One week on the campaign trail with Napoleon Obama
First he alienates everybody who’s blue-collar, religious, pro-gun, and/or anti-NAFTA:
“You go into 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,” Obama said. “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. 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.”
There goes Pennsylvania!
What’s even more damaging about this comment is that it was delivered in a speech to California billionaires, and by a Democrat who publicly opposes NAFTA but has been reported as conveying private assurances to Canada that nothing would change if he were elected. Extra points for dissing the Clinton Administration, which most working-class people remember as their most positive experience with Democrats.
Then he alienates every pro-choice woman in America:
Barack Obama said anti-abortion Democrats are backing him because they feel he respects their opinion on the issue despite disagreement on it. ….”It may be that those who have opposed abortion get a sense that I’m listening to them and respect their position even though where we finally come down may be different,” he told reporters at a news conference.
“The mistake that pro-choice forces have sometimes made in the past, and this is a generalization so it has not always been the case, has been to not acknowledge the wrenching moral issues involved in it,” he said.
No. Just: no. That is a typical anti-choice line and it’s worse than false; it’s hugely offensive. It’s the kind of thinking that brings idiot men to my blog every time I post on abortion, trying to explain to me that it’s about bay-bees. “Don’t you unnerstan, it’s a bay-bee growing in there?” they plead. As if women thought abortion was like deciding whether to get mushrooms or extra cheese.
But hey, it’s good to know Barry respects the position of people who don’t think women should be entrusted with decisions over their own life and health. It reminds me of his man-crush on John Roberts, and how it pained him to think that a little thing like “ideology” might stand in the way of confirmation to the Supreme Court. “Ideology,” in this instance, referring to Roberts’ belief that women have no right to abortion and don’t even deserve equal pay for equal work. Hey, what’s a little ideology between ex-Harvard Law Review guys?
If Barry does become the nominee, I’m wondering who’ll still be around in November to vote for him. How many electoral votes does DailyKos have?
9 Responses to “One week on the campaign trail with Napoleon Obama”
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CognitiveDissonance says:
How many electoral votes does DailyKos have?
Exactly! How many people is this fraud going to throw under the bus before he’s finished? Let’s see, he’s now dissed women, boomers, older voters, working class people, gays, latinos, whites. Hmmm. Not many people left to vote for him. Doncha just love that unity guy?
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therealUK says:
Obama is a spoilt brat who primarly likes the approval of powerful and elite men, and has BIG problems with women, queers and the lower orders in general.
Even though his campaign will put out the right sort of sounding bullshit to gloss over his problems and try to draw in support across the board, reality slips through, and it’s very telling when it does.
Did you read his “I knew one of them homos once but he was not one of those icky sorts who proseletyses” bit ?
http://www.advocate.com/exclus.....d53285.asp
Such a weasel.
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therealUK says:
a follow-up thought. Both Obama and Hillary are politicians and they will both play the game and to a greater or lesser extent, modify the way they speak their “true” beliefs.
The difference between Obama and Hillary though is that Hillary seems to hold back on her more pro-woman, pro-LGBT, pro-socialised health care, pro-rights, strongly feminist (too radical for America !!) views, whereas Obama hides his reactionary, libertarian beliefs and hang-ups behind a “Democratic” suit and mask. A mask which more often slips when he’s unscripted of course.
He wants power and pretends it’s all about social reform. She wants social reform(*) and goes for the power to achieve that.
(*) not that I’m saying I agree with her ideas about what constitues or how to achieve a better world. I am anti-capitalist in a way thay HRC doesn’t seem to be for example, but in reality, for USA pres., HRC is best of a not-ideal bunch
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julia says:
This blog keeps me sane :).
‘The Obama Craze’ by Matt Gonzalez is the most comprehensive article I’ve seen on Obama’s political history. I don’t know how to do links or I’d post it here.
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Lost Clown says:
How many electoral votes does DailyKos have?
BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAA
I think I just pulled something.
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truepatriot says:
Obama’s comment confirmed how I feel about him and Obamabots with whom I never feel comfortable with. I myself a liberal person but I’m not convinced by BO. Obamabots call themselves all kind of good names such as upscales, more educated, more informed, higher income, more intelligent, more intellectual, etc. That’s a subtle way of saying: if you are not one of us, you are NOT good. They all have this snobby attitude of “being better being higher than others” written on their forehead. They are just “full of themselves” and seems don’t really see THOSE unlike them but also love their country. Supporting Obama is something so “in” and if the people are “not in”, Obamabots consider those are worse and out of date. The real mind and thoughts of Obama were finally disclosed. No matter people are liberals or conservatives, they should have true compassion on others and should all be inclusive. Putting down small-town America is not the way to win hearts and minds.
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slythwolf says:
Fuck Barack Obama. Fuck him. It’s the anti-women’s-ownership-of-our-own-goddamned-uteruses people who are ignoring the moral issues involved, namely, my moral right to the ownership of my own goddamned uterus. This on top of his bullshit about how when his daughters are teenagers he certainly doesn’t want them having any sex but he does think the school should still teach him about birth control–he’s a dick. He’s a misogynist dick who doesn’t think I’m human. Fuck him.
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K.A. says:
I have no respect for progressives who will vote for Obama (if he secures the nomination) because it’s “better than McCain.” Vote for a 3rd party if you’re so damn progressive. Obama ISN’T described by such a word. Radical feminists are progressive; liberal “progressive” feminists are far from it, and it took Obama to prove what I’ve suspected all along.
There is no way I’m voting for this misogynist, anti-progressive scum if he secures the nomination.
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julia says:
Thank you truepatriot, skythewolf and K.A. I went to a Code Pink event and many women said they’d never vote for Hillary. So I took off my pink shirt and left.
I am praying for the Ghost Of Andrea Dworkin come down from the heavens and shake us back to sanity.
If Hillary is not on the ballot I will support the other woman running: Cynthia McKinney. She’s the real thing, and if you don’t want to vote Obama, join me in voting for her!
