“His heart is left, in San Francisco…”
Friday, April 18th, 2008 By David HansenIt was news to me just now that Obama made his the-little-people-cling-to-God-and-guns remarks before donors in San Francisco and not, as I had imagined, in some place like Sharon, PA. If he had been in the Keystone State, it would have been plain stupidity behind this putdown of real Americans.
But the fact that he was speaking to San Francisco liberals speaks to out-and-out duplicy on the part of the junior Senator from Illinois.
As usual, Peggy Noonan hits the nail on the head (Wall Street Journal Online, 4/18):
Sen. Obama seems honestly surprised by the furor…[h]e was only caught speaking the secret language of America’s elite, and what he said was not meant as a putdown. It was an explanation aimed at ameliorating the elites’ anger toward and impatience with normal people. It’s a way of explaining them, of saying, “You have to remember they’re not comfortable and educated like us, they’re vulnerable and so we must try to understand them and feel sympathy for and solidarity with them.” You could say this at any high-class dinner party in America and not cause a ruffle. But America is not a high-class dinner party.
Tags: Liberal Elitism
