Obama's elitist comment made into a Clinton campaign ad

What is sad here is that this whole debate is over a caricature of what Obama said. He said that people have been promised in rural America for so long that things would get better, and they haven't . So they cling to their family , faith, and issues like guns and gays, because they don't believe the government can make any difference in their lives.
Our policies have not helped people recently. If we spent more here on infrastucture and moving to more renewable energy, there would be more jobs all over the country. But instead we make the military industrial complex and the oil companies happy. Trickle down doesn't work; percolate up does, but it's not what this administration believes in. This country is headed for big trouble, unless we change that. And maybe even then.

A statement from the Rude Pundit (rudepundit dot blogspot dot com - careful... he has a potty mouth and a brilliant mind: two things that make righties' heads explode):

Clinton's and McCain's statements attacking Obama are not just disingenuous, but they are, in fact, the elitist wishful thinking of the privileged class. They want to homogenize the anger, they want to whitewash away the very real differences of class, and they cry the plaintive cry of every wealthy liberal who ever gave money to support a union: "We're all in this together." That's a BS belief. (And Clinton, who has worked really hard for the working class people of New York, ... knows better than to say the [stuff] she's spouting.)

Obama wasn't looking down on anyone or disrespecting the workers of America. He was acknowledging something real about small towns where the factories have closed, where the economic centers have been shuttered, and where the people have been told that a tax cut for millionaires is what's going to get them their jobs and economic security back. Obama's giving those people voice and agency: when you are disempowered, you seek other means to have power, whether it's through the gun or through the disempowering of others, or through the comfort of faith, which promises you oodles in heaven for your sufferings on earth.

Amen and amen and amen again.

I think the one thing we've learned though all these various brouhahas is:

Average Americans do not deserve to be spoken to like adults. If they want to act like foot-stomping two-year-olds, they deserve to be treated as such by the mollycoddling ego-stroking do-nothings they elect.

I'm lucky - I'll die in 30-40 years, and I'm not planning on breeding. Your children and grandchildren will have to live with the legacy of this nonsense.

Good luck with that.

"should Obama make hay out of the G.O.P.er who referred to Obama as "that boy"

Obama made HUGE hay out of that through his campaign manager. Everyone around him plays the race card constantly. Now there's a whole list of harmless words we can't use, and positions we can't take, because we'll just get the R-bomb dropped on us. It's laziest, worst kind of negative campaigning.

And BTW, "boy" legitimately referred to his age. And it's much less of a attack than calling somebody a gun-toting zenophobic Jesus freak.

BTW - at mid 40s, I think "man" is a more accurate descriptor.

Of course, for folks like ZZ who see no problem calling a grown black man "boy," in full knowledge of the way that term was used to subjugate, it's perfectly okay. Apparently, white people, especially the moneyed, white variety, love to think of the world as having no past, (and preferably no future).

And it's much less of a attack than calling somebody a gun-toting zenophobic Jesus freak.

Gosh - it's a good thing no one has said that (except you, you Xenophobic, gun-toting, Jesus freak.)

The voters do seem to know what he was thinking; that's why he's surging in Indiana and holding steady in PA.

It's absurd to accuse Obama of being elitist, particularly if the people making the accusations have an income of over a million dollars in one instance and in the other, is the son and grandson of rear admirals. Obama could have made millions himself when he graduated from law school but he chose instead to work as a community organizer in Chicago with laid-off steelworkers, going to meetings in church basements. Yeah, he's a real elitist. What a bunch of hooey. It's as phony as Cindy McCain's "home" recipes.

For anyone who isn't already thoroughly sick of this whole debate, here's a link to a good article about what Obama REALLY said about Pa., from someone who was at that fundraiser:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coleman/i-was-there-what-obama-re_b_96553.html

"Tell us, Michele, should Obama make hay out of the G.O.P.er who referred to Obama as "that boy" (see elsewhere in B'net today for complete story)???"

Are you asking from a political perspective or from a let's get the Republicans perspective?

I ask because if I were him I wouldn't want to jump on every racist remark that is made so I wouldn't give Clinton an opening to bring up race again.