Obama’s Elitist Remarks Burst His MSM Bubble (Re-Post)
By NoQuarter on April 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM in Barack Obama, Pennsylvania
I am re-posting this story on the new server for those who may have missed it during last night’s file transition period.
______________________________
“Is Obama’s Campaign Over?,” asks Powerline’s John H. Hinderaker.
Memeorandum.com lists dozens of news and blog reports (like Hinderaker’s) on Obama’s remarks that label the small-town white voters as “angry” and beset by prejudiced and simplistic views. (It didn’t help that Obama made the remarks in San Francisco, a city seen by “middle” America as too liberal and permissive, and that he spoke to elite, wealthy fundraisers.)
Is his campaign over, or is this one more devastating chink in his armor? Check out today’s Lou Dobbs show on CNN. Dobbs’ program posted an online poll for his listeners: “Do you believe that Senator Barack Obama’s comments reveal his elitist attitude toward every hardworking American?”
Here’s what gets at me: Obama has LABELED white voters — even though labeling is the very thing has historically embittered blacks about whites. Obama further labeled these white voters as so “bitter” that “they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment.”
In short: “Typical white people” in small towns, he’s indicating, are basically racists who blame their problems on “people who aren’t like them” (and that’d be who, I wonder) or “immigrants” (and that’s code for brown-skinned people). And that, he believes that politicians win elections in small towns by appealing to their prejudices and their one-issue voting patterns.
Further, he charges that these white voters are so simple-minded that they can be swayed by a single issue like gun rights or religious persuasion.
Speaking of “bitterness” and religious persuasion, how about that of Rev. James Meeks, one of Obama’s close spiritual advisers and, astonishingly, an Illinois state senator — a homophobe who believes the word “n—-r” is a term of endearment.
:::::::::::::
There are a couple additional observations I have about Barack Obama’s remarks in San Francisco:
(1) He is unconsciously expressing his anger with what he perceives to be the simple-minded prejudices of most white voters in small towns. To date, he’s been pretty adept at concealing any resentments towards white voters, while his wife Michelle has not. But his facade is slipping, and his real resentments are coming out.
(2) He was making excuses to those wealthy donors who were asking him why he can’t win Pennsylvania. And the excuse he gave them was that he has an uphill climb because, he believes, they are unable to see his qualities beyond the color of his skin or his liberal voting record on gun control or his longtime associations with radical, racist ministers like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Rev. Meeks.
Well, his expressions of anger, and his excuse-making to his rich supporters, are biting him hard. The fall-out from these remarks has just begun. The Republican attack machine is in full force. Notes Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post about the story getting out, followed by John McCain’s attacks and then Obama’s attempts to explain away his remarks:
The whirlwind pace from revelation to recrimination to rebuttal reveals just what Obama must be ready for if he becomes the Democratic nominee.
Republicans are certain to use comments like this one to paint Obama as an out-of-step liberal beholden to the wants and needs of voters on the two coasts. It’s a blueprint Republicans followed to perfection during the 2004 campaign against Sen. John Kerry — effectively portraying the Massachusetts senator as an elitist without interest in or regard for the average voter in fly-over country.
I am not surprised Obama said what he said. He was Wright’s apprentice. There’s a pattern here on how he feels.
I am with you on that bud. Obama is a true believer despite the constant lies that come out of his pretty mouth.
In the spirit of internet confession…..I am the illegitimate offspring of Rev. Wright and a typical white woman who shall remain nameless because she is responsible for the corrupting influence that overcame my dad during a dinner given by Rezko at a secret enclave of liberal elites who are currently trying to take over the universe. My daddy does hate white people….Well he hates most people unless they are giving lots of money to his church. I do not get a room in his new gated community mansion….I don’t get invited to family vacations either….I feel so much better now…..Unified….A lightness of being…..
Maybe you should hang yourself and save us the CO2 output. . .
Here’s how he feels in his own words. This is a new youtube posting of Obama reading his own book segments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77cU3jsFs&eurl=http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/04/follow-money-snob-gate.html
There was link from this blog to a Guardian article after the Wright story broke. They interviewed 3 people in Philadelphia and all of them came up with the same question.
How much of Wright’s stuff does Obama believe? Apparently quite a bit.
