Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post's "The Fix" blog executed an example of political gymnastics so amazing for its twisting of reality that it boggles the mind. He actually turned comments by Barack Obama from a dissing of "small town" America to one highlighting how mean Republicans are. You heard me right. Obama's comments had absolutely nothing to do with the GOP, yet Cillizza was somehow able to take his derogatory comments against the American heartland and turn it all into a discussion on how Republicans will attack the Democrat candidate! Talk about a bending over backwards to use an Obama gaff to attack Republicans, this one takes the cake and shows how in the tank for Obama Chris Cillizza seems to be.
So, as you may be aware by now, at an appearance in San Francisco where Obama was talking to some far left-wing California donors, he basically said that small town Americans are racist, gun-nuts who are religious fanatics and who just don't get it.
"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. 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."
So, small town, Midwest America is filled with hateful religious, anti-immigrant, gun-nuts, eh Barack? How more harsh can a candidate be against people he wants to vote for him? Who can deny that this is a pretty bald and mean-spirited statement from the vaunted candidate of love and peace?
So, how should we discuss this incident? Should we talk about all the Democrats in small town America that Barack offended? Should we talk about how Barack is obviously only aiming his message at extremist liberals that have disdain for most Americans?
Not for Cillizza. No, for him this is not the time to chastise Barack Obama for his elitist hatred of the folks who live in America's heartland. No, for Cillizza it is time to point a finger at the nasty ol' Republicans and screech that Obama's gaffe is a perfect example of how Republicans will be MEAN to him!
Cillizza's headline for his piece was "Republicans Quickly Pounce on Obama Remarks," as if the only thing to Obama's remark was how the nasty Republicans would treat it. His initial post before the update started like this:
If Democrats are wondering what awaits Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) this fall if he becomes the party's presidential nominee, the events of the past few hours should serve as something of a guide.
And, after recapping all the things the Republicans said about Obama's middle America hate rhetoric, here is how Cillizza wrapped up his point.
Republicans are certain to use comments like this one to paint Obama as an out-of-step liberal beholden to the wants and needs of voters on the two coasts. It's a blueprint Republicans followed to perfection during the 2004 campaign against Sen. John Kerry -- effectively portraying the Massachusetts senator as an elitist without interest in or regard for the average voter in fly-over country.
Obama's roots in Illinois and strength among independent voters -- at least in the primary process to date -- make him more difficult to label. But that doesn't mean Republicans won't try.
Um, “paint Obama as an out-of-step liberal”? Chris, Obama is painting himself as an out-of-step liberal! The Republicans are just reporting the facts here!
So, Cillizza has no interest in actually discussing Obama's remarks at all. His only interest is in how to help Democrats defeat Republicans and, in that light, his focus is solely on warnings to Dems about what he perceives as the GOP's strategy.
This is further proof that Barack could admit to being the Anti-Christ and the MSM would paper it over and crow that it is all the Republican's fault for brining up the point! How much more in the tank could one get?
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I'm confused. Someone needs
April 12, 2008 - 13:11 ET by ThisnThatI'm confused. Someone needs to clarify the rules for me. Here's what I've heard:
You can't ever say Obama's middle name.
You can't repeat what Obama says -- nor try to explain it or put it into context.
You can't mention Obama's decades-long relationships with pastors, real-estate tycoons, or radicals.
We're supposed to ignore any and all statements and actions Obama has shown with respect to American flag lapel pins, pledging allegance, or standing attention when the national anthem is played.
His experience is not supposed to be relevant; only his "soaring rhetoric" and the fact that he's a smooth talker (when on-script, that is).
We're to believe him when he says talking with terrorists is good for the country.
And, of course, whenever he or his wife says something that is racist, anti-American, or socialist -- we're to look under rocks and leaves until we can twist it into a Karl Rove plot, or pin it on President Bush.
Yep, that's why we have an MSM around -- so's they can do the thinkin' and the winkin' for us.
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Also, thisnthat, don't call him a monkey.
April 12, 2008 - 13:22 ET by exLibAlso, thisnthat, don't call him a monkey. Especially if he's in a tree swinging around, "like a monkey". Cause that's mean and racists talk.
