"Snob-ama's" "End of the Line" Campaign Gaffe ~ Serr8d's Cutting Edge

This might just be the misstep that brings Baracky down for good. And, you can thank Hillary's good friends at the Huffington Post for the final blow.

Karl's PW post pointed me to Mayhill Fowler (an unknown contributor at the Huffing Hippo) who posted audio from Baracky's April 6 fund raiser in San Francisco. In the audio (a bit grainy) you hear Baracky describing the good people of Pennsylvania to the left-coast elitists, "shooting" himself in the foot at least three times...since I can't lift the audio, I'll post the full transcript...

OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but I think it's fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre...I think they're misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to 'white working-class don't wanna work -- don't wanna vote for the black guy.' That's...there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today - kind of implies that it's sort of a race thing.

Here's how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn't buy it. And when it's delivered by -- it's true that when it's delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).

But -- so the questions you're most likely to get about me, 'Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What's the concrete thing?' What they wanna hear is -- so, we'll give you talking points about what we're proposing -- close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama's gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we're gonna provide health care for every American. So we'll go down a series of talking points.

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. 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. So it's not surprising then that 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.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.

Well...elitism, snobbery, condescension, arrogance. And not much subtlety involved, either.

How about this comment from a liberal at Huffpo, explaining Obama's remarks...

He observed ,and rightly so, that people who suffer do tend to cling to church, (we all knew that already, so no new knowledge there) or have apathy for politics and a disinterested government who does not seem to care for them. They have bitterness after being time and time again lied to, and feel anger at the helplessness of not being able to improve their lot in life…the guns are for letting some of that emotional steam off, for hunting to forget all kind of problems and getting distracted or just to get some meat at the table, and yes even sometimes used for mugging and getting someone’s money to buy groceries for the family.

These leftists really unnerstand half the nation, don't they? My God, these fools need only to open their pieholes and down they go.

Michelle Malkin (from whom I 'borrowed' the 'Snob-ama' titlework) points out...

"Now, we don’t need to guess anymore what he’s thinking when he’s on the campaign trail in rural and small-town Pennsylvania. Instead of hard-working, patriotic, faithful Americans, he sees “bitter,” “frustrated,” resentful scary people whom he’ll readily diss while sipping Chardonnay in Baghdad by the Bay."

But, but, Ace is the place for the best line so far...