Obama has LABELED white voters
So do others who are paying attention. Should we start digging up quotes from Bill and Hillary about blue collar, single issue voters?
you must be very busy helping Obama deflect his mistakes these days? might be easier to tell your hero to stay hush. I more I know him, the less I like him.
*the
Pennsylvania voters will be loud and angry. There should be some expected backlash in North Carolina. On top of that, Indiana won’t take too kindly to some of the words spoken to a rich audience in San Francisco about hard working people who go to work, do their jobs, pay their bills and just try to hold on to their houses.
This is a huge, huge mistake. He can’t distance himself from himself.
Hey Cee,
Do this uneducated, apathetic, bible thumping, bitter, gun slingin, ignorant small town American a quick favor and run right quick over to yer hero Obama with this here message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eDkAG3R0h8&feature=related
And while your at it you might want to mention that the same folk that live in these small towns have other comments to make, but I’ll leave it to The New York Times to make the recommendation.
Identity Politics We so want to link to a video out now that turns the label of MSM (mainstream media) on its head to Mysognistic Sexist Media, if only because once you hear again Michelle Branch’s song you can’t get it out of your head. (That’s known as an earworm.) But we can’t repeat it all here because of language issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdnlNZg2iM
And BTW This dumb little Hooiser girl without a lick of experience or a pot to piss in went and made this here with just a friend all by them their selves
So you tell your American Idol he done best watch his mouth. This small town girl just might be telling him to Shut the Freud Up next.
you are SOOO cool. I want to be just like you when I grow up.
But wait … what happened to HOPE and ch-ch-change?
You go out there and look to see if you can find something out of Bill Clinton’s mouth that is this condescending … Bill Clinton IS one of the people Barack categorized!
CEE-
I find it so clever that you and other Obama followers all over the web have taken the name of Hussein in solidarity with THE ONE.
Kind of like Black Panthers who took the name X.
Is that where Barack the Hawaiian child learned words like bamboozled and hoodwinked and okey doke?
You all are so clever,
… Obama’s remarks that label the small-town white voters as “angry” and beset by prejudiced and simplistic views.
I could say the same about Wright and Farrakhan. I don’t think Obama’s like to hear that, though.
I believe #2 above is correct - I think he is trying to explain away what may be a very significant loss for him in PA ahead of time to keep the $$ rolling in…
what does he care if he offends the people in rural PA? - he can’t get their votes anyway… I do wonder if it will hurt in in Montana and South Dakota though…
Leave it to the Democrats to snatch defeat from victory.
Just like in Iraq. . .
Obama’s statements essentially state the same kind of specious logic of saying that people deal drugs because the only jobs available in their community are at McDonalds.
He just issued an apology statement to some press in Winston/Salem NC. Didn’t catch the exact wording. It was on CNN’s Ballot Bowl.
That just nice apology. I don’t remember the exact words but this is basically what he said “..If I worded it in such a way that offend someone, I apologize…”
First he tried to explain it. Then he said he erred. Now he gave sort of an apology statement.
It will be Obama’s KaKa moment.
Yes, it will be Obamam’s KaKa moment because out of the overflow of a person’s heart their mouth speaks.
An apology may be what some want to hear, but they should realize that HIS truth spilled out of his mouth from his heart when he made those remarks.
“..If I worded it in such a way that offend someone, I apologize…”
“I’m sorry you got angry when I called you fat.”
Exactly, Janis.
Janis my sister and I are on opposite coasts and we both love your remarks. Gives us something to talk about other than the sexism of the
media.
This is a snip from a blog. I like this para.
“At times, we have remarked that Obama only really performs well with a script. Once he has to speak extemporaneously, not only does he fare worse as an orator, but he tends to get lost and make unforced errors. It’s hard to imagine one worse than this. It’s all the worse because it’s not a gaffe in the normal sense, but a revealing moment that shows how Obama really views Americans. With this statement, it’s not hard to understand why he sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and heard nothing that moved him to dissent.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/11/this-is-why-rookies-shouldnt-run-for-president/
OT MESSAGE TO THE GANG: Erase your browser cache in the next few days / it’ll ensure (hopefully) that you see the latest posts here while we undergo the server transition. Thanks!
We are also preparing to re-post any stories that got lost in transition.