Obama
April 12, 2008 - 16:59 ET by Emma GrumpTNT - you forgot his ears. Can't talk about them, either.
Perfect
April 12, 2008 - 17:25 ET by KC MulvilleThis has a Saturday Night Live script feeling to it, doesn't it?
ThisnThat, you said it perfectly. The list of protections that the media is constructing for Obama is getting more ridiculous every day. Well done.
Horse and Buggy
April 12, 2008 - 13:20 ET by exLibWasn't the same thought process used when Hill went after Obama on drug use? Watch out republicans will say "...." of course they are the ones saying it themselves. Unbelievable.
I remember studying in grade school about how the Horse and Buggy industry was complaining for years about the unfair "automobile" taking away all their business. No doubt Democrats kept promising year after year that the "jobs" would return back then.
The incredibly short-sighted idea that jobs, the economy, a standard of living has an infinite ceiling and that a certain type of job should last you forever needs to be exposed for what it is and put to bed, please!!
Realize that Obama thinks people are waiting around 5, 10, 15, up to 25 years for jobs to come back?
There's more to his comments than meets the eye.
oddly enough
April 12, 2008 - 13:38 ET by bigpapaI had a similar conversation the other day,
things change, people never prepare for it or want it but that is the nature of life.
It's been a long time since I read the Constitution but I don't remember any thing in there about the government providing for everyone..
I hate this stinking nanny state that is being thrust upon us..
I'm
April 12, 2008 - 13:28 ET by bigpapanot the smartest man alive,,,
yet I'm constantly amazed at how STUPID the "smart" people are..
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb... I guess P.T. Barnum was right.
The resume of the
April 12, 2008 - 13:35 ET by Roger the ShrubberThe resume of the Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Player keeps expanding.
My only question is: did Leon write this speech for The Hopeful Changer?
Hey Roger
April 12, 2008 - 13:38 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarYou live in P'burg or are you outside in one of those small, rural, gun-toting, backwater yokel towns? (in jest my friend)
"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain
Whoa! I do not live in
April 12, 2008 - 16:13 ET by Roger the ShrubberWhoa! I do not live in Youngstown!
hahahahah!
Hey, he was smart enough to
April 12, 2008 - 16:39 ET by motherbeltHey, he was smart enough to not say it while actually IN Pennsylvania!
Just another elite liberal who has to make "excuses for the hoi-polloi....this is a "they're not our kind" crack that would get a white candidate crucified if made about, say, the inner city.
But, as usual, the Obama gets a pass...it's not what he says that's the problem, it's what those mean Republicans will do with it. Well, if the message in:
If Democrats are wondering what awaits Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) this
fall if he becomes the party's presidential nominee, the events of the
past few hours should serve as something of a guide.
is that he's not going to get a free ride, he had better take it to heart!
History is reliving itself
April 12, 2008 - 13:36 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarIgnoring the "rural small town folk" with the added twist of B Hussein throwing gas. The Dims just didn't learn from the 2004 election.
This is going to be fun to watch.
"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain
Stop The Presses
April 12, 2008 - 13:55 ET by third eyePeople, stop the presses, I have discovered some long lost acomplishement of Barack's the conservative mainstream media has been completely overlooking.
When the governor, legislature and even the police said it was a bad
idea to videotape law-enforcement interrogations and confessions to
discourage brutality, Obama began a one-man mission to convince them
all that not only was his view morally right, but essential. He reached
out to his opposition, listened to them, heard their concerns but
disagreed. Eventually, his bill passed 35-0, and the governor signed it.
Flavia Colgan, explaining Barama's presidential qualifications
http://www.huffingto...
There should be no surprise
April 12, 2008 - 14:14 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsThere should be no surprise here, this is the same as when the Democrats (Rather, Mapes, Kerry, et al) attacked Bush: it's not the facts that matter, it's the accusation that matters. In this case the accusation is - a democrat is said to be wrong, and that just cannot be - so the facts are dismissed as irrelevant.
