Snob-ama

Michael Goodwin:

Having grown up in one of those small Pennsylvania towns Sen. Barack Obama sneers at, I know what really makes people there "bitter." It's slick-talking politicians who look down on their beliefs and values.

Small-town people get doubly "bitter" when those pols have the gall to ask for their votes while demeaning their lives. See, even hicks don't like being played for suckers.

When they accused Obama of being out of touch for saying small-towners "cling to guns or religion" out of frustration, Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain were too kind.

Snob-ama is not just out of touch. He's from another planet.

He might consider going back there, because the White House now looks out of reach. All the more so because he later added opposition to gay marriage as another sign of benighted bitterness.

Snob-ama's lame concession yesterday that his mistake was "I didn't say it as well as I should have" only makes the repeated smear worse. He should get off his Ivy League horse and apologize to the millions of Americans he insulted. As it stands, he has confirmed he doesn't understand or respect them.

Through his warped vision, if you own a gun, oppose gay marriage or want our nation's borders sealed, you're just bitter over your lousy job. Amazingly, he even sees the embrace of God as a reaction to the bad economy.

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Turn his screed around and it comes out this way: If the hicks had good jobs, they wouldn't need God or guns. Then the borders could be wide open for the enlightened world to come here 'cause our hate would vanish.

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My hometown is little Lewistown, Pa. (pop. 10,000), where my life-long friend Jim Johnson was at work yesterday. Jim, who remains shocked by the Rev. Wright's rants, says his plumbing and heating contracting business is feeling the economic slowdown, but he isn't waiting for Snob-ama to save him.

"What he doesn't understand is that we don't necessarily look to the government to solve our problems," Jim told me. "We don't think of the next government program as the answer."

We talked for a few minutes about our children and about the scholarship program for local athletes Jim and I helped start. As usual, we laughed a lot.

And there wasn't a trace of bitterness.

If you started your career as a 'community organizer" and graduated into a politician you just don't get the same feel for what makes America work. You are always looking for government solutions for all of life's difficulties. As Goodwin points out, Obama has made matters worse by his explanations which suggest he really believes his bitter message, he just did not state it well. The problem is that ther is no good way to state a point of view that is counter to the facts.

The elite and out of touch respond to complaints about Obama's statement. They really beleive that stuff. They have no idea how revealing their attitude really is.