Obama Dismisses and Attacks, Then Whines About Dismissals and Attacks
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I can't sit idly by and watch the culture war pass me by. It is time to choose sides. As Joshua 24:15 puts it, "choose this day whom you will serve."
Polls have shown that the more committed one is to (any) religious belief, the more conservative one tends to be politically. One’s views toward religion profoundly affect one’s commitment to political, social, and moral issues. In my articles, I seek to argue in favor of a religion-friendly view of culture, morality, and politics. Read more from this authorI had to laugh when I heard Barack Obama’s plaintive whining about Sarah Palin last night. I got the mental image of a kid sniffing while describing how a mean girl beat him up on the way home from school:
Wednesday night on stage in St. Paul, both Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani belittled Obama’s work as a community organizer in Chicago in the 80s. Obama called the reaction “curious,” as if he were trying to jump from a post-college job to the presidency.
“The question I have for them is that why would that kind of work be ridiculous? Who are they fighting for?” he said. “I think maybe that’s the problem - that’s part of why they’re out of touch and they don’t get it because they haven’t spent much time working on behalf of those folks.”
And he’s got his equally teary-eyed friends, like campaign manager David Plouffe, whining with him:
“Let’s clarify something for them right now,” Plouffe said in his Wednesday night posting. “Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.”
Plouffe mentioned that community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the womens’ suffrage movement, and labor rights. “Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up,” he said.
What makes it so so patently ridiculous that its funny is that they did the dismissing the value of such “valuable community contributions” first. In fact, Barack Obama personally trivialized Sarah Palin’s record as Mayor of a small town:
OBAMA: “Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years.”
How dare you do unto me as I did unto you! How dare you!
Obama somehow managed to conveniently forget that - as Governor of Alaska - Sarah Palin governed a staff that was at least TEN TIMES as large as Obama’s campaign. So when Obama laments Sarah Palin’s omission of his time spent as an (adjunct) law professor, et al, he has some ’splainin’ to do about his own omissions. And, just to put the icing on the cake, Obama’s own Convention bio didn’t mention Obama’s “law professor” status - or the abortion of the Constitution he presented to students.
What did Sarah Palin say? She carved him up by first recognizing his dismissal of her work on behalf of real Americans:
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better.
When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
One of Palin’s other barbs was right on target there, as he talks about Obama being concerned about the “Constitution”:
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay … he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America … he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights? Government is too big … he wants to grow it.
And she’s absolutely right: that IS his worry.
If that wasn’t laughably hypocritical enough, Barack Obama, David Axelrod and David Plouffe ALL attacked Sarah Palin even as they moaned about how she had attacked them.
They think they’re voters are too stupid to follow events and understand them. It may be the one thing they’re right about.
When I was in the fifth or sixth grade, there was this annoying little punk kid. One day, as I was walking home from school, I saw him teasing this Somoan girl. He mercilessly jibed her again and again; and then lightly ran out of the way when she charged after him. Well, as taunters often do, he enjoyed himself a little too much, and - while trying to let her come close to make it “funnier” - he got too close to her and she grabbed him. And that girl beat the living snot out of him.
To this day, I have to say it was one of the most satisfying things I have ever seen.
After all the destructive attacks against Sarah Palin by Barack Obama’s cockroaches, I felt something of the same vicarious satisfaction watching her speech.
I love it! For how long now, the Democrats have been hitting below the belt with their comments regarding Sarah Palin being “Inexperienced; a “Hockey Mom: a wife and mother therefore too stupid to do the job, her engaged daughter starting a family, therefore, Sarah must be incompetent, etc. Well, guess what! You got a taste of your own medicine and can’t handle the light of day! The lipstick wearing Pit-bull finally bit back – Big Time!
Fact, Sarah Palin cut Alaska government spending waste through Veto Power 500 Billion Dollars. Fact, Sarah Palin initiated the strongest ethics reform policy from any state in the history of this country. Fact, Sarah Palin initiated energy reform and now natural gas line will cut our dependence on foreign oil. Fact, Sarah Palin forced corrupt oil lobbyist to compete with State & Federal Oil contracts to create fair trade among contractors. Fact, Sarah Palin refused to raise taxes and forced oil profits to be returned to the State of Alaska Citizen’s. Fact, as Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin was directly responsible for maintaining a multi billion dollar budget, which she not only balanced but currently maintains a surplus. Fact, Sarah Palin has strong EXECUTIVE Policy experience and national security experience with Canada on one side and Russia across the bay! And this is the “Woman” you have been decrying as “inexperienced” and “not qualified for the job”. Not bad for a Hockey Mom!
Now let’s look at your hero, Barack Obama. Fact, in the two years, actually working in the Senate, Barack Obama failed to vote one way or the other on 130 reform legislation bills. I don’t have a problem with him being wrong, but, for a Senator to refuse to take a stand that many times is inexcusable. This is the man you are hoping to effect “Change” as President, when he couldn’t even take a stand and “effect change” as a Senator? Fact, Barack Obama has never had any experience in Executive Policy and has no real Foreign Policy Experience. Fact, Barack Obama was a community organizer. Granted, this is an honorable volunteer position. But, his job was to go out to supermarkets and walking the street getting people registered to vote. Honorable yes, political Executive experience, NO. Mind you he was doing this while Governor Palin was a Council Person, Town Mayor and then Governor.
Sarah Palin might be a “heartbeat” away from the presidency. However, at least she has the experience to understand what exactly that “heartbeat” is and do the job. That’s the difference between her and Obama. He makes pretty promises and charismatic speeches; but his track record and experience don’t wash in the light of day. Do you really want to vote a Senator as President, that when he finally did cast a vote in the Senate it was to cut the funding of our on ground troops supplies in Iraq? Remember the troop stuffing their cars with sandbags and clothes with straw to stop bullets and bombs. Why? Because the Democratic Congress, like Obama held up funding! Regardless of what your beliefs are of the war, those are our son’s & daughter’s. That alone would be enough for me to tell Obama to hit the road!
Therese,
I know this much: I already trust Sarah Palin’s leadership and judgment. She is simply phenomenal.
You go back and look at Bill Clinton’s first two years; they were such a disaster that his presidency resulted in the largest turnaround in political history. Many of Clinton’s “successes” actually came out of that Republican-controlled Congress, with Clinton having to go with bills and ideas he had first opposed.
But, interestingly, his biggest failure occurred in foreign policy. Bosnia, the “Blackhawk down” failure of leadership in Somalia, and the terrible genocide in Rwanda are a few of his more catastrophic failures.
It wasn’t “inexperience” that hurt Clinton (a Governor from a small state); it was his view of the world. When he began to sync (even when it was triangulated) with the Republican Congress, he suddenly got better.