SusanUnPc NQ CIO. Outstanding work.
–Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The best landings are the ones you walk away from.
Obama takes a break from his ‘vanian tour to touch base with his small donors:
Obama Visits Billionaire’s Row
LOL. I can see it coming already. “Grassroot Gate”
I think “Snobgate” is being passed around fairly often too. Whatever ya call it, it was a stupid thing for a politician to say. This arrogant twerp seems to believe that just because he is a “media darling” that he can stick his foot in his mouth with boring regularity and get away with it. His foot in his mouth always ends up to be Hillary’s fault. How are she point out what he just said. How kitchen sink of her! (faux outrage by fauxgressives follows)
We’ll see if he gets a pass on this too. God knows the Democrats don’t need some pinhead proving that old Republican canard about “elitist liberals”. Except it appears that some liberals are elitist. Add that to sexist and it ain’t a pretty picture. Even “Teflon” wears off in time.
I like “BitterGate”
anything with “-gate” at the end of it is annoying. It is all a call back to the halcyon days of Nixon. It isindicative of a lack of verbosity and an inability to come up with any new term for any kind of scandal.
ebonyscrews;
Obama holds four events, netting 3 mil., while doing a bad imitation of the “Rumsfield screwdriver” skit.
All the way from them golden hills of California, halfway cross the country,(there’s gold in them there hills) he behaves like a flamethrowing troll. Angry am I, ya say BO?
I don’t need a telescope to see ya there, shaking down the “rich” at the same time your shaking up almost everybody else. Obama, listen up foo!
Gangster’s Paradise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6voHeEa3ig
(dedicated to the 313)Coolio
Who has Obama NOT offended? It’s getting to be like standing in Times Square and watching the ticker babble utterances of deprved brilliancies.
Obama is exploiting as many of the divisive lines in American life that he can think of, without thinking.
Must be a Zen thing.
Hell yeah! Clinton and her team are all over Obama’s ridiculous put-down of small-town America in today’s North Carolina rallies:
http://www.villarrealsports.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=361
If we Dems are dumb enough to nominate this guy, we deserve the electoral beatdown we will receive.
The GOP has to be thinking that they don’t need to buy any bullets for their attacks to come because Obama is giving them all the ammunition they will ever need.
One word: “Rookie.”
What Obama said basically devalues Americans who work hard, live in small towns, like to hunt and heavens….go to church.
All Hillary should say is that she values all Americans and will work to represents them each and everyone of us everyday.
That would be unity.
Barack Obama is seriously out of touch.
John Edwards spoke eloquently about 2 Americas not about black and white but rather rich and poor. In public Obama speeches talk of one America but when speaking in private sessions to his wealthy contributors he talks with contempt of less fortunate Americans. Liberal hate by looking down or not feeling they are as worthy because they don’t share your thoughts or values is the same as the right wing hate we all find repulsive. Obama with his talk and actions is doing as much to divide this country as anything coming out of the religous right.
Hillary shares Edwards feeling of a divided society by economic wealth and they both feel fortunate to have acquired that wealth. Obama on the other hand has come from a privilaged background and shows nothing but contempt for people of lesser circumstances.
Yeah, but check out the CNN Lou Dobbs poll. Half the people responding say his comments do not reflect an elitist attitude.
Those are Obama’s supporters voting as fast as their little fingers can type.
They see this slip sliding away.
Forty-four people died on September 11, 2001 as United Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, PA. We’ve already heard from Reverand Wright about his thoughts and feelings about 911. What Senator Obama’s feelings are, we don’t know. The more I reflect on his comments about the good people of Pennsylvania, the more disgusted I become. (Talk about your irony … that flight was headed to San Francisco for a continuing flight to Tokyo …). So I guess I see Pennsylvania as a place where heroes roamed. And where men and women work hard to keep the American dream alive for themselves and their children.
BO has a very limited and cynical view of Americans. For someone as young and privileged as he and his wife have been, they have a narrow and distorted — almost myopic — view of who Americans are. They haven’t ever volunteered much of their wealth or time (that I can see) to causes larger than themselves. They bitch about the expenses of repaying college loans, paying for piano lessons, summer camp, and live in a mansion in Chicago.
