Obama’s SanFran Speech, the Reactions to It And What They Teach Us

It is perhaps inspirational, that as I sit down and gather my thoughts, my MP3 player, on it’s own, comes up with Pat Metheny doing “It’s Just Talk” off 1987’s “Still Life (Talking)“. (The 1990 version, not the 2006 re-release.)

I’m telling you right here and now; Doctor Thomas Sowell is a bloody genius.

Senator Obama is all talk — glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk, but still just talk.

Some of his recent talk in San Francisco has stirred up controversy because it revealed yet another blatant contradiction between Barack Obama’s public image and his reality.

Speaking privately to supporters in heavily left-liberal San Francisco, Obama let down his hair and described working class people in Pennsylvania as so “bitter” that they “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”

Like so much that Obama has said and done over the years, this is standard stuff on the far left, where guns and religion are regarded as signs of psychological dysfunction — and where opinions different from those of the left are ascribed to emotions (“bitter” in this case), rather than to arguments that need to be answered.

Like so many others on the left, Obama rejects “stereotypes” when they are stereotypes he doesn’t like but blithely throws around his own stereotypes about “a typical white person” or “bitter” gun-toting, religious and racist working class people.

And, dear reader, there’s the whole thing.. the whole argument about “bitterness” in a nutshell. He allowed the stereotypes he lives by to leak out in that moment. It’s like I keep saying, every once in a great while, they let their real selves out, and when they do it ain’t pretty.

But just for laughs, let’s play ‘what if’, and assume that he doesn’t hold these views himself. What are we looking at, then?

Well, the most logical assumption is that he’s playing to the crowd there in SanFran, who certainly holds these views, in large enough number that if he’s going to play to them he needs to alter his shtick.

In that event, what we’re shown most clearly is that there is a huge gap between what most Americans think, and what the far left thinks. We see too, that Obama is willing to play to the crowd, bending away form his basic positions to be all things to all people, possibly due to the fact that he has no real convictions himself.

Of course, Obama has a great deal of history that suggests he does in fact hold these cynical, and typically far left views of most Americans. The man is a liberal snob. In all likelihood, what happened in SanFran is that Obama showed us the real Obama. Now, hell spend the remainder of the campaign telling us how that wasn’t the real him.

If Obama makes it to the General election, he’s not going to have an easy time of it. The noises he had to make to appeal to the SanFran leftists, are going to be a huge hammering spot for McCain in the General Election, during which Obama will be spending most of his time running away from what he told the left to get the nomination.

However that may be, the ‘Bitterness’ thing also shows, by extension, that Hillary Clinton is the extreme opportunist we’ve always known her to be Let’s face it, her views on Religion and guns is equally cynical to that expressed by Obama in SanFran. If you will but recall, the entire 1996 Democrat convention was wrapped around their anti-gun movement of the time… a movement then orchestrated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. She made a career of being a gun-grabber. It’s humorous to see her now, playing the other side of the street like she’s been there working for gun rights all along. Of course she exposes herself as a fraud when she can only refer to firearms within the concept of duck hunting, as opposed to protecting ourselves from criminals, and over-large government. And I’m not even going to bother getting into the question of Hillary Clinton and Religion. I’m still to this day left with the mental image of Bill Clinton, just days after the Lewinsky thing broke open, leaving a church with a huge bible in hand… when anyone who had been watching knew he’d not darkened the door of a church in years, and his best identification of the Bible was something to fight against legally, unless he needed it as a photographic prop.

At the bottom line, and however you try to re-work the facts in this, you can’t fit water between the two of them… Obama and Clinton. The both of them say one thing and do another.

One bit of fallout for Obama… That flag lapel pin seems to be back. Perhaps he’s trying to repair the damage?