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Photoshop of the week: Typical liberal snob; Update: New Obama spin - “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 11, 2008 09:32 PM

A big thank you to reader Tennyson, who cooked up this fabulous photoshop that pushes back at small-town-trashing Barack Obama. All native-born, gun-owning, God-fearing, pro-immigration enforcement, pro-sovereignty Pennsylvanians are grateful to you, Tennyson! Yo, Barack. Get over yourself already:

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Keep spinnin’, pal. You’re going to land right back into the gutter, with your bowling ball. Video of Obama’s response to Snob-gate is now posted on his YouTube channel:

Transcript via Ambinder:

So I made this statement– so, here’s what rich. Senator Clinton says ‘No, I don’t think that people are bitter in Pennsylvania. You know, I think Barack’s being condescending.’ John McCain says, ‘Oh, how could he say that? How could he say people are bitter? You know, he’s obviously out of touch with people.’

“Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain—it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he’s saying I’m out of touch? Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt after taking money from the financial services companies, and she says I’m out of touch? No, I’m in touch. I know exactly what’s going on.

The hopelessness of audacity.

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Congrats, Barry O: You’ve won Knee Deep in the Hooah’s Jackass of the Day Award.

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Update 11:20am Eastern 4/12: Obama in Indiana this morning is still spinning. He has ditched “cling” for “comfort,” and is clinging to the “bitter” part of his quotation to defend The Bitter Truth of his diss against small-town Pennsylvanians:

“I didn’t say it [as] well as I could have,” Obama confessed today during a town hall in Muncie, Ind., in response to the controversy he described as a “political flare-up because I said something that everyone knows is true.”

He then launched into a broad explanation of what he was trying to express: “There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry… So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.”

Ed Morrissey breaks down the dishonesty.

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Comments

  1. #1
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm, ajmontana said:

    Great photoshop!… lol, and that’s how he was staring down at el skanky.

  2. #2
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:43 pm, Dimsdale said:

    All native-born, gun-owning, God-fearing, pro-immigration enforcement, pro-sovereignty Pennsylvanians

    You mean the “great unwashed” to the elitist Obamas. You know, the ones that actually give significant portions of their incomes to charity, unlike some vacuous elitist presidential candidates we could name….

  3. #3
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:49 pm, RealImmigrantChick said:

    He always looks down his nose. I knew he was a snob by his demeanor alone, and that picture is a perfect representation. I would love to be a fly on the wall and hear what he and his wife actually say about America and about white Americans.

  4. #4
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm, Armigerous said:

    Snob:….from the Latin…’sine nobilitas’…without nobility

  5. #5
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm, amerpun said:

    No, I’m in touch. I know exactly what’s going on.

    Which is why I think there’s a president of Canada, just about insist there’s no Al Qaeda in Iraq, sat through sermons for 20 years by a guy that hates white people and America, and had no clue that I didn’t select to donate to the public financing system 2 years running.

  6. #6
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:52 pm, Thomas said:

    Beautiful.

    Absolutely beautiful.

  7. #7
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:54 pm, ddhinnyc said:

    snOb-ama

  8. #8
    On April 11th, 2008 at 9:59 pm, dakine said:

    Pretty typical politician acting the way politicians act regardless of ideology or party affiliation. Not sure why this is noteworthy.

  9. #9
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:02 pm, ajmontana said:

    playing his audio of this on all the channels now dakine……

  10. #10
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:02 pm, bloodhound said:

    OMG Michelle ~

    That is fantastic! Absolutely without question the most succinct and accurate potrait of Barry I’ve seen yet. And that picture! LOL! I must have a room poster, yard signs, bumper stickers…

  11. #11
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:03 pm, katieanne said:

    It’s noteworthy because Obama has been promoted as the second coming and supporting a halo that is supposed to blind us all. The truth, that he is nothing more than a condescending snob with no grasp of reality when it comes to flyover country, needs to be given as much promotion as Obama’s supposed radiant glow.

  12. #12
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:03 pm, zorro said:

    Well done Tennyson, thanks.

  13. #13
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:04 pm, Marshall Russ said:

    I told a Canadian associate of mine today that if I had to choose between Obambi or Billary, I would have to choose Billary. Even with everything that I detest about the Clintons,I am not convinced Obambi cares enough for this country and it’s leadership in the world.

  14. #14
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:04 pm, ajmontana said:

    Maybe he’s just used to that look from checking to see if cokes up his nose.

  15. #15
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:16 pm, meatpieandtatters said:

    Lawyer married to hospital executive entitlement attitude heavily flavored with racial sensitivity exemption, because of his skin color, who believes he’s better than everyone else. Obama = typical liberal.

  16. #16
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:37 pm, puhiawa said:

    Obama is the stereotypical, clueless black politician.

  17. #17
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:40 pm, BrianNY said:

    Obama said:

    And it’s not surprising then 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.”

    Isn’t Barack half white? Why is he snitching on the poor white people of Pennsylvania?