He is like a gored bull. He is so injured and damaged as a human being that he is only good at pointing out the damage in others. The closer we get to November, the more apparent his incomplete personality becomes.
I really really worry about an America that would have him as a leader.
Are you really this stupid or just incredibly disingenuous?
Quoting fucking Hinderaker???? You certainly are without shame.
Better than quoting Jack Cafferty who made the leap from American unemployed to al Qaeda …
“The people are frustrated. The people have no economic opportunity. What happens to folks like that in the Middle East, you ask? Well, take a look. They go to places like al Qaeda training camps.”
There’s a sound BITE for the Republicans!
The 9-1-1 high jackers were college students. Those in Australia were doctors.
Hardly the salt of the earth.
nice try.
Note the failure of Larry to link to Obama’s response in Terre Haute. Powerlineblog, Instapundit, Taylor Marsh and Hugh Hewitt ALSO did not link to it. Why?
Because it DEVASTATES both Hillary and McCain!
But all of us have seen it elsewhere B-lob and it isn’t at all “Devastating,” as a matter of fact, he’s come out with a new new statement that says, “if you were offended, then, hey, I’m sorry,” rather than just plain “I had no idea that anyone was taping anything that I said so I am really really sorry that you heard what I said.” That would be the “honest” Barry that all of you speak so highly of!
“it isn’t at all ‘Devastating’”
SURE it isn’t! Which is why Larry the Hill-shill did NOT link to it! It was so BAD for Obama, that Larry felt sorry for him and did not include it . . . uh huh!
Let’s get real: there IS a lot of bitterness out there in the heartland. And in the inner cities and the suburbs, too. We just had the lowest consumer confidence numbers in 26 years reported yesterday. THAT is what he is talking about!
I expect that even the Bill Kristol’s of the world will acknowledge that Obama is right at pointing out the anxiety. Did he say this as cleanly as you would like? Hell, no! But what he said is true: his race is not necessarily the reason he will not get rural votes.
You don’t spit on the working class, expect them to wipe it off their faces and vote for you.
He talked about them in front of a group of millionaire supporters like they were Exhibit “A.” And trust me, that’s what rankles. Like they’re trash to him and his “entitled” wife.
You wouldn’t be here trolling for his defense team if your spleen hadn’t exploded when you grasped the significance of this statement. He is damaged beyond repair.
pointing out the anxiety you mean to say feeding on it like a Wraith.
Wraith are the original antagonistic alien species…Wraith “feed” by “sucking” the life-force from a human being and are ageless. wiki
If Norquist and Rollins agree on it, it should tell you something. Hey Big O, you got anymore red meatyou want to throw out there? Or are you smokin’ the rest?
Grover Norquist:
‘That sentence will lose him the election,’ Norquist told ABC News. ‘He just announced to rural America: ‘I don’t like you.’” [abcnews.com, 4/11/08]
Republican strategist Ed Rollins: Q: “On a scale of 1 to 10 how damaging is this?” Rollins: ‘Ten.’ [CNN, Lou Dobbs, 4/11/08
WHAT RESPONSE? It was nothing but the same, old bullshit.
Senator “I voted NO on the 30% credit card/interest cap” Obama has some fricking nerve. Does he think that ALL Americans are stupid or is he just hoping that his “immaculate CON job” will carry him through the day?
Ask the Maytag factory workers what happens when you place your trust in Obama. Ask Alice Palmer. He’s a fraud. He’s a phony. He’s a liar. Now, THAT’s devastating.
He disgusts me. Obama’s audacity is mind-boggling.
I want the Clinton campaign to pull out all of the stops on this one. Enough of this bullshit. Time to call in the union reps that “outted” Obama’s con regarding the Maytag factory workers.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…this man is an IMPOSTER. He is NOT who he professes to be.
I want the Clinton campaign to pull out all of the stops on this one.
They are. I’m seeing it happen before my eyes. They played easy for a bit, even about Wright. Hillary was leaped on as a horrible bitch for even TALKING about it — and now she’s being taped, giving speeches that explicitly reference Obama’s foot-in-mouth-disease … The gloves are off, and I for one think it’s about time.
Woo hoo! You know what they say about karma…
Thanks for the update!
Fooj
You are right he is not who he says he is. He and his wife have made it clear they are RACISTS. There I said it and I am glad.
