Posted on 04/11/2008 4:23:18 PM PDT by freespirited
The Huffington Post's Mayhill Fowler reports that, at that same San Francisco fundraiser where Obama revealed his previously unknown college sojourn to Pakistan, the junior senator from Illinois seemed to try to get inside the mind of small towners in Pennsylvania, with a dose of sociology and a dollop of dime-store psychology.
"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," Obama said. "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."
It seems to me that this comment could be interpreted fairly easily as dismissing people who hold views on guns, or religion, or immigration, or trade because they believe in those views -- and not because they're "bitter" or lashing back at a system that has discarded them.
This is your brain on too much bordeaux and brie.
These dumb, stoopid Amerikkans. They’re not sophisticated Islamo Marxists as I am. (thoughts of b. Hussein Obama)
stunning
I so hope there is tape of this. Would be a great ad to run going up to the general election. I know it isn’t going over too well in this house and I doubt anyone else who heard it who lives outside of the city is taking it too well.
Wow....what a good Christian!!!!
How condescending!
I pray to God that Bambi continues to utter these Kerryisms; if McCain is smart, he’ll use these phrases to totally squash this big-eared pipsqueak.
An absolutely sophomoric and gay thing to say - Sophomore in High Skool, that is. Any college Sophomore who would say something like this in the Student Union would be ostracized by (almost) everyone.
Is he trying to SABOTAGE himself???? Maybe he just realized he Could be the
Is he trying to SABOTAGE HIMSELF????
Hussein seems like he is afraid to walk around those small towns with guns, American flags, and Churches.
Sort of like a Commie Vampire.
oops!!! Did he get COLD FEET for the POTUS???
There is, on marklevinshow.com .
Freep this poll!
Do you believe that Senator Barack Obama’s comments reveal his elitist attitude toward every hardworking American?
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
It’s 55% Yes 45% No
Results will be shown in half hour.
It may go red anyway, if the precincts in Philly don't have 250% of the people voting.
49 yes to 51 no now.........I voted again. ;^)
Wow, what a choice we have this year, a communist, a socialist and a fellow traveler.
"Let them eat cake." — Marie Antoinette
"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas." —Hillary Clinton
"But I don't know that she's ever had a real job." —Teresa Heinz Kerry, about Laura Bush
"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." —Leona Helmsley
Nailed it in one word.
Guns? Church? Immigration reform?
Gads!!! I must be real bitter...
We thought he was just a socialist. Then we learned about him, we realized he was a marxist. Now we see he might be an honest to goodness communist.
This is just like saying black people like watermelon and fried chicken, or latin americans steal hub caps, the man is a moron plain and simple!
someone is hittin it..it’s now 45 yes, 55 no
There is audiotape at Huff Po, along with a full transcript:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-no-surprise-that-ha_b_96188.html
This is pure Harvard. How Ivy Leaguers and their wannabees see the real America. It is instructive to note that Obama is so far gone, it never occurs to him that he is being offensive and arrogant.
look again, it’s worse than that
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.”
I thought he was describing his black base.
"Typical white people."
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.”
Rush...you magnificent bastard.
Needs help - noe 54-46.
Is this Obama’s “macaca moment” or his Dean “scream” that will bring his house of cards tumbling down?
This time it wasn’t Wright who said it (and Obama didn’t hear); it wasn’t Michelle who really meant to say (you fill in the blank)...it was Obama himself, caught on tape, denigrating average Americans who have guns, hold to religion and are anti-immigrant.
You got that right! Not only condescending, but downright insulting! What he said was:
"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 he insults gunowners, Christians, and those of us who don't want immigrants taking over our towns and turning them into little Mexicos or little Arabias. He just wrote off a bunch of votes in Pennsylvania.
The DNC didn't pick this guy. George Soros did. The last thing the DNC wants is a black radical heading up the party. They are desperate to find a way out of nominating him, which is the only reason Hillary Clinton is still in the race. They all are praying that Obama self-destructs, or at least gives the bosses cover for supporting clinton without having a black uprising on their hands. Sucks to be them these days.
He’s just revealing his REAL self. What did you think a typical left wing liberal/socialists who is just about finished taking over the Democrat Party thinks about most Americans anyway.
They look down on them in this typical condescending fashion.
As Marx said, religion is the opiate of the people. Obama is just expanding on that theme.
Did you really think he was some sort of uniter based on his propaganda? His voting record shows us EXACTLY who he is and this is in character with that.
..... ... 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.”.....
The irony is that the statement is largely true. They cling to a past that is not only gone but iretrivable. They cling to the things they cherish while sipping the Democrat/union koolaid.
Murtha tells them he will return the area to past glory and they believe him.
Obama’s problem is that the truth is insulting
They are lost forever
Obama is an elitest bigot. A ass. A boor.
Any chance this moron had of winning Pennsylvania just went down the drain if this gets broad circulation. Of course, CBS and NBC ignored it and focused again on Hillary’s slip up about sniper fire.
The DUmmies have posted it on their site, so they’re hitting it hard...it’s an internet poll, means absolutely nothing in the real scheme of things.
LOL. As a one of those “typical white people” I must say that Snob-ama has me pegged, I just cling desperately to my small-town idiocies because until now I never had someone like Snob-ama show me the way to ENLIGHTENMENT.
[oooops, wait a minute, my new “Snob-ama meter” is telling me that talking about ‘enlightenment’ is a racially charged and discredited concept, because after all it trades on the contrast of light vs. dark, so it must be inherently racist..... all those “Enlightenment” thinkers were just white racist Europeans after all...... so I guess I should just continue living here in the “dark ages” as a typical white person, but wait a minute, it must be racist to talk about either “dark ages” or “enlightment” so now I’m getting really confused by my new political correctness!!!]
Lou Dobbs program is killing Barry on this.
The penultimate black candidate? There will be exactly one more before Armageddon?
This will cause nary a ripple.
I’m sure he misspoke!!!
He’s always misspeaking. Babies are a punishment.
Clinging to guns and religion (equating guns and religion as something to cling to).
What will he come up with next... maybe religion is the opiate of the masses.
Darn the masses, anyway, they are dum.
Black folk like his Uncle Jeremiah are not haters. They just angry and blowing off a little steam, petitioning God to damn America and celebrating it. Small town white folk is bad, very bad. They against ILLEGAL immigration, PRO Second Amendment, and for Decent paying jobs that have been shipped overseas. Hillary will toast Barry on this issue. She has been waiting for him to step into it and he has.
As someone born and raised in northeast PA, I can tell you it’s basically a paleoconservative-libertarian region. We hate the liberals, but we hate their cousins the neocons just as much if not more. The Meuser-Hackett battle for Congress is going to yield a great conservative either way, and I’m also very confident in Lou Barletta eventually becoming a Senator or Governor.
Clinging to religion like he does.
Speaking of Catholics I think the interview with the president is on ewtn right now.
Speaking of Soros, a poster I respect is sure that much of the money Obama is raising is illegal.
She thinks Soros (and maybe others like him) are somehow funneling their own money through Internet donations in small amounts that aren’t traced... kinda like the donations the Clintons got from Buddist monks, except on a much larger scale because of the Internet.
I wonder if there is anyway of investigating that kind of thing.
Too bad they didn’t announce the final result after the break. They announced 52% NO 46% Yes when the final was 52% NO 48% Yes and closing with 12,264 total votes.
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