    Didn’t Reverend Wright say that Barack knows what it means to be a black man in America?

    Well, I guess he isn’t black enough to realize that “snitching” ain’t cool.

    What a pouser!

  18. #18
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:44 pm, sausage said:

    …and they say there is no class system in America! Ptttt…..

    The Class System

  19. #19
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm, normsrevenge said:

    Obama is just one more in a long line of leftist effete elite snobs

  20. #20
    On April 11th, 2008 at 10:55 pm, puhiawa said:

    White, oriental, or ordinary pro-America, law biding, church going Americans bad.
    Racist thug, delusional cult minister, threatening violent overthrow of America good.
    Obama Land

  21. #21
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:00 pm, bit_boy said:

    Obama is the typical court enabled, educational institutional financed, privileged minority coming home to roost. Some how, some where the liberal strategy of minority enabling went terribly wrong. The products of which are embodied in the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Michelle Obama, and Barack Hussein Obama. We are all better of if these anointed remain in their Subculture.

  22. #22
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:04 pm, josetheguerilla said:

    Great photo shop Tennyson. It’s very good.

    sausage:Have you ever herd of the phase:”saw it off?” heh. That was a funny video.

    jose

  23. #23
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:12 pm, TexasTiger said:

    You’re going to land right back into the gutter, with your bowling ball.

    That was good!

  24. #24
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:15 pm, TexasTiger said:

    The hopelessness of audacity.

    Or the audio of asininity.

  25. #25
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:30 pm, Tennessee Dave said:

    The video and photoshop go together. Did anyone notice that after he finished his great humble oratory, that barely perceptable nodding of his head as he paced back and forth?
    To me it was like he was thinking, “Yep, I just put those ingnorant fools in their place. How dare they mess with the man!”

  26. #26
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm, globmgmt said:

    Obama proves that schmucks come in all flavors.

  27. #27
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm, beenthere said:

    Typical Obama speech: great wind-up and no pitch. One keeps hoping that things will change, that he will give us something to work with, but he doesn’t. Okay, so McCain and Clinton are jerks. Gosh, what a shock. Instead, it’s his usual trademarked SmoothJive, which in this clip at least was not all that smooth. Negative as I am on him (but I sure ain’t that positive on the others), I want to believe, despite Imam Wright and all the “typical white person,” junk there might be something in there somewhere. Because if this guy gets to President, there damn well better be. But I come up empty every time.

    Anyway, time for another book plug: I highly recommend Shelby Steele’s book, The Bound Man. This is the best summary of Obama’s life and thought I have read. It will take you and hour, two at the very most to complete. But it is well worth it.

  28. #28
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:05 am, thneed said:

    Kinda reminds me of a black Benito Mussolini, with that head cocked back…

  29. #29
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:06 am, Schweggie said:

    Tennyson, here is your photoshop is.

  30. #30
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:18 am, Klaatu said:

    So, he is out to corner the bitter, angry, disillusioned vote. That’s not even half of Pennsylvania Democrats. Its just the Democrat base.

    Isn’t this the most angry he has been? Isn’t this the most personal he has been in attacking the opposition? Hit a nerve did we? Hmmmm?

  31. #31
    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:45 am, Bhishma said:

    No matter what Mobarak says or does, his ‘Driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants’ does not sit well with this fella.
    Sorry Mobarak! neither you, nor your party, getting my vote. Period.

  32. #32
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:22 am, DaMav said:

    excellent job Tennyson; I’m passing it on

  33. #33
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:36 am, bamapachyderm said:

    Tennyson is a genius. Possibly the best photoshop ever!

    Cheers from Flyover Country! ;)

  34. #34
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:28 am, graysonret said:

    Another Jimmy Carter. He can say and do whatever he likes, to the cheers of the crowd. Ask a liberal, “Who is Obama anyway?” They don’t know. They just support him for some obscure reason they can’t imagine. He’s black and that’s all that is important to them. Lenin and many dictators ran on the platform of “hope and change”. It proved to be disasters. People who don’t know their history are condemned to repeat it.

  35. #35
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:48 am, secondsight said:

    When Obama talks ‘jobs’ (as with all the Democrats) here’s what he really means: a Union job at an no secret ballot Union Shop at a Trade Law Protected Business. The kind of job that ran American business into the ground in the 70’s. The kind of job that makes products that force a kid earning minimum wage at the soda shop would have to spend 3 or 4 days wages to buy a shirt or half a month to buy some shoes. The kind of job where that clod leaning on a broom got paid 3 times what a college professor was paid. The kind of job that killed Bethlehem Steel and others.

    The problem with Obama’s vision is that those jobs were damned few. And they depended upon screwing the rest of the country. The great utopian vision of unionized employment always has meant discrimination against many and privilege for a few. And products that always, always, were too expensive.

