We don’t know Barack Obama, so his comments in S.F. about bitter working people are highly revealing. He’s an intellectual, a progressive, and yes probably an arrogant elitist, too. Not a bad mix.
For the last eight years we’ve had a president with the common touch. He cries with the family of the Medal of Honor winner; his greatest moment was when he put his arm around that firefighter at Ground Zero. I loved that in Bush. Enough. We can’t have someone with the common touch making policy in the Middle East. We need someone of Obama’s analytical gifts. The overwhelming evidence is that he will surround himself with intelligent people like Ambassador Kurtzer and Samantha Power who understand that Israel’s 60-year war with Arabs is not our war, and that he will come up with a creative strategy to deal with Hezbollah and Iran and Iraq. The neocons were arrogant elitists, but they didn’t know how to think about Islam or the Middle East. "Victory or Holocaust," wrote Frum and Perle; they got both.
The fact that Hillary is working this so hard is a sign of her desperation and her mendacity. The jobs aren’t coming back, and she’s not a protectionist, that’s a grand deception.
And let McCain work this one in the general. He’s a brittle old man, he truly doesn’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shias. He doesn’t know how to think.
Did Obama reveal his dark side? Yes. I think he’s cold and arrogant at heart, hard to love close up. Great with a giant audiences, horrible with ordinary people. The other day Chris Matthews landed on the fact that he didn’t know how to work a diner in Pennsylvania. Seemed stiff, asked for orange juice when the owner brought him coffee. I don’t think Reagan or Kennedy was that good in a diner either. There’s a word for someone who doesn’t pander, doesn’t mix with the crowd, but tries to figure out where the country needs to go–a leader.
Obama is out of touch…..1/2 the US immigrants are from Latin america and the data shows that they are assimilating to African American levels of crime, out of wedlock births.
iT IS WORKING CLASS whites who feel the burden of this….not Obama's friends with kids in private schools. It is reaonable and even healthy for white working class to be bitter.
Obama: not a word on the (latest) bailout of Wall Street. But working class america must deal with China manipulating its currency as well as Latin Amewrica's porrest people swamoing their schools and neighborhoods.
Obama is out of touch…..1/2 the US immigrants are from Latin america and the data shows that they are assimilating to African American levels of crime, out of wedlock births.
iT IS WORKING CLASS whites who feel the burden of this….not Obama's friends with kids in private schools. It is reaonable and even healthy for white working class to be bitter.
Obama: not a word on the (latest) bailout of Wall Street. But working class america must deal with China manipulating its currency as well as Latin Amewrica's porrest people swamoing their schools and neighborhoods.
I go with William Buckleys concept. He said he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston white pages rather than any 100 Harvard faculty members. Pig Weiss, a self described elitist himself obviously feels differently.
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"But working class america must deal with China manipulating its currency."
What a ludicrous load of swill. Take a look at Fed's H.6 release, boy. See that M2 money supply growth rate of 12.5%? The Chinese didn't do that.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/Current/
Oooops! Phil, cries for the leader! – Who would have thought?
That's not how I understand: Yes WE can.
Given Obama becomes next top US representative could you imagine to turn into a similar sycophantic court clown as the praise Bush43 crowd?
Bush has the common touch? He is board- stiff, and can't get three words out at a time because he is concentrating too hard on his bogus accent!
Being able to fake the common touch doesn't make for a good leader any more than having the ability to successfully hide your contempt for the average person, either.
Why should anyone accept a leader who is arrogant and full of contempt for the majority of citizens? Whether you want to call them rulers, leaders or managers, at this point, what's the difference. I believe that what is best for the most is a concept that would be laughed at by every candidate.
I wonder how OBama will spin/match up those two bookends, i.e., the black economically disadvantaged in Chicago and their white counterparts, e.g., in PA. The bitterness recognized by his mentor-pastor all those years, and now–impoverished white Ohio, PA he's meeting in rusty diners, etc…. How will he capitalize on the sore wounds to beat McCain (his expertise as an organizer in Chicago, looking for ways to give everybody he needs what they need simultaeously–he won the vote for top Harvard Law Review dog by winning over a key conservative block, assuring them their needs would be safe…?) How can he bring them together to gain the power he needs to win, and mediate a super-power's future? Preppie and ivory tower whites are with him, plus all the blacks, but his support of Latino illegals is just a ditto of his competition… Hillary has her childhood summer cottage without running water or electricity, but a swing vote in the Keystone State never knew anyone with a summer cottage (or summer camp) and stroke-out McCain is cemented to the upper reaches of the Military-Industrial-Estb…
In showing empathy for the rust-belt white left-outs, he couldn't help but also toss in a bigot sting–he's got to get this right or common working whites will desert him for Hillary's fake caring or McCain's honest but narrow stupid boy scout uniform.
