Obama’s Key-stoneing [UPDATED-It's ALL about HIM]
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[UPDATE-Finally, an MSM outlet reports the whole truth!]
ITS ALL ABOUT OBAMA, NOT ANY SUPPOSED BITTERNESS OF PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS
AP FINALLY REPORTS:
ITS ALL ABOUT WHY OBAMA THINKS HIS POLL NUMBERS ARE BAD IN THE KEYSTONE STATE
At issue are comments he made privately at a fundraiser in San Francisco last Sunday. He was trying to explain his troubles winning over some working-class voters, saying they have become frustrated with economic conditions:
"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 is under fire again for words about white people. This time, though, the words came not from his pastor and/or his twenty year pew-parked butt, but rather from an orifice just below his own nose.
His key stone against Keystoners was not bitterness, God or guns.
The issue is not so much Obama’s stereotyping condescension of supposed bitter rural whites, as much as why Obama supposes so many such Pennsylvanians favor Hillary, rather than The Messiah of hope and change, especially given their need for same.
The MSM, including FNS, MTP, ad nauseum beltway heads all, as well as most conservative blogs (except for Gamecock - don't you love me?) have focused almost exclusively on the following small portion of Obama’s comments in California:
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. 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.
God and guns were throwaway lines.
Conservatives, as usual, are too focused on any gun clinging slander, and, even more as usual, are missing an opportunity to drive home an even larger point that separates liberals and the elitists in the Democratic Party from the majority of Americans that will respond to unapologetic conservatism.
Liberals, on the other hand, are using the God-clinging line to defend Obama, as if Obama was identifying with rural whites in Pennsylvania leaning on God to cure bitterness born of the loss of good paying blue collar manufacturing jobs.
More attention should be paid to comments he made leading up to the above penultimate paragrapgh, especially these:
OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people are most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre…they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today - kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.
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. They feel so betrayed by government that 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, then that adds another layer of skepticism.
But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What is the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is so we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — to close tax loopholes, uh you know uh roll back the tax cuts for the top 1%, Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to uh middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide healthcare for every American.
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.
The entire conversation is not about some assumed bitterness of rural Midwesterners. The conversation is about why Hillary leads among such Pennsylvanians. Obama seeks to distance himself from assertions in the newspaper of the (liberal) record that imply that voters that oppose Obama are racists.
Rather, Obama asserts, these particular democrats oppose big government? Who knew Hillary was for small government?
But Obama gives his self away with the words (remember, Obama said words matter) he speaks just after the God/guns clinging, i.e. that such Caucasians have “antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
Obama is consistent in his suspicions of whites and his certitude in reading Caucasian minds. In his books he incessantly assumes that whites in his vicinity hate him.
The problem with Obama’s assumptions is that Obama was black during the Georgia primary when white men favored him over Hillary.
What do whites in Pennsylvania know about Obama that Georgians did not?
They have heard the din of the 20-year pew-parked butt in the hate America, hate White people church and the words of his books that blame all the world’s problems on greedy white people.
Obama needs to deal with the bitterness he expresses in his books, i.e. that he can’t rid himself of that pesky white blood coursing thru his veins, before he deals with the supposed bitterness in others.
The next question: Is there anything Obama can say that would cause the SUPER Dem delegates to deny him the nomination?
Anything?
Or does their own leftist white guilt-driven self-loathing match Obama’s loathing of white people (especially those that prefer Hillary).
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
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"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
If they ever get rid of Rent Control/Stabilization there will be many that have a rude awakening.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I knew this guy was arrogant when he told Hillary that she was "likeable enough" during the NH debate, and when he snubbed her at the SOTU address by refusing to shake her hand. Him and his wife have both drunk their own bathwater. Sad to say, his statement about Pennsylvanians doesn't surprise me in the least. Obama guy is just simply so full of himself that he thinks that anyone who doesn't vote for him must be a racist, gun-toting, Bible-thumping troglodyte. He was just telling the people, at his San Francisco fundraiser, what he really thinks of the people of PA when he thought that no one was listening or looking.
the Keystone state to the the kind of bigotry usually reserved for Southerners. I guess to lib elitists, we're all Southerners now unless one is from the LA-SF-CHI-DC-NorthEast axis.
Our Lee found out the folly of his trip to Gettysburg. I hope Pennsylvanians as well as Hoosiers, and yes, even some Tar Heels bury the Obamanation at his little round top on May 6.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
He feels their pain.
Why, some days, he rolls out of the rack and thinks, if not for the white man, I could've gotten into Harvard Law School and gotten elected to represent a predominantly white state in the U.S. Senate.
Then he thinks (slaps head) wait-a-sec, it's because of those people that Pastor Wright blames for the degradation of black people that I am a senator today. I certainly didn't get elected based on the black vote alone. And, come to think of it, affirmative action hasn't hurt me much either.
Then he makes some remark about how white people are weak-minded people who need religion to make sense out of their pathetic, bigoted lives.
Then he goes back to bed because his mission has been accomplished: another state moving from red to blue.
Proudly supporting John S. McCain for President (McCain/Romney?)
Why, some days, he rolls out of the rack and thinks, if not for the white man, I could've gotten into Harvard Law School and gotten elected to represent a predominantly white state in the U.S. Senate.
Then he thinks (slaps head) wait-a-sec, it's because of those people that Pastor Wright blames for the degradation of black people that I am a senator today. I certainly didn't get elected based on the black vote alone. And, come to think of it, affirmative action hasn't hurt me much either.
Too rich!