  36. #36
    On April 12th, 2008 at 7:14 am, JimmyMack said:

    Everyone is missing the boat on the Obama PA/SF situation. The real issue here is that Barack is positing that heartland Americans believe in their Constitutional rights to bear arms and practice their religion(s) freely, as well as the Constitution’s requirement of the federal government to protect our borders, simply because some steel mills got closed down. The implicit suggestion is that if these folks are given governmental support, these rights will cease to be important to them. It would not surprise me at all that this is truly what he believes as a pure liberal elitist, and the thought of that ideology in the white house is bone chillingly frightening. Put an ad together with that message, and you’ll be a walk into the White House without breaking a sweat.

  37. #37
    On April 12th, 2008 at 8:48 am, Dave Turson said:

    Obama’s life in Indonesia reveals him to be a budding religious daredevil. Snob-ama held the “religion is just an opiate” view from the get-go. In his formative years he could only sneer when old nuns prayed.

    In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama briefly mentions Koranic study and describes his public school, which accepted students of all religions, as “a Muslim school.”

    “In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies,” Obama wrote. “My mother wasn’t overly concerned. ‘Be respectful,’ she’d say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words.”

    Snob-ama’s views have not changed. He calmly supports gay marriage by nullifying an “obscure passage in Romans.” In Snob-amaland it’s easy to be religious since the Epistles are seen as coming from a group of parched old men given to mutterings.

  38. #38
    On April 12th, 2008 at 8:49 am, Boomer said:

    It reminds me of a cross between the old communist posters with a twist of fascism. The Obamination looks just like El Duce in the photoshop I find it very fitting. When we no longer have personal vehicles (other than a bicycle) after he tanks the economy with his social programs hopefully he will be able to make the trains and buses run on time so we serfs can make it to our jobs to pay for our indentured servitude to the great socialist state.

  39. #39
    On April 12th, 2008 at 8:52 am, Dandapani said:

    “People don’t think they can count on Washington!” No, I can count on Washington. To screw things up. Reagan knew that Government wasn’t the solution, it was the PROBLEM!

  40. #40
    On April 12th, 2008 at 8:59 am, ctmom said:

    I wonder how many bitter Americans are that way because their jobs were lost due to affirmative action? I know my Dad lost a deserved promotion to an inexperienced black man many years ago and he was never the same.

  41. #41
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:24 am, ajmontana said:

    “These people are part of who I am”
    yup, and it’s showing, no matter how you spin it afterwards.
    And I just love all these “experts” again with their “taken out of context” BS.
    Oblahma’s a joke, a very bad, bad, joke.

  42. #42
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am, Gabe said:

    I like the photoshop. The title should be “Marxist Snob,” though, because he typical of the Marxist elite.

    Barack Hussein Obama is so out of touch with America, you could even accurately say he is NOT American.

  43. #43
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:51 am, Wade said:

    Elmer Gantry

  44. #44
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:52 am, KCK said:

    Looks a lot like Benito Mussolini in that pose. Except Obama’s way too skinny. I see Boomer beat me to this observation: #37.

    He actually named guns and religion as crutches, or whatever. Hello. Snob elitist leftist. How do you spin out of that?

  45. #45
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:52 am, Jim M. said:

    Growing up in tropical paradise - check.

    Prep school - check.

    Ivy league college - check.

    Ivy league law school - check.

    Top 1% income bracket - check.

    Those are prerequisites for running a campaign as a “man lf the people”. Obama can empathize with the little people, since he has a long history of employing them to handle his menial tasks.

    As MLK said, a man should be judged by his character rather than the color of his skin. Additional entries to Obama’s resume on character:

    -20 year association with black supremicist church;

    -Religious advisors and supporters who hate jews;

    -Budding felons among associates and friends;

    -Domestic terrorists convicted of bombing government property in circle of friends;

    -Avowed communists and socialists as his political mentors;

    -Associations with supporters of Islamic terror organizations;

    -Seat on the bandwagon blaming the white man for the worlds woes (and obviously the white man was to blame for his prep school and ivy league background that has held him back).

    -Married to an angry black supremicist.

    As a relative political unknown, there is little in the way of accomplishment to judge whether Obama can walk the walk to go with his talk. While Obama does not want people to look into his character, it is the only measure by which people can judge the man for the office of President. And an objective look into that aspect of the candidate reveals he is devoid of any measure of character that would qualify him to lead the US.

  46. #46
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am, Lamontyoubigdummy said:

    If Karl Marx and George McGovern had a baby…

    And he said it about Pennsylvanians. Guess he never saw The Deer Hunter.

  47. #47
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am, emjem24 said:

    I think the only person who could understand what Obummer said the other day is the image looking right back at him in the mirror. :roll:

    He can’t explain away those remarks. He wants to win votes by talking down to people? Try again. :mad:

    Try, again, Obummer, and this time WITH CONVICTION instead of trying to pull your a** out of the fire. :shock:

  48. #48
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:39 am, DBNinKY said:

    He is friends with Oprah, one of the richest women in the world, and has thrived in the social spheres of limousine liberals and quilt-ridden business leaders since he entered Illinois politics, so how could Obama be anything else but an out of touch snob?

