Posted on 04/14/2008 5:44:18 AM PDT by shortstop
No, Barack, we're not bitter.
We're American.
And it's too bad you don't realize that. It's too bad you're gotten into middle-age, gone to the best schools, made yourself a millionaire, been elected to the Senate, and still have no idea how the majority of Americans see their country.
It's too bad your nose-in-the-air superiority complex gives you the arrogance to dismiss tens of millions of your fellow citizens as your intellectual and social inferiors.
It's too bad your view of this country is based on bigoted stereotype and simplistic generalization.
But the fact is, slick, that you're full of crap.
At issue is Barack Obama's from-the-heart comment to some liberal San Francisco pals about the stupid people he'd like to preside over. Explaining to the enlightened people in the Golden State how these backward clods get to be backward clods, he wrapped it all up nicely in a liberal elitist bow.
“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,” the most condescending man in America said.
"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."
He sounds like an anthropologist explaining some primitive tribe, or a psychiatrist talking about people who have a mental handicap. He sounds like a guy who lives in a “those people” world. The values and opinions of others are flushed down the toilet of relevance by being written off as bitterness.
So let's take this step by step, to understand exactly the insult he lodged, to see this prejudice piece by piece.
Bitterness, Barack says, is the reason people “cling to guns.” I guess he's talking about members of the National Rifle Association and the other near 50 percent of American homes which contain a firearm. Those who believe the Second Amendment is, in fact, a civil right are not being reasonable, or displaying a love for freedom, they are merely being bitter.
Just like people who go to church.
Not three weeks after lecturing the country on how he is a “devout Christian,” and how his racist pastor is really a lot like his “typical white person” grandmother, Barack dismisses the religious zeal of others as bitterness.
It's not faith, it's not conviction, it's bitterness.
Can you think of a similarly dismissive claim by any politician at any other time in your life? This joker doesn't even allow others the presumption of religious sincerity. They cling to their religion not because they believe in Jesus Christ or because they love God or their fellowman, but because they are bitter over a lack of jobs.
Again, Barack insists that people accept his religious sincerity, and then condemns untold millions of others as religious posers. What an incredible double standard, what an astounding brand of egoism.
Then he equated Americans' religious faith with racial bigotry. He said “antipathy to people who aren't like them” was another fruit of this bitterness tree. It is another breathtaking assumption and indictment, claiming vast stretches of the American population are racists.
Does he believe that America's religious views are moral and social failings that can be remediated, like racial bigotry?
Then he dismisses the entire illegal alien debate as another fruit of this bitterness – rule of law be damned – and throws in America's disquiet over trade with China, just for good measure.
What he did was take most of the issues of conservative America – family and faith, the Second Amendment, trade imbalance and illegal immigration, with some defamatory racial bigotry thrown in for good measure – and dismissed them all by defining them as the fruit of bitterness.
Conservatives are conservatives, he told his liberal friends, because they are less evolved. Because they scapegoat, because they are too dumb to find jobs, because they aren't sophisticated enough to process their bitterness in a healthy way.
Well, Barack, you're full of crap.
Those millions of people in the Midwest – and all across America – cling to their faith because they believe in God. Because they are exercising their God-given right to freedom of conscience. Because they have sincere beliefs that your sneering scorn can mock but cannot diminish.
They believe in the Second Amendment because their understanding of how freedom is preserved is better than yours, not worse. Because they understand what the Founders wanted and why. Because they love freedom and insist on exercising their constitutional right to be ready to defend it.
And your claim that these Americans have “antipathy to people who aren't like them” is ridiculously hypocritical because that quote exactly describes your world view. You, Barack, have antipathy to people who aren't like you.
You have bigotry to people who aren't like you.
And this quote proves it.
These people aren't bitter, Barack.
They are Americans.
With every passing day, I'm more convinced that this liberal elitist should not be allowed anywhere near the most powerful position in the world. He's a flippin' empty suit.
I think he pretty much got it right.
This coming from a man who apparently just goes to church to get votes and speaks angerly against NAFTA.
If only we had government jobs and government health care we would not need Jesus...../s
Who got it right?
Well, surely you’ve heard about “projection”, where one projects their own feelings on others, but cannot identifuy them as their own...? Sure fits Barack, doesn’t it?
This could be the description of ANY young "liberal". This is what he IS, and it is what "liberals" ARE.
It stems from their idea that humankind isn't inherently flawed, but that it is perfectable, and some are more perfect, and thus more deserving to rule others. This is why they have a "top down" management style, why they're enamored of socialism, why they despise capitalism and free markets (bottom up control), and why they envy dictators in other countries because of their power to implement their will on entire countries.
This is an excellent piece, that I'm sure the writer spent significant time crafting, word by word. I was on the subject on Friday night, not as elegantly as this, but sooner. Click below for the FreeRepublic contribution to this discussion.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "Bitter"? "Clinging to Guns"? No, "Dumb as a Box of Rocks"
Barack’s problem is that he and his snooty wife believe they actually earned what they have today.
“I think he pretty much got it right.”
I guess you referred to Bob Lonsberry?
How is it that we have a 5% (+/-) national unemployment rate, if everyone in America who disagrees with Barack Osama is out of work? Have some cognitive disjuction for breakfast, and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day ...
He’s projecting. He is bitter, because he’s been let down by every man in his life who should have helped him form real character, and because he’s married to a raving harridan who treats him like a dog, and because he’s surrounded by dishonest, angry, and immoral people all the time. If he’s miserable, with all his wealth and power and prominence, then he figures everyone else must be even more miserable.
Wrong, BO. We don’t want to be like you; we’re happy because we’re *not* like you. I’m truly sorry for him, and for everyone who is so desperate that they see him as a savior.
Obama can only bowl a 37. Enough said....
As he points his finger he has three fingers pointing at himself.
wow...but the people who need to read this won’t.
That was more or less the Wellstone approach.
“And your claim that these Americans have “antipathy to people who aren’t like them” is ridiculously hypocritical because that quote exactly describes your world view. You, Barack, have antipathy to people who aren’t like you.”
Where’s the picture of that hammer and nail!
Well said. He is full of it.
Did you happen to catch Obama on CNN’s ‘Compassion Forum’ last night? He went on and on about how his religion would inform his ‘Presidency’..blah,blah,blah and the liberals in the crowd just clapped and cheered! Unbelievable double standard!
When President Bush talked about his religion, the liberals acted like America was going to turn into a Christian like Taliban run country, but it is okie dokie if Obama turns America into a ‘Black Nationalist, Separatist’ run country I guess, as long as it is socialist!
Go figure...(eye roll)
if hillary has her way obama will have a service like wellstone before election day
Keep on running, Hill!
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