Barack’s True Beliefs: Those to Which He “Clings” and “Clings” and “Clings”
By MBolack and SusanUnPC on April 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM in Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Qualifications, Race, Race Card
Barack Obama outdid himself this week, didn’t he? He revealed something about his true feelings about the working-class masses whose votes he desperately needs, and perhaps his take on that higher plane he believes he occupies. But this isn’t an isolated incident, and it isn’t the first time we’ve been reminded that Barack Obama considers himself to be superior to the rest of us.
Let me remind you of a few other times.
November, 2007
“The nice thing about my candidacy is I don’t have to apologize for a lot of mistakes,” said Obama.
— Left Coaster
November 2007
“But they also, surprisingly enough, even in rural Iowa, recognize the opportunity to send a signal to the world that, you know, we are not as ingrown, as parochial as you may perceive.”
— Taylor Marsh and ABC News
November 2007
“One of the great pleasures of running for president is to go to some tiny town in Iowa and you’ve got some guy in overalls and a seahat to say what do you think about the situation in Burma, and you’re thinking that he’s going to ask you about corn, and he asks you about Burma”
— ABC News and Alegre’s MyDD diary
April, 2007
When Morgan Freeman comes over to greet Obama, the senator begins bowing down both hands in worship. “This guy was president before I was,” says Obama, referring to Freeman’s turn in Deep Impact and, clearly, getting a little ahead of his own bio. Next, a nod to Bruce Almighty: “This guy was God before I was.”
— Time’s Swampland blog
February 2008
“I am confident I will get her votes if I’m the nominee,” Obama stressed. “It’s not clear she would get the votes I got if she were the nominee.”
— MSNBC
March, 2008
The Trouble With Obama’s Arrogance
The freshman senator told reporters in July that he would overcome Senator Clinton’s lead in the polls because “to know me is to love me.” …
A few months later, he said, “Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama’s been there.” … My goodness, he is even talking in the third person!
— N.Y. Sun
April, 2008
Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he’s looking for in a running mate. “I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I’m not as expert on,” he said, and then he was off and running. “I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area–foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain.”
— Huffington Post
And, of course, there are the arrogant, elitist remarks reported last week, and hashed over ever since. I won’t repeat them here. But I do have one question to ask. Am I the only person who thought that earlier remarks in the same speech were also insulting? See what you think.
“Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laughter), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).”
Am I the only person out here in the real world who resents being lumped in with a world of people who would be automatically skeptical because he’s black? Seems to me it is pretty arrogant to make that assumption, and a bit racist, don’t you think? I don’t believe the masses are racist.
On April 14, 2008, Rasmussen Reports made it very clear that the majority of the American public disagreed with Obama’s statements.
New polling data released this morning shows that 56% of voters nationwide disagree with Obama’s controversial comment that people in small towns “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.” (Rasmussen Reports)
And yet, that day, Obama brushed off the controversy.
According to the LA Times, “Democrat Barack Obama today defended his record of understanding working-class Americans, disparaging the “fake controversies” fanned by his political rivals to suggest that he was an elitist.” (Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times and L.A. Times)
Doesn’t that strike you as monumentally arrogant? You, Barack, were in essence telling 56% of the voting public that they are wrong… that they’re so ignorant that they’re being fooled into your opponents’ point of view.
Sorry, Barack… I think you put your foot in the compost again.
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SusanUnPC’s Afterword: If you missed it, be sure to catch MBolack’s important article that was linked nationwide, including at the New York Times: “Barack “I-didn’t-know” Obama.”
If every voter could read MBolack’s work, our election worries would be over.
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