama's preacher and Ron Paul tell it, we are experiencing "blow back", the chickens coming home to roost for our meddling in "foreign affairs" that don't concern us. Excuse me. The Saudi Government is funding the construction of Wahabi mosques around the globe (largely in the West) because they were unable to handle Islamic terrorists taking over Mecca. As long as the Saudis support Wahabism elsewhere, they are "safe" at home (of course the Saudis also WANT the protection of the US).

So as long as I have to deal with Islamic Imperialism and international Islamic terrorism, I will have a RIGHT to confront my aggressors and elect those who will put forth a foreign policy to deal with those aggressors.

Obama does not see Islamic extremism as a threat. He believes that after 30 years of antagonism from Iran, that we CAN acheive peace and honest negotiation from Iran. Peace in our lifetime.

His Islamist influence views (from his homelife, heritage, schooling, and religious mentor) are key insight into his foreign policy perspective.

Additionally his Marxist views are definitely key to understanding his take on the economy.

Now then, they may not do much to provide a counter balance to John McCain's own "solutions" on the economy or foreign policy, but at least America needs to wake up and agree as to what the problems are and who's at fault before we can talk SOLUTIONS.

Right now, the Left thinks America is to blame for the world's ills and that class warfare arguments can be used to solve the economy.

The Left isn't concerned with making things BETTER, they just want justification for implementing Socialism. Once we are saddled with it, it will be difficult to break the shackles. Who will provide the aid to the US to end socialism? No one else is left.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Which is all the more reason why fomenting domestic conflict over race makes no sense for America in 2008. The leading issues of concern are not the religious views and gun ownership of middle-class and working-class Pennsylvanians. Or their ideas about illegal immigration or trade. These are Obama's anxieties and his own fantasy ideas about white people in small towns.

He is the most self-absorbed candidate in American history. He lectures to the American people that they must listen to his discussion of race because of his granny. This is dissociative and kooky.

Someone needs to stand on the bar and yell: "The Emperor is wearing no clothes!"

[redgolum]

The problem is that Obama and his pastor view us as more of a threat then their former co religionists.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

A cynical view might suggest they have opened a second front in the war against America. His point of view is too polarizing and alienated.

[Condor51]

Mr. Obama told the closed-door fundraiser that "you go into 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."

Right on bro.
Coopers, Blacksmiths, Wheelwrights, Lamplighters, Buggy-Whip and Candle Wick Makers UNITE!!

We want "our jobs" back dammit.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Obama defends comments about bitterness in small towns
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000404/posts

[Aaron0617]

Boy...this is gonna make a great campaign ad!

This along with Rev Wright and his comments. But, there wont be campaign ads if he doesn't win the nomination. Which is why I cringe when he makes these stupid gaffes. It's much too soon. I don't want Hillary to have a chance at all.

GO OBAMA!!!!

[Merta]

I still think that this is not John Kerry but Howard Dean. This is exactly like(but worded differently) Dean’s thing about “God, Guns and Gays” except it also sounds a little like Kerry’s “botched joke”. Is it a requirement that in order to be a candidate for the Democrats you must also be a rear-end jerk?

[whatshotandwhatsnot]

LOL! Rear-end jerk—a great phrase that I intend to use in the future.