  49. #49
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:41 am, franksalterego said:

    It’s no small irony, that the people who highlight the elitism, and snobbery of Obama, are the very same ones who suggest sitting on our dead asses during the election, because they think McCain is a poopy-head.

    You know who you are

  50. #50
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am, Marshall Russ said:

    Yes, us poopy-heads are waiting for McCain to give us something we can get up off our dead asses and cheer about. It’s hard to do that when he is reaching out to moderates and liberals more than the base of the party.

  51. #51
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:56 am, TexasTiger said:

    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am, Marshall Russ said:

    Yes, us poopy-heads are waiting for McCain to give us something we can get up off our dead asses and cheer about.

    Yikes! Let’s contain the use of four-letter obscenities like wait and give. Putting a stake through the heart of Democrats’ plans is sufficient motivation to get me to the polls.

  52. #52
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:58 am, franksalterego said:

    Yes, us poopy-heads are waiting for McCain to give us something we can get up off our dead asses and cheer about. It’s hard to do that when he is reaching out to moderates and liberals more than the base of the party.
    –Marshall Russ

    P’haps, it hasn’t occurred to you…Your vote can constitute a “Nay” vote against a candidate.

    “Who” McCain is “reaching out to” shouldn’t concern you one bit.

    Because, at the end of the day, it’s not ABOUT McCain…Not when you’re looking into the abyss.

  53. #53
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:12 am, Gabe said:

    Because, at the end of the day, it’s not ABOUT McCain…Not when you’re looking into the abyss.

    I agree. When you have the Marxist and very Muslim Obama this close to running the most powerful country in the world, it is time to support whoever is opposing him.

    Those still with the disorder MDS need to get over it!

  54. #54
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:14 am, Marshall Russ said:

    franksalterego#51,
    I have no intention of not voting. I would like to see the GOP leaders that are urging us to get behind McCain hold his feet to the fire on issues that are important to conservatives.

  55. #55
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:17 am, USMCgramma said:

    Wonder how much they paid the guy in the red USMC T-shirt to sit behind that arrogant s(n)ob and clap on cue? It’s OK to use a gun if you’re frustrated because the “govmint” din’t fix things for you?

  56. #56
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:18 am, franksalterego said:

    I have no intention of not voting. I would like to see the GOP leaders that are urging us to get behind McCain hold his feet to the fire on issues that are important to conservatives.

    We held his feet to the fire during the immigration debate…What makes you think we can’t do it again?

  57. #57
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am, franksalterego said:

    You don’t like McCains stance on immigration?

    Is there anyone in their right mind, who believes this issue WON’T come up again, if a Liberal/Democrat is, by default, elected?

    And given, that the bill didn’t pass, because of a preponderance of Republicans voting against it, should give you pause.

  58. #58
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:32 am, greenfairie said:

    Keep digging that hole, Snobama!

  59. #59
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:04 pm, franksalterego said:

    Those still with the disorder MDS need to get over it!
    Gabe

    We don’t need to point out the irony of that, do we.

    [hint - hint]

  60. #60
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm, zorro said:

    Update 11:20am Eastern 4/12

    I’m beginning to think the democraps and Snobama are trying to project the bitterness they feel on to us.

  61. #61
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, hayroller15 said:

    Hobamas only hope is to run around to college campuses pimpin the vote of the uninformed.

  62. #62
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:19 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:

    Hey Obama, you try to touch me I’ll smack ya!

  63. #63
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pm, Bogtrotter said:

    “……they cling to…”

    These are the words that really jumped out at me. No matter how he tries to spin it, these words alone showed me that he looks upon normal American values as something that needs to be discarded in his Brave New World.

  64. #64
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm, groundhunter said:

    We conservatives probably won’t win congress in the next election. McCain will lean over the isle and we will find ouselves in up to our necks in liberal policies. What a sad state of affairs.

  65. #65
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm, secondsight said:

    Meanwhile, over at the Huffingtons, they are wondering what all the fuss is about. “We say things just like this around here too. Doesn’t everyone?”

    Let’s give the Scoop of the Year Award to Huffinton Post.

  66. #66
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm, flenser said:

    The sad thing is, Obama did not say anything which McCain and Clinton do not agree with.

  67. #67
    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:51 pm, katieanne said:

    I hope Democrats are paying attention to what Obama has been saying. I don’t have alot of faith in their grasp of what is important.

  68. #68
    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, geminicontender said:

    Sorry flenser but I will not put McCain in the same category as Hussein….maybe Hill but not Hussein

  69. #69
    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, groundhunter said:
  70. #70
    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pm, geminicontender said:

    I agree with zorro #60. The Dems are the miserable ones. They are the ‘negatives’ of our society and they want the rest of us to follow suit. Dependent people are usually more bitter than hard working people. They have more time to dwell on the negative rather than support the positive.

  71. #71
    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:07 pm, katieanne said:

    Excellent article groundhunter. I’ll pass it around.

