Two Minutes Hate: Keep talking, brother. Keep talking.
Obama’s spin on the “bitter” comments from last week are even better than the original shit he said. Good lord, man. Keep it coming.
“I didn’t say it was well as I could have,” Obama confessed today during a town hall in Muncie, Ind., in response to the controversy he described as a “political flare-up because I said something that everyone knows is true.”
He then launched into a broad explanation of what he was trying to express: “There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry… So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people, ya know 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.”
But these traditions that get passed on from generation to generation are important, he said.
“People don’t feel like they’re being listened to,” Obama said. “And so they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families. You know this in your own lives. And what we need is a government that is actually paying attention, a government that is actually fighting for working people day in and day out, making sure that we are trying to allow them to live out the American dream.”
For the love of God, if what we need is a government that’s actually paying attention and helping WORKING PEOPLE - note the WORKING part - then I think you and I can come up with some suggestions that have nothing to do with magically regenerating jobs in old mining towns.
How about abolishing the IRS? How about a flat tax or a fair tax or whatever else the hell kind of tax would let people like us contribute to shit that needs done (military, roads, etc) and keep the rest so that we can live out “the American dream”, whatever that even means anymore.
Every single one of the things he listed as a symptom of bitterness and anger stemming from hard financial times are things that people cling to and take comfort in even when they’re not remotely bitter or angry. Most of you have and enjoy guns, religion, family, and community, right? Is it because you’re pissed that your town’s mill shut down 25 years ago?
And who ISN’T “mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country”? Jesus in a frosted mug.
Really, every time he tries to spin and explain, he comes off sounding like even more of a dipshit than he did in the first place. I love it so much it hurts.
Check this out - one of Michelle Malkin’s readers made the best graphic ever:
I think he needs a helmet that says “Bawack” on it.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:15 pmRaaaaaaaaacist!
April 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pmWhats really bad is that even when he’s showing how he really feels there are still millions of fools that will suck it up through a straw and twist and turn it till comes out looking like he’s the best thing since sliced bread. Feh…
As for what they can do the fair tax sounds like a good place to start to me. I don’t know all the ins and outs of it but it sounds like it would be a more equitable system than what we’ve got now. They need to lose the goofy gift card program though. If they really want to add that drop the tax rate a percentage point or so. Let’s support what really counts and let the rest of the federal government die on the vine. We could probably knock a trillion or so off the budget and no one would notice. There is so much BS that gets money thrown at it surely things can be trimmed back to a reasonable amount.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:47 pmI like Frank J’s picture too.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:46 pmThis guy is the true son of an American hating communist Hippie. The scary thing is that many, many people agree with his ‘theory’! They think the government should be actively ‘creating’ jobs in the small towns & old steel towns in PA and elsewhere. Just read the comments on the Politico. AcK!
April 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pmLove the poster. You know what I don’t understand about the real Obama color scheme? The beige-instead-of-white doesn’t look sophisticated, it looks dingy. Faded. Like a poster from 1940.
Or perhaps 1917.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:13 amI like his old logo…per my co-blogger Simon.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:35 amIf the industry in your area dries up, you need to bring in new industries or some people have to move to where the jobs are.
How do you bring in new industries? Radically change the business climate: (1) Cut the corporate tax rate, (2) Loosen labor rules, (3) expidite permitting processes, (4) keep personal taxes down so the cost of employee relocation is lower, and (5) create a friendly tort/insurance climate, among other things.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:45 amDo you think he’s singing as he continues to dig this hole? I mean, seriously. Most people I know who are pissed don’t turn to religion, they turn away from it (unless we’re talking about those men who aren’t going to take economic and social oppression from the Great Satan anymore… and blow themselves up for a religion that that wants to bitch-slap the world into economic and social oppression. Don’t you just love irony?)
And I can’t help but wonder who’s world this is an apology in.
