(H/T to MemeOrandum)
Is Mr. Obama An Anti-Gun, Anti-Religion, Out Of Touch, Liberal Elitist?
Of COURSE HE IS — as is also the case with Senators “Panama” John McCain and Sir Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton as well — do not fool yourselves, my friends. I’m filing this one under “Duh!” where it belongs…
First, Hillary. We’re not even going to “go there”. Everybody knows the former First Lady Co-President of the 90’s is completely out of touch with America. How can ANY multi-MULTI MILLIONAIRE be “in touch” with a household pulling in $75k or less per year when she herself earns that much every couple of days? Answer — she can’t. It’s impossible. Common sense tells you that.
As for ole’ “Panama John”, another “slam dunk“, but since the mainstream media (“MSM”) seems to have “conveniently” forgotten the chorus of “boos” and raised hands to his dare to a bunch of hard working, blue collar union folks to come to his Great State of Arizona and pick lettuce there for fifty bucks an hour in defense of his open borders stance, I’ll be happy to do so myself…
From The Arizona Daily Star, April 15th, 2006:
McCain’s lettuce-picking remarks yield unwanted green
Arizona Daily StarAs he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue. But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of lettuce, that is.
McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn’t do it.
The senator didn’t stick around long enough to process any applications, despite several offers to take him up on his offer from the audience.
So Friday more than three dozen demonstrators showed up at his office, many carrying lettuce picker applications in one hand, and a head of lettuce in the other to show they could do the job.
McCain was not on hand to greet them, but somehow it’s probably not the kind of green he was hoping to collect for his budding presidential bid. …”
Remember that one, folks? I’ve never forgotten it. It’s IMPORTANT and gives a transparent insight to the mind of yet another “out of touch” millionaire who will govern with the point of view of Americans being lazy and a fifty-dollar per hour job only having appeal to a fellow Citizen if there’s no real “work” involved. Our guy? Of COURSE not, unless you wish to live in such a person’s “Utopia”. Scary? Of COURSE; it’s looking like either this man or his fellow vodka drinking buddy from New York are in a good position to lock us up inside their twisted “Utopias”, or “Villages” in the case of the latter.
Last but not least, what’s the big “bru-haha” over Barack Obama in the last couple of days? Just what did the man say to offend so many of my fellow Citizens in Pennsylvania? Why are so many theororizing his campaign may be over and this man ALSO is “out of touch” with his fellow Citizens?
From The New York Times, where the title alone goes to prove the old addage, “It takes one to know one” is alive and well:
Opponents Call Obama ‘Out of Touch’
By JEFF ZELENY
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — As Senator Barack Obama sought to broaden his appeal to voters in southern Indiana on Friday, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain separately criticized him as being out of touch with the middle class, seizing on a remark Mr. Obama made at a California fund-raiser about “bitter” Americans.
At the fund-raiser in San Francisco last Sunday, Mr. Obama outlined challenges facing his presidential candidacy in the coming primaries in Pennsylvania and Indiana, particularly persuading white working-class voters who, he said, fell through the cracks during the Bush and Clinton administrations.
“So it’s not surprising then that 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,” Mr. Obama said, according to a transcript on the Huffington Post Web site, which on Friday published the comments.
The remarks touched off a torrent of criticism from Mrs. Clinton, Mr. McCain and Republican activists and party officials, all accusing Mr. Obama of elitism and belittling the working class. Mr. Obama forcefully rejected those charges when he arrived at a rally here on Friday evening, drawing a standing ovation in a crowded gymnasium when he painted both of his rivals as entrenched Washington insiders.
“No, I’m in touch,” Mr. Obama said. “I know exactly what’s going on. I know what’s going on in Pennsylvania, I know what’s going on in Indiana, I know what’s going on in Illinois. People are fed up, they’re angry, they’re frustrated, they’re bitter and they want to see a change in Washington. That’s why I’m running for president of the United States of America.”
With 10 contests remaining in the Democratic presidential primary, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton are engaged in a vigorous dispute over which candidate could be the party’s strongest nominee against Mr. McCain.
In Pennsylvania on Friday, Mrs. Clinton was first to seize upon the comment Mr. Obama made at the California fund-raiser. The Democrats are embroiled in a vigorous battle for the Pennsylvania primary on April 22.
“It’s being reported that my opponent said that the people of Pennsylvania who faced hard times are bitter; well, that’s not my experience,” Mrs. Clinton told an audience at Drexel University. “Pennsylvanians don’t need a president who looks down on them; they need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, your families.”