  72. #72
    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:15 pm, Bhishma said:

    On April 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm, flenser said:
    The sad thing is, Obama did not say anything which McCain and Clinton do not agree with.

    To maintain my dignity, I will vote for Ron Paul. If he drops out, I shall not vote. Won’t respect myself if I voted for:
    - Hillary “No woman is illegal” Clinton.
    - Mobarak “Husseiin-Driver’s-Licenses-for-illegals” Obama.
    - Juan “Amnesty” McCain.
    There… elections over!

  73. #73
    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:34 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    New Obama spin - “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

    Maybe, but you certainly clearly defined the meaning of “limousine liberal”.

    I lived in Western PA for 6 years…Obama’s seriously out of touch.

  74. #74
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:02 pm, JHSII said:

    “I didn’t say it [as] well as I could have” - Marie Antionette, referring to her famous “then let them eat cake” comment :roll:

  75. #75
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:05 pm, WisCon said:

    Keep talking BO!

  76. #76
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:07 pm, LauraC said:

    Tennyson, Michelle, that graphic is fabulous. Can I copy/resize it for my sidebar?

  77. #77
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pm, tgusa said:

    What would one expect from someone who spent twenty years listening to rev Wright whom he refers to as his mentor, intelligence? Guess again. I think it’s outrageously audacious that he has gone as far as he has. The founding fathers were a little bitter and they clung to guns and religion as well. They weren’t too keen on those they viewed as illegal immigrants running around telling us what to do either. I think it might have started a war or something.

  78. #78
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:22 pm, MikeOK said:

    I find it very interesting that in his list of things “desperate” Americans “cling” to, Obama failed to mention the kooky racist conspiracy theories of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Eric Lee, and others.

    A curious omission, to be sure.

  79. #79
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm, JimC214 said:

    This whole speech translates into you are angry that the government isn’t helping you? Well elect me and I’ll fix everything and you won’t need to have those pesky old guns any more.

  80. #80
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm, Ignatius Reilly said:

    LOL…I been thinkin’ for a while that that elevated chin thing of Obama’s was a political liability!

  81. #81
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:05 pm, behiker said:

    So Obama said “…because I said something that everyone knows is true.” and he wants everyone to understand and give him a pass (and his followers will).

    Compare that to what Geraldine Ferraro said about Obama being in the position he was in only because he is black (another true statement), and they wanted her head.

    I thought I’d never say this, but I’ll take 4 more years of the Clintons over 10 seconds of Obama.

  82. #82
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, letget said:

    Bho and wifeee have managed to degrade or insult almost every one but the muslims or Asians as far as I can tell. It’s early, with the way they are going, it won’t be long till they do. What a pair to draw to, gads. They make my skin crawl, no not a leg tingle.
    L

  83. #83
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:40 pm, Jim M. said:

    Good thing the Constitution looks out for “bitter” people as well. Right to bear arms, freedom of religion, right to express greviences…

    But then again, according to BO, bitterness breeds ignorance and forces the less enlightened people of the world to cling to silly things like religion and Constitutional rights. It is a shame that he even has to pander to such primitive humans, especially they undoubtedly have little comprehension of what BO says. At least if he smiles at them and makes no sudden moves, the typical white rubes will see BO as a nice man.

    I’d bet that none of those hayseed, redneck, ignorant Pennsylvanians have any idea how much the price of arugula has gone up at Whole Foods. Hell, I’d also bet that most of them would even take a Philly cheesesteak over a piece of $100 per pound ham on a toothpick. Perhaps if they have the audacity to hope for change and elect BO, they will become less bitter, thereby increasing both their IQ’s and civilized demeanor.

  84. #84
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:46 pm, Regulus said:

    Geraldine Ferraro was right. Any other candidate/spouse combo who’ve shot themselves in the foot this many times would’ve been toast by now; what keeps Obama going is that many people have hypnotized themselves into seeing him as a pigment-based symbol instead of as a man.

    But how much longer can the illusion last? Until after election day? At this rate, I don’t think so.

    So Hillary’s right, too: Obama can’t win the general. But who’s to keep him from the nomination now? Her? How? With a campaign slogan of, “It’s the Character, Stupid?”

    Hillary’s problem all along has been that whenever Obama commits an unforced error, she either saves him by committing a gaffe of her own, or can’t take advantage without looking like a Godzilla-sized hypocrite.

    2008 is beginning to look like a replay of 2004. The early Democrat favorite collapses, only this time not with a scream but a death-rattle. The nominee instead turns out to be another buyer’s remorse candidate like Kerry was. Result: a presidential election that was eminently winnable slips away again.

    At this rate, the election is McCain’s to lose. Assuming he wins, the bonus question becomes whether he’ll have any coat-tails: can he help the Republicans reduce their expected losses in Congress come November, or will he face a veto-proof Democrat majority?

  85. #85
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pm, BrianNY said:

    Has anyone seen the HBO commercial for Bryant Gumbel’s sit-down with Obama yet?

