Typical Liberal Snob

It's comforting that he will be the next President!

It must be comforting to love in your black and white world.

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns.

But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.

The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called “Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns.”

Obama’s eight years on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which paid him more than $70,000 in directors fees, do not in any way conflict with his campaign-trail support for the rights of gun owners, Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Obama’s presidential campaign, asserted in a statement issued to Politico this week.

Bwana, you're an idiot. You are not from rural Pennsylvania, if you were, you would know that what he said is the truth.... Barack may not have the most tact, but at least he is not deceitful scum like Hillary, or willing to keep our men in Iraq for- what was it? Oh yeah, 100 years! Iraq is not Korea. I truly believe that Obama was referring to the issues on which rural Americans vote... gun rights, gay marriage, abortion and illegal immigration. We have been fucked by so many administrations before---he's only speaking the truth. In fact, our town even has it's own word to describe sentiments towards those that are not Caucasian... so you can go on all you want about the U.S. election...but since it seems that you're Canadian, why don't you focus on being a hateful moron up there... hope you lose the suit! :)

Sen. Obama’s remarks about poor dumb, bitter rural losers “clinging to” guns and God certainly testify to the instinctive snobbery of a big segment of the political class. But we shouldn’t let it go by merely deploring coastal condescension toward the knuckledraggers. No, what Michelle Malkin calls Crackerquiddick (quite rightly – it’s more than just another dreary “-gate”) is not just snobbish nor even merely wrongheaded. It’s an attack on two of the critical advantages the United States holds over most of the rest of the Western world.

…large numbers of Americans tote guns because they’re assertive, self-reliant citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. The Second Amendment is philosophically consistent with the First Amendment, for which I’ve become more grateful since the Canadian Islamic Congress decided to sue me for “hate speech” up north. Both amendments embody the American view that liberty is not the gift of the state, and its defense cannot be outsourced exclusively to the government.

I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: It benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on Earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-america-guns-2021119-gun-world

So ---yesterday I waited in line for tickets to see Obama speak ...I was in the very front of the line when they ran out!!! What freakin' luck!

Well, politics isn't only about doing what everybody likes, but also about making everybody like what you do.

If the next president were only to do what republicans and democrats all would accept, not much could be done. Barack Obama says that he'll perform a change in politics; a change which requires many people's opinions to change.

The next president will be required to talk.

Well, what else could be expected from clingy, gun-toting, and xenophobic religious fanatics?

http://snaps.lumra.com/~A_thought_about_arguments_on_snaps..._

All this time wasted on this Sympatic/Herm/Toopy/Cheese.

First of all he tried to very thoughtfully explain the reasons for all the hatred against government and outsiders in that region of the world. Second, it's more of a guideline than a rule.

Barack Obama broke the first rule of Democratic presidential politics: never let on that you believe rural American voters are hicks straight out of the movie Deliverance. Unfortunately for The Chosen One’s adoring fans, he could not have picked a worse time to reveal his contempt for average Americans.

Next week’s voting will reveal how deep Obama’s self-inflicted wound is. Should Hillary nab a comfortable win in Pennsylvania, any hopes of putting her out of the Democrats’ misery will vanish. All eyes will turn to the exit polls. If Obama has dug his own grave with working class white voters (the very segment that was fleeing his coalition in Texas and Ohio) the superdelegates will perk up. Then her dire warnings of impending doom for the Democratic Party with an Obama nominee might seem downright credible.

And John McCain? He is living up to his self-described billing as the luckiest man alive.

Thought I should clarify that we are upset, we are bitter, we are anti free trade.

No cheeseboard, we are not offended. Amazed that somebody who's running for office actually said that ,yes. We are upset. And do a little research on Hazelton if you wanna say that people here aren't anti-immigration.

Coming from a small town in Iowa, I have to take issue with Obama and anyone who thinks he was right when he made his comments about rural Pennsylvania and the Midwest. He couldn't be more wrong.

Rural America isn't bitter about the state of the economy because we're too busy working hard to complain. Rural America doesn't cling to guns or religion because we're upset. We cling to guns and religion because we understand the necessity of both and we know enough not to use either one incorrectly. Rural America isn't anti-immigration; we're anti-ILLEGAL immigrant. Rural America isn't anti-trade; we're too busy doing business with one another.

I know it's cool in leftist circles to ignore or downplay rural America (a.k.a. "flyover country"), but to malign us falsely as Obama has? That's simply not a way to win votes.

As far as Hillary is concerned, she's no more a champion of rural America as Obama is. She has as much disdain for us as Obama does, but she hides it better, at least for now. With friends like these, though, rural America won't need enemies.

Hahaha...she's so into pandering that this could almost be true!

Seizing Moment, Hillary Totes Bible to Gun Range

by Scott Ott

(2008-04-13) — Sensing an opportunity to portray Sen. Barack Obama as elitist and out of touch after his remarks about “bitter” rural Americans who cling to guns, God and xenophobia, Sen. Hillary Clinton stopped after church today at an indoor gun range, where she fired roughly 300 rounds through a handgun she said she carries concealed everywhere she goes.

Her lower lip bulging from a dip of Skoal, Sen. Clinton put her Bible in her handbag, and drew out her own Para Ordnance Warthog .45 caliber pistol.

As reporters looked on, the Democrat presidential candidate emptied one 10-round magazine after another, with fair accuracy, at a human silhouette target.

“Small town folk like us,” said Sen. Clinton, “don’t cling to God or guns because we’re bitter about the economy, as my opponent suggests. We believe in God because he’s real, and we keep and bear arms as the best insurance against tyrants who would strip our freedoms if they didn’t fear our collective power.”

