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Zombie: Audio of Obama's Elitist Remarks

Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:43:12 am PST

Zombie has a decent quality audio file of Barack Obama’s “gun-toting Bible-thumping hicks” statement: Obama’s “bitter small-town Americans” speech at Getty fundraiser: good, clear audio file now available here!

It isn’t getting a lot of attention, but also note that Obama was putting down small-town Americans in front of an audience of upper crust “progressive” wealthy people. He was preaching to the choir in the language he thought they would understand.

Zombie’s accurate transcription:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — 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’ve gone 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. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

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#1 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 8:44:30 am 1

We need to get this to a wider audience

#2 BulgarWheat 4/13/08 8:45:06 am 6

still clinging to religion, guns, and beer. just not all at the same time.

Typical Bitter White Guy

#3 BabbaZee 4/13/08 8:45:48 am 1

Mooohahahahahhahahhahaa!
Beware the Zombie!
What's in your head, Obamanable Snowjobman?

#4 storagemanager 4/13/08 8:45:57 am 7

Obama...soon you will join an elite club..the I was almost President until I shot myself in the foot club.

#5 Bard 4/13/08 8:46:29 am 0

How the heck did she get that?

#6 macintush 4/13/08 8:46:38 am 9

"So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

So this explains why people like you turn to racism as a way to explain their frustrations, eh, 'Bama?

#8 laZardo 4/13/08 8:47:28 am 0

A response from an Obamite when I criticized Obama's statements:

"Learn the definition of the word 'or'. Obama is using it quite a bit."

#9 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 8:48:09 am 0

What was the name of the elitist dem that lost the nation back in the 80's ?
Hmmm...
Mondale
LOL
This is gonna be FUN

#10 JWM 4/13/08 8:48:24 am 2

Zombie:
Watch your back. Please be careful.
(and congratulations)

JWM

#11 uncle_monkey 4/13/08 8:49:30 am 9

Good Work Zombie!

Sounds to me like his words were well chosen - and he meant every single one of them.

#12 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 8:49:37 am 0

Obama = Mondale

#13 baldylox 4/13/08 8:49:41 am 12

I really think this is the moment when you can stick a fork in Obama. He's done on any meaningful national level. Probably not just for 2008, but forever.

#14 VegasRick 4/13/08 8:50:20 am 2

re: #9 LeftJustAintRight

What was the name of the elitist dem that lost the nation back in the 80's ?
Hmmm...
Mondale
LOL
This is gonna be FUN

I don't think "fun" is an accurate description, "ugly" might be more appropriate.
just sayin.

#15 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 8:50:56 am 2

re: #11 uncle_monkey

Sounds to me like his words were well chosen - and he meant every single one of them.


Even bad lawyers do not misspeak

#16 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 8:51:59 am 0

re: #14 VegasRick

I don't think "fun" is an accurate description, "ugly" might be more appropriate.


For the dems
Fun for us
LOL

#17 rawmuse 4/13/08 8:52:00 am 11

It is not surprising when an aspiring politician turns to garden variety Socialism as a substitute for meaningful economic reform. This man has all the answers. Take money from some people and give it to others. What a genius. I am sure that thought has never occurred to anyone before in the entire history of the human race.

#18 BignJames 4/13/08 8:52:19 am 1

re: #15 LeftJustAintRight

Tell Hillary.

#19 VegasRick 4/13/08 8:52:34 am 7

re: #13 baldylox

I really think this is the moment when you can stick a fork in Obama. He's done on any meaningful national level. Probably not just for 2008, but forever.

I hope and pray that you are correct but I just don't see that. This guy seems to get a pass on anything he says or does. Reminds me of the muslims.

#20 Pythagoras 4/13/08 8:52:38 am 3

Isn't unemployment at 5.1%? Wasn't that considered impossibly low by economists just 20 years ago?

#21 BabbaZee 4/13/08 8:53:05 am 0

Zombie said there was not way shim was going to allow Obama to get the nomination.
Shim means it.

Never underestimate the power of
walking undead possessed of ambiguous genitalia!

#22 yochanan 4/13/08 8:53:06 am 0

T.W.P.
B. G. & G.
=
A.B.O.

#23 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 8:54:11 am 0

re: #18 BignJames

Tell Hillary.


She blames misspeaking but she meant every word
Until she gets called on it

#24 Shay4l 4/13/08 8:54:28 am 0

Dean can commiserate. Maybe he'll scream for BHusseinO to relive his own moment.

#25 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 8:55:57 am 4

Well for the first time they can not say it was taken out of context
Right from the donkey's mouth
LOL

#26 Ma Sands 4/13/08 8:56:02 am 0

(Oh, my.....another change: no last-comment drop-down, or article drop-down preview, or spinoff link access, from the home page of lgf.......or --hope, hope ! --perhaps it is only that something is wrong with mine own computer this morning.....? ):

#27 Nevergiveup 4/13/08 8:56:08 am 4

re: #20 Pythagoras

Isn't unemployment at 5.1%? Wasn't that considered impossibly low by economists just 20 years ago?

I don't care if they named a math theory after you. You do not understand math. If a Democrat is in the White House 5.1% is low. If a Republican is in the White House we are headed for a crushing recession. Get it now you racist bastard!

/ I am pretty sure I layered the sarc on heavy, but just being sure

#28 Bard 4/13/08 8:56:26 am 0

re: #5 Bard

How the heck did she get that?

Hah. HuffPo. I love it.

#29 paint-right 4/13/08 8:56:33 am 0

if he is dissing anti - trade sentiment ( and i think he is 0 why is HE anti trade?

#30 storagemanager 4/13/08 8:56:38 am 1

Obama speaks...Hill-Billy smiles.

#31 EC Marm 4/13/08 8:56:59 am 12

I didn't see any fewer Obama yard signs when I drove around "small town" Pennsylvania yesterday. His supporters, like Bill Clinton's, will give him a pass no matter what he says or does.

#32 newsjunkie_ky 4/13/08 8:57:09 am 2

Send this to your email list. Get the word to every voter in America.
We do not want an America hater as POTUS.

#33 VegasRick 4/13/08 8:57:35 am 1

re: #31 EC Marm

I didn't see any fewer Obama yard signs when I drove around "small town" Pennsylvania yesterday. His supporters, like Bill Clinton's, will give him a pass no matter what he says or does.

I think so too.

#34 Idle Drifter 4/13/08 8:57:50 am 3

So is it to late to call him "Two Face" because he certainly is not Janus? What I find frustrating is for all their talk about tolerance, diversity, and multi-culture they, the Left, are the worst hypocrites about understanding opposing views. The second they're done fooling the masses and within their ivory towers they take off their masks and laugh at the very people they are trying to woo into voting for them into office. I guess "F*** Middle America" is not just a sign but policy.

#35 shibumi 4/13/08 8:57:52 am 3

re: #19 VegasRick

This guy seems to get a pass on anything he says or does. Reminds me of the muslims.

Unfortunately, I'd agree.

At this point, he's their chosen Messiah and can literally do no wrong. No matter what he says, he will be excused by the media and the faithful.

Of course, the voting public isn't always so forgiving.

#36 RoyalCanadian 4/13/08 8:57:52 am 8

Gullible people will fall for Obama just like they fell for sub prime loans. Obama and sub prime loans both sound good in the beginning but eventually bring a world of pain. The same gullible people will say they were not made aware of the fine print re: Obama when the reality of what Obama really is inevