Posted on 04/06/2009 7:51:25 AM PDT by pissant
Tammy Bruce recently remarked while guest hosting conservative Laura Ingraham's radio show that America "has trash in the White House."
Classy.
I didn't think much of it until I started receiving e-mails from folks who ranted that the Obamas are trailer trash who had no business in Europe last week, in classically misspelled prose. ("The 0bama's are totally without class or refinemet. Wow, I'm so impressed with the trailer trash from Chicago," one man desperately in need of spellcheck wrote).
This is one of those themes that makes no obvious sense. Barack and Michelle Obama are both Harvard-educated lawyers who earned millions thanks to the future president's book sales and the future first lady's rise up the corporate ladder. They've achieved the American Dream, what we all tell our kids they can be if they work hard enough.
Neither grew up in double wides; Barack lived in a Honolulu apartment and Michelle in a Chicago one. What's closer to the truth is that they both grew up in urban areas, but we all know what "urban" is code for.
No, "trash" is much safer for astute social observers. As Bruce helpfully explained, "Trash is a thing that is colorblind, it can cross all eco-socionomic ... categories." Oh, come on, people. You know that's not what you want to call the Obamas. It doesn't make sense. There's another word borderline cases are dying to use, but they don't have the guts.
Of course, some of my more racist readers don't have that problem, which is why God invented the delete key.
Well Susie, the only racist in the equation is the Jeremiah Wright-Father Phegler-James Meeks-Bill Ayers-Frank Marshall Davis-Malcom X-Rashid Khalidi-Louis Farrakhan disciple that now pretends he's the president.
I think the word everyone is reaching for to describe the BOs in the White House is vulgar. That is aside from the obvious “Marxist.”
Harvard and trash are not mutually exclusive.
They wouldn’t last long in my trailer park.
You mess with me and you mess with the whole trailer park.
Lots of race baiting from the Dems these days.
What happened to "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"?
It's the only measure I've ever used.
I was always taught to take people one at a time.
And still no mention by the media of his backbreaking bow to the saudi rulers that probably financed his education.
When they called the Palins “trash”, I thought it was classless and obnoxious. It is equally classless and obnoxious when said about the Obamas.
Common decency is never a bad trait to employ.
SnakeDoc
But both of them got where they are today because the are black. Hey Barry what kinda grades did you get in school? why won’t he release his records
I don't know that much a Michelle but it is becoming increasingly clear that either Barack Obama is playing very strange mind games or that he was the quintessential affirmative action acceptee and student at Columbia and Harvard. Absolutely no educated person thinks Austrian is a language or that there are 57 States in the US, nor would an educated person misspeak such nonsense.
ML/NJ
Susie, what we have in the White House are clueless, America hating Marxists, in thoroughly over their heads. DVDs to the British PM? Now that’s your kind of class, I suppose, eh Susie?
Harvard educated lawyers? We don’t know his grades or how he got in. He didn’t work as a lawyer, but as a “community organizer”. She rose up the ladder because of his political positions. What we are learning is that he is illiterate, as in his inability to properly read the word derisive from his teleprompter this weekend and in saying he didn’t know how to say something in “Austrian”.
Susie, it isn’t that we all get the “talking points” faxed to us each day, it is that we all see about the same thing and call it what it is.
The Obamas ARE trash, of the worst kind, and certainly of a kind that’s NEVER gotten close to the Oval Office EVER: by that I mean, America-hating trash.
People like the Clintons and the Obamas are ALWAYS propagandized as “the smartest people in the world”,
yet I know cleaning ladies that are smarter than any of them. I seem to remember entirely fictitious biographies that were sold to the Romanian people about Mrs. Ceasescu
also, as being a great scientist, when she in fact had highschool level comprehension of her subject. These people never tire of mythologizing themselves, and in our own country they’ve got not only their own well paid spin doctors (now called “strategists”) but still the majority of the MSM. The MSM still kowtows to all the NONpolitical aspects of this Dynamic Duo, but that game is wearing fast, and the bloom will vanish from that rose entirely as soon as our crises compound, as they will before long.
Harvard-educated lawyers? Yeah, well that should actually mean something-—let’s see ONE THING Barack Obama wrote, one commentary on a law, or anything of the sort.
Michelle Obama had a law license but hasn’t used it since
1993. Now her acolytes are pushing for all the mileage they can get out of her as “First Mom”, and her young daughters become political tools to be manipulated as buffers for any criticism of their parents.
I and most of us could go on for 3 or 4 hundred more pages, as we’ve already done here on FR.
If this is what they consider to NOT be “trailer park trash” based soley on where one was educated, how do they explain the Bush bashing? Wasn’t he ivy league educated as well?
Ok, I won’t call them ‘trash’ but I know a sh*t salesman with a mouthful of samples when I hear one.
Personally, I don’t know what kind of “hard work” the Obama’s have done in their lives. You didn’t hear a whole lot of talk about their “careers” and grades in the news media during the election.
And...who CARES if they are Harvard-educated lawyers? He’s supposed to be a “Constitutional expert”, yet he and his fellow cronies in the federal government walk all over the Constitution like it’s a doormat.
And Obama was not misspelled, people have taken to putting a zero instead of an O to spell Obama..
That’s recyclable, Zero’s are not.
One question - just who is Susie Demas and DILLIGAS what she thinks?
