“Snob-ama’s” “End of the Line” Campaign Gaffe
This might just be the misstep that brings Baracky down for good. And, you can thank Hillary’s good friends at the Huffington Post for the final blow.
Karl’s PW post pointed me to Mayhill Fowler (an unknown contributor at the Huffing Hippo) who posted audio from Baracky’s April 6 fund raiser in San Francisco. In the audio (a bit grainy) you hear Baracky describing the good people of Pennsylvania to some left-coast elitists, “shooting” himself in the foot at least three times…since I can’t lift the audio, I’ll post the best excerpt…
OBAMA:
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. 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. 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.
How about this comment from a liberal at Huffpo, ‘explaining’ Obama’s remarks…
He observed ,and rightly so, that people who suffer do tend to cling to church, (we all knew that already, so no new knowledge there) or have apathy for politics and a disinterested government who does not seem to care for them. They have bitterness after being time and time again lied to, and feel anger at the helplessness of not being able to improve their lot in life…the guns are for letting some of that emotional steam off, for hunting to forget all kind of problems and getting distracted or just to get some meat at the table, and yes even sometimes used for mugging and getting someone’s money to buy groceries for the family.
These leftists really unnerstand half the nation, don’t they? My God, these fools need only to open their pieholes and down they go.
Michelle Malkin (from whom I ‘borrowed’ the ‘Snob-ama’ titlework) points out…
“Now, we don’t need to guess anymore what he’s thinking when he’s on the campaign trail in rural and small-town Pennsylvania. Instead of hard-working, patriotic, faithful Americans, he sees “bitter,” “frustrated,” resentful scary people whom he’ll readily diss while sipping Chardonnay in Baghdad by the Bay.”
But, but, Ace is the place for the best line so far…
“Obama To Rural Pennsylvanians: Vote For Me, You Corncob-Smokin’, Banjo-Strokin’ Chicken-Chokin’ Cousin-Pokin’ Inbred Hillbilly Racist Morons”
Good night, Baracky.
crossed from home
I thought Rev. Wright was the “end of the line.”
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This is the kind of flub that keeps Hillary in it until Denver. Recreate ‘68!
Thanks serr8d. That Huff shill is astonishingly dense. S/he/it (hey, that’s kind of a pun) needs to look up the meaning of the word antipathy. And Obama means to include criminals or street thugs when referencing “concern over guns”? Riiiight. And people are hunting desperately trying “to put meat on the table” or take out frustration? Maybe our political problems are all just a matter of misunderstanding . . . or maybe they’re just stupid demagogues.
The point is Obama is right. He just didn’t go far enough because the truth is not politically correct. There are a certain brand of Pennsylvannia rednecks that ignorantly cling to the fallacy that Jesus is owned by the GOP, and the Dems want to take their guns. Of course it would be too honest to use the “i” word when describing the ignorant.
Coming from NY, we used to refer to our neighboring state as “Pennsyltucky” … I know first hand exactly what Obama is saying. There is a lot of isolated areas in PA where knowledge is hard to come by and where people’s minds are bent by conservative talk radio propaganda. Fortunately, the PA counties of Dumbfuckistan do not make up the majority of the population in that state.
Karl has an excellent essay in play debunking much of the Democrat’s “Obama is right” crap…
But, Obama is the likely Democratic nominee.
Can they make it any easier for John McCain?
Fortunately, the PA counties of Dumbfuckistan do not make up the majority of the population in that state.
[…] * Also… You know, I just spent seven and a half years disagreeing with the administration that has given us an unprecedented military and economic mess. I saw it coming, it came, and in some ways it was worse, and promises to get worse, than I foresaw. I the course of these seven years, I have had my patriotism questioned and demeaned fairly often. I was even put in a book, as one of a hundred people who were hurting America. When I got into this book, my relatives worried that I would get shot by some rightwing nut, even though several of them were and are rightwing nuts themselves (and they carry guns). All this time, though, I considered myself a patriot and a loyal American because I was able to see the destruction that was being wreaked upon the nation, and in particular, upon the middle and working classes, by the Republican liars and war criminals and job outsourcers and health care destroyers and army wreckers and infrastructure ignorers and media whores and agriculture blackmailers (see this month’s Vanity Fair). So now, Barack Obama tells the truth about conditions as we know them–that the countryside and the small towns are dying in many places in our country, and that the corporatocracy doesn’t care enough to do a thing about it. He points out that immigrant-baiting, gay-baiting, gun-baiting, and religious pandering have helped to destroy those towns and that countryside, that those being destroyed have been cynically enlisted by their very own destroyers to provide the votes that help accomplish the destruction. And this is what Senator Hillary Clinton says about it: “Senator Obama’s remarks were elitist and out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans.” […]
Wow William. Every time I think you cannot go any farther left, you do. Obama didn’t go far enough? How far do yo want him to go? Obama left social democracy some time ago. Now he is knocking on the door of socialism.
Tell us when Obama should stop.
Tell us when Obama should stop.
January 20, 2017. Until then, bend over and love the C-i-C, you America haters!
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JP, use a little common sense. Bend over? Not gonna happen. Your fantasy double entendre is noted.
JP, use a little common sense. Bend over? Not gonna happen. Your fantasy double entendre is noted.
No, in typical GOP fashion, you’ll make some excuse for hating the NEW C-i-C, just as you did for not volunteering to fight The Greatest Struggle For Western Civilization. Your grandkids will be ashamed of you.
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And also, use the miniscule bit of testosterone in your bloodstream, and put your money where your mouth is, you wimpy milquetoast. Bet me $100 that Obama won’t be POTUS #44. Please!
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