    Obama claims to be quite a basketball player, and he discusses how it was an integral part of his youth and his connection with his father?

    Then he pulls that chin thing and claims that he could definitely beat GW at a game of one on one.

    Seeing that GW runs treadmill everyday and has the lowest heart rate of any US President, I would LOVE to see GW take Obama up on that game.

    After viewing the way he dances and bowls, I bet that Obama would refuse such a challenge. A potential loss to a full white man would be too much damage to the street cred that Obama has spent so much time and capital developing at Jeremiah Wright’s church over the past 23 years.

  86. #86
    On April 12th, 2008 at 4:09 pm, brooklyn red said:

    So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.”

    or they get frustrated about how things are changing???

    Yeah, basically.

  87. #87
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm, Mookie said:

    Flesner’s right.

    “You probably see more emotion in Iowa than you do in Arizona on this issue. I was in a town in Iowa, and twenty years ago there were no Hispanics in the town. Then a meatpacking facility was opened up. Now twenty per cent of their population is Hispanic. There were senior citizens there who were–’concerned’ is not the word. They see this as an assault on their culture, what they view as an impact on what have been their traditions in Iowa, in the small towns in Iowa. So you get questions like ‘Why do I have to punch 1 for English?’ ‘Why can’t they speak English?’ It’s become larger than just the fact that we need to enforce our borders.”

  88. #88
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:09 pm, CC said:

    I’m just a typical, white, gun-toting, bitter, angry American who hates everything and am looking for a messiah to save me.

    I’m especially looking for the messiah who, just two years ago, admitted he was not experienced or qualified enough to run for the presidency. I suppose eighteen plus months of applying for the job now makes him qualified?

  89. #89
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:32 pm, brooklyn red said:

    mookie, from this day on I refuse to punch 1… if they want my dollars, they can damn well act like it!

  90. #90
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:58 pm, flenser said:

    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, geminicontender said:

    Sorry flenser but I will not put McCain in the same category as Hussein….

    You should. McCain displays the exact same contempt for poor white Americans who live outside the cities and own guns as Obama does. Perhaps more. Obama is just saying what liberals say, without really thinking about it. McCain has thought about it, and then taken great relish in siding with the far left against us.

  91. #91
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:10 pm, Hardhead said:

    Michelle and Barack Obama–now you’re talking about bitter people.

  92. #92
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, 24Klady said:

    Baraka knows bitterness well. He looks into the face of bitterness every time he sits down to dinner with his wife. Funny how that can change a guy and his general outlook on the world. Coupled with his perceived abusive childhood he has a lot of issues to deal with. Why is he starting to remind me of Slick Willie? He felt your pain too. ;(

  93. #93
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:32 pm, dakine said:

    BrianNY, Obama can ball. I was a year ahead of him at Punahou HS in Hawaii. Dubbya is a pretty good athlete, but Obama would kick his tail in hoops.

    bit_boy, wow you’re really right up against the line. Why don’t you just go ahead and say what you really want to say, and let’s see how quickly you get banned.

  94. #94
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:34 pm, DBNinKY said:

    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, groundhunter said:

    Here is a must read at NRO.

    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:07 pm, katieanne said:

    Excellent article groundhunter. I’ll pass it around.

    I fully agree and recommend it highly! Also of interest is this article at Townhall.

  95. #95
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:36 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Oops! I forgot this article as well.

  96. #96
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:51 pm, Lucius Vorenus said:

    Have you guys seen the photographs of the fundraiser where the Bittergate comments were made?

    The visuals are rather stunning:

    Obama Visits Billionaires Row
    zombietime.com

    This blogger has tried to calculate the net worth of the Billionaires on Broadway Street:

    members.virtualtourist.com

    And audio of Bittergate is available here:

    admin.brightcove.com

  97. #97
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:57 pm, bloghooligan said:

    Tennyson, you should trademark that and upload that image to cafepress. you’ll make a mint! YaY for capitalism!!

  98. #98
    On April 12th, 2008 at 7:08 pm, Armigerous said:

    Frankly I’m amazed that when he sat down with Bryant Gumbel and claimed he could beat GW at hoops, that he didn’t say something like “White men can’t jump”

  99. #99
    On April 12th, 2008 at 7:55 pm, Speakup said:

    New Obama spin - “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

    When you’re someone like Barack who has no real leadership or experience credentials at all, what else do you have if you didn’t say it as well as you could have?

    When he blows the silver tongue devil shtick, he’s got noth’in.

  100. #100
    On April 12th, 2008 at 7:59 pm, terrig said:

    Gee, an expensive prep school education (Punahou being the most expensive school on Oahu-guess we have others who have a lot of money too on this board), an Ivy League education and now he says “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”. Who is this idiot kidding? I sure wish we could send our kid to Punahou (if we move back to Ewa Beach but I don’t think they’d let you in there if you lived in Ewa Beach) but we’re just your typical white person, who goes to church and owns guns. What an a$$.

