No apologies

Just to be clear, Obama in Muncie, Indiana today did not retract or apologize for his disgusting statements last Sunday and last night. To the contrary, he reaffirmed them.

Alex K. writes:

The AP article you linked earlier doesn’t have Obama’s actual words at the Muncie event. What he said, as reported by ABC, was: “I said something that everyone knows is true.” Then he repeats the original idea, but this time replacing “cling to” with “turn to what you can count on.” He slips in “family and community” amongst the things to which people cling, and rephrases “anti-immigrant” as “get mad about illegal immigrants.”

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Nicholas G. sends a YouTube of Obama summing up his defense policies. It’s entitled,

IN 52 SECS WHY BARACK OBAMA CANNOT WIN A GENERAL ELECTION

Adela Gereth writes:

What an insight into the man.

According to ABC News, Obama said Saturday: “There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry … So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on.

Uh, no, not exactly, O Clueless One. From what I’ve gleaned, I know that’s how you responded when you were bitter and angry toward the white culture that accepted you and educated you. You turned from it even though you could count on it, apparently because having a white or biracial identity wasn’t “authentic” enough for you, wasn’t politicized enough to accomodate your sense of entitlement as a black man. So you took on a black identity rooted in anti-white bigotry and joined an Afro-centric church based on black liberation theology, thereby ensuring you would be both anti-white and anti-American.

“So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community”

Wrong again. Many Americans cherish their constitutional right to bear arms and protect themselves. It is a positive value to them, not a negative response to bad economic conditions. But you with your unceasing negativity probably find that difficult if not impossible to understand. Yes, small-town Americans take comfort in their faith, in their families and in their community. But they do this because faith and family and community are positive values in their daily lives. They don’t sit in church on Sunday and listen to a pastor preach hatred toward others instead of love toward one’s fellow man. They don’t display contempt toward the families who raised them. They don’t join a community to build up their “street cred.”

” … and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.”

Finally, we can agree. Getting mad about illegal immigrants and getting frustrated about how things are changing is indeed a natural response. But it’s not just the natural response of economically deprived small-town Americans. My husband has about as much job security as a person can hope for in these times and we have a comfortable life. Nevertheless, I’m very angry about illegal immigration and I’m very frustrated about how things are changing. I value our nation and I value its sovereignty. I value the rule of law. These are values I abide by, no matter what my personal circumstances. You probably don’t understand that, either.

“People don’t feel like they’re being listened to,” Obama said. “And so they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families. You know this in your own lives. And what we need is a government that is actually paying attention, a government that is actually fighting for working people day in and day out, making sure that we are trying to allow them to live out the American dream.”

No, no, no. I pray regardless of whether or not I feel my elected representatives are listening to me. I pray because my faith is my life’s anchor. I sure as hell don’t need a condescending, terminally clueless elitist like yourself making sure that you “allow” me to live out the American dream. I just need you to get out of the public venue, preferably out of the country, and let decent Americans get on with their lives without benefit of your anti-American animosity.

LA replies:

Obama says: “And what we need is a government that is actually paying attention, a government that is actually fighting for working people day in and day out…

Translation: You need a government that will take care of all your economic and material needs, and then, once your TRUE needs have been taken care of, you’ll be free of the FALSE need for God, gun rights, family and community, protection of the U.S. border, and hatred of people who are different. All your present concerns and values are the result of the false consciousness that has been imposed on you by the capitalist racist system of exploitation. Remove that false consciousness via the equalization of all people and the provision of their material needs by the state, and people will no longer need God, guns, family, community, country.

Gosh, that sounds familiar …

Adela G. replies:

Familiar and utterly contemptuous of ordinary Americans. I don’t recall ever hearing such blatant contempt from a politician. Sure, we can often infer contempt from politicians’ attitudes (e.g., Bush’s way of ignoring border security). And maybe McCain’s saying (paraphrase), “We’ll build that fence they want” come close but I really think both Obamas take the cake as far as openly despising the American electorate goes.

Well, we can’t say now that he didn’t warn us. His socialist agenda is right out there for all to see. His social agenda—and his moral void. What a hollow man.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 12, 2008 06:23 PM | Send