Obama Unwittingly Reveals The Liberal Mindset
By
pparets
on April 12, 2008 at 04:04 am
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Picture the young senator from Illinois, safe and cozy in the warm environment of San Francisco, the arch-capitol of American liberalism, surrounded by wealthy, urbane elitists intent on bankrolling his crusade.
Flattered and basking in their adulation, Barack Obama lets slip his carefully contrived mask - that of a young African American, free from the ‘old’ ways of politics - and yearning for hope and change.
Encouraged, he begins to tell them what they want to hear; that smalltown Americans [those outside large cities and surrounding burbs] are racist, homophobic, gun-toting, resentful fundamentalists, unaware - amid the sage nods and knowing smirks of his audience - that his analysis will ever be revealed to the unwashed masses.
And here, at last, he defines the liberal mindset with ringing clarity; indeed, does so far better than we on the right have ever been able to do. And, in so doing, he speaks for more than the handful of San Franciscans gathered at his feet.
He speaks for elitist liberals everywhere: The Kerry’s and the Kennedy’s; the socialist faculties of our colleges and universities and their pampered, mindless students; the journalists of our mainstream media; the clergy of many elite denominations and all those whose liberal mindset leads them to believe that others, less enlightened, need to be governed, regulated and cared for.
His message is simple. Those who live in small towns, or own a gun, or are fundamental christians, or ever lost a job, or oppose illegal immigration, or distrust government, are resentful, and, by implication, ignorant. [The term “rednecks” comes to mind.]
While those around Senator Obama and the liberal community at large will swing quickly into ‘damage control’, clucking and cooing about the misconstrued, uninformed reactions of those who can’t understand this man of hope, the rest of us have genuine cause to pause.
For we have at last seen the light, and it is a dark one indeed, casting ugly shadows into the deeper recesses of liberalism and the heart and mind of Barack Obama.
Flattered and basking in their adulation, Barack Obama lets slip his carefully contrived mask - that of a young African American, free from the ‘old’ ways of politics - and yearning for hope and change.
Encouraged, he begins to tell them what they want to hear; that smalltown Americans [those outside large cities and surrounding burbs] are racist, homophobic, gun-toting, resentful fundamentalists, unaware - amid the sage nods and knowing smirks of his audience - that his analysis will ever be revealed to the unwashed masses.
And here, at last, he defines the liberal mindset with ringing clarity; indeed, does so far better than we on the right have ever been able to do. And, in so doing, he speaks for more than the handful of San Franciscans gathered at his feet.
He speaks for elitist liberals everywhere: The Kerry’s and the Kennedy’s; the socialist faculties of our colleges and universities and their pampered, mindless students; the journalists of our mainstream media; the clergy of many elite denominations and all those whose liberal mindset leads them to believe that others, less enlightened, need to be governed, regulated and cared for.
His message is simple. Those who live in small towns, or own a gun, or are fundamental christians, or ever lost a job, or oppose illegal immigration, or distrust government, are resentful, and, by implication, ignorant. [The term “rednecks” comes to mind.]
While those around Senator Obama and the liberal community at large will swing quickly into ‘damage control’, clucking and cooing about the misconstrued, uninformed reactions of those who can’t understand this man of hope, the rest of us have genuine cause to pause.
For we have at last seen the light, and it is a dark one indeed, casting ugly shadows into the deeper recesses of liberalism and the heart and mind of Barack Obama.
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