And Rachel, I am a Christian and this very well may ensure that I burn in Hell, but your “Jesus in (insert random item here)”’s have me falling off my chair laughing. I really need to start blogging again.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:24 amOT: Holdfast - I would really like to see how many actually go to where the jobs are. I live in Northwest Indiana and it’s like Mississippi north as far as wages go. Low taxes but the jobs, other than steel mills suck. The only evidence I have is talking with folks but have found they do not move if the job goes but stay because family is here (mother, father, extended) so basically they are trapped.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:04 amWhats really bad is that even when he’s showing how he really feels there are still millions of fools that will suck it up through a straw and twist and turn it till comes out looking like he’s the best thing since sliced bread. Feh…
The spin is already started over on National Palestinian Radio, with Cokehead Robert’s “analysis” that distills to ‘lolsowhut.’ According to her and her ilk, the words were spoken at a private fundraiser, and the complaint wasn’t that it was racist or classist, but “just proves that nothing is private anymore.”
April 14th, 2008 at 6:27 amYeah, here in Michigan we know very well how government can help … the more the government “helps”, the faster jobs leave the state.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:57 amLessee … UAW, Democrat governor, communist dregs senators, and cities like Detroit and Flint filled to overflowing with the results of the government’s “War on Poverty” … now THERE’S a formula for success.
Just what you’d get more of with an Obama presidency.
My mother (in Alberta, Canada) was asking me if the media up there is correct, we’re “not ready for a black or a female president”, and my response was it had nothing to do with gender or color … it was the fact that they were both loser fascists who wanted to destroy the social fabric of the country. And to let you know that the media in Canada is probably even worse than here in the US … she wasn’t even aware that there was someone else in the race … rthere’s been no mention of McCain in months. She actually thought the presidential race was between Hitlery and B. Hussein O.
Holdfast, The five things you listed are being enacted in the exact opposite here in Michigan. I know there’s a housing crisis in this country, but of the MANY people I know personally who have lost or are losing their houses, it is due to their (un/under)employment situation and not bad loans. Ol’ Moley Face (J. Grandholm) has done everything in her power to make this state a bad place to start or move a business to. No wonder we’re swirlin’ down the bowl. sigh
April 14th, 2008 at 7:38 amMacObama, the Thane of Chicago…
I have no spur
To prick the side of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
(Macbeth before murdering Duncan, in Macbeth, I: VII)
…and Lady MacObama…
….Come you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! (Lady Macbeth before the murder of Duncan, in Macbeth, I: V)
…represent all that is psycho in the left-liberalism of the past 40 years.
Things are not what they are but are as we perceive them.
Truth is whatever you can get the idiots to believe.
There is no character. Presentation of self is all.
A well-turned set of lies always trumps an unpleasant set of facts.
It is not a lie if it is believed.
We will have a heaven on earth, but Man must first be refashioned in the image of Our Leader.
A cascade of treacly slogans and phantasmagorical imagery leaves us deaf to logical errors, preposterous arguments, and the destructive consequences of ideas and policies.
There is no Hell for those with good intentions.
Validity is defined by agreement.
Agreement rests on feelings.
Brief history of our slide into madness.
Carol Rogers. “How does that make you feel?”
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I’m okay; You’re okay. No one is evil.
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Progressive education. Phonics and the notion of correct answers are forms of oppression. Students should construct their own knowledge, not receive knowledge.
New ageism. Wisdom without the bother of thinking.
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Political correctness. Some things may not be thought.
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ObamaNation
Regarding the poster, above…
There’s no art
April 14th, 2008 at 7:40 amTo find the mind’s construction in the face:
(Duncan, in Macbeth, I: IV)
that is some damn good graphics there. i’ll need to have a talk with that person in order to help teach my sister at photoshop.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:35 amI think the graphic comes from this funny satire site:
http://thepeoplescube.com/
They have a bunch of graphics here:
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=33
April 14th, 2008 at 10:34 amHe said that in Muncie? What a tool.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:44 amHis whole thesis that government help = happiness and lack of government help = bitterness is so scary, that it dwarfs his snobbish bigotry, which is pretty damn impressive, IMO.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pmYeah, what is it with that “WORKING men and women of America” thing?
