5-14-08

One Thing is for Sure, April 15 Obama Told Us he is Bitter!

April 15 in San Francisco Barack Hussein "Kenya Sunni al-Queda" Obama made a comment which has been labeled "Bittergate." Richard Nixon's self destruction is known as Watergate, and when a president or presidential candidate engages in self destruction writers add "gate" to the event, to inform the reader the event is serious and self destructive in nature. In Obama's "Bittergate" he lashed out at people who live in small towns by saying, in a round about way, they are nothings - unemployed and don’t know it, do nothing, have nothing, and too stupid to change nothing. Because they are small town nothings they cling to their dumb US Constitution, Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms. Because they are small town nothings they cling to their dumb US Constitution, First Amendment, which directs Congress to make no law which establishes a state religion or prohibits the free exercise of religion. Because they are small town nothings they have antipathy for people who are not like them, African- American, Sunni, al-Queda, Jacob “Holocaust” Rothschild’s New World Order communi$t$. Obama also seems to be saying Clinton and Bush did not change these small town nothings, but he will. In other words, Obama went "nuts" "off" with a capital "OFF."

Certainly there is no doubt Obama was bitter and frustrated about something that night. Was Obama bitter at small town people and used them as a parable to tell us he is bitter at himself? What was going on that night which made Obama feel so bitter and frustrated that he lashed out at small town people and some of America's most cherished institutions, guns and freedom of religion and by extension the US Constitution? Were there gays there that conjured up his bitterness toward his own gayness? Who knows. One thing is for sure, the Obama campaign does not want to go there and is addressing the problem by declaring he has won the Democratic nomination for president.

Everyone with even the slightest sense knows there are big time problems with Obama as the next US president and the big media propaganda machine can hide it but it is not going to change it. Obama's ridiculous San Francisco remark may be telling that Obama knows he and his candidacy is a major screw up. The biggest screw up is Jacob "Holocaust" Rothschild wants Obama president. What Rothschild wants the American people don't want.

Here is what he said: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and -- like a lot of small towns in the Midwest -- the jobs have been gone 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 going to regenerate and they have not. It's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy (strong or deep-rooted dislike;) to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations."

One can tell the American people Obama is bitter and their response, Yawn. One can tell the American people Obama is a communi$t who is where he is because Jacob "Holocaust" Rothschild has made Obama, Yawn. How is this possible? Because one heck of a lot of Americans are like Obama, bitter. Killing begets killing. War begets War. Hate begets hate. Bitterness begets bitterness. Misery may love company but a large bitter crowd solves nothing and is dangerous. So if you want to get rid of bitterness, you seek a president who is not bitter.

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Last updated April 25, 2008 4:38 p.m. PT

Obama's 'bittergate' is campaign caricature
ALBERT R. HUNT
GUEST COLUMNIST

There are virtues to a long campaign in a large, politically diverse country like the U.S.; the caricatures they produce are not among them.

John McCain isn't a warmonger. He never said we'd be in Iraq for 100 years, and his war views, even if you don't agree with them, are coherent and consistent. Hillary Clinton isn't a coward. She didn't face sniper fire in Bosnia in 1996, though as first lady she did venture into a war-torn country.

And Barack Obama isn't an elitist. When he graduated from Harvard Law School he didn't join a Wall Street firm or serve on the board of a big company; he became a community organizer at a fraction of what he could have made.

Yet for most of last week, charges of elitism, growing out of comments he made about the "bitter" resentments of working folks, have dominated the news. At a sophomoric debate in Philadelphia, the questions zeroed in on "bittergate" right out of the box. There were no questions on health care, climate change or China.

This is a case study in what has been called the "feeding frenzy" of contemporary American politicians and media, and of the perils of cheap labels.

Sometimes campaign-formed stereotypes are pertinent. John Kerry did lack the common touch, and George W. Bush is incurious.

More often the stereotypes are irresponsible and lazy. Ronald Reagan wasn't an "amiable dunce," and Al Gore wasn't a serial liar.

Nor is Obama an out-of-touch, upscale, effete elitist.

Here is what he said: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and -- like a lot of small towns in the Midwest -- the jobs have been gone 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 going to regenerate and they have not. It's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy (strong or deep-rooted dislike;)
to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations."

This was inartfully worded at an unfortunate venue -- a private San Francisco fundraiser of chardonnay-and-brie liberals. It's also basically true.

Most people of faith aren't bitter and don't cling to religion out of insecurity. Obama didn't say that.

What he did say is that some frustrated, even bitter, people turn more to religion as a salve, a salvation. Sometimes that's good -- the church was the underpinning of the American civil rights movement.

Sometimes it's bad; in the most extreme case, religious fundamentalist terrorists have flourished in states that have failed politically or economically like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

In the U.S., religious conservatives were politically active in the first part of the last century. Then, embarrassed by the Scopes trial on evolution and the folly of Prohibition, they were largely politically quiescent for half a century.

Three decades ago, playing on their anger and bitterness over the political and economic system, people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson reactivated them. It's not questioning the sincerity of their beliefs to note that some of these followers cling to religion as an answer to their frustrations. Talk to them.

And the driving force of the gun lobby's success is that politicians don't care about you and are out to get you. Most hunters and gun owners are like most people of faith; it's a natural and healthy way of life. The National Rifle Association and others, however, play on insecurities to rile up an often unhealthy culture.

Similarly, nativism, or anti-immigration sentiment, is stoked today, as it was a century ago, by frustrations and bitterness.

The correlation to political promises or success is dicier. Yet Pennsylvania, the subject of this contretemps, historically is notable for its lack of political leaders.

There has been only one American president from this large state, James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861, probably the worst in U.S. history. During the last century, there hasn't been a single leading national politician from Pennsylvania.

(To be sure, there have been some superb political leaders: Democratic mayors like the late Richardson Dilworth in Philadelphia and Republican governors like Bill Scranton; none ever rose to the highest plateau of American politics.)

Judging by polls and conversations with some voters, rank- and-file Pennsylvanians see through the phoniness of bittergate.

In Bristol -- a working- and middle-class community in lower Bucks County that has lost its manufacturing plants in recent decades -- several Obama supporters dismissed this flap. Over lunch, they worried that the controversy over Obama's former pastor might linger; by contrast, they say, the elitist rap is only about politics and the media's obsessions.

"I can't understand why they pounced on this," says Anthony Angellilli, a 78-year-old retired roofer. Not long ago, he notes, he returned to work part-time as a maintenance man at a book factory. He was replaced by cheaper and, he says, illegal immigrants: "Yeah, I'm bitter about that."

This Mill Street Cafe lunch crowd hopes Obama's candidacy is an antidote to these resentments.

The surrealness of the "elitism" episode crystallized when former House Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich declared it showed that Obama doesn't "understand normal Americans."

This is from a man who gave his first wife her walking papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery; his second marriage dissolved when he had an affair with a House staff member while he was leading the effort to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about sex.

Albert R. Hunt is the executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News.