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Good Ol' Cillizza, you
April 12, 2008 - 15:49 ET by bigtimerGood Ol' Cillizza, you don't expect a dem hack to change his spots do you...one thing he forgot to inlude in his cute little leftist defending piece...his own party pounced on it with all her claws bared and she still is...McCain went slowly to the game...this is big game to-boot.
Obama is showing his true stripes, and more will come out the more the arrogant msm anointed ONE opens mouth and inserts foot...
Oh and by the way Cillizza....the repub's had better use this video clip against Obama during the general election...if they don't they are dimmer than I thought..
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
My question is, when will
April 12, 2008 - 16:49 ET by red_dragon311My question is, when will mainsteam America notice these things about Obama.
How many passes has he gotten, Rezko, Rev Wright, White Gramda afraid of blacks, grandama typical white person, now this.
When will we say enough????
I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist
I don't know red...but I do
April 12, 2008 - 17:04 ET by bigtimerI don't know red...but I do know I have seen quite a few interviews today on the street type and people are paying attention and haven't like this one bit...
I think Hill is going to knock his socks off in about 10 days in Pa. that is if nothing major happens with her and her lying mouth or her partners either up til then, we all know the majority of the msm is trying their best to spin this for Obama their new leader, but I think this is really going to hurt his arse..possibly NC too....
Guns religion and illegal immigration are not something to be sneezed at either there....you would think anyway...
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Damn the facts; full speed ahead
April 12, 2008 - 16:11 ET by needleAs Cillizza put it: "It's a blueprint Republicans followed to perfection during the 2004 campaign against Sen. John Kerry -- effectively portraying the Massachusetts senator as an elitist without interest in or regard for the average voter in fly-over country."
Well, John Kerry was, and, is a limousine Liberal. As the Washington Post might as well put it: Damn the facts; full speed ahead [to the elitist Left]!
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
Comeon, needle, Kerry wasn't
April 12, 2008 - 16:46 ET by motherbeltComeon, needle, Kerry wasn't an elitist...the Republicans just "portrayed" him that way, by talking about his rich wife, five mansions, big yacht and his penchant for wind-surfing (not exactly a lunch-bucket guy's sport).....
...but he did say..."Can I
April 12, 2008 - 16:49 ET by bigtimer...but he did say..."Can I get me a huntin' license here"....in his little huntin' outfit to-boot.
....doesn't that count for anything mb?
LOL!
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
bt...that should be Can Ahh
April 12, 2008 - 17:21 ET by motherbeltbt...that should be Can Ahh GIT me a huntin' license! LOL
And if you want to see a real smackdown of Obama the Great, take a look at Michelle Malkin's blog!
She calls it "the hopelessness of audacity."
Watch the video and listen to him spin. He even says he said something different. In the original he said they get bitter and cling to guns, or religion, or anitpathy to those who don't look like them...
clearly expressing an attitude that these people have, in their bitterness.
Now he's rewriting it; saying that it's not suprising that these people vote on issues of guns etc... because no one is doing anything about the other things that matter to them.....jobs going overseas, etc.
Once again, it's everyone's fault but Barack's!!!
mb... I got to get some
April 12, 2008 - 17:31 ET by bigtimermb...
I got to get some clothes out of dryer then I will catch that...
The msm spin and him not backing down is the word....bitter bitter bitter...people are bitter!
Bitter I tell ya'!
He does say I could of used a better choice of words...but people are BITTER!
Heck no he is so entrenched in his leftist world and so arrogant he believes this IMHO...I know he is a politician, but he is showing himself so clearly the critters like Matthews yesterday or the day before saying we have enough of the polls in, time has gone by enough we should vote NOW!... he meant it...he knows things are slippin' for his man and I know people like him are worried behind the scenes with how long they can protect and spin for him, we are in the Internet age after-all...they can't keep it to themselves like they have all my life in the past.
I love it!
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Bitter, I tell ya!
April 12, 2008 - 17:44 ET by motherbeltBitter, I tell ya! Bitter!! With a capital B and that rhymes with T....and that stands for Trouble for the O Man....
Did Matthews actually imply that we should quit polling and have the election now?? Holy Cow!!
