Bitter and Not Backing Down.

I must be honest here. I am very upset with the Democratic National Convention (DNC). I have never been so appalled at childish and tactless planning as I have in this election. Before you get all hot and bothered, I am not a bitter Hillary-ite. I am merely a bitter American. There is one quote out there that really burns me to the core, and I am here to tell you now that I have and will continue to voice my opinion about this statement. The statement I am referring to is one made by Presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Mr. Obama must not think about the things he says, and when people get upset, it’s not surprising then he clings to scare tactics or attacks on others mishaps or promotion of some meaningless “new-age” plan that he has no intentions of carrying out. The quote of course is this one said at his April 9^th fundraiser.

“You go into some of 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. 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.”

He says that his intent was to explain the “blue collar culture” to much wealthier contributors. I believe that his true intent was to target and single out these middle class people, who were unquestionably Hillary supporters, and point out the most rash of stereotypes in order to outrage his supporters into giving more money to try and halt these practices. As a true politician knows, combative contributors are quite a bit more “giving” if they think that their offerings will end practices that they do not feel comfortable with.

Basically, it would be like Senator Obama coming to any moose lodge or local bar and saying that, “Those hippies in Californy are purty mad that those there other prezidints didn’t make theys global problems a big fuss while theys was in office. Purty much, I thank, that if the good lord had of wanted this here land to be cooler, he would have made it that way. Don’t make no difference to me, corn and tobacca are purty hearty crops. They ain’t goin’ no where. But, when they ain’t got what they wanted, they did jus’ what them tree huggers would do and they started big fancy balls and fun’raisers, and drove they big fancy cars out to some mon-u-mint and they preten’ed that they warn’t gonna give up on theys fights. What with peace rallies and such, or world hunger or whatever. Them rich folk, they ain’t got nothin’ better to do with they fancy money, shoot. I ain’t got no money for ya mister o-bam-a but I will take my new huntin’ rifle and scare ‘em up a li’l’ bit.”

You wonder why I make such a brash statement, but I am standing here now telling you that this is close to what many of those contributors from “Californy” pictured in their minds. As outrageous as you or I may think it is, for people who don’t know, it is all they have to go on. And that was the whole intent of the thing. Senator Obama wanted to scare them, into targeting people who aren’t like them as a way to explain their frustrations. Wait. I think I have heard that sentiment before. Woah. Looks to me like the intent behind this statement should insult contributors as much as it did Midwesterners.

I guess that the intent behind this rant is to explain my disgust with the political process in 2008. And I am aware that it is not just Senator Obama that is doing it. This statement was just the one that I could best relate to. I am a middle class Midwesterner, and I do not cling to “guns or religion or antipathy” when I am “bitter.” I can write in complete sentences, speak using proper grammar, and peacefully interact with people who are different. So, Mr. Obama, stick that in your juice box and suck it.

~ by anarchysrioting on June 13, 2008.