I want to my add my two cents onto the excellent rundown Mike gave of the Obama apology below. One thing this man sure is good at making apologies that are basically apologies for how stupid us viewers and readers are. First attempt:
[O]bviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that. The underlying truth of what I said remains, which is simply that people who have seen their way of life upended because of economic distress are frustrated and rightfully so.
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.
Spin and more spin. His off the cuff remark can only be taken one way unfortunately for him….Believing in border enforcement and the fact that illegal immigrants should be illegal, believing in the Second Amendment, and worshiping your God is a good thing, are all things those working class white folks wouldn’t be doing if the elite in this country hadn’t forced them into it.
Allah’s take on the situation is superb:
All this really is, of course, is a variation on the left’s refrain about the “politics of fear,” in which any issue that might conceivably benefit a conservative opponent — immigration, “values,” and above all terrorism — is waved away as a stumbling block to progress contrived by The Man to keep the People down.
And Newt’s even better:
If you go to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then move on to Columbia University and Harvard Law School, you may not understand normal Americans. Their beliefs are so alien to your leftwing viewpoint that you have to seek some psychological explanation for what seem to be weird ideas.
They can’t really believe in the right to bear arms.
They can’t really believe in traditional marriage.
They can’t really believe in their faith in God.
They can’t really want to enforce the law on immigration.
Therefore, they must be “bitter” and “frustrated.”
This is the closest Senator Obama has come to openly sharing his wife’s view that “America is a mean country”. Not since Governor Dukakis have we seen anyone so out of touch with normal Americans. It makes perfect sense that it was in a fundraiser in San Francisco that he would have shared the views he has so carefully kept hidden for the entire campaign.
Ed Morrissey also links to this video of the same appearance in question in which he implies that the small town folk are a bunch of closet racists:
Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism.
Nice…but not surprising if you have read much of his books. In his book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“…..the white Southerner who growing up heard his dad talk about niggers this and niggers that but who has struck up a friendship with the black guys at the office and is trying to teach his own son different, who thinks discrimination is wrong but doesn’t see why the son of a black doctor should get admitted into law school ahead of his own son”.
As Newt said, the man has no understanding of rural America so he pushes the implicit racism into his description of folks he doesn’t quite get.
In the end this may come down as the Obama version of the Dean Scream. The MSM is in his corner so they will most definitely run interference for him….but ya never know.
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