The thing that got me about the Obama video explanation is he was talking about "tradtions" passed down, and that's what's "sustains us.
Well I guess Obama thinks the "traditions" of religion and guns and xenophobia are what sustain the "typical white person" anyway....
mb... I just got back
April 12, 2008 - 17:54 ET by bigtimermb...
I just got back from Malkin's site...great as always too.
What is funny is her update below the hopelessness of audicity is the reference to his bitter wording...heheheeee...anyway that is what I was talking about above...
I love his words that ring hollow where he spins this completely backwards from what he actually said in SF...his anti-gun, anti-religion anti-illegals is now being spun as the opposite of his meaning... saying of course people are bitter because of the illegals, because of the laws/voting on guns ect.
He's spun two tales now...
What a jack-ass, perfect symbol for the party, he thinks he is calling a spade a spade...the only thing he is doing with that spade is digging a slow political grave.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
I went through another link
April 12, 2008 - 18:36 ET by motherbeltI went through another link at Michelle's
site, to the Atlantic.com site...Marc Ambinder had a quote supplied by
Tucker Bounds, that he attributes to McCain:
"Instead of apologizing to small town Americans for dismissing their values, Barack Obama arrogantly tried to spin his way out of his outrageous San Francisco remarks. Only an elitist who attributes religious faith and gun ownership to bitterness would think that tax cuts for the rich include families who make $75,000 per year. Only an elitist would say that people vote their values only out of frustration. Barack Obama thinks he knows your hopes and fears better than you do. You can't be more out of touch than that.
Wow! Mac attacks! I'm amazed. I guess I sort of expected him to
apologize on Obama's behalf.....Well he got one right this time!
Yeah mb...I heard that
April 12, 2008 - 18:47 ET by bigtimerYeah mb...I heard that yesterday from McCain...I was patiently waiting to hear his response, while Hill had already pounced on this with all four claws...
LOL...was glad he didn't apologize for once...and put his two cents in.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
I would like to hear
April 12, 2008 - 19:07 ET by red_dragon311I would like to hear McCain's voice say that, he has pussified himself too much in my eyes. who's to say that Tucker Bounds is not just saying what he wishes MxcCain would say.
far fetched i know but I need to see McCain man up. and if he did really say this.....'bout time he grew a pair
I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist
Republicans were quick to
April 12, 2008 - 16:28 ET by JerryRepublicans were quick to paint Jeffery Dahmer as a murdering lunatic, a tactic they worked to perfection earlier, while "swiftboating" Charles Manson. - Cillizza the Disease-za
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Cillizza is just another in
April 12, 2008 - 17:17 ET by ConservativeRexCillizza is just another in a long line of reporters who think it is cool to jump on Obama's bandwagon. They are hip now boy, they're with Obama.
However, there will come a day, and not too far in the future, where reporters like Cillizza, who write this kind of tripe for Obama now, won't be ALLOWED to say anything bad about Obama or any of his policies. They never consider for a second Uhbamas Neo-Stalinist bonifides. He'll work to shut down anything that could possibly show him in a bad light. That is his heritage.
At that point all GOOD Americans had better look to themselves for getting our country out of this pickle. With Obama, it closer than you think.
I believe he won't have to
April 12, 2008 - 18:40 ET by motherbeltI believe he won't have to shut them down. They will self-censor. They are so enamoured of the guy that all that matters to them is "access." If they think that saying anything disrespectful or negative will get them denied "access" they will be completely obsequious.
Excuser plant?
April 12, 2008 - 17:39 ET by acumenThe Fix blog? Oh, I get it....Cillizza is utilizing the left's chosen therapy for overcoming chronic Bush Derangement Syndrome -- white liberal guilt.
You gotta love his spin on this
April 12, 2008 - 18:39 ET by ZippyTheChimpObama tried to spin it this way:
<<There has been a small "political flare-up because I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter," Obama said Saturday morning at a town hall-style meeting at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. >>
Just ask Geraldine Ferrara about saying something that everybody knows is true. See where it got her!
As I said above, it is
April 12, 2008 - 18:55 ET by motherbeltAs I said above, it is everybody's fault, except Obama's.
