Army of Dog

Yesterday there was a story going around about Barack Obama making condescending remarks about the typical white people in rural Pennsylvania. Today the AP is running a story about the campaign’s response to that particularly huge fuck up.

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who “cling to guns or religion” were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.

“I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he said.

It was just a misstatement you see, he was trying to explain the frustration of rural Pennsylvanians to his fellow sophisticates and he failed to couch his terms in sufficiently populist verbiage. All of these silly wingnuts trying to make a big deal out of this are just failing to understand the nuance and layered thought processes of the Obamessiah.

Let’s have a little thought experiment, shall we? Say, for example, that John McCain was speaking to a group of rich, white businessmen in a private mansion right here in Dallas, Texas. As he was giving his remarks to the assembled party he began to address the struggles that the Republican Party will have in trying to woo the black vote, and he said the following:

You go into some of these urban centers in New York or D.C., and like a lot of major cities on the East Coast, the poverty has been endemic now for 40 years and nothing’s really changed for them. And they fell through the Carter Administration, the Reagan Administration, the Clinton administration, and both of the Bush administrations, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to gangs or basketball or hip-hop, class envy aimed at white people or anti-Republican sentiment or anti-American sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I’m going to bet my entire net worth that McCain, or any other Republican for that matter, would not get the benefit of the doubt from the left. He would be decried as a rich, white racist who believes that black people are too stupid to do what’s in their own best interest, and we should all be understanding because their desperate situation and their inferior intellect make them unable to see the wisdom of voting Republican.

Obama is an elitist leftist with a strong background in bitter class warfare indoctrination. If you look at the history of those who have been closest to him in both his political and personal life, it’s a virtual Who’s Who of rabid Marxist ideologues. The “beyond politics” bullshit is just that, a bullshit facade. Every piece of available evidence suggests that this guy is Markos Moulitsas Zuniga with better packaging.