The real Obama
Bookworm on Apr 14 2008 at 8:58 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Andrew Cline has written an incredibly funny article detailing the ways in which Obama has sought solace following the furor about his bitterness speech. I was tempted to quote some for you, but then thought it would be better just to suggest (strongly) that you go and read the whole thing yourself. It’s a beautifully structured little essay and it’s almost like cheating to take bits out of context.
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Actually funny except for the last paragraph.
I ran across this in an article today discussing Pennsylvanians and Barack Obama’s “bitter” fundraiser speech.
“It seems he’s kind of ripping on small towns, and I’m a small town girl,” said Becki Farmer, 32, who lives in Rochester, Pa., another Ohio River town hit hard by the closed steel mills. “That’s where your good morals and good judgment come from, growing up in small towns.”
Now, I know Becki Farmer isn’t running for president, but isn’t this exactly the same kind of “elitism” that we got from the Obama speech?
*I* did not grow up in a small town. Does that mean I have no good morals and no good judgment? I suppose I’m also godless, and I suppose I also hate guns. I’m a fan of illegal immigration, though I simply call it “immigration” because I don’t have any respect for the law. Is that it, Becki?
Barack Obama may be in trouble precisely because small town people have the same elitist attitude towards big city people that big city people have towards them. You don’t express disdain for peoples’ values when those values make those people feel superior. They tend not to vote for you when you do that.
To be clear because I may have been a little to subtle in the Becki post about my own beliefs:
I think I have good morals and good judgment, though I slide often and I am disgusted when I do. I *am* agnostic; I lost my faith during high school, but I have the greatest of respect for religion, spirituality, and religious people, and I consider religion and the religious to be the backbone of civilization itself.
I believe in the 2nd Amendment, not only for the purpose of hunting or sport, but for the purpose of acting as a check and balance on any government attempt to impose tyranny. It will be our last line of defense when and if elections become fraudulent and our vote destroyed.
Immigration is perfectly OK by me, but illegal immigration absolutely is not OK, precisely because respect for the law is important, and when your first act on arriving in the USA involves breaking the law, it sets a very bad precedent.
So long as you have any kind of community or societal boundaries, it is more or less the same as growing up in a small town.