I hope he keeps getting hammered for this. It's only April and I'm already sick and tired of his snobby, elitist attitude that he knows what we need better than we do.
His pastor makes hateful, anti-American remarks and he lectures the country on race. He insults a large group of Americans and claims that he's the only one who really understands them and that's why he can lecture us on why they are the way they are.
Being in PA, I am no walking out of the room or changing the channel every time I see his mug, which is WAY too often. I think: Shut up, Barack. Just. Shut. Up.
I think: Shut up, Barack.
April 12, 2008 - 19:04 ET by bigtimerI think: Shut up, Barack. Just. Shut. Up.
mb, he would be wise if he took your advice.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Obama=Communism
April 12, 2008 - 19:32 ET by iveseenitall" The revolutionary heart of Communism is not the theatrical appeal: "Workers of the world, unite..." It is a simple statement of Karl Marx,further simplified for handy use: " Philosophers have explained the world; it is necessary to change the world." Communists are bound together by no secret oath. The tie that binds them across the frontiers of nations...is a simple conviction: It is necessary to change the world". Witnss by Whitacker Chambers, 1952
Right Barry, nothing has changed since then, especially among the communists.They are a patient lot and Godless lot. Go ahead, follow Barry, Wright , et.al. Abandon religion and personal freedom for the "rational" world of collectivism and Communism as preached by Barack Obama. But you will regret it.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
isia... Hear!
April 12, 2008 - 19:33 ET by bigtimerisia...
Hear! Hear!
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Why
April 12, 2008 - 19:10 ET by docbdoes Obama need to apologise for telling the truth and it takes a week for the vacuous candidate to say she misspoke [lied]?
Character folks..integrity- one has it the other never has nor will.
He told the truth? About
April 12, 2008 - 20:12 ET by motherbeltMrs. Clinton lied about something that happened. Mr. Obama's condescension was insulting to a large group of people. It had nothing to do with truth or lying.
He told the truth? About what? Government doesn't care about people so they cling to guns and religion???? That's the truth?
People own guns and embrace religion out of frustration? That's a fact?
So, what, when he's President, the government will take care or them, so they won't need guns.... or religion?
Karl Marx would be proud of him.
Tavis leaving show...boo-hoo
April 12, 2008 - 20:13 ET by bigtimerLOl mb...
I saw that earlier and decided what's the use...glad you did though.
by the way since I am here real quick I just read where Obama now is saying he deeply regrets his choice of words...plus I saw this while reading...good ol' Tavis smiley is leaving Tom Joyner show over Obama flak, even thought hey sort of are denying it...it is a quick read, but I got a kick out of it...I can't stand the quick talking Tavis, but nevertheless, the fighting continues within the dem. party.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
MB, you are correct. It
April 13, 2008 - 08:33 ET by ConservativeRexMB, you are correct. It seems Uh-bama has forgotten that our founding Fathers clung to religion......and guns.
Obama has Integrity? Since When?
April 13, 2008 - 12:09 ET by CobraMan“Integrity” means never having to say you are sorry? That's funny, I always ways thought it was the other way around.
When you say something that is condescending and insulting to a lot of people like Obama did, you display integrity by having the courage to admit your mistake and apology for making it. That's NOT what Obama has done. He stands by his false portrayal of the lifestyles of a large percentage of Americans and their beliefs and ideals and he refuses to admit he made a huge mistake.
Obama showed a complete LACK of integrity here. That's what happens when you demean and insult others for not living their life according to YOUR standards and ideals and then refuse to account for your bigoted statements and make excuses for saying it. Like MB says, it's VERY condescending and insulting for Obama to refer to small town Americans as a bunch of gun-toting, bible-thumping, xenophobic losers who cling to their outdated values and ideals simply out of frustration because they don't live the same lifestyle and don't follow the same values and ideals that Obama does.
You're right about one thing, though. Obama sure is a character.
GOP needs killer instinct
April 12, 2008 - 19:17 ET by nkviking75If the GOP can get past its wimpy tendencies and exploit gaffes like this, Obama will be quite vulnerable. Unfortunately, we'll have McCain for our candidate. He seems to lack the killer instinct.