No, I wouldn’t call Barack and Michelle Obama trailer trash. I’ve known too many good, decent people who just happened to live in trailers.
They are not “trash”. I am half red-neck, half white trash, and the Obama’s are not “trash”.
They are self-centered, egotistical, erudite intellectuals who disdain real life experience in favor of their idealistic views of how they think the world should work. They also have no common sense, lack sincere gratitude and assume that they have no natural need to explain their actions.
But they aren’t “trash”.
Good point - no reason to insult the good, decent, taxpaying, freedom-loving Americans who live in manufactured housing.
What a joke. How come all Dem first ladies' success is based on who they're sleeping with. We all know Michelle's salary went up 200% after her husband became Senator and right before the Univ. of chicago got their million buck grant.
Americans know exactly how they got in and graduated, too.
Whatever else they may be, the Obamas are certainly not “trash”. Except for the fevered imaginings of the shallow media types who worship them as the second coming of Camelot, Obama and his bride are notably short on elegance, courtesy, and style. But as well-dressed Harvard-educated lawyers of a liberal mindset, they are presumed by their fellow elitists to be wise and distinguished as opposed to, say, cunning and manipulative.
Note to RushisMyTeddyBear — your pic shows recyclables; they have use, while 0bama has none. ;-)
Maybe - you can take the man out of Kenya, but you can’t take Kenya out of the man...
LMAO! I’ll need a ‘pic update’. ;)
Did I get those pesky adjectives correct?
A fine observation!
After listening to the Lefties whining about how President Bush was a ignorant hick for eight long years, and their thrilled exclamations about how Barack Obama was so cultured, smooth and cosmopolitan, people are holding Obama to a higher standard.
Then when Obama goes out and makes a fool of himself, he is a victim of the high expectations that were held out for him.
Frankly, this is all small potatoes, until it effects policy. But some of the gaffes, like the “Overcharge” button or the bow to the Saudi King, are detrimental to our national interest.
((((((cough))))))
:-D
When you let the other side set the rules you've already lost.
Every "civilized" culture that has been attacked by "barbarians" has lost. If you try to take the high road the trash will beat you every time.
We have to learn to fight like them without becoming them. It's a dangerous game but we can't beat them by being nice.
Trash no. Marxist yes.
I doubt any degrees were in fact earned, with their history of lies they are probably fakes.
They need to prove the facts and release records of everything.
Yes, they are cunning and manipulative users of the system. They got through school on affirmative action. They used the poor of Chicago to climb their way up, and now they are using the great unwashed masses in the country as their power base...playing them like a fiddle and giving away the store to enhance their power.
>> When you let the other side set the rules you’ve already lost. Every “civilized” culture that has been attacked by “barbarians” has lost. If you try to take the high road the trash will beat you every time.
I’m not suggesting we let the other side set the rules. The other side is already obnoxious. It is one of many reasons I find them insufferable. I will not become that which I dispise.
>> We have to learn to fight like them without becoming them. It’s a dangerous game but we can’t beat them by being nice.
I never said be “nice”. I said be decent. One can fight vigorously without being obnoxious.
SnakeDoc
What's that? Nobody is going to be hired for that position? It's been "eliminated"??? Gee, if I didn't know any better, I'd think that some corrupt political organization in Chicago (say, the Democrat Party) created a worthless, no-show hack job in exchange for political favors from a US Senator.
But of course, it just can't be true because not a single media outlet in the United States has looked into the matter, and you know how they loooove scandals!
We’ve just been through 8 years of listening to the geniuses on the Left calling Bush every epithet they could think of, and more. It was so bad that we started referring to it as Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Then they went after Palin in language that reached new lows, just when we though they couldn’t go any lower.
I like to focus on issues, events, philosophy, and leave the ad hominem to the nut cases. Obama is a Leftist, and it shows unmistakeably in his domestic agenda and in much of his international agenda as well. He is an epic incompetent; he has never held a job, never made a payroll, never built anything, never produced anything; a guy you wouldn’t hire to run a convenience store now presumes to run an entire country. He has spent his life surrounded by anti-american radicals and race bigots.
His only knack is the knack of telling people what they want to hear. He has the classic ability to appeal to his audience’s conceit, and he does that very well. There is nothing in there that translates into executive ability.
Heck, the Kennedy clan proved that years ago!!
Vulgar. Now that's a word you don't hear much anymore. Sort of like the word "shame" as compared to "guilt". Vulgar is a good word but IMHO a better one would be déclassé
We all know Michelle's salary went up 200% after her husband became Senator and right before the Univ. of chicago got their million buck grant
AND... post-election, Michelle vacated her 'position'... NOW the The Univ of Chicago has obliterated this 'position'. Hmmmm ...wonder exactly what were her duties???
No doubt a 'Quid Pro Quo' arrangement.
Remorse is a new area in social work. Narrator worked as professional remorse officer in Dept. of Human Services Remorse followers believe that people who have done bad things should feel sorry for what they did and stop doing it. Narrator cites examples of remorselessness, including criminals as well as your own best friend. City Hall demanded a full-fledged remorse program to be in place in weeks, even days. The program is to be implemented without funding. The narrator's attempts to reform people were largely unsuccessful. Former clients filed a class-action suit against the state demanding restitution, claiming the plan was damaging or inadequately administered. The narrator is demoted to the basement to "assist in the assembly and assessment" of ascertainment files.... .
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