Barack Obama
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Here is Obama’s explanation of small-town life in Pennsylvania. To make it even more perfect, he delivered it at a Sunday fundraiser in San Francisco, the city which holds NASCAR America in the most contempt:
- “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.”
So working-class Americans “cling” to guns, use religion as a crutch, and are a bunch of xenophobes. He should have included the phrase “knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers” and it would have made a perfect Daily Kos post. It’s a complete mystery why Obama is having so much trouble with the white working class. Question: Can you be a “Man of the People” while still despising them?
HT: Further Reading:
Obama–Hatin’ on th’ Hicks / Obama Oh, Snob-A / He sure wasn’t born in small town.
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See, the problem with putting ideological critique in plain language is people might begin to understand you.
The larger problem is that this is such a commonplace interpretation in our schools and legislatures that it’s unlikely to be shocking.
Cheers,
PGE
Another good question would be “Can you be the US President if you despise America?”
“The larger problem is that this is such a commonplace interpretation in our schools and legislatures that it’s unlikely to be shocking.”
What surprises me is the inability of many politicians to come to grips with the Internet Age. The time when you could say one thing in San Francisco and another in Scranton is over. It makes pandering to the base a lot trickier than it once was. That’s one thing I’ll say for McCain — he’s the same crusty bastich no matter where he goes.
“Another good question would be ‘Can you be the US President if you despise America?’”
Obama’s basic contempt for the U.S. really is starting to show through. I think a lot of people initially gave him the benefit of the doubt — it was just his wife, his friends, his pastor, etc. But eventually the whole “lie down with dogs and you get fleas” dynamic comes into play. Or to reference another cliche, “Walks like an anti-American, whines like an anti-American, etc.”
I just heard Karl Rove say that with these small town comments BHO just lost any chance he had of winning in PA. As one who grew up in small town PA, I think this will not sit well with those “typical small town folks”. It comes off condescending and elitist. I wonder what he says privately.
John-
I grew up in Lancaster. Where did you come up?
I think you’re exactly right on that. Rural Pennsylvanians tend to be Democrats, in my experience, but independent-minded, conservative ones. This is going to annoy all the right people.
“So working-class Americans “cling” to guns, use religion as a crutch”
McCain would be wise to beat this drum. This coming from the individual who is reclaiming “religion” and “faith” for the dems. When this comment is viewed in tandem with the Jeremiah Wright story it speaks volumes.
“McCain would be wise to beat this drum.”
If Obama keep talking like this, McCain is going to beat HIM like a drum.
But yeah, to adapt a Churchill quote, “Never before in the field of human politics were so many insulted by so few words.”
The statement is a model of concision. He managed to insult the working-class, rural voters, religious people, those concerned about border security, and gun owners, all in one fell swoop.