Obama Insults The Electorate
By Greg L | 12 April 2008 | National Politics | 28 Comments
The next time Barack Obama feels the urge to explain what’s going on in small town America, he’d be well advised to keep his ignorant piehole shut. Obama apparently understands non-urban America just about as well as he understands bowling.
“You go into 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,” Obama said. “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.” (emphasis added)
Let’s see here… People of faith: check. Hunters, sportsmen, and self-defense advocates and others who cherish our constitutional rights: check. People fed up with the massive influx of illegal aliens: check. People sick of wrongly being branded as racists: check. How much of the American electorate hasn’t Obama managed to insult here?
The truly sad thing is that it’s pretty clear that this accurately reflects how Obama actually feels. If you are an urban liberal, you’re his kind of people. If you’re anything other than that, you’re an embittered racist christianist gun nut, but he’d still appreciate your vote.
H/T: Leslie Carbone
UPDATE: Riley found this video:
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Barry Obama is the San Francisco Liberal Treat.
At last…the clouds part to reveal the true sky! I hope people realize just how dangerous this man could be for America. Those folks who keep pounding on the Rev. Wright stuff might have a point.
You have to love Obama’s criticism of the poor little Pennsylvania’s anti-free trade stance. They are apparently so simple minded, that they agree with Obama.
You just have to enjoy people who are so uncritical of their own beliefs that they can effortlessly hold contradictory beliefs at the same time. Obama believes free trade is bad for working-class people, and working class people are dumb for thinking free trade is part of their problem.
Wow.
Yeah he’s pretty much a hard-core liberal who attempts to disguise himself as something else.
Vote for Lou Dobbs.
Yeah, you’re right Greg…no bitterness to be found here at all. I can’t imagine what on earth Obama is talking about.
There’s nothing bitter at all about being a gun-toting, border patrolling, immigrant hating nut…and then building a website dedicated to bitter rants about everyone you don’t approve of.
Nope, no bitterness at all…
Stop the Hate: You don’t have to live in a neighborhood overrun by illegals, do you? Maybe you’ll get lucky and have your family victimized by an illegal who you so want to protect.
So, “Stop the Hate” loves EVERYONE except those who make this country work. Wait, wait a minute….did I just read some bitterness?
:)
What drivel. We can all sleep better knowing this individual is only running for president and not teaching history somewhere. Does he have any idea who settled Pennsylvania or where the people who mined the coke and coal fields came from? God, guns and guts made America. We were clinging to them long before people started sneaking across our southern border or our home grown traitors started selling us out to foreign nations in their quest for The New World Order.
What drivel, indeed. That applies to you, Citizen 12.
If we put this dude into office then we are every bit as stupid as he and Stop the Hate say we are.
For 1976 through 2005, the Justice Department reports that blacks, 12 percent of the U.S. population, committed 52 percent of the nation’s murders and were 47 percent of all murder victims.
Until I heard the racist and anti-American tirades of Barack Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it hadn’t occurred to me that the murderous fires in the black community were being stoked from the pulpits inside black churches.
I wonder if it’s ever occurred to Obama and Wright that it probably doesn’t help young people in the black community when they’re told that their country hates them, that the U.S. government gave them drugs and AIDS, and that jail and genocide are the officially-sanctioned plan for them.
“The government gives them drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America,’” shouted Wright at his congregation. “No, no, no. God damn America. That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
I wonder if Obama ever considered the negative impact on young blacks from listening to these hateful and anti-white tirades. It’s not as if Obama is blind to the influence of hate speech. When Don Imus made one careless remark about black female athletes, Obama was among the first to call for his firing. Fines and a temporary suspension weren’t enough. Obama said he wanted Imus silenced so that his young daughters never had to hear such language.
Does Obama think it’s good for his daughters and the black community when black leaders increase the black community’s level of anger, defeatism, paranoia, cynicism, negativity and pessimism? Does he think it’s good to jack up the level of the resentment and racism in a community that’s already overdosed on rage and victimhood?
“Recent statistics show that more than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms,” reports the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education. “One in every 10 black men between the ages of 25 and 29 is in prison.”
On top of being murdered, blacks are also “more likely than any other group to be victims of serious violent crime,” reports the Justice Department, which is defined as “rape, other sexual assaults, robbery or aggravated assault.”
And we need more ranting and raving, more boiling with rage?
Does Obama think it improves matters when black leaders tell blacks that they’re poor, sick, jailed or hooked on drugs because of a government plot? Does it help to fix things if the choir is singing “The devil made me do it,” the white devil?
“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color,” Rev. Wright preaches to his congregation. In America, he asserted, “no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
The United States is “the number-one killer in the world,” preached Wright, the “U.S. of K.K.K. A,” a nation that only maintains its standard of living “by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.”
For 20 years, Barack Obama drank the aforementioned Kool-Aid, never seeing the problem. That makes him a problem.
Agree Battle Cat….is it possible that there are sufficient non-thinking people to elect him? Surely not….:(
RHarrison:
But Obama doesn’t agree with Obama on this, remember? His chief economic advisor, Austin Goolsbee (who I happen to know) told Canada don’t worry about all the anti-NAFTA talk. It was just politics and for show.
Back in ‘75 and ‘76 I lived in Tioga, PA, population 800. I was the only Jew. No blacks lived there. There were no Hispanics or Asians either.
