[Bill,
April 11, 2008]
Wow, Just Wow -- Breathtaking Condescension from Obama
Barack Obama shows he truly doesn't know what the lives of ordinary Americans are like. And now he's proved it:
Well, here's your campaign ad for the Fall. Just run that over and over again. You'll get the 15 percent of the country that actually believes something like that, and the rest will tell you to piss off.
Barack Obama -- officially a dickhead. You're not running for president of Harvard and those who wished they'd gone to Harvard, you know.
John McCain's campaign responds here:
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.
Well, here's your campaign ad for the Fall. Just run that over and over again. You'll get the 15 percent of the country that actually believes something like that, and the rest will tell you to piss off.
Barack Obama -- officially a dickhead. You're not running for president of Harvard and those who wished they'd gone to Harvard, you know.
John McCain's campaign responds here:
"It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking," McCain spokeman Steve Schmidt said. "It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans."
Whatta disaster. This is going to get kicked around for a while.
However, if you look at the comments in the HuffPost article, you'll see a lot of bitter folks from the left. They admit as much. Maybe the crazies there are unhappy with their lives, and are afraid of people who both aren't like them and who are armed besides.
And once again an example of his not-so-brillant strategy: he can afford to lose Pennsylvania in the Primaries, but not in the General Election. Both Obama and Clinton need to be careful about how much collateral damage they do during the runup to the convention, because one of them is going to have to try to undo it by November.
I read something a while back that said that if Hillary wins in November, she'll inherit such an irreparable mess that she'll fail badly enough to spoil any chances of a woman becoming President for decades to come. Ditto for Obama and the next black Presidential candidate. Considering how Bush has ruined chances for white males who want the job, I think we'd better start looking for an Asian hermaphrodite to take the office in 2008.