For example, this hot new fad:
Posted on 04/14/2008 10:17:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Great column.
It is likely Obama's liberal "education" at Columbia was influenced by Richard Hofstadter, C. Wright Mills, Herbert Marcuse, and Frankfurt School social theory. Both he and his wife probably had to read cultural Marxism at Columbia and Princeton. What he said in San Francisco reflects that ideology.
A thousand bucks and a door prize to anyone who can track down a reading list for Obama's Poli Sci 101 at Columbia University!
"FDR governed as a liberal but politicked like a populist. When LBJ rightly and to his everlasting credit removed one of the Dem pillars of paranoia - racism, the GOP co-opted populist racism, added the Jeffersonian notion of government and institutional hatred, throw in a dash of paranoid Red scare, now terrorism scare, and you get political victories. "
July 13, 2006: What Barack Obama Needs To Learn From Richard Hofstadter, Abraham Lincoln and FDR. Obama wasn't just speaking extemporaneously. These were strategy points from talkleft.com back in 2006, addressed to Obama.
The subject related to Obama’s condescending comments was discussed as strategy points back in 2006 (above). It’s even addressed to him. This deserves some attention and chatter. What he said in San Francisco is from talkleft.com.
Such wise words; thank you.
Anyone who knows ANYTHING about marketing in the real world knows how utterly idiotic this idea is. The ash heap of business history is littered with the bones of defunct companies that started their business development process by trying to manufacture a product and then find a market for it, rather than by trying to understand what the market was really demanding and then designing a product to meet that demand.
For example, this hot new fad:
Democrat voters routinely walk into their polling places and vote for big government to confiscate more and more money.... from their neighbors. I cannot imagine any behavior more selfish and rude than that.
Agreed. He belongs in Hollywood, California not with us poorly educated hillbillies in East Country. It is like all these Democrats pair themselves with are the Ivy League elitists who make lots of money and not with us rednecks. I do like that the mask slipped. I remember that there was one editorial that I read that suggested that Liberals see all of us as Deliverance people. This kind of thing that Obama is talking about, sounds a lot like one of those Liberals.
This is also a very well-to-do individual. I mean for Democrats to put up a black person who doesn’t connect with most of his community in terms of income, is deeply ironic. It is also ironic that this guy gets a lot of money for doing nothing. His wife makes more money than my Jewish, white mother and she also works for a living in Northrup Grumman though. To the steel workers in Pennsylvania, Obama is just another rich white John Kerry Liberal who brings his too-educated elitism wherever he goes.
It is like the Democrats cry about how many wealthy Presidential candidates there are yet they pick the richest people to lead us trying to pile them into populist tinder boxes. He might be black, but he is richer than a good amount of his community. Which should make him be a Republican. If many of the Democrats have preached that a black man can never make it in society, that it is bad for blacks to strive to be Middle-Class, they are being hypocritical.
May he get ousted by Marian the Librarian before the General Election.
In the few discussions I have had with him, one thing that continually surprises him is that not only do I know that there is other worlds beside engineering, but that I still choose to live in a small town. He often remarked “How can you stay in Iowa after seeing New York and Chicago? “
For him, the only “safe” place to live is in a major city. He acknowledges the crime, but is more scared of me and my friends with guns than with the gang bangers. For him the gang murders are a known risk, and he is freaked about the coyotes that howl in the night by my parent's house. He has traveled the world, but has very little knowledge of the people in the places he has been. He recites the various talking points from the evening news about places he has gone, but can't say that he talked to any of the people there (beyond the hotel staff). In short, he has been brought up in a very insulated bubble. He truly believes what Obama just said, not because he has seen it but because he feels he has to believe it. To truly fit into his chosen class, he has to believe that all others are ignorant, gun toting hicks who cling to God because marijuana is illegal (which I heard him say once). If he started to believe otherwise, he would no longer be welcome in his class.
McCain even discussed it on MSNBC's Hardball tonight at Villanova. Even Chris Matthews seems to know it's a political liability and serious issue.
After I get my money I'll yell, HMMOGod! I got more money for bullets! (and bowling shoes).
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