OBAMA ‘BELITTLES SMALL-TOWN AMERICA’
on 04/13/2008 at 09:24 AM
Don Surber had a great take on it.
I wasn’t going to vote for Senator Obama in the first place. I agree with him on no issue about which he has expressed an opinion.
It becomes more and more obvious with every passing day he is not simply a very liberal Democrat, but a serious radical who does not cherish or even believe in the essential foundation of the United States.
Who of the moderate to conservative perspective is surprized? Our task now is to demonstrate this radical nature to the middle minded voter of the United States.
another classic picture.
You’re both right and wrong, Sen. Hussein.
You’re right in that people in America have become bitter about being constantly surrounded by those unlike them.
You’re wrong in thinking that it’s about skin color, or religion, or gun ownership, or what language you are most comfortable speaking, or what part of the world your mom and dad were born in. It’s not about any of that, and yet it is about “I would feel more comfortable about them if they were more like me.”
We would feel more comfortable if we felt we were surrounded by people who, like us, grew up believing that all you needed to do well in America was good judgement and a willingness to work. Yes, I know that was never true, that’s not the point. Because we believed it was true, and that it should always become more true, when we saw places where it was unjust *individual Americans* tended to band together to do something about it. True, we didn’t accomplish as much on as large a scale. But where we accomplished anything, we had the goal firmly in mind. It was about opening up that dream for those who only wanted to work hard and see if their judgement and skill would bring them the life they wanted. It’s called freedom, liberty, mastery of your own destiny.
Instead, we are finding ourselves surrounded by those who belittle liberty as something we have too much of, something we should be willing to sacrifice to gain equality. Only ‘equality’ doesn’t mean everyone has the same chance to create the life they want, using the same rules. No, ‘equality’ is defined in modern America as ‘sameness of results imposed from above’.
And you and those who follow you don’t understand why that is a source of concern to us. We still search for the American dream, yes. But that doesn’t mean the plumber, the CEO, the lawyer and the car salesman all want to be the same guy. The definition of ‘the good life’ is different for each of us, the only common denominator is that none of us can get it unless we are allowed to *create it ourselves*, to our own personal specifications. A preset, modular template Good Life(tm) (Millions of combinations possible with our modular ‘MyGoodLife(tm) System’) doesn’t appeal to us, it scares us. Millions of combinations don’t comfort us when applied to hundreds of millions of people. For most of us that wouldn’t be ‘the good life’, even among those who think it would before they experience the result. For most of us that would be a living hell, forced into a mold designed to fit a mythical average that doesn’t exist in the real world.
It doesn’t bother me that your middle name is Hussein. I only call you that to illustrate how idiotic it is for it to be considered politically incorrect and insensitive to call someone by THEIR OWN NAME. It doesn’t bother me that you are black, it bothers me that apparently Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Clarence Thomas are “typical white people” in your world. It doesn’t bother me that you were born in another country, nor do I care which one. It bothers me that you apparently have so little regard for those who consider America something to be proud of, even when she fails to live up to her dreams.
No sir, Sen. Hussein, none of *WHAT* you are bothers me. It’s WHO you are. You are a former editor of Harvard Law Review who is evidently utterly ignorant of the concept of liberty. And judging by your taste in friends and companions, it seems unlikely that anyone who does understand that concept, much less someone who would fight for it, would find a place anywhere in the power structure you are trying to create. We are “outside your comfort zone.”
And I quote:
“I didn’t say it as well as I should have,”
“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.”
What would have been a better way to say it then?
Hmm.. Those crazy bible banging illegal hating gun-toting xenophobic trailer trash are using their situations as an excuse?
Last time I checked, they weren’t making gangs and shooting each other randomly, nor were they polluting their neighborhoods with drugs and violence. They work hard for what they get, stick together as families (PA is very family oriented) and stick behind their friends, which seems to be the antithesis of what the people that Hussein seems to idolize and worship as his “people”.
I wonder if this is an indicator of how his administration would be. Remember, you are known but the people you call friends, as well as those you call heroes.Bah. It’s enough to make my eyes bleed.
-BillAs an afterthought:
Does anyone else wonder why Senator Obama used the term ‘bitter’?
What about a man who, having money and position, calls for God to ‘...damn America...’ Is that bitter?
Personally I think the Hillary camp is missing a bet here.
“Sen. Obama is spending between 3 and 6 times as much as me in Pennsylvania. Is he getting between 3 and 6 times the results? No, he’s ‘narrowing the gap’, but still losing. ‘Nuff said, huh? Pennsylvania has spoken, Sen. Obama. You’re just too elitist to listen.”
04/13/2008 at 09:44 AM
