The Real Obama Finally Stands Up

- Scott Miller

He’s spent the past year getting a major pass from our socialist media. Nary a tough question has been asked. His background has barely been scoured. His questionable associations with some of the most radical elements of the political left had been left alone. All along, he gives largely unspecific soaring speeches, and smiles his way to primary win after primary win… until now.

Remember that old game show? To Tell the Truth… where the catch phrase “Will the real (name) please stand up”? The host would run through a series of hints, and then the real person would eventually have to reveal themselves.

Well, the real Barack Obama has finally stood up. He did so in a ultra exclusive fundraiser last weekend in San Fransico with a bunch of his billionaire buddies (and the Republican party is the party of the rich?). This from the Baltimore Sun:

Obama’s bitter taste of own words

Sen. Barack Obama, who concedes he could have chosen his words better when he spoke about a bitterness among working class voters last week in a closed-door setting, is paying for those words with a weekend of public complaints from the Clinton campaign about his “condescending’’ attitude toward small-town America.

Yet, even in addressing the question again today, Obama’s more carefully chosen words have left him vulnerable to a cascade of complaints from Clinton campaign surrogates – the mayors of small-town Pennsylvania supporting Clinton’s candidacy – who spoke out today in a campaign-orchestrated chorus of scripted indignation.

It’s the word, it seems, that Obama cannot get around: “Bitter.’’

“Condescending,’’ replies Tom Vilsack, ex-governor of Iowa and a Clinton-backer from a state where Obama had launched his successful campaign with a strunning (sic) caucus victory over the senator long perceived as the front-runner in the party.

Speaking Sunday at a closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama had said he understands why some working-class voters become frustrated and vote on single issues. “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 had said, in an address revealed in bits and pieces this week by The Huffington Post online, delivering the controversial words on Friday.

Yet speaking today, he didn’t say it all that differently — leaving the opposing campaign the same opening to take offense at a sweeping characterization of working class voters in small towns where Clinton and Obama are competing for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter,” Obama said today in Muncie, Ind. “They are angry. They feel like they’ve been left behind. They feel like nobody is paying attention to what they’re going through.

“So, I said, well you know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on,’’ Obama said today. “Some people, you know, they vote about guns, or they take comfort in 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, you know, how things are changing.’’

Vilsack, former governor of Iowa and an ex-mayor of his adopted hometown Mount Pleasant, grew up in Western Pennsylvania.

“I think I have a good understanding of the thoughts and feelings and motivations and beliefs of those who live in small communities, whether it be in Pennsylvania or in my state in Iowa or for that matter, across the United States,’’ Vilsack said in a conference call today organized by the Clinton campaign. “After reading and reviewing Sen. Obama’s comments, I have found them to be condescending and disappointing.”

And they reflect in my view a very flawed reading and understanding of people who live in small towns in Pennsylvania and across the United States,” Vilsack said. “Folks who work everyday, play by the rules, and want to do right by their families and their communities.

“He suggests that people are bitter,’’ Vilsack said. “I think they are frustrated. I think they are anxious because eight years of the Bush economy has not done what it needs to do. What they want is not a pat on the head from a presidential candidate; they want a pat on the back… to be told that there is a plan which is a way to make things better, and leaders who are dedicated to making that happen.

“The most glaring misreading and misunderstanding of people in small towns were Sen. Obama’s comments about God and guns,’’ Vilsack said. “He suggests that in some way the faith of those who live in small towns is superficial. It’s used as a crutch in a time of need. That’s not what I know.

“What I know is that our faith is real and it is rooted. It is the foundation of our values system,’’ he said. “It is what defines how we live our lives, and most importantly of all, how we raise our families. It is true. It is genuine.

“His comment about guns suggests that they are an instrument that we use somehow to protect ourselves from the outside world, to isolate ourselves from the outside world. When in fact, guns are a reflection of what we do with our family and our friends. It’s how we pass on, through hunting, family traditions that are strong and how we form friendships that are lifelong.

So here’s my own little version of To Tell the Truth hints about the real Barack Obama:

He’s a radical socialist with strong ties to the black separatist movement and black liberation theology
He’s says he’s friendly with William Ayers, cofounder of the terrorist group the Weather Underground. A group that bombed the US Capitol, the Pentagon, and the Harry Truman Building in DC.
His pastor, of 20 years, is an anti-American racist who is good friends with the anti-Semite Louis Farrahkan
His Ivy League educated wife has never been proud of her country until just this year, and claims that America is just a down-right mean country
He’s pledged to lose the war in Iraq, and raise taxes on every tax paying American if elected
He’s an elitist leftist who looks down on most of the rest America
and finally… he thinks white middle-class Americans are racist, ant-immigrant, bitter voters that cling to their religion and guns out of frustration