  101. #101
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:17 pm, puhiawa said:

    Obamalitism is sinking the ship and the Captain is getting a bit testy.

  102. #102
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:18 pm, puhiawa said:

    Lots of us Hawaiians on the thread today.

  103. #103
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:29 pm, TexasTiger said:

    “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

    =I didn’t think this would get out.

    Dubbya is a pretty good athlete, but Obama would kick his tail in hoops.

    That’s ’cause no one can backpedal as fast as Oh!b♥m♥. Plus Oh!b♥m♥ would put the rim at 15′ for 43…just to level the playing field.

  104. #104
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, puhiawa said:

    “I didn’t say it as well as I could have” = “Where is the cover I have come to expect from the MSM? Where every idiocy Michelle and I mutter gets reported like it was an original thought, instead of retread Limousine Liberal BS?”

  105. #105
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:19 pm, Marshall Russ said:

    The MSM will be all over the non-apology apology. All the news shows should be interesting tomorrow. The bottom line will be “it’s Bush’s fault”.

  106. #106
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:14 pm, almeehan said:

    I’m into guns and have my faith, precisely because of dangerous, clueless people like him who threaten my life, my family and my country.
    He would make a good Zimbabwean.

  107. #107
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:15 pm, behiker said:

    I’m amazed, I just saw a report on this on my local ABC 11:00 news in Richmond, VA. And it didn’t make Obama look very good.

  108. #108
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am, behiker said:

    Obama said… “If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that,” Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.

    “IF”? “IF”? Why can’t this guy say “I offended people with my comments, I’m sorry”.

    I’m beginning to fear the damage he could do to this country as much as I did/do fear what algore would do.

    Guess I’m just a typical white person, but I need to go to bed so I can get up early to go to church in the morning.

  109. #109
    On April 13th, 2008 at 3:35 am, puhiawa said:

    LOL. Obama makes Bush seem tone deaf.He is SOOOO clueless.

  110. #110
    On April 13th, 2008 at 7:47 am, cf said:

    Really incredible — with the nuthouse church Obama belongs to, & he has the nerve to ridicule churches in Pennsylvania.

  111. #111
    On April 13th, 2008 at 8:11 am, iamsaved said:

    Foxnews kept asking its listeners to respond to a survey to indicate whether or not they found Obama’s comments offensive. Personally, I didn’t find them offensive, but rather enlightening as to the make-up of this man.

    One thing I noticed is Barack Obama must not consider himself very religious as he doesn’t find his rascist church’s doctrines worth clinging to.

    His statement also let me know without a doubt his stance on the 2nd Amendment.

    My question is, what does he cling to? What does he hold as precisous to him? Power? Prestige? Money?

    I wonder who he is talking to when he makes condescending statements like that? It must be a small minority of people who are still bitter about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the Midwest 25 years ago. Most people evenually accept the fact and move on with their lives. Those who are still wallowing in self-pity are the same ones waiting for the government to come and rescue them - sort of like many of the Katrina victims.

    If you really want to see arogance at it’s pinnacle, watch Michele Obama if she becomes First Lady.

  112. #112
    On April 13th, 2008 at 9:15 am, ajmontana said:

    cf said:
    Really incredible — with the nuthouse church Obama belongs to, & he has the nerve to ridicule churches in Pennsylvania.

    exactly, obama is high. still.

  113. #113
    On April 13th, 2008 at 9:51 am, Dimsdale said:

    Obama is a lawyer, supposedly a fairly good one, given his election (?) to editor of the Harvard Law Review (even without publishing in it himself).

    For lawyers, words are the tools of their craft. You know the old legal saying, “never ask a question for which you don’t already know the answer.”

    So how come the Obamas make such egregious and elitist gaffes? Occam’s Razor demands that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one, and as such, it follows that the Obamas ARE elitist snobs who got much of what they have via means that did not involve their personal skills or abilities.

    How can anyone say that BHO was a good lawyer? Is there a trail of court battles we can look at? Of course, the exact same thing can be said of Hillary.

    They are both portrayed as the best, the brightest, the most capable, the most experience, and then they make the ameteurish mistakes of the most inexperienced tyro, a sure sign that everything has been spoon fed to them all of their lives because of who they are and not what they can do, and when push comes to shove, they stumble.

    I think they call that an empty (pant)suit.

  114. #114
    On April 13th, 2008 at 10:09 am, DaveC said:

    Dimsdale #13:

    that sums it up nice..

  115. #115
    On April 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am, jim m said:

    So, Michelle has now become a Communist/Socialist and demands that everyone must be equal in America irrespective of their hard work and education? The US is a meritocracy–the best people go to the best schools and get the best jobs. That’s the way it is.

    Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

  116. #116
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:20 am, Jim M. said:

    Again, there are two people here that use “Jim M” - I use caps for the first letters of my name and the evil one uses small letters.

