Obama: Why What He Said Is Worse Than You Think
By Rizzuto

Sun Apr 13, 2008 -
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…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.

And 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.

-Barack Obama
There’s more to what Obama said than appears, something more insulting and patronizing bubbling just under the surface; he’s not just talking about people, he’s talking about principals. It’s one thing for a presidential candidate to personally insult members of the electorate; it’s another completely for him to undermine and dismiss the foundations of our beliefs, Obama managed to do both in a single clip.

He has reduced what we hold as our most cherished principals to their lowest forms; belief in the sovereignty of our borders become xenophobia, belief in the sanctity of the second amendment becomes bloodlust, faith becomes irrationality. Even worse, he seems to believe that we hold these principals because of some sort of knee jerk emotional attachment which is the result of economic circumstances. For someone who peddles hope as the cornerstone of his campaign, he seems to believe the worst about us.

As Obama exposed his elitism, his liberal apologists in the media ran to his defense and in doing so, exposed their own elitism. First they denied he even said what he said, dismissing the idea that Obama could even make such a gaffe. Then, in a baffling reverse of their previous statements defended what he said as if to say, “So what? He’s right.” CNN’s Jack Cafferty even went as far as to compare Middle Americans to disenfranchised Muslims joining the ranks of Al Qaeda.

So which was it? Is Obama being misquoted? Or is he just stating the obvious? His defenders would like you to believe both but I find that hard to swallow, especially considering Obama’s pattern of patronizing statements and his audience, wealthy San Francisco liberals, the vanguard of leftist elitism.





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Comments : 2 Comments

DiscordantPhilosopher commented, on April 13, 2008 at 7:46 p.m.:

I don’t know what’s more disgusting, Obama’s snobbish attitude or the media defending it.

VRWC commented, on April 16, 2008 at 7:58 a.m.:

I got an idea, Osammababamma can come hang with me for a long weekend, friday he can get up at 4 a.m. come to the constructionsite with me by 6 a.m., saturday we could do a lil huntin cause nothin makes distain for your lot in life better than killin some poor animal for sport(actually i prefer to go to the country club for a round of golf, but he wouldnt understand that seeing my status in life) and sunday we could "Keep Holy The Lords Day" as comanded in the rules of how to leave this world undead. And not to mention the time with my wife and kids which is why I do what i do all week anyways. Sounds like the american dream to me!! Well i am pretty bitter that I dont have a mansion and million dollar bank accounts, guess i better keep loading the guns and praying to God it gets better (this is deep sarcasm in case you didnt figure it out)