Obama's speech on race

CLUELESS: "Barack Obama's San Francisco-Democrat comment last week – about how alienated working-class voters 'cling to guns or religion' – is already famous. But the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable."
 
The class isn't going to wait around on you though.
He may be a moron, but so are most Americans.

Obama just screwed the pooch.

You can't say that about the common people... you know... the morons... and then expect them to vote for you.

You just can't do that.
 
At this point, I think California and Texas ought to be independent States.

Nevada, too.

By the gods I say, fuck the so-called "federal" government which has no right to do anything it does except by the laws of the various states which it compels them to enforce under threat of withholding highway funds.

Since the 1960's.

I say, fuck your highway funds. Blow them out you ass, because California's budget dwarfs your lame bribe.
 
Looks like Bi Ron has lost his mind

His lover is dead

Bye Ron:mad:

let the door hit you HARD on the way out:mad:
 
Michelle Weighs In Today

Obama's problems are many, and they probably won't go away since they are predicated on two inescapable facts: 1) the Obamas really are out-of-touch with the experiences of most of America; that they are right when they imply that they are poorer than most candidates such as the Clintons, McCains, Edwards, Kerrys, Gores, Cheneys, Bushes, etc. does not mean that they are not fabulously better off than 95% of the rest of America that votes; 2) they could care less about redressing their lack of exposure, and so see nothing wrong in anything they've said or done—or will say or do in the future.

Rev. Wright, as we've seen recently with his latest comments about the Founding Fathers et al., won't go away, loves the publicity that follows each additional inanity, and won't be cut loose by Obama. There will be a periodic outburst every three or four weeks, and the remedy—the "discussion" on race—has already been used up. Like the Clintonian tear, you only get one shot with that mitigation. Some nut in the public arena usually says something racist about every 6 months or so, and when the next Imus or Richards sounds off, the ensuing discussion will now include Obamian contextualization.

As we saw in her spech today, Michelle won't stop—and is clueless that an Ivy-League educated, $300,000 plus salaried lawyer in a $1.6 million house, cannot be a perpetual victim by virtue of her race.

Cf. her latest sarcasm: "Now when is the last time you've seen a president of the United States who just paid off his loan debt? But, then again, maybe I'm out of touch."

This too won't pass, and expect more of her defiance all summer and autumn long to add to the existing corpus of a "mean" US that does not merit "pride" and is full of clueless unaware citizens. Most Americans have little sympathy with anyone who feels it is a hardship to pay back thousands of dollars invested in a Harvard Law degree. Their likely rejoinder to today's sarcasm: 'Well then, if you feel pinched by paying back your loans, don't give Rev. Wright $20,000." At some point, some advisor might politely suggest: "Michelle, give one—just one—sermon on the beauty and exceptionalism of the United States, and how and why it gave you, and millions of other Americans, opportunities undreamed of elsewhere. Just one speech, just one like that."

Obama himself—cf. 'typical white person', the Pennsylvania mess, and things like Wright and his church being "not particularly controversial" —likewise at 3-4-week intervals will say something that will be taken either as condescending or racialist. And in the aggregate these "conflations" shown on evening news "loops" and "snippets" by August or so will cement the growing impression of uneasiness among the American people. Race has nothing to do with it; a certain smugness everything.

The American people will forgive slips, even condescension IF they are followed by genuine apology and not repeated ad infinitum. But in this case, there will be a growing weariness, followed by anger, at the notion that a Presidential candidate thinks he can say whatever he wishes, associate with whomever he wants, and feel it's the electorate's, not his own, ensuing problem. So the rub for the Obama campaign is not simply that he has no experience outside the Ivy League and Chicago, or even that he made a Faustian bargain with the Trinity church to jump-start his career, but rather his hubris—which as we speak is bringing on nemesis.
 
He may be a moron, but so are most Americans.

Obama just screwed the pooch.

You can't say that about the common people... you know... the morons... and then expect them to vote for you.

You just can't do that.

Sure you can. They have a ten-minute attention-span and a secular governmental education which trains them not to make judgements or admire high standards because success depends upon the gifts of America and luck, and listen to me, under Bush this hasn't been lucky for you now has it? Barack represents a change of luck, your only hope, so cheer up Byron, don't be bitter, be happy, every thing is all Wright, now, yes everything's all Wright now, everything all Wright, so close your eyes and relax think of nothing tonight...
 
:rolleyes:Andrew Malcolm reports at the Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket blog that an American flag pin is back on the coat lapel of Barack Obama. Malcolm turns a gimlet eye on this heartwarming development:

[T]here he was Tuesday on national television at a Keystone State townhall meeting trying with some success, according to recent polls, to play catch-up to Sen. Hillary Clinton in the next key Democratic primary state of Pennsylvania, which votes April 22.

And there, like a screaming eagle proclaiming Obama's patriotism for all the bitter, disgruntled voters of smalltown America to see just days after he seemed to dis them to an elite crowd of donors at an allegedly closed fundraiser in a San Francisco mansion, waving stiffly on the senator's left lapel was the old red, white and blue flag pin. Watch and see if it's still there in tonight's debate.

According to a touching-possibly-true-but-then-again-you-never-know-in-big-time-politics report circulating on several blogs during the night, the pin was reportedly given to Obama Tuesday morning by a disabled veteran whose name nobody seems to know right now.

So naturally not wanting to hurt the vet's feelings, how could the 46-year-old Obama do anything other than immediately put the pin back on his public lapel for as long as necessary?

If we were cynical and had over the years seen even the most seemingly idealistic politicians sway with the winds in the face of political pressures just before a crucial election, we'd write something about how convenient that no one caught the vet's name.

But then, probably by lunchtime today someone will find a disabled Pennsylvania veteran who claims he's the one who proudly gave the little pin to the candidate. And Obama can then wear the minute flag until he himself turns 88 without having to explain an embarrassing but awfully convenient political flip-flop in the face of running against a Republican war veteran who spent nearly six years in a POW cell. And who, by the way, won his party's presidential nomination rather handily without any lapel pin.

So we'll leave out all that cynical part.
:rolleyes:
 
Sure you can. They have a ten-minute attention-span and a secular governmental education which trains them not to make judgements or admire high standards because success depends upon the gifts of America and luck, and listen to me, under Bush this hasn't been lucky for you now has it? Barack represents a change of luck, your only hope, so cheer up Byron, don't be bitter, be happy, every thing is all Wright, now, yes everything's all Wright now, everything all Wright, so close your eyes and relax think of nothing tonight...
Stop being all ad hominem, since you try to make it an issue all the time elsewise.
 
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