Obama didn’t invent that expression, it is Democratic boilerplate group-speak, and I’ve heard it before. “Working men and women” as opposed to . . . what? Last I checked, even most wealthy people these days don’t “Paris Hilton” their way through life, but they work too. Why do I think that there is an income-level cutoff to what qualifies as “working?” $40K? $75K? More? Less? Michelle Obama — despite the fact she has a job — probably wouldn’t qualify as a “working man or woman,” because she slikley makes 4-5 times the cutoff number for the “working.”
Oh, and then there’s that gun-control related issue phrasing (relevant to this blog) that is also boilerplate lib-talk:
“I respect the rights of hunters and sportsmen.”
That phrase is always trotted out to deflect hard questions about the candidate’s desire to ban handguns. Obama has revived it.
Here’s a translation of what he actually means:
“It’s OK for you to shoot, kill, and eat Bambi’s Mom, but it’s NOT OK for a woman to chase off a would-be rapist by pointing a handgun at him.”
April 14th, 2008 at 2:22 pmWhat if a white political candidate were complaining about not being able to make inroads with black voters? Here is what might be said:
“So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to notions of the U.S. government and white people plotting against them, which are reinforced by their pastors, as a way to explain their frustrations.”
The candidate would be pilloried in the mainstream media for his patronizing view of black people. However, until there is a more convincing repudiation of America-hating race-hustlers like Jeremiah Wright, it would ring true with a lot of “typical white” people.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:09 pmThe fact that we think Barack Obama is a snob is awesome. It says a lot about how far we’ve come. Further than he and his minister seem to think.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pmFrankJ is my hero. He’s clever, witty, and married to a total babe.
Just an idea: If I lived in a town where the whole town’s identity was built around a particular industry, and that industry went shit-up…I’d find a new place to live.
There are ghost towns from the 1800’s all over this damn country in the midwest and western states. The idea that towns in Pennsylvania couldn’t succumb to this same phenomena is stupid.
Hell, it’s my personal opinion that in 50 years Detroit will be home to less than 20,000 people. There’s nothing wrong with that. It just means they moved. If people stopped visiting the Riverwalk and the Air Force and Army moved away from San Antonio, the same thing would happen here. I wouldn’t stick around waiting for some government asshole to save me. I’d find the work where it was. Laid off? Find a fucking job. Doing whatever. I have a teaching degree, and when I couldn’t find work teaching, I went into retail and make as much now as I would teaching. Get a job and stop complaining. And any politician who panders to those complainers can kiss my ass. If I have my way, THEY will be looking for a job, too.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:42 amI hate to sound cruel, but that is no real excuse. You go where the job is that pays you what you need. You send the money back, and visit as often as you can. If you must, you move your family with you. History is filled (did I mention I have a degree teaching above? Yes, it’s History) with people who moved entire clans to make ends meet. Hell, that’s very much the reason most of us are HERE. Yeah, it’s sad to leave a place you grew up in, but again, history is full of people who did just that. Most times, the places they moved to, benefited. Loads of people left their parents on the east coast to move west. If your extended family loves you enough, they don’t care that you’re moving away if you’re doing it for the benefit of your close family, wife and kids. What ever happened to the idea of, “I’ll get established and then send for you?” That used to happen all the time.
I’m not trying to come off as callous, only saying, I have family all over this continent, and they went where the work was. That’s just the way it is. The idea you can’t stay in touch with them, especially in this day and age, is ridiculous. My aunt lives in Toronto and I speak to her often. Hell, I SEE her often.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:51 amotconnan, thank you!
That crap about “allowing” Americans to live out the American dream… Yikes. See, his definition of that and mine completely diverge. To him, “allow people to live out the American dream” means “rip the American dream out of the working man’s hand and give it to someone who hasn’t earned it.” Dillwad.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:52 pm