This of course, was said by Senator Barack Obama last Friday in an effort to assure voters that he and his wife are not .
One of two things has happened. Either the United States has suddenly become a country of millionaire Ivy League educated lawyers in the last couple of weeks, or Barack Obama has fallen back on his old stand by.
Lying.
My upbringing was much more reflective of what working class black and whites go through than John McCain’s background being raised as the son of an admiral in boarding schools or Hillary Clinton out in the suburbs of Park Ridge.
(John McCain, Jr, did not become a Rear Admiral until 1958, the year Senator McCain graduated from the Naval Academy. So no, Senator McCain did not grow up the son of an Admiral, but that’s neither here nor there.)
I can only assume he is referring to that brutal time when he was raised by a bank vice president (the typical white racist) and attended an elite prep school in Hawaii.
Oh the humanity of it all.
Barack Obama. He’s just like YOU!
Except for all the money and elite education.
The funny thing is, I don’t even know why Barack Obama is lying about this particular topic. I don’t exactly think positioning yourself as the most hard off of three millionaires is exactly going to endear yourself to the people fighting to pay the bills. Nor do I think Barack Obama really wants to get into a battle with John McCain over who has had a harder life. I think John McCain wins that one pretty easily.
Tags: Barack Obama, elitism, John McCain, mccain
May 6th, 2008
In the days since Senator Barack Obama’s remarks at a San Francisco fund raiser have become widely known, Senator Obama and his surrogates have been fiercely trying to spin the Leader of the New Hope’s latest example of what he considers the “politics of hope.”
Unsurprisingly, Team Hope has focussed largely on the word ‘bitter’ and tried their very best to make everyone forget about the troubling snobbishness and elitism of the full statement, one I’m sure Senator Obama never thought the general public would ever hear.
Jake Tapper at the Political Punch writes about this and the Obama Campaign’s attempt to convince us that he said something other than what he actually said.
A robo-call on behalf of the Obama campaign from Mayor John Brenner of York, Pa., says that, “Barack Obama understands us. He’s got it right, we are frustrated — frustrated with polices that enable businesses to leave our community, pensions to be stripped, health care benefits to be taken away and homes foreclosed. Unlike his opponents, who have been part of the Washington establishment that are out of touch with us, Barack Obama will change Washington. It is policies that hurt us. He will take on the special interests and fight for us.”
On Obama’s Web site, a public letter from 21 Pennsylvania “elected officials and community leaders from small towns and rural areas throughout Pennsylvania” defend him, saying, “What Sen. Obama said is that over the last 25-30 years, working class people in places like Pennsylvania have been falling behind, and that politicians in Washington haven’t been looking out for them. He also said that, as a result, many people have become frustrated, angry and even bitter about all the broken promises. He was right.”
No mention of the “cling”-ing to guns or religion.
If Barack Obama, his campaign, and his surrogates really think that they can gloss over and whitewash his comments, and expect he American public to just forget that these condescending comments, where he accuses religious voters of “clinging” to religion, he has another thing coming.
Frankly, if Obama and his campaign and The Audacity of Hope is just too good to accept these voters, I’m sure John McCain will gladly take them, warts, bitter religiousness and all.
Tags: Barack Obama, bitter, Campaign Issues, elitism, hope, John McCain, mccain, politics, spin
April 14th, 2008
