SELF-HATING YUPPIE - OBAMA'S 1980S LIBERALISM

NY post ^ | 4/19/08 | Jonah Goldberg

[pissant]

April 19, 2008 -- Barack Obama is finally coming into focus.

For a while now, the Obamaphiles have insisted that their candidate represents a profound break with the past. No more culture wars. No more "re-litigating the 1960s," in Obama's own words.

But what about re-litigating the 1980s?

There's always been a certain cultural lag time to Barack and Michelle Obama, a kitschiness that's hard to pinpoint. But I think I've got it: They're self-hating yuppies straight out of the 1980s, which were to the Obamas what the 1960s were to the Clintons.

For those too young to remember, "yuppie" was shorthand for young urban professionals - think Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton in the TV series "Family Ties" - who allegedly represented the collapse of '60s values and the triumph of '80s greed. Yuppies sold their souls for a BMW and a condo.

Ironically, the biggest complaints about yuppie materialism came from self-loathing liberal yuppies - like the Obamas.

The Obamas still seem stuck in that time warp, clinging to '80s-style resentments and political assumptions. Michelle Obama is never so eloquent as when she's complaining about the burden of student loans for her two Ivy League degrees and covering the high cost of summer camp and piano lessons for her kids on her family's half-million-dollar-a-year income.

"Don't go into corporate America," she exhorted low-income working mothers in Ohio in February, even though she is a highly compensated hospital executive. She admits to being consumed with "a constant sense of guilt" over having to balance work, politics and family. "It's guilt, feeling guilty all the time."

[Question Liberal Authority]

the Reagan-led 1980’s were an important time for people in our age range.

At the time, Reagan was accused of being stuck in the 1950's.

[ChiMark]

You opined a much clearer analysis of Obama. He's not your garden variety of
the self-hating liberal affluent.

This is a man who seeks absolute power as a well
defined Marxist. He does not identify himself with
any western philosophy of democratic principles.

He is William Ayres, the Trinity church and the Black Muslim movement.

[dixiechick2000]

"Slate columnist Mickey Kaus has been waiting for Obama to "pivot" to the center as Clinton did in 1992. But it may be that America's most reliably liberal senator doesn't think he has to. He isn't a unifier. He's a counter-revolutionary. And waiting for him to pivot is like waiting for Godot."

As you said, pissant...he's a Marxist.

[dixiechick2000]

"Self Hating Yuppie is better than Conservatives/Christian hating scumbags like Klkintons."

Don't bet the farm that he's not Conservative/Christian hating.

In fact, I get that "feeling" all of the time from him.

[dixiechick2000]

Excellent post! Thank you!

As far as this is concerned...

"He married an America-hating Black-Radical who followed the writings of Stokley Carmichael and the Black Panthers of the 60's and who, based on her embarassingly narcissistic and academically sophomoric Princeton thesis, should never have been allowed to graduate high school let alone get into Princeton."

Michelle...the one who always looks like she's in need of someone to slap.

May I ask of you to explain WHY she complains about her finances (piano lessons, ballet lessons, school loans) to a group of women, and ask them to reject "middleclassness"?

I don't understand THAT at all!

[Bender2]

[jonrick46]

Check out this You Tube video of of pastor James David Manning of New York’s ATLAH World Missionary Church. It is hilarious:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/19/antiobama-preacher-unlea_n_92471.html

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Obama wants to relive Kenya in the fifties.

See Mau Maus.

[Kryn-Man]

Did I hear the Pastor say “nappy headed people”?