As for the economy, the candidate said, small-town people haven’t been sitting on their hands since the steel and textile mills closed 25 years ago.

“We’re Americans,” she said, “We’re not a bunch of cry babies. Things change. We deal with it. We suck it up, learn a new skill, and do something else to earn the money we need to buy stuff, you know, like Bibles and bullets.”

Obama did say the truth, but made a horrible political mistake by doing so. The key in winning an election is to lie to the stupid, and be honest to the intelligent - which is impossible with ubiquitous media presence. Now it seems like the votes of many of the stupid will be lost for him, which could make Sen. McCain win the election. Just like G.W. Bush won over Kerry because the stupid favored a president of their own kind. Just this time, the republican won't even have to allign with them too much - condemning Obama might be enough.

I'm sorry that you have to resort to name calling to make yourself feel better about your need to "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like (you)" Maybe you should stop hiding from the Muslims in you gun room and get a date. Am I an asshole like my husband? Sure! At least I know who I am, and don't need to hide behind multiple identities.

Maybe if we reformed the tax codes in the U.S the businesses would come back instead of leaving.

Of course, most of what I've heard from the candidates is how they are going to make those evil corporations give back their profits.

"[O]bviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that. The underlying truth of what I said remains, which is simply that people who have seen their way of life upended because of economic distress are frustrated and rightfully so."

What a horrible non-apology. The wording was offensive, as was the "underlying truth." Also, this only addresses the bitterness part of the statement, the least offensive part. What about the implication that white folks seeks refuge from economic distress in an irrational embrace of the Second Amendment? Or that unlike Obama, who came by his black liberation theology oh so honestly, the hicks of middle America come to their religion out of fear and xenophobia. I'd think a really different kind of politician would man up and take his lumps.

this guy looks really alright

I am leaving in 10 minutes to go to my manufacturing job(unionized) in rural Pennsylvania. I'll comment on how my justifiably bitter anti free trade coworkers take to these completely true comments by the Senator.

Tomorrow's Sunday shows will probe the extent of the damage, but the significance of Obama's candid contempt for small-town voters won't even be fully absorbed by the public until talk radio plays the tape wall-to-wall for a week. There's a great deal more than arrogance in the "bitter" remark. There is a worldview that will define Obama for many who gave him a look. Many will see the combination of the remarks and the setting --a fundraiser in San Francisco-- as a sure sign that Obama is not to be trusted. Talking trash about middle class voters in industrial states while the canapes are served by the bay doesn't work outside of the huge cities where poking fun at the rural and suburban rabble is an honored tradition.

I'm and idiot/asshole. I'll agree with asshole partially but idiot , how so? Your a class act Toopy/Herm/Uss.

Wife-of-[the idiot]-Teleport said, "I agree with my husband..."

So that makes you an asshole, just like him. Right?

Let’s break pathetic Obama's statement into its component insults:

* “[T]hey cling to guns…” Cling to guns? Americans have “clung” to guns since the founding of the Republic. It’s such a core value to this nation that its founders placed it second on the Bill of Rights, right after freedom of speech and religion. Speaking of which …

* “or [they cling to] religion …” People don’t become religious because the economy hits a few bumps in the road. Obama may have chosen his religion based on politics, but most people follow a religion out of a deeper sense of spirituality. I can’t think of a more condescending and contemptuous analysis of religious dedication than this statement.

* “or [they cling to] antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment…” Small-town voters are bigots and xenophobes; there’s no other way to read the first part of this statement. The second part, about them being “anti-immigrant”, is a non-sequitur. They may be anti-illegal immigrant, but that’s a far different issue. Obama offers no proof that small-town voters are xenophobes, but the Frisco audience didn’t demand any, either. It’s part of their own bigotry that makes them see middle America in those terms.

* “or [they cling to] anti-trade sentiment …” And this is just jaw-droppingly hypocritical. This comes from the same candidate who opposes the Colombian free-trade agreement and wants to throw NAFTA out the window. Who’s clinging to anti-trade sentiment? Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Big Labor.

As others of said, he's DONE as a serious contender for the presidency.

I agree with my husband... that is what rural Pennsylvanians are like--it's sad but true-- and sure...obama might be a snob, but so are all of the educated people stuck in the shit holes of pa...oh yeah, and any other presidential candidate seeing as how they're all wealthy.

Barack Obama has done what Democratic candidates for president invariably do — he has revealed the profound sense of unearned superiority that is the sad and persistent hallmark of contemporary liberalism. Obama’s statement today that small-town folk “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” may be the most distilled example of this train of thought I’ve ever seen.

I used to think working class voters had conservative values because they were bitter about their economic circumstances--welfare and immigrants were "scapegoats," part of the false consciousness that would disappear when everyone was guaranteed a good job at good wages. Then I left college.

Straight to hell. It's a song by the Clash.

I don't see any indication that the fellow in the picture is a liberal. What I do see is the type of picture a typical con-servative would paint of a liberal, expressing the violent hatred that con-servatives have against those who tell the truth about Bushit, his chickenhawk gang of war criminals/profiteers and their many acts of treason and all their other crimes against humanity; the blood-red areas on the guy's face and neck are a dead giveaway.

Current number of Iraqi civilians murdered by the Chickenhawk-in-Chief: 1,197,469

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/

100% true for many areas where industry has fled to Mexico or China. Obama's only fault is he didn't phrase it 100% Politically Correct.

Meanwhile, Hillary sees hope and perseverance in an area where gang violence is running rampant.

Thats fuckin funny. I thought you actually said that and was surprised that you understood Central Pennsylvania. That is how it works here.

Drumroll please...............candidacy FINISHED!!!!???????????

Everything else you said is actually true but I don't get the end.