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
San Francisco is a paragon of lawfulness and proactive police community presence.
More time passed. Burnette called 911 again, and was told that there was a police cruiser about half a block away, but that it had gotten a flat tire.
The dispatcher suggested that Burnette go down the street and get the cops himself.
"When I got there, I asked the cops what they were doing," Burnette said. "One of the cops said, 'Can't you see we're changing a tire?' "
After some heated words, one of the officers - who thought someone else had responded to the call - finally arrived at the apartment and confronted the intruder.
It's a keeper one of the great arguments for 2nd Amendment, the Castle Doctrine and No Duty to retreat.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
It's a keeper one of the great arguments for 2nd Amendment, the Castle Doctrine and No Duty to retreat.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I was fooled by BHO into thinking there was something more to this man.
On the brighter side, so have the Democrats and this means a potential intraparty meltdown come convention and general election time.
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just not teachable enough to be prepared to be President any time before the Brooklyn Dodgers win a world series.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
The man's about as complex as a sandwich cookie.
Proudly supporting John S. McCain for President (McCain/Romney?)
I posted about the dripping condescension from these remarks, & as you've pointed out it wasn't just those lines about religion & guns, & being anti-immigrant. I'm struck by how out of touch this line of "reasoning" is, & how "above" the rest of us Obama must feel.
by saying that he was talking about the gun ISSUE and the religion ISSUE.
That's not what he said and it's not what he meant.
Religion is not an ISSUE. People don't show up on election day and say, "Should I vote for the pro-religion or the anti-religion candidate?"
Barack's "conversion" was fake. He and Hitler have the same basic understanding of Christ and Christ's mission, that the Gospel is a useful tool for ensnaring swing voters.
B.O. can rot in hell for all I care. He's now well into nausea-territory.
Proudly supporting John S. McCain for President (McCain/Romney?)
It is NOT an issue of him calling people bitter. That allows his acolytes and shills to defend why people are bitter.
The ISSUE is he called small town Americans HATERs, racists and bigots against those "not like them" "immigrants" and "against free trade" BECAUSE of clinging to religion and guns due to their unemployment.
That must be our focus- he is calling most of America racist because they lost a job 25 years ago!!
Obama is Jimmy Carter- only without the sweater.
in was about why he was polling so poorly among these Pa. dem voters. It was about how these people could possibly prefer Hillary to himself.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
I can understand him thinking people are bitter. He and bitter people will seek each other out, so his sample is naturally biased that way.
But his interpretation of why they are bitter is wrong. He thinks it's because they're cynical of government promising things and not delivering on them. In fact, most people don't trust the government because they know what it can do to them is a lot more than it can do for them.
And there is just no spinning out of saying that people cling to religion and guns and xenophobia because they're unemployed.
But every time I think "OK, this is the perverse distortion of reality that will finish him", he finds a way to hang on.
One thing's for sure, if he does get elected we won't be able to say he didn't warn us.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
http://www.charlotte.com/news/ap_news/story/577910.html
"At issue are comments he made privately at a fundraiser in San Francisco last Sunday. He was trying to explain his troubles winning over some working-class voters, saying they have become frustrated with economic conditions:
"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."
THIS HAS BEEN MY POINT ALL ALONG, THAT THE MSM IS IGNORING. This whole story is about why Obama thinks they won't vote for HIM. ITS ALL ABOUT HIM.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
He was not my favorite in the least bit. But now I will support him with money and time as a volunteer. Obama scares me to death. I also will support the 3rd party canidate (Nader or McKinney) to have someone to kick Obama from the left and steel some votes away in the the rust belt. Operation Chaos is great!!!!!!!!!
The return on investment is FAR better donating it to McCain. Nader or McKinney will get 2% of the vote, MAX, probably 1%. Don't waste your money on them. McCain will be outspent, and he'll be outspent badly if we don't help him. Your money is much better spent on McCain.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
...just another of the Nader spammers that we've been getting lately. Maybe another one reincarnated; who knows?
I've been told over and over and over again by his cult of personality that I'm ignoring the context and the context shows that he didn't call me a bigot.
Particularly they point to this line:
Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today - kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.
Which obviously doesn't say that people are wrong about it being racism... but that it wasn't just racism.
As he notes later on the racism was definitely a factor:
"And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama, then that adds another layer of skepticism.
And from the more well quoted line:
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.
"Antipathy" meaning dislike/distaste... Merriam-Webster goes as far as putting as synonymous with hatred. In this line he further stereotypes small town America and his detractors as bigots.
The focus of the media, and especially Obama himself on the "bitter" issue and the "gun" and "religion" "clinging" issue is all fine and good.
But what about the fact that he called all of us in small town America who are skeptical of him as being bigots on top of that. It was clear in his message and he has wholly avoided it in his responses. Sadly the media has mostly avoided the most inflammatory part of the insult.
To me this was the worst of it.
That's not to say I wasn't ticked off that he assumed our clinging to guns/2nd Amendment voting/etc had more to do with bitterness than the fact that he's a notorious supporter of gun bans. Nor any of the other implications and direct insults in his assumed "off the record" comments.
But the bigotry accusations were the most offensive of the bunch, at least to me.
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If you have ever lived in Manhattan, you know there is an attitude that anything west of the Hudson doesn't count. In other communities you have similar perceptions of self importance. Obama has just defined his people that count and matter as the Yuppies that buy into his scam. The rest are just troglodytes or worse conservatives.
As to the super delegates I think they are trying to figure out which is the best way to lose in november.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777