Not hardly B-rob. In fact it was so UN-devastating he later issued a really lame apology press release.
Out of touch and cowardly.
Clearly, Obama thought he was among friends when he made those remarks, and that indicates who he considers his cohort.
He was talking about those on the outside of his campaign–the working class–in PA to his REAL audience–the moneyed-class, in CA. One can’t imagine Obama’s conversation happening the other way around.
Reminds me of Marie Antoinette dressing up in peasant clothing and pretending to milk cows, just for fun.
“Reminds me of Marie Antoinette dressing up in peasant clothing and pretending to milk cows, just for fun.”
Yeah . . . like the $109 million woman calling someone else elitist!
Do you have a problem with Hillary and Bill Clinton earning a living after his White House years? Did you miss the publication of their books? Do you never see that he is paid to speak to audiences.
But did you notice how generous they are to charities? And, they paid their taxes. No tax shelters … nada. BO bitched and bitched. Tax returns for six years …. NOT ONE THING WRONG WITH THEM.
Go back to Huffington Post where you can all join hands and pray with Reverand Wright that this will go away!
Yes, beebop! FWIW- Clinton gave 10%/income to charity…Obama gave 1%…
IMO, that says it all.
Not to mention that they only paid their full-time, live-in, Hispanic nanny $6,000 per year.
I guess they thought a Black live-in nanny would cost too much.
Seriously? 6K/yr. for a LIVE-IN NANNY? Holy crap! That’s $500 a month.
Unfrickingbelievable.
I personally like all of the money she got from Merck and Halliburton before she sold the stock.
Ted Kennedy has way more than that and all he had to do was sit on his fat ass and drink and inherit.
Listen, we can’t help it if Hillary and/or Bill’s experience and time is worth more on the market than Barry Obama’s time.
Frankly I am always amazed when somebody bashes Bill Clinton’s Presidency. Either prosperity bothered them at the time or they were too young to notice.
If you read the rest of the statement — he says he’s telling the voters that he for Health care for all, taxing the upper 1%, and tax breaks for the middle class — but the way he says this to the millionaires it is as if he is telling the Canadians — don’t listen to what Obama says to the voters about NAFTA — that doesn’t count — I’m just saying what the voters WANT to hear to get the votes.
This little section of the Obama foot and mouth was pointed out by someone on Taylor Marsh and I’ve been thinking about the implications of his little speech to the NOB Hill bunch — and there is much more to what Obama said besides the insult to Pennsylvania rural/small towns.
He will say what ever the voters want to say — his REAL constituents are the the upper 1% — just like bush said at one point — his constituents are the really really rich folks.
So basically we have NO idea what Obama really has planned — and I don’t think his handlers know either. They THINK he will be easy to manage. But will he be??
We just don’t know who the hell he is. We don’t know much about his years at Columbia or his foreign travel — that we’ve just recently learned about.
I prefer Hillary — because we KNOW her!
‘He will say what ever the voters want to say’.
Like Wild Hillary Hickok’s duck shooting days as a youngster?
Doing shots of whiskey telling all those Hill Hickok shooting stories???
Egads talk about ’say what ever’…
Gotta love it..
Yes and I have heard him say he is going to save people $2500 a year on health insurance. This is a CLASSIC example of how out of touch with reality he really is. Where I am, you can’t get the cheapest Single Pay HMO for less than $850 a month–for ONE person. A family is more than twice that. So that $2500 means NOTHING. I can assure you that a family that can’t afford a single pay policy now won’t be able to afford it after Barry is done either.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BwG4BlK8w_Y
CNN ridicules Hillary and Obama’s “elitism”.
Jack Cafferty equated unemployed Americans with middle easterners joining al Qeada …. is that really the group you think will help Obama? They have been in the tank for him from the beginning. They road this horse this far ….
Were those three laughable? Pathetic really.
You mean Jack “I ran a cyclist over and drove away” Cafferty?
So what if CNN had a panel. Have you heard Appeal to Authority fallacy?
Oh yeah, we will click on that, because we don’t think CNN blows Barry or anything.
I’m sure that Small Town America forgives Barry because CNN wants them too. The fact is, Hillary didn’t insult and degrade them, Obama did. Barack Obama is toast.