When Obama is wrong, the GOP should say so without apology.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
and be labled a
April 12, 2008 - 19:39 ET by red_dragon311and be labled a racist.......Barack H-word Obama is untouchable,
all we can do is wait and hope for him to say somthing SO stupid the MSM will have no choice but to say "Damn we should have stuck to Clinton"
"Barack H-word Obama's farts smell"
I am now a racist.......feels good
I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist
The magic negro
April 12, 2008 - 19:46 ET by Slickstersaid what he mean't, he's tired of illerate, white, small town rubes questioning his empty phrases and meanlingless words. They don't seem to realize that in 2008 it is considered hate speech to critize a negro with magic powers to unite people. His liberal elitism is showing through.
McCain already responded to
April 12, 2008 - 20:14 ET by motherbeltMcCain already responded to this; see my comment above at 19:36..I was pleasantly surprised by his comments. Now, if he would just maintain his nerve....
I have a feeling his
April 12, 2008 - 20:18 ET by red_dragon311I have a feeling his handlers told him to beef up a bit
I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist
Obama and Clinton
April 12, 2008 - 20:25 ET by iveseenitallObama and Clintion are aspiring to be President of the United States, yet they preach a message which is distinctly un-American. Consider the words of Emerson:
"There's a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, at his portion...that no kernel of nourishment can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him....Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles". Self-Reliance 1841
This is the American spirit. This is freedom, not the slavery of dependence on a faceless government bureaucracy. Unfortunately, this is also the message that is lost on the collectivists who would have us abandon ourselves to the whims and vagaries of big government. The choice is clear.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
isia... Well said...I
April 12, 2008 - 20:29 ET by bigtimerisia...
Well said...I wished I could remember and save everything I see that I want to at times, this is one of them....can't help saying this but that was beautiful and thanks.
Summed it up so eloquently in a nutshell.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
BT
April 12, 2008 - 21:03 ET by iveseenitallThank you.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Ironies
April 12, 2008 - 20:47 ET by iveseenitallThis election is chock full of ironies. It is ironic, for example, that the Clintons, who have so closely cultivated the black vote, find themselves abandoned by the blacks. And it is ironic that Obama and his wife, who despise whites, have chosen the message of elite white "liberals"-- that middle America is replete with gun-loving, religion-loving, incompetent, ignorant rubes who need big goverment to come to their rescue. To me, it is also ironic that ignornant, insensitve, immature people such as they would consider themselves "elite". Funny, but sad.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
You are right, isia. And
April 12, 2008 - 21:23 ET by motherbeltYou are right, isia.
And you can't make this stuff up!
You know, the Clintons should have seen this coming. For two reasons:
First, for years they took the black vote for granted; from signing Welfare Reform, in spite of opposition from black leaders to pulling the rug out from under Carl McCall in New York, for a couple of examples. They figured "where are they going to go?" Now they have somewhere to go.
Second, Bill should know that, just as people won't vote for Republican who is a "pretend" Democrat, when they can vote for a real one, why would people vote for a "pretend" black candidate when they have a real one?
As for Obama's elitist attitude; the longer this campaign goes on, the more of it is going to show.
From the "Posterboy of Bitterness", Jack Cafferty...
April 12, 2008 - 21:55 ET by Ted ClarkePerhaps the most ridiculous commentary I've heard yet regarding Brock O'Bama (the Irish bare-knuckle brawler) and his views on small town America comes from that idiot, Jack Cafferty, who said this on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show:
"The people are frustrated. The people have no economic opportunity. What happens to folks like that in the Middle East, you ask? They go to places like al-Qaida training camps...What Barrack Obama was suggesting is not that the people of Pennsylvania are to blame for any of it....I mean, I'm a college drop-out and I can read the damn thing and figure it out."
So I guess that means small town American Christians are no different from al-Qaida terrorists and just as blameless. Ultimately, it's all Washington's fault. Thank God for Jack Cafferty (the college drop-out who snagged a high-paying job in an America where economic opportunities simply don't exist) for being able to tell us exactly how it is.
