Barack Obama, speaking to donors in San Francisco:
But – so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is – so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing – close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll go down a series of talking points.
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they 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.
What are Barack Obama’s core beliefs, if any? The same man who has been a member of a black liberation theology church for some twenty years, refers religion as something to which one clings. Has BO become the black version of Christopher Hitchen? BO wants a mandate for “change.” Yet without knowing BO’s core values. what changes would BO bring?
When BO proclaims the bitterness in small town Pennsylvania, I don’t see BO as psychoanalyzing, but rather projecting. That is BO sees bitterness because BO is a bitter, hateful, person. While BO talks of reconciliation on the stump, his minister and wife are bitter hate mongers.
Rick Moran, Pajamas Media, argues that there are two Obamas, might I say akin to John Edwards’ Two Americas.
The more we learn about Obama, the wider the gap grows between the messianic character on the stump whose golden voice and pitch perfect rhetoric has inspired millions of people and the coldly calculating careerist politician whose elitism has blinded him to the struggles and hopes of ordinary people.
The two Obamas are irreconcilable. And the confusion felt by many will almost certainly translate into a loss of support for the candidate in these final primaries that will determine the Democratic nominee for president.
Rich compares BO to Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson gave us the War in Vietnam and the War on Poverty. The nation has yet to recover from either of Johnson’s disasters.
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