Getting to Know the Real Barack Obama
Filed under: US Elections
"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 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." -- U.S. Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, campaigning in Indiana
The man who says he wants to be the president of "all Americans" actually hates many of them, with seething, arrogant, elitist passion bordering on frenzy.
So let me see if I understand, Mr. Obama.
If I live in a small town in Pennsylvania and own a gun, it's because I'm "bitter." There's no legitimate reason for me to have a gun, only bitterness -- presumably, bitterness towards George Bush and every other president who hasn't been you. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was a typo.
If I go to church regularly on Sunday, the same. God is nothing but a mirage of bitterness. It's OK, though, if my church expresses that bitterness, if the preacher says things like "GOD DAMN AMERICA!" from the pulpit. In that event I'd have your approval -- but not really your respect, because to get that I'd also have to be pretending to believe in God in order to advance my political prospects, the way you are for instance. First Amendment? Again, typo.
And if I want America to admit only persons with legal permission to enter the country across its borders, and deport those who lack such permission, the same. Citizenship? It's just a state of mind.
OK, I think I follow you, sir. But there is one thing I still don't understand, that part about "antipathy to people who aren't like them." I can't say as I see how that is explained by small-town bitterness, because after all, you yourself talked about "typical white people" on that Philadelphia radio station, and you're not small town guy.
Oh wait a minute, I know. I forgot you are a Marxist. So, basically, anyone who disagrees with YOU, Barack Obama, does so out of ignorance that would disappear if only they were properly reeducated.
When a tidal wave of outrage swept over him, Obama confirmed that he meant what he said:
Lately there has been a little typical sort of political flare-up, because I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry. They feel like they have been left behind. They feel like nobody is paying attention to what they're going through. So I said, well you know, when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on. So people, they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community. 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. And now, I didn't say it as well as I should have, because you know the truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important.
So, in fact, it appears that church-going and gun-owning and border-enforcing were mistakes arising from the bitterness of our founding fathers and passed on down the generations to us. Barack Obama is going to save us from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson! Hooray!
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