A former vice president who left office in disgrace coined the term effete intellectual snobs. I had not thought of that phrase for some time but Senator Obama’s recent speech in San Francisco brought it to mind in short order.
Thomas Sowell writing in Real Clear Politics :
Some of his recent talk in San Francisco has stirred up controversy because it revealed yet another blatant contradiction between Barack Obama's public image and his reality. Speaking privately to supporters in heavily left-liberal San Francisco, Obama let down his hair and described working class people in Pennsylvania as so "bitter" that they "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."
Like so much that Obama has said and done over the years, this is standard stuff on the far left, where guns and religion are regarded as signs of psychological dysfunction -- and where opinions different from those of the left are ascribed to emotions ("bitter" in this case), rather than to arguments that need to be answered. Like so many others on the left, Obama rejects "stereotypes" when they are stereotypes he doesn't like but blithely throws around his own stereotypes about "a typical white person" or "bitter" gun-toting, religious and racist working class people.
In politics, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification," when people react adversely to what was plainly said. Obama and his supporters were still busy "clarifying" Jeremiah Wright's very plain statements when it suddenly became necessary to "clarify" Senator Obama's own statements in San Francisco.
The leftists have no God because Marx, Lenin, and Stalin said there is no God. They decry, belittle, and satirize those that do worship God and their religion (unless it is a minority religion in the United States causing them to be politically incorrect).
How does Sen. Obama’s view differ from Sen. Clinton’s view on these subjects? In reality, they are identical. Effete intellectual snobs believe they have the truth and any other thoughts are the product of uneducated, gun toting, bible thumping, Nascar followers in wild woods of Pennsylvania and Indiana. These effete intellectual snobs believe that raising the educational level of these “typical white people” will suddenly turn them from their God, guns, and cars. Once educated, they will suddenly understand carbon credits, want to munch veggie quiche, and drink mineral water.
The true problem is that the leftists don’t understand our history but we understand theirs. In the evil empire, God, guns, and individual thought was banned. The villas on the black sea were filled with effete intellectual snobs who lived off the work of the uneducated. The people no longer had guns because the government disarmed them. Dissent was punished with a literal Siberia rather than just the failure to obtain tenure.
Clarify all they want but the lefties of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries are remarkably similar.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Improving Government, Bureaucracy Style
The article on the US Postal Service requires an update. For an unknown reason, the magazine that was most recently "damaged during processing" by our government agents in charge of the mail was not neatly deposited in a plastic magazine body bag but was mended using "We're Sorry" tape. Take the survey and let us know what you think happened.
You can choose but at least my magazine got her.
Monday, April 7, 2008
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