After her remarks, aides to Mrs. Clinton issued several statements criticizing Mr. Obama, including ones that contained criticism from Republicans. Soon, the McCain campaign also weighed in with criticism of Mr. Obama’s remarks at the California fund-raiser.
“It shows an elitism and condescension toward hard-working Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking,” said Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to Mr. McCain. “It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans.” …”
So…. what does all of this really mean? CHECKMATE. “Pot[s]“, meet “Kettle[s]“…
We’re DOOMED as a country to be ruled by an “out of touch”, elitist SNOB no matter whom we cast our votes for. In other words: “same-o same-o”, “bidness as usual”, and we, as a “sheeple”, once again shall get what we deserve — to be ruled by a wealthy, wacked out, elitist no matter who takes the seat behind the desk of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
If you wish for a more “thoughtful”, “fair” and “balanced” commentary on the topic, I urge you to visit the blog of Mark Ambinder, who does a better job than anybody else I’ve seen so far in analizing Mr. Obama’s comments:
Obama’s “Gaffe:” Some Perspective
We’re dealing tonight with a classic Kinsleyian “gaffe,” where a candidate says what he means and then is forced to account for it. Let’s separate, for the moment, the politics of Obama’s words from the argument he is making.
At his San Francisco fundraiser, Obama was sketching out a variation of the Thomas Frank argument about working class voters who seem to choose candidates whose policies cut against their economic interest. In Obama’s version, working class voters in the Midwest have been inured to promises of economic redress because both Democrats and Republicans promise to help and never do; since government is a source of distress in their lives, they organize their politics around more stable institutions, like churches or cultural practices, like hunting. The outlet for their economic duress is in lashing out, in giving voice to their grievances; In Obama’s formulation, Republicans are especially eager and willing to exploit cultural trigger points. …”
I highly suggest those of you who wish for “thoughtful” commentary read the Ambinder article in its entirety. As for myself, I don’t feel very “thoughtful” this morning; I feel torqued off, fed up with the MSM picking our candidates (always multi-millionaires, of course) for us, fed up with my fellow Americans who keep allowing this to happen to us, and of course, FED UP WITH THIS TWO-PARTY SYSTEM CARTEL which has infested the once-great Democratic Republic of our Founders.
Thanks also, to Señor “Panama John” McCain’s and Wisconsin Senator Russell Feingold, for their so-called “campaign finance reform”, we are doomed to endure the wrath of the “Royal Sceptres” of wealthy presidential candidates as the days of our 1st Amendment right to petition wealthy folks to invest in we who don’t share their lofty financial positions ourselves are now long gone. WE did this to ourselves. I’ve had ENOUGH.
Bring on a third-party or independent (small “I” on purpose), I say.
“Bitter”? Oh hell YES, I’m “bitter”. At least, Mr. Obama got that part right.
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Other opinions — all sides of the debate are represented here: Andrew Sullivan (H/T to Outside The Beltway); Drudge Retort; Donklephant; Shakesville; Liberal Values; Comments From Left Field; Michelle Malkin; Stop The ACLU; Ace of Spades HQ (Language warning); Oliver Willis; Don Surber
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10:37 am on April 12th, 2008 1
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2:05 pm on April 12th, 2008 2
from swimming freestyle:
“This video is exactly how Obama should have raised the issue: In the environment these voters live and with an appropriate anger. Rural working class voters have gotten the shaft. They have every right to be frustrated and even bitter about what’s happened to them.
Obama now finds himself having to address the issue defensively, Unfortunately, the issue will now likely be obscured by the hysterical anti-Obama rants by the Clintons and McCains. Obama gave them that gift when he spoke in San Francisco last weekend.”
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4:58 pm on April 12th, 2008 3
Where do I have to stand in line
for that pickin’job?
I’m a Pennsylvanian, and I have
been bitter all my life, thank you.
I’d rather have any out of touch
Democrat president than the
insane criminal who is currently
holding that office.
GWB is ths sickest SOB in the
White House in my lifetime, and
I am sure the mess he made will
take generations to rectify.
I really don’t care which Democrat
wins,as long as the republicans
are crushed and humiliated in
the General Election.
Get them all out of Congress next.
mark
10:08 pm on April 13th, 2008 4
WE are here not because of Dems or Reps. We are here because of us. Who voted for Clinton-s and Bush-es?
We! So let’s recall what Churchill said more than 60 years ago : any nation desrves her leaders!. Period.
In Nov 2008 this will continue.
Anyone of these 3 contenders will continue the damage started by Clinton and Bush. The worst is called Obama!
God Save Us !!!
12:45 am on April 14th, 2008 5
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