The people there were like everyone else everywhere else, except that they loved hunting. Yes there was a gun culture, but I just figured that was what they liked to do.
They worked in banks, in construction on the big Tioga Hammond Dam which I worked on, in stores. There were enough jobs in part because there were so few people.
I was a young semi-long hair myself, but I was surprised when some guys working at the gas station talked about buying marijuana right in front of me while I was buying gas.
It is unlikely that things have changed that much. Obama is wrong.
Jonathan Mark, right on the mark. I grew up in similar countryside.
Yes, Im a Bible thumpin’, gun totin’, send-em-all back, Hillbilly.
I make apologies to no one. (especially elitist snobs from the South
Side of Chicago)
“Stop the Hate: You don’t have to live in a neighborhood overrun by illegals, do you? Maybe you’ll get lucky and have your family victimized by an illegal who you so want to protect.”
Uh, let’s see, I’m not sure if I live in a “neighborhood overrun by illegals” because I don’t spend much time thinking about it. I live in a neighborhood where lots of people speak Spanish, if that’s what you’re talking about.
In any case, you’re right, total bitterness and wishing that someone’s family will be “victimized by an illegal” is a perfectly normal response to the immigration problem.
You do see the problem with your own behavior right? Wishing violence or vicitimization on someone else, as a response to a broken immigration system, is not appropriate. It is not productive, and it certainly isn’t normal.
Seriously…this whole site is founded on bitterness. Greg is bitter at gay people, he’s bitter at immigrants, he hates the Democrats, he doesn’t like women….the list goes on and on.
Give.Me.A.Break
That’s funny…last I checked nobody on here was railing about immigrants. Illegal immigrants perhaps, but not immigrants. Curious how liberals always forget that key adjective….
Krutis said on 12 Apr 2008 at 10:22 am:
What drivel, indeed. That applies to you, Citizen 12.
na na to you to crusty
Stop the Hate said on 12 Apr 2008 at 9:11 am:
I can’t imagine what on earth Obama is talking about.
That’s quite obvious!
B. Hussein just insulted a HUGE portion of the electorate that exercises their RIGHT to keep and bear arms and freely follow the religion of their choosing. I guess you have a problem with that (?).
If this is what he truly believes (and I believe it is), then I hope he has the clackers to repeat it on every podium, day after day, until November.
Since you believe him, PLEASE CALL his organization and tell them you support his position, and you want him to repeat his aforementioned diatribe every time he speaks until election day. Please!
Jonathan Mark said on 12 Apr 2008 at 1:32 pm:
The people there were like everyone else everywhere else, except that they loved hunting. Yes there was a gun culture, but I just figured that was what they liked to do.
Define your meaning of “gun culture”. I’m just curious, not setting you up.
I grew up in a small rural town. Guns were prevalent. So too were shovels, hoes, axes and back-breaking work. Guns brought meat to the table and kept predators away from the livestock. Guns were necessary tools.
Then I moved to NOVA. Guns are (supposedly) evil, owned by gun-toting right-wing nuts hellbent to shoot anyone or anything that moves.
Cling to religion … that phrase won’t do him any favors … mind you, I myself think religion is the opiate of the masses, something for people who can’t handle reality … but for a guy who sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church to be sneering towards others’ faiths … not smart.
But then again, McCain is amnesty incarnated, so I won’t have voting for either of these elitist tools on my conscience.
There should be no doubt that Hussein and his wife are bitter racists. Certainly not the kind of folks we want in the White House.
Is this a shock to here this typical liberal? And to think Hillary is trying to use it to her advantage, when she is just as liberal. Liberals are self loathing Anti-Americans who are so out of touch, they think only bigots love guns and religion.
Obama is making Hillary look better and better. How frightening….
Neither of the two dumbocrats is electable, now, unless McAmnesty trips over his shlong in the next 6 months, something he very well might do.
Stop the Hate said on 12 Apr 2008 at 9:11 am:
“… I can’t imagine what on earth Obama is talking about…”
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Ah, he’s probably just talking about a “typical white” - like me.
The last couple of weeks seem to indicate that 20 years of Rev Wright’s sermons are starting to show through the veneer.
“Ah luv mah gun. Ah luvs mah gawd. Ah told you dat man eees bad! When planes flah intah beeldings ah askd gawd for help and gawd told me tah support a war and hang flags! Dats wot mah gawd and cuntry needs!”
Dumbo’s words were not the best choice, but he wasn’t far from the truth. When people get skarred they cling to some things that might not necessarily be the most progressive ideas. Guns? Mixed bag/concept at best. Religion? The hijackers were the most religious people on that day. It’s a message of introspection, intelligence, and history told by Dumbo in an amazingly stupid manner.
Barry Obama is a racist. Rev. Wright is a racist. Their church is racist. Just as we (the current citizens of America) had nothing to do with slavery or what race founded America, black leaders (?) need to stop whining about the past. Does anyone wonder why politics and religion should not be mixed? Churches are for worshipping God, not instilling racial or religious hatred. Look to the Muslims for an example of hatred spewed by the heavily influenced “Men of God” and living in the past. The middle east will never move forward until they put the past behind them. Perhaps these idiots (Obama and Wright) are why America isn’t ready for a black president. For example, the Secretary of State can’t let it go. Stop living in the past, folks.