1960's Israeli Nazi-porn that was buried and is now causing quite a stir:
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/04/11/stalags/index.html
What's the downside to an elitist, intellectual progressive? Obama basically did everything but use a slur like rednecks to describe a large segment of the legal population. If denigrating the way of life and beliefs of a very large segment of the legal/traditional population has no downside, then we are in as much trouble as I think we are in.
Did Hillary Clinton really claim a kinship with the masses by saying that her family had a summer cottage without electricity and plumbing? Did she really do that? Does she really believe that the rest of us are going to relate to not having plumbing or elecricity? Is there anyone in the Establishment who has an actual clue or care about how the average legal/traditional American lives? Can that person be named?
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/04/11/stalags/index.html
"… or that the Nazis maintained brothels of Jewish women at Auschwitz and other camps. "
Yes there were brothels in Auschwitz, Dachau, Mauthausen and seven other camps, part of a perfidious system of special allowances meant to enhance performance of the inmates. Both women who were forced and the men profiting from the brothels in "Sonderbauten" only rarely talked about this story if they survived. For obvious reasons.
Sword of Gideon posted:
"I go with William Buckleys concept. He said he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston white pages rather than any 100 Harvard faculty members."
The only problem with that is that when Buckley said that he was either full of shit or making a wry joke. He might not have wanted the country run by the *faculty* of an Ivy League school, but he certainly wanted it run by the *graduates* of such schools. Guys just like himself. He was an elitist through and through, just of a different stripe than Obama.
Yeah, f… the Ivy league, including the Jewish version that has traspired sinced the1970's, when the Jews took over the elite new england schools…Phil's wife, what has she to say? SOG isn't the only one who wants to know….
"[McCain] doesn't know how to think."
That's right, Phil. He is of well below average intelligence, having graduated college ranked 894 out of 899 students.
My most recent post at Rudely Stamped is on just this subject.
Michael Blaine
www.rudelystamped.blogspot.com
I would rather be governed by the first 535 people listed in the Boston phone book, than the current members of Congress.
Michael Blaine
www.rudelystamped.blogspot.com
"He's an intellectual, a progressive, and yes probably an arrogant elitist, too. Not a bad mix."
So were the Neocons before they emigrated into the GOP. It's a terrible mix. What America needs is an America-firster, not an elitist who will sell his soul to big business, the socialist welfare industry and the Israel lobby for pennies on the federal pork dollar. Enough with the mooches already. It's time to put hard working Americans first. Latte-liberals and GOP money worshippers are enemies of working America and its values. Obama better get this thru his head and quit pandering to effete San Francisco left-liberals, or he's going to fumble away this election. Hey Obama, quit acting like a metro-sexual. Be a man.
The mistake that Phil and others make is to assume that the way to get rid of our lousy Mideast policies is to circulate the elites..
move the neocons out and the realists (read Obama) in.
Not only is this impossible without great pressure from below..(read the Masses)
…yeah the working man and woman..
But Because the Jewish billionaires with their connections to the media and the janus faced political parties, will simply not permit it. Maybe we could get a change from a Likud to a Labor Israeli line in American policy, but that won't really bring peace and Justice to the Palestinians.
It is simply naive to attempt to ignore the relevance of class factors (relation to production), especially finance capital, which provides the glue to the zionist structure. Money equals donations, pays for boycotts, intimidates academia, and keeps any real critics of Israel from getting anywhere.
So first things first. We got to organize from the grass-roots level upward…
with the help of groups that we can form..we need to pass
boycott Israel resolutions…
call talk radio shows,circulate petitions,get the message out on myspace, blogs, etc.
There is a value to staying connected to the presidential campaigns though, I believe that the presidential campaigns are a very good way of getting an antizionist message across…for as the zionist connection with the candidates becomes known, the exposure is a form of mass education and will help us identify new folks who can join the movement.
And yes it will take a movement.
Not something happening overnight, but it will happen.
Any competent psychologist could tell Obama straight away that he can clear this issue with one joke about how they are "bitter" but "sweet" too.
Not something happening overnight, but it will happen– hlmeankin
The sun gives its gold to the Rhine.