"The people are frustrated.
April 13, 2008 - 01:11 ET by motherbelt"The people are frustrated. The people have no economic opportunity. What happens to folks like that in the Middle East, you ask?...
[Uh, no, actually, we didn't ask, no one mentioned the Middle East...but you'll tell us anyway.]...
They go to places like al-Qaida training camps..What Barrack Obama was suggesting is not that the people of Pennsylvania are to blame for any of it....I mean, I'm a college drop-out and I can read the damn thing and figure it out." - Jack Cafferty
And the spin goes on....
Cafferty is still supporting Obama's implication that frustrated, jobless people in small-town America turn to guns and religion. Except he extrapolates and equates them to Middle Eastern terrorists!
Cafferty then implies that Obama is being attacked for saying "the people of Pennsylvania are to blame" for their lack of opportunity. Apparently he was in college long enough to learn how to construct a "straw-man" argument.
And apparently Cafferty subscribes to the "al Qaeda as an outlet for 'youths' who have no economic opportunity" theory.
<sarc> I guess it's just like the US Army, huh, Jack? They only join al Qaeda because they can't get any other jobs?
Way to make it better, Jack! LOL
The people are frustrated? No, the liberals are!
April 13, 2008 - 12:53 ET by CobraMan"The people have no economic opportunity."
That's pure BS. If "the people" who live in small towns have no "economic opportunity" like the liberals say, then "the people" would move away to where there is "economic opportunity" and their towns would disappear as has happened time and time again in America over the last 200 years.
Hay liberals, we're not vegetables that can't move once we mature. We're Americans and we travel to where we want to be and to where we feel a good life is possible. Just because a large percentage of Americans live in small towns, it doesn't mean that they're FORCED to live there. They live there because it's where they want to be and they feel that a good life is possible for themselves and their children there. It may not be the life you choose to live, liberals, but it's their choice to make and not yours.
Obama has no respect for
April 12, 2008 - 22:38 ET by mostlymoderateObama has no respect for American way of life. Pure and simple. He needs to take his big-city a$$ back to Chicago and leave the rest of us "American's" that are so 'miserable' with our religion, guns and U.S. Constitution, alone.
Republicans blamed for Obama putting own foot in mouth
April 12, 2008 - 23:31 ET by merlin61Un-flippin' believable. Of course George Bush
was there whispering in Obama's ear telling him
to dis the small town people. The MSM is
just impossible to believe. Left turns only
allowed.
Democrats make insults into an art form.
April 13, 2008 - 06:33 ET by SGriffisFor years, Democrats have been insulting and ridiculing our allies; now Obama is insulting the very people who he wants to vote for him. Only the Democrats could turn insulting into an art form.
B.I.A.S.
April 13, 2008 - 11:32 ET by sam.i.amBarack Is an Arrogant Snob
One thing that we Republicans (Is there anybody OUT THERE!) need to exploit is this penchant of Obama's to "double down" when he screws up.
We all know the type. The one who can never admit they're wrong. Barack is that type of elitist jerk. The type that must argue or talk his way out of everything.
With Reverend Wright - He took an embarrassment, and said yup, we DO hate whitey, and here's why. . .
With the flyover country "cling-ons" - He took a horribly condescending, ignorant, anti-religious statement, and said yup, people ARE bitter and they are morons, and it's because government has let them down. . .
There are many more examples that we could cite.
We need to use this to our advantage. He truly can't help himself!!
He is really drawing down the well of good press and the people's patience with each unapologetic response to these gaffes which betray his true beliefs.
As others have pointed out, the Republicans need to get a backbone and hand BHO his hat!
(We'll need to take baby steps to get our party back - We'll start with trying to get a backbone, then work our way up to "gonads", then finally "gravitas"!)
Wow, Sam
April 13, 2008 - 11:38 ET by BlondeI like it.
Double down.
I'll be a cling-on, even though I don't live in flyover country, nor am I bitter.
And you're spot-on.....each time he makes a gaffe, we need to use each unapologetic response and spin-meisterism to bury this fool.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive