Barack’s True Beliefs: Those to Which He “Clings” and “Clings” and “Clings”
By MBolack and SusanUnPC on April 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM in Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Qualifications, Race, Race Card
Barack Obama outdid himself this week, didn’t he? He revealed something about his true feelings about the working-class masses whose votes he desperately needs, and perhaps his take on that higher plane he believes he occupies. But this isn’t an isolated incident, and it isn’t the first time we’ve been reminded that Barack Obama considers himself to be superior to the rest of us.
Let me remind you of a few other times.
November, 2007
“The nice thing about my candidacy is I don’t have to apologize for a lot of mistakes,” said Obama.
— Left Coaster
November 2007
“But they also, surprisingly enough, even in rural Iowa, recognize the opportunity to send a signal to the world that, you know, we are not as ingrown, as parochial as you may perceive.”
— Taylor Marsh and ABC News
November 2007
“One of the great pleasures of running for president is to go to some tiny town in Iowa and you’ve got some guy in overalls and a seahat to say what do you think about the situation in Burma, and you’re thinking that he’s going to ask you about corn, and he asks you about Burma”
— ABC News and Alegre’s MyDD diary
April, 2007
When Morgan Freeman comes over to greet Obama, the senator begins bowing down both hands in worship. “This guy was president before I was,” says Obama, referring to Freeman’s turn in Deep Impact and, clearly, getting a little ahead of his own bio. Next, a nod to Bruce Almighty: “This guy was God before I was.”
— Time’s Swampland blog
February 2008
“I am confident I will get her votes if I’m the nominee,” Obama stressed. “It’s not clear she would get the votes I got if she were the nominee.”
— MSNBC
March, 2008
The Trouble With Obama’s Arrogance
The freshman senator told reporters in July that he would overcome Senator Clinton’s lead in the polls because “to know me is to love me.” …
A few months later, he said, “Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama’s been there.” … My goodness, he is even talking in the third person!
— N.Y. Sun
April, 2008
Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he’s looking for in a running mate. “I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I’m not as expert on,” he said, and then he was off and running. “I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area–foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain.”
— Huffington Post
And, of course, there are the arrogant, elitist remarks reported last week, and hashed over ever since. I won’t repeat them here. But I do have one question to ask. Am I the only person who thought that earlier remarks in the same speech were also insulting? See what you think.
“Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laughter), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).”
Am I the only person out here in the real world who resents being lumped in with a world of people who would be automatically skeptical because he’s black? Seems to me it is pretty arrogant to make that assumption, and a bit racist, don’t you think? I don’t believe the masses are racist.
On April 14, 2008, Rasmussen Reports made it very clear that the majority of the American public disagreed with Obama’s statements.
New polling data released this morning shows that 56% of voters nationwide disagree with Obama’s controversial comment that people in small towns “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.” (Rasmussen Reports)
And yet, that day, Obama brushed off the controversy.
According to the LA Times, “Democrat Barack Obama today defended his record of understanding working-class Americans, disparaging the “fake controversies” fanned by his political rivals to suggest that he was an elitist.” (Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times and L.A. Times)
Doesn’t that strike you as monumentally arrogant? You, Barack, were in essence telling 56% of the voting public that they are wrong… that they’re so ignorant that they’re being fooled into your opponents’ point of view.
Sorry, Barack… I think you put your foot in the compost again.
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SusanUnPC’s Afterword: If you missed it, be sure to catch MBolack’s important article that was linked nationwide, including at the New York Times: “Barack “I-didn’t-know” Obama.”
If every voter could read MBolack’s work, our election worries would be over.
ROFL!
In the spirit of internet confessions…..I am Barack Obama….and I approve this message.
In the interests of fairness–has Clinton made similar remarks that could be compiled.
Has she stated such egomaniacal things?
The true beliefs of Hillary.
One-degree of separation: Obama toasted Auchi at Rezko’s house
Of course, the quote is, apparently, not remembered like that by others who heard it.
In any case, note one critical difference: whatever may be true of the quote, there is not one ounce of condescension in it. It’s pure anger, pure tit-for-tat, with no disrespect to the basic beliefs or lives of those voters.
In fact, I’d think that many down-to-earth voters might appreciate the unfiltered anger rather than some processed, euphemized, patronizing utterance.
“According to the LA Times, “Democrat Barack Obama today defended his record of understanding working-class Americans, disparaging the “fake controversies” fanned by his political rivals to suggest that he was an elitist.” (Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times and L.A. Times)
Doesn’t that strike you as monumentally arrogant? You, Barack, were in essence telling 56% of the voting public that they are wrong… that they’re so ignorant that they’re being fooled into your opponents’ point of view.”
Give me a break…
Aside from the fact that Bill made statements during both of his campaigns that were similar if not almost exactly the same as Obama’s “bitter” comment… there’s this gem:
In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.
“Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”
The statement — which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, “The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House” — was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching “Reagan Democrats.”
But of course, that doesn’t matter… that was long ago and old news - as commentors here have repeatedly said.
Ya can’t have it both ways… and regardless what some commentors have said, neither Obama or Bill were being condescending when they talked about isolated, angry and bitter voters.
Granted, Bill said it better - but it’s the same dang thing. And the fact that you guys keep hammering away at this and other peripheral and artificially sustained things is very telling.
How come Hillary doesn’t appear to be (ARG poll aside) maintaining, let alone growing a double digit lead in PA??? She’s the better candidate right? This should’ve sealed the deal and brought about a massive shift in momentum… what happened? And please, don’t say it’s the media’s fault.
When’s your next Pakistan trip.
Oh here we go again. Obama can do no wrong. As soon as he does or says something undeniably offensive (Wright, Bittergate), the Obamabots have to find a way to make it about Hillary. Let’s find some unsubstantiated quote or incident from 13 years ago! Yea, that will somehow make Obama more appealing. In your dreams. Go drink another jug of Kool Aid, we’re not buyin’ it.
That’s all these trolls have ARKANSAS PROJECT OLD SHIT…
That sounds highly unlikely.
Bill is a common as muck southerner himself.
So is carville.
hahahahahahahahahahahhahaha Oh. Oh. Oh goodness ….. goodness. Thank you. No really …. That felt sooooo good. Huffington Post. hahahahahahaha …… Phew! Next it will be, what? ….. ????? Daily Kos …… please ….. don’t …… giggle giggle giggle …..
Come on Cee Cee, the Huffington Post?
In Obama’s complete statement in San Francisco, he was trying to explain why he wasn’t winning in Pennsylvania. In that complete statement, he pulled the race card twice.
1. and when they hear a pitch that is
premised on not being cynical about
government, then a part of them just
doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered
by …a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama
2. antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment
Race is Obama’s excuse for his short-comings and/or failures.
He is so arrogant, he cannot believe that we just don’t like him–not because of his race but because of his attitude
and lack of realness. That is a bad word. I want to say lack of what Hillary has. She comforts, he disrupts and divides. She lifts, he depresses.
Alright, I know I’m a hick from Colorado (via Montana), but what the hell is a “seahat”? I’ve lived in farming communities and on farms all my life and I’ve never heard of one. Farmers here wear ball caps. I googled it and got some creature from a vidoe game (Zelda).
Did he mean cowboy hat? Most farmers rarely wear those either. We do not call them c-hats either.
I know this is a picky thing to stress, but he has not got a clue if he can’t even get that right.
I hated to admit it when I saw that quote the first time, but I have no idea what that is either.
I think he means a hat made of grass like the Indonesians make. I think he misses Indonesia. Think we could ship him back?
I think he meant a hat that you wear at sea. Apparently, he’s confused between land and sea.
Remember MO said something like: you hug your stereotypes as a way to justify your ignorance.
From Hero Games Discussion Board
Seahat
An aquatic cousin of the Peahat, the large Seahat creatures are found in clusters throughout the Great Sea. They fly around, and then make straight dives at your boat. As long as you’re moving, it’s hard for a Seahat to hit you. For their size, they’re surprisingly vulnerable to arrows and your boomerang.
Well, if a farmer has one of those on his head, I’ll bet he is not at all concerned about Burma right then.
HAHAHAHAHA.
I saw one of those once…..They look like that big ONION OBAMESSIAH had on his head in a photo a while back…
“SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH BEING AN ELITIST?”
Getting elected president is impossible?
Ask George McGovern and Mike Dukakis.
Oh and Gene McCarthy.
And Kerry.
Ted Kennedy anyone?
Good Stuff..I agree Susan..You got folks that do thier Homework..and those that don’t..
Oh Well..Right…The guy will just have his Hands on the “Football” if he gets elected…I wonder how many like Him cuz He”s Cute..How many think he is funny..How many think Its just gonna be Fried Chicken , Mashed potatos and gravy ..if Obama gets elected…?? How many think He is “Cool”..?
How many can’t wait to stand in Line for hand outs..
or for a sweaty Scarf from the new “KING”..
Isn’t Media Hype something…Money can buy anything in America…it can even BUY AMERICA…
Well..The MSM isn’t doing thier Job on behalf of any searcvh for Truth or Investigative reporting…Those Idiots all think they are “Celebritys” now..and you can see thier fat heads expanding ever time they think they have said something Cute or Enlightening..Notice how they smirk..and look at themselfs in the Monitors..?? ..and we can only wonder about tonights debates..Wonder if George has any Guts..??..or if He is just another “Pretty face’..??
So now, you just gotta admit you drank, did Drugs, went to Harvard, and say Americans full of Bitter People clinging to guns,to run for President.. and hoping Obama will get elected because he is the New Age, New Wave, New Politician Messiah..who is going to be the New Commander in Chef, The new Cook in the Kitchen, who is gonna Mix all the igredients together and Whip Up a NEW AMERICAN PIE..and Paint Uncle sam a different Color.. I’m suprised he isn’t doing a dance routine to go along with the rest of his Act…The Ultimate Rainbow..for Obama and His RED SLIPPERS..to fly over…
The Big Phony..
Arugula salad anyone?
Obama’s word salad is growing like a weed!
Bite me ‘net roots. }:>
His arugula comment was something else alright.
(True confession: I love arugula. Love it. When I can find it, which is hard in the rural area where I live. However, some of the local organic farmers grow it, seasonally, and one local organic farmer makes a super green salad mix with lettuces, kale, etc. Now I sound like an elitist! Actually, if I buy it directly from the organic farmer’s little store, it’s cheaper than iceberg lettuce at Safeway. I digress.)
The thing is, arugula were the greens of necessity for Italian peasants for centuries. It is so easy to grow it would choke an Obamazoid’s mary jane plants in just a few weeks. It is considered one step above dandelions. All these snobs did was raise the price of cheap greens by noticing them.
Arugula…….now that’s bitter.
I was a Goddess before either Morgan Freeman or Obama were. I had a seahat, too.
Was your seahat friendly?
NO. But I did not wear it on my head either. It was trained to dive bomb false Messiahs and the Precious.
Oh it was a GOOD seahat then!
“Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”
Jonah 2:7-9
It’s not the “bitter,” it’s the “cling to.”
To answer the question you propose about his “other” arrogance, yes I am very offended by his statements. I have found this arrogant punk of a man to be someone that thinks he is the absolute best thing created in the history of the universe. He is so completely out of touch with reality that he should probably seek psychiatric help. I’m not so sure similar help would be of any benefit to his wife.
Yeah….That chip on her shoulder is permanent…..and obvious…
She’s a really mean woman, you can tell.
Yeah…She looks like she’d just feel better if she killed about 15 people…..even when she’s smiling…I want to say…Girl take that VALIUM…Double up…
You know. It really bothers me when she bitches and moans about having to pay off her school loans. I did too. It took me ten years and I had a hell of a lot less money than they do.
Why? Just because she’s “bitter”?
Can we please revive this other comment from the famous SF fundraiser:
Bittergate gives that gem just a whole new glow.
Flea, I’m afraid he’d try to out analyze the shrink.
I saw a very funny quote today in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette:
“This is what Democrats get if they choose an inexperienced faculty-lounge lizard as their presidential candidate. People tend to assume that a black candidate has a lot of street sense, but Obama increasingly comes off as a classic Ivy League brainiac too impressed by his own SAT scores to change a tire without delivering an oration on the economics of rubber tree cultivation.”
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/222937/
LOL ya’ll R A Hoot!
but do I really have to sit through yet ANOTHER debate tonight?
It’s gut wrenching watching Hillary get all the bad press and stupid innuendos thrown her way all the time. Watching them makes me want to go punch a bunch of pasty faced balding dudes with big butts.
And then take away their mics.
She can handle them. She understands it’s all about the threat to their penises in their little minds.
Sad to say they are already spewing their “poll” where they oversampled certain groups again. There was no explanation of course when they shared their slanted findings!
So what are everyone’s thoughts about the constant chatter and polls today that suggest Bittergate has not hurt the Prince and Hill’s favorability ranking has actually gotten worse? How can he be such a total jerk and people still want to vote for this non-person with a lousy attitude? I just-do-not-get-it.
Attempts by the msm to adjust THE RIGGING OF THIS ELECTION IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN FRONT OF GOD AND EVERYBODY…Thanks ….Needed that…
I don’t believe polls anymore. Not after NH’s primary.
And I don’t think it’s been long enough since Barry’s latest foot in mouth problem.
The electorate as a whole is a slower wheel to turn, just noticing.
Some of us knew Iraq would turn into a mess long before MOST of the Country did…….. slowwwwww easy to be manipulated. Busy people.
Phoned PPP and Gallup and asked who commissioned their polls and refusal to answer from them!
The only poll that has held itself during the season has been SUSA poll has been within 1% of results in each Primary results!
And these polls are the cheapy ones that are going up, today, which have been so far off base the entire race, including the ABC poll out today, ABC’s poll has been one of the worse the entire race!
And the “quinnepeg” or however you spell it poll on CNN is a CNN poll. It’s all magic.
Pollster Dates Clinton Obama Undecided
PPP (D) 4/14-15/08 42 45 13
Rasmussen 4/14/08 50 41 9
SurveyUSA 4/12-14/08 54 40 3
Times/Blg 4/10-14/08 46 41 12
ARG 4/11-13/08 57 37 4
Quinnipiac 4/9-13/08 50 44 6
Any poll with an undecided over 5% is a automated phone useless poll and a poll with over 10% is a completely unreliable poll!
Former friend worked for a polling company, the cheapest polls are the ones that rely only on phone questions and pressing buttons by the phone answerer, so even kids can be the respondants!
Don’t look for true poll results from ABC, NBC, CNN, etc. These stations are owned as well as many radio stations by GE who has a very big stockholder, The Bin Laden Family.
It reminds me of Ohio. Why Obama was GAINING on Clinton! Why now they are neck and neck! In fact, one of ‘our’ polls even suggests he’s aheaddddddd. OOOOOOOOOOOh Raaahhhhhhhh. The rest is history. Hillary is going to kick his butt into the next state in PA. Don’t let them bother you.
Donna Brazil said today that if Hillary wins PA by 15 she will be the nominee. I don’t trust her. Is it me, or she is saying that if Hillary wins it by less than 15, she lost?!
Try not to isten to Donna The EraserHead….It’ll give you a headache.
I never listen to anything she has to say anymore. She’s Stepfordized. She no longer can be considered a credible objective person. I hope it all works out for her because if it doesn’t, her status is going to be considerably reduced in the party.
Now that sounds like an Obama video to me…
Stepford Obamanites.
And btw, for you youngsters (no offense, just the 57 year old normal white female talking here) I mean the original Stepford movie. You should watch it. You’d immediately see what I mean.
Amanda I bet they are looking at PA as the bomb. PA will tell whether Obama’s foot in mouth disease has hurt him in small town America. Barry’s snapshot, so to speak.
BO’s taxes out ….
Text size – + Obama made $4 million last year
Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor April 16, 2008 06:38 PM
Just hours before tonight’s big Pennsylvania debate, Barack Obama kept his pledge to release his income tax return for 2007.
It shows that he and his wife Michelle earned more than in previous years — more than $4.2 million, with about $261,000 from salaries and the rest from book royalties.
The return also shows that the couple paid nearly $1.4 million in federal taxes and gave about $240,000 to charity.
I guess he’s still not in the elitist class since Hillary and Bill earned more?
And if my math is correct, about 5% to charity.
Boy, if I had 4 mil to live on, I like to think I’d do better than that.
Brazilles kool aide wore off a bit, just watch tonight after the debates when Brazille trashes Hillary again and french kisses Obama’s butt again!
Brazile is an big mouthed idiot. I sure hope it works out like that, but I would not trust anythng that snake says, and I do not believe she really has any intuition about Democratic politics either. She is trying to jinx Hillary by pretending to be on her side.
I used to live in a very small town in Iowa and found that the people were very knowledgeable on international events. They have to be, since their products are exported.
The official name for Obama’s condition is Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
DSM Criteria
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is “special” and unique
requires excessive admiration
4. has a sense of entitlement
5. is interpersonally exploitative
6. lacks empathy
7. is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
8. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
Is this last years DSM…I think in this years they have his photo with the diagnostic criteria……LOL! thanks…
Oh yes, my sister nephew is an MD and he pegged Obama long ago. Definitely a narcissist. That’s why he believes everyone worships him and that nobody could possibly go against him unless there is something “wrong with them”.
Remove the word “sister”. Its my nephew.
Yeah….They are scary people as to them the rest of us are bags o’ flesh that are either useful or in the way….Also chronic liars….
What do you think his wife has? They are a two of a kind, aren’t they?
I’d vote for Antisocial Personality Disorder.
I am surprised this line has not got much play! In another sense, he is always reminding us of how different he is — that his name is funny and he is black — somehow trying to pick on us. I think it is a ploy to make us feel guilty even if we are rejecting him for the right reasons. I think he and Axelrod are masters of manipulation — nothing is WYSWYG.
I think he knew with his thin resume he can never win — so seems to have resorted all kinds of dirty tricks.
I think he means gay since he was talking in San Francisc. Funny though. I kind of think Obama has been toting around some gay hating preachers, so I don’t think he’s got any business dissing the common folk on that one. We are much more tolerant than he or his preacher are.
In BO’s mind: That was then; this is now.
Here is some more of Obama drinking his own bath water:
Obama’s confidence: ‘I’m a pretty darn good politician’
There wasn’t a lot of news in this morning’s installment of what seems to be a national tour of Jewish communities for Obama — he again expressed differences with Carter, and respect for Judaism — but this passage is pretty great.
Obama said that though Dukakis and McGovern were “fine men,” he is a far better candidate…
“And let me make one last point about the comparison to McGovern and Dukakis, both excellent men, but I’m a pretty darn good politician,” he said. “I can give a pretty good speech, and I can connect and inspire the American people in ways that have become apparent. I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t pretty good at mixing it up, and so much of the attack machine that’s been built up is part of the old politics.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Obamas_confidence.html
Oh got he’s still spouting that “I inspire people” shit? How is that helpful to him?
Here is the clinical definition of Narcissism:
Narcissism - Narcissistic Personality Disorder/Traits
What is narcissistic personality disorder or narcissistic personality traits?
Answer:
Diagnostic Criteria according to the American DSM-IV criteria. The European classification (ICD 10 does not define a special narcissistic personality disorder…).
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements, high ego)
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. requires excessive admiration
4. has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favourable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
5. is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
6. lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
7. is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
8. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
I confess the poll thing drives me nuts. I am just way too engaged in this election and not wanting to see Obama win. When I ask myself why I have become such a hard case against him, it comes down to the attitude stuff and making fun of Hillary, talking down to her, being a butt head to her. Trashing WJC’s record—all of that stuff and bottom line he lies and distorts. What we are seeing is the long history of the Democratic party unfold and it reaches way back. May someone save us from ourselves. May it please be Hillary.
What is so difficult to understand. In a meeting where he thought his words would not be made public, Obama confesses that people of faith go to church and CLING to their faith out of bitterness. That is perfectly understandable from his world view. He apparently clings to HIS racist, America hating church because he and Michelle are 2 people bitter as hell.
Simple, that is why they are both arrogant yuppie pricks.
OT but does anybody know anything about the new Huff headline “screw’em”? Background, references or anything?
Not good timing, even if it is just gosssip.
I just posted about the “screw ‘em” story at my blog. Basically, the three sources for the story are less than reliable; two of them are pro-Obama/anti-Hillary zealots and the third is the author of an anti-Clinton book who’s probably seeing dollar-signs right in the new publicity.
Stein either didn’t do the simplest of legwork or he deliberately left some facts out for Obama’s benefit. Either way, his piece is reprehensible.
“But they also, surprisingly enough, even in rural Iowa, recognize the opportunity to send a signal to the world that, you know, we are not as ingrown, as parochial as you may perceive.”
Ingrown??? Good god, doesn’t he realize that unless you’re part of that erudite elite, you don’t normally use that word unless you’re describing a f-ed up toenail? Sheesh.
Well, I was wondering for a while if he was going to say “inbred!”
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