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Friday, August 08, 2008
John Hawkins :: Townhall.com Columnist
Barack Obama: Uppity or Arrogant?
by John Hawkins
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That quote is a window into Barack Obama's world. There are the enlightened few, like Barack Obama, and then there are the "little people" who are bitter and cling to "guns," "religion," or "anti-immigrant sentiment" because their primitive brains have left them frustrated and unable to see the big picture. The "bitter people" need a man like Barack Obama in the White House, a Harvard grad who enjoys arugula and basking in the limelight in Europe, to make the decisions for them that tragically, they're just not learned enough to make on their own.

The deep irony here is that many of the frustrated "bitter" people that Obama peers down on from on high are just as qualified to be President of the United States as he is. Obama has never served in the military, in the House, or as a governor. He has never run a business, was just elected to the Senate in 2004, and has had exactly one hard-fought political victory in his entire career (against Hillary Clinton). So, who would be more qualified to be President: Obama or, let's say, a guy who served a couple of tours in the military, got out, started his own successful small business, and has served a couple of terms on his local city council? I have few doubts that the city councilman would be far more in touch with the real world and more competent to lead the country than someone who was so haughty and dare I say, messianic that he proclaimed,

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

This guy has never run a business, run a state, or served in the military, but he's going to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet? There are people locked away in rubber rooms, drooling on the floor and talking to tiny pink elves, who are less delusional than Obama.

......And that is ultimately the problem with having a President who combines limited experience with towering arrogance. Putting Barack Obama in charge of the United States would be like making a cocky high school class President the new CEO of Wal-Mart. Not only would he not know what to do, he wouldn't know what not to do, or even that he doesn't know the difference.

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lipstick, pigs, kultur
A Washington Post editorial on Thursday put it well: “On a day when the Congressional Budget Office warned of looming deficits and a grim economic outlook, when the stock market faltered even in the wake of the government’s rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when President Bush discussed the road ahead in Iraq and Afghanistan, on what did the campaign of Senator John McCain spend its energy? A conference call to denounce Senator Barack Obama for using the phrase ‘lipstick on a pig’ and a new television ad accusing the Democrat of wanting to teach kindergartners about sex before they learn to read.”

Now that Rove has, astonishingly, admitted that McCain has lost his judgment, how can any rational person continue to support this sad lost duo? Here's what Rove said:

"McCain has gone in his ads one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test," said Rove. "Both campaigns ought to be careful about... there ought to be an adult who says: 'Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don't we make our point and get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don't include that one little last tweak in the ad?'"

Get it? Even the architect of right wing hate, and inheritor of Lee Atwater dirty tricks, is now on record as saying McCain has lost his marbles!

Nuff said.

Just because you say it?
"Just because you say it, don't make it so."

That's a quote from one of my friends, a Southerner of some great reputation.

This column, on the other hand, is ridiculous (and may even border on being 'innocuously racist').

Why is it ridiculous? Well, let's first examine the premise of supposed 'arrogance' on the part of Liberals and Progressives.

first of all, no one -- and that's NO ONE -- in modern politics has demonstrably acted more arrogant, either toward Congress, the Senate, or the American people, that G.W. Bush himself. And I mean, no one, unless it's Richard Cheney.

But back to refuting this ludicrous column:

I happened to grow up in the so-called 'liberated' North during the 1960s and 1970s and you know what? I heard Northern racists use the word 'uppity' quite a bit. Quite a bit. And the "N" bomb, and lot's of other stuff that's far too obscene to report here.

And I'm talking in casual conversation. CASUAL conversation, amongst other so-called 'white' people. (I guess because I myself am caucasian they thought I wouldn't notice, or that I somehow agreed with them.)

Just exactly what social vacuum does this apparently brain-closeted, semi-intelligent 'blogger' think he's living in anyway?

I stand by my friend's honest words:

"Just because you say it, don't make it so."
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