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Barack Obama: Uppity or Arrogant?
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John Hawkins
August 08, 2008
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." -- Barack Obama
Liberals are almost always insufferably arrogant. It sort of goes with
the territory. After all, if you believe that we have to throw
religious customs, hundreds of years' worth of societal traditions, and
the parts of the Constitution you disagree with into the wastebasket
based primarily on your "feeling" that they're antiquated or no longer
necessary, then you almost certainly must have an ego the size of a
small planet.
That brings us to Barack Obama, who, even amongst liberals, is
notorious for being full-of-himself. Conservatives who have pointed
this out have been recently accused, rather uncreatively I might add,
of calling Obama "uppity."
The whole idea and concept of a black man being "uppity" or acting
above his station by doing things white people do...didn't that go out
in like the fifties? I was born in the seventies, grew up in the heart
of the deep South, in small town North Carolina, and I don't ever
recall someone referring to a black man as "uppity." Not to say that
there weren't racists in that town (There were) or that no one ever
thinks like that anymore (There probably are still a few Robert Byrds
out there), but if the Democrats have to reach that far into obscurity
to try to keep people from talking about Obama's arrogance, then they
must really believe that Obama's tendency to turn his nose up at the
Hoi-Polloi is a weak point. Incidentally, they're right -- it is.
The American people don't like snobbish political hacks with delusions
of grandeur, like Obama, and the more they get to know him, the less
they will like him personally.
Granted, it must be pretty heady stuff for Obama to have teenage girls
fainting while he speaks and 200,000 Germans chanting his name. Of
course, the average rock star has had those same sort of experiences
and most of them are still grounded enough to avoid saying something as
conceited as, "We are the ones we've been waiting for." On the other
hand, Obama would make a great rock star, wouldn’t he? He'd
probably be one of those rappers who repeats his own name 50 times in a
three minute long song.
It's that kind of arrogance that makes lines like this one just seem to naturally roll off his tongue,
"You got 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 to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations."
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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