  117. #117
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:27 am, TexasTiger said:

    Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

    Jim M:
    It’s sweeter than that. She got into Princeton because her brother was a star hoopster for the Tigers. In other words, she was a LEGACY–the same term semi-literate liberals use to smear 43 in reference to his admission to Yale.

  118. #118
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am, TexasTiger said:

    Oops. Sorry, Jim M.

  119. #119
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am, radio relay said:

    Hey, “evil jim m”! Here’s a clue…

    The ivy league schools discriminate against Asians. Seems that Asians believe in hard work and actual scholarship to get their good grades. That’s not popular with the bitter elites

  120. #120
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am, gandolphxx said:

    If you want to have a fun jolt for the morning - Halp us Brak… - it really a nice takeoff on the Kary fiasco.

  121. #121
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am, Marshall Russ said:

    Well, the talking heads are trying to explain what Obambi really meant when he said what he said. What they are not saying is that Hillary is staying in the race because of this very reason. He is going to self destruct beyond help if he has not already done so. I for one am glad she is. The MSM will not be able to ignore his total ineptitude and hide his incompetence as long as Hillary is screeching about it.

  122. #122
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, 3Steps said:

    I am bitter.

    /and a Christian
    //and a gun owner
    ///and against Shamnesty
    ////But then.. there wasn’t a chance in heck I was ever going to vote for him anyway.

  123. #123
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pm, Bob1234 said:

    As one born and raised in small-town Pennsylvania a long time ago, I can assure you that many of the folks there are religious, and many are strong supporters of Second Amendment gun rights. But, those attitudes are definitely not the result of “bitterness” resulting from economic setbacks, as he suggests. They existed long before the factories moved away. I doubt there is, by and large, any more “bitterness” among Pennsylvanians than among folks anywhere.

    And, coming from someone who has sat through 20 years of Wright’s sermons oozing with insane bitterness of Herculean proportions, the irony of his comment is overwhelming!

  124. #124
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm, SHoward said:

    “jim m,”

    Are you talking about our lovely and gracious hostess, or Michelle Obama?

    Inquiring minds want to know…..

  125. #125
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm, Travis McGee said:

    I’m going to cling to my guns until Barack sends somebody to pry it from my cold dead hands.

  126. #126
    On April 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm, brentano said:

    The leftist equivalent of religion = knee jerk darwinism & global warming mythology.

    The leftist equivalent of guns = kangaroo courts and “human rights committees” as weapons to shut down speech that threatens you.

    Oh, and you don’t know the meaning of bitter until you’ve come face to face with a typical democrat.

  127. #127
    On April 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm, txvet2 said:

    I just don’t understand what everybody’s so exercised about. It’s not as if he called somebody something derogatory, like “macaca”. After all, every liberal knows that rural and small town people are all inbred and stupid, easily led by their preachers and KKK bosses.

  128. #128
    On April 13th, 2008 at 2:46 pm, Helene said:

    I grew up in small-town in western PA when the steel mills were downsizing. The economy was fragile then and is fragile now. Some people were/are bitter ata the job loss. Others moved on.
    Obama appears to be speaking from experience. His minister is bitter. His wife is bitter. This bitterness may actually be coloring his comments now.
    People in PA are not a bunch of knuckle-dragging, gun totin’, snuff dippin’, crazed, bitter people supporting dubiouis churches.

  129. #129
    On April 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, Dimsdale said:

    brentano said:

    Oh, and you don’t know the meaning of bitter until you’ve come face to face with a typical democrat.

    I think you left out “hateful,” if liberal blogs are any indication. Ignorant is probably apropos as well.

  130. #130
    On April 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm, jim m said:

    I’m talking about our hostess, Michelle Malkin. You know, the one that got into Oberlin (okay, it’s technically a mini-Ivy, not a full blown Ivy) probably because she was Asian.

  131. #131
    On April 13th, 2008 at 6:53 pm, terrig said:

    Again Jim M, is Oberling the only stinking college in this country? There are not other colleges and universities?

  132. #132
    On April 13th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, terrig said:

    Sorry, should be Oberlin-

  133. #133
    On April 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm, terrig said:

    Mea culpa again to Jim M, should be jim m.

  134. #134
    On April 14th, 2008 at 12:44 am, Dimsdale said:

    “little” (lowercase?) jim m said:

    Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

    I hardly see Ms. Malkin as a “failure,” particularly as she is so successful at tweaking the noses of liberals such as yourself (the truth really does hurt).

    It is amusing to watch little jim m try to turn the observations of elitism in the Obamas against Ms. Malkin. Yet it is Ms. Obama that complains about the country that allowed her to achieve her success, while Ms. Malkin does nothing but praise it. Ms. Obama is the one crying that she just can’t make it on her (their) enormous incomes, yet I hear nothing remotely analogous in Ms. Malkin’s writings.

    It is BHO that belittles people with beliefs he does not share, imperiously declaring that their religious beliefs, their beliefs in the Second Amendment etc., are aberrant products of their economic problems, as if