Dig in Deep

I just think that this is too darn funny:

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. 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 toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Not that it’s surprising to hear a liberal presidential candidate talk this way, honestly. It’s just funny because Obama is supposed to be this post-racial, post-partisan, savior-of-the-free-world messiah of a presidential candidate. And like how he stepped in it recently over Jeremiah Wright and proved that he’s a liar just like all the other politicians out there (just not as good of one), now he shows that he’s just as disdainful of the regular folks your run-of-the-mill liberal.

Surprise, surprise, Obama. Not everyone wants sex education for five-year-olds. “Post-racial” candidates shouldn’t even use terms like “typical white person” and talk about how they are inherently racist for being concerned when passing someone on the street. Not everyone believes you when you say you’ve been going to a church for 20 years and had no idea that your pastor was so anti-American. And most of the country doesn’t agree with you that support for gun rights or devotion to a religion are products of bitterness over economic conditions. (Both specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights, the last time I looked, so they must have been pretty bitter way back in 1791!)

For all the promise of the Obama campaign, it looks indeed to be all fluff. When you finally get past all the talk about coming together and believing in change, as I believe we are beginning to, what you really find is your run-of-the-mill liberal.

The only Democrat to be elected president in the last 30 years did so by pretending he was a conservative. I don’t consider 2008 to be a sure-win for conservatives in any way, but one thing is for sure – liberals have a lot to learn.