The real Obama shows up in San Francisco

"And [these small towns] 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..." Obama reportedly continued. "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."
-Senator Barack Obama April 2008, San Francisco

If you go to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then move on to Columbia University and Harvard Law School, you may not understand normal Americans. Their beliefs are so alien to your leftwing viewpoint that you have to seek some psychological explanation for what seem to be weird ideas.

They can't really believe in the right to bear arms.

They can't really believe in traditional marriage.

They can't really believe in their faith in God.

They can't really want to enforce the law on immigration.

Therefore, they must be "bitter" and "frustrated."

This is the closest Senator Obama has come to openly sharing his wife's view that "America is a mean country". Not since Governor Dukakis have we seen anyone so out of touch with normal Americans. It makes perfect sense that it was in a fundraiser in San Francisco that he would have shared the views he has so carefully kept hidden for the entire campaign.

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By @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:44 AM

Is not the real issue here just how screwed up the Media is?
Look at exactly what the issue is (putatively presented by whom?)
Is Obama an elitist?
Wrong.
The issue is, here is a Man running for President of the United States, and we, the common ordinary people, know nothing about him.
With that in mind, there are millions of the uninformed sending him money and, with alacrity, cheering him on like he was running for the winning touchdown in the last seconds of the Superbowl.
Is this not unlike 1930's Germany? (Sorry to exclude the youngsters of today)
What kind of Media do we have that permits this to happen?
The answer is painfully obvious. My next thought is this.
Does the Media help put on this "show" because 1, there are enough 'useful idiots' out there to follow the Pied Pipers Tune, or, 2, are there enough 'useful idiots' out there that will never discover they are 'useful idiots' even in the light of proof positive?
Perhaps the Media is not so screwed up after all?

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:40 PM

Obama is getting a free ride to the White House from the media, except that every time he get on the record unscripted, he shows what an out-of-touch socialist, elitist, hypocrite he is. I love how many excuses he get for all these telling statements.

Newt, isn't it time to stop calling him eliquent? Isn't it time to acknowledge that every time he gets off script he stumbles and trips in his words, picking what's really in his head- telling Americans how stupid we are and how well he can take care of us when we are forced to send him all our money?

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:58 PM

I dont believe Obama lived a shelter life. Being of a mixed race, is neither sheltered nor freindly in America. By the way, what life style has been noted regrding our former or present presidents?
Racism can disguise it self to be many topics of intelligent conversation. Real faith is love for our fellow man/brother's keeper. Not pocket book reapers only!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:06 AM

It seems to me that all politicians, to some extent, want us to believe that government can solve our problems.

It's clear though, that some think that it is just because of the wrong government that people resort to religious faith -- that given the right leader, the right government program, the right foreign policy, they may awaken from their stupor and realize that the state, or maybe the "Dear Leader" should be the object of their religious affections.

Politicians make sneering speeches about the poor dumb bumpkins who cling to religion because they are bitter about the government, or are somehow not voting in their own interest because of their pathetic ignorance and so aren't able to grasp the message of hope and change. In so doing, those politicians clearly adopt the tactics of Il Duce, Stalin and Lenin: shelve your skepticism and go with the consensus. It's in the newspapers, it's on TV, it's in the universities, so to believe otherwise is derisible at best, something-ist or something-else-phobic in the middle, or punishable by imprisonment or death at the worst.

Yep, replace our skepticism with something else indeed: don't think, just follow and we'll lead you to the promised land. And if you don't, well it's your funeral.

By concepts2 @ Monday, April 14, 2008 10:40 PM

What Obama and west coast liberals do not understand is that more than half of their party are bible thumping, gun toting, beer drinking rednecks....

A SF liberal has no idea those people exist, and cannot conceive of a democrat who doesn't believe in same sex marriage, the 2nd Amendment, or tax and spend.... They are isolated in their own little socialist world.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 14, 2008 9:39 PM

Let's see, first Obama was a muslim. Then he was a mindless follower of an extreme black liberation Christian minister. He's been an elitist, albeit buried under college loans. He's been out of touch with "real" Americans yet spent his prime "coroporate token" earning years earning 20k a year as a community activist helping little old ladies get their prescriptions filled properly and their taxes filed correctly.

Now he's a commie. Yes, we know what happened to communism and good riddance. Question is, do we know what happens to capitalism and democracy when, as with post 9-11, we're asked to shelve our classic conservative skepticism? What are we asked to replace it with? Another belief. A different belief, in the infallibility of the state and it's key executive and managerial decisionmakers--

"you're either with us or you're against us."

Problem is, that's exactly what Lenin said to social democrats to get them to snap in line and get with the program, and we know what happened to those who didn't.

Now, who was it we're accusing of coopting Communist sensibilities and approach to governance?

mark brady

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 14, 2008 7:07 AM

Implicit in Sen. Obama's comments is his conviction that belief in the state should supplant faith in God.

There was another state near the beginning of the last century that adopted this philosophy.

The state was the USSR, and the philosopher was Marx.

If you want to know where this system of thought leads, you only need examine the stunning success and ultimate fate of Communism in the USSR and Soviet Russia.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:48 PM

Newt, you're a historian. You're also a politician. Which one is writing this?

One of you knows how damn true the phenomenon Obama references is and how often it's led to the non-wisdom of crowds through time. Can we skip the Language of Control method and actually talk about the reality of frustration, bitterness and loss that is implicit in the 'bargain' of creative destruction? You wanna lead, then do so by example and idea, not by cheesy assassination.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:28 AM

Agree with Newt's reasons that Obama has lived a sheltered life. Also agree with previous comments. I'd like to add my thoughts on Obama. I see a young rich college living in a white liberal elite world trying to get back to his "roots". To him that was the radical elite of the time. Chicago was a hotbed of it back then believe me. The Panthers, Weather underground SLA, you name it. If it was left and violently radical it was there. He believes and idolizes all this stuff. Then he listens to Rev Wright for 20 years. I think this has started to give voters pause, as he trys to pass himself off as a center candidate. Makes about as much sense as Hillary praising gun ownership and religion in PA.
Regards, Live Dangerously, Be A Conservative (in Michigan,lol)

By Anonymous @ Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:41 AM

This is the kind of comment one of us might say to four or five friends when we discuss something over a beer or three when anything we say might be challenged by the other guys. You say this to someone you already KNOW. Obama has not been "vetted" by the press so his free ride has resulted in the fact that he doesn't know when to keep his thoughts to himself until he's tested them with some people he knows and discusses with them whether or not he should air this view or that view. We live in the YouTube era for better or for worse and this means there ain't no private venues any more. Everyone is Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan and we are never safe.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:11 PM

The left is saying that he was just trying to explain why people are not voting for him in PA-- but there is so much more in his statement. By saying that people "cling" to guns and to religion he is saying that they are not thinking through their choices and with prosperity those views would change. Very Scary!!! I live in a city of 300,000 in the West and have a gross salary of 300,000+. I wonder how much money he feels I need in order to not "cling" to my gun-rights and religious beliefs. I have bad news for Obama that Americans hold these opinions not because we are uneducated and poor, but instead because we are educated and he cannot legislate our views away from us!!

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