RSSKing Obama
Jo | April 13, 2008
(Previously titled “SnObama“, but Don got to it first)
Boy did the little rich boy from Detriot step deep in it this time. Let’s just throw the potential voters under not only the bus, but the whole damn road.
via Stop the ACLU, who got it from Huffington Post (whose site I refuse to link to):
Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).
But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is — so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll go down a series of talking points.
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of 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. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that 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.
Highlighting is mine. Notice these statements were made in a non-televised speech in the most liberal state in the country (California), about people who live a world away on the East Coast. The people in California (unless having lived elsewhere in America for a period of time) have no clue what goes on middle America, both physically and economically. SnObama would never have the balls to say those words in say Atlanta, GA – in public.
The spineless noodle of liberal ilk hid behind closed doors on comfortable ground.
Didn’t Hitler do a lot of behind the door speakings before his rise to power? … we know the results of that don’t we?
Rob from Say Anything responds with the feelings of a lot of us …
We cling to guns not because we’re bitter but because we still believe – strike that, we still know – that private gun ownership is a right afforded to us by our constitution. We’re not anti-immigrant or xenophobic, we’re against millions of people being able to stroll across our borders and partake in the benefits of being American while flouting the laws our elected leaders passed and taking on almost none of the burdens of citizenship. We may be skeptical of people who aren’t like us, but then who isn’t? Is Obama really suggesting that a gun-loving conservative from middle America would be welcomed in, say, Berkeley? Perhaps we should talk to the Berkeley Marine recruiters about the topic of liberal tolerance for people who aren’t like them.
And while I, personally, am not religious I know that my fellow rubes practice their strongly-held religious beliefs as a way of edifying their moral code, creating a sense of community and passing their beliefs and standards on to future generations. That the churches of places like Pennsylvania and North Dakota seem alien to someone used to the booming diatribes of hatred and bigotry that come from the pulpits of the Rev. Wrights of the world is hardly our fault.
Thank you Rob for putting into words, without anger, what the “real” American believes, feels and lives.
Round-up Links:
- Michelle Malkin: “Photoshop of the week: Typical liberal snob“
- Gateway Pundit: “Obama Reaches Out to Bitter Religious Pennsylvanians” and “More… Obama’s Bible-Thumpin Gun-Humpin Comments …Update: Daily Kos Responds“
- Theodore’s World: “B. Hussein Obama on small-town PA: Clinging religion, guns, xenophobia“
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Obama is just another bitter liberal trying to make it sound like it is everyone else who has the problem when they don’t rush out and embrace his brand of fascism or applaud mindlessly when he sneezes.