And just think, there is still more time for him to open his stupid mouth some more before this is over. I hear a giant sucking sound of superdelegates. The DNC is polling even as we speak.
I hear the Ayers problem is about to visit Barry a bit more loudly than it has in the past. Barry’s free pass is over.
I don’t know one single Jew, Italian Senior or White Woman over 40 who would vote for Barack Obama if you put a gun in their mouths. But he will always have the Obama Girl and college kids to vote for him. If they remember.
Well, maybe O’Barry can give a big speech on class-prejudice now. He can talk about his grandparents in their high-rise in Honolulu, and how they looked down on the little people below, and how embarrassed he was.
Yeah, that’s the ticket! His grandparents did it!
I listened to Roland Martin last night say Barry has got to tell America that “Look! My mother died at an early age and I had to go live with some grandparents”. Think that will fly?
Just out–Hillary’s supporters waving “I’m not bitter” signs in NC!
Mr Hope is just a Dope.
http://tinyurl.com/3hhcey
Go Hillary!
That’s a riot !! Thanks for the link Mary Jo K.
He’s not a dope. He’s a narcissist. He doesn’t like anybody but himself and believes we should all feel the same. He’s classic.
Yep. It’s gotta be ALL ABOUT OBAMA. He’s nothing but a self-serving blowhard.
love that rhyme!
Second verse….
Mr. Hope thinks you’re a Dope!
ROFL!
As a Pennsylvanian, I am getting “bitter” about a certain someone’s attitude. Not mentioning names Sen. Obama, but I do have to question someone’s judgement in how he views me and my neighbors. His arrogance is showing. And what is with that pose he is always doing? It looks like the prototypical “dictator pose” that we have come to see and love in those two bit banana republics. I love the Caca moment!
Bad economic policies effect people who make less than 60k a year the most. Is it any wonder then that in our current time of economic duress these voters won’t support a candidate who is so vague on policy matters?
Is it a mystery Obamabits can’t unravel that unemployment rates in PA were cut in half during the Clinton presidency?
It’s no big enigma, and Obama doesn’t need to call voters racists and ignorant to explain what is just plain common sense.
B-robamabit –are you mad at the Clintons for being multi-millionaires while Obama doesn’t have quite as many millions?
To be sure, he must watch every penny of his million. The Clinton’s can afford to give 10% of their income to charity after all…Obama can only give 1% poor, destitute thing.
CDO
Ignorance of the facts does not entitle you to nastiness.
The Clinton’s transferred 10% of their earnings to a Clinton Family Trust Fund. This is a popular way of avoiding paying taxes.
It DOES NOT MEAN they DISBURSED 10% OF THEIR EARNINGS TO CHARITY.
If fact, if you bother to find out, they have only began disbursing a PORTION, ABOUT 3% after she declared running for president.
By the way, we don’t know how much of their income the Clinton’s gave to charity when they were at the same age, and in the same income bracket,as the Obamas.
Thanks for posting a reality check.
Everybody was salivating at the generosity of the Clintons, but they overlooked a slight detail:
the money went to a charitable trust, and dedicated from IT, but not disbursed. Apparently less than 3% was given out to charity.
Facts….
We no longer need stinking facts here you stinking Kool-aide drinking Obamamaniac hopeswilling foo….
Come on now. get with the NQ m.o.!
Yep, we are really bothering you Zoids, aren’t we? I remember when none of you came to NQ. You were all too busy being smug little shits. We were “irrelevant”. Now, you need to come here because…well….ooops, Baby Jesus isn’t looking too well.
Truly, a McGovern moment.
Read this from The Swamp on Obama having to eat his words (and they’re bitter!)
http://tinyurl.com/5znf7s
Think before you speak, Grasshopper!
But Master Po!
“Grasshopper, a man may tell himself many things. But is a man’s universe made only of himself?”
— Master Po
Who cares that the Clintons make millions, it matters what you do with it. They don’t hoard their money. So, if you are a multi millionaire you cannot help your fellow man or even care? Absurd. Mr. Obama is playing with fire and he’s beginning to get burned, the arrogance to keep plugging away using elitist statments is amazing though. It shows that HE believes that he can keep talking this way b/c the die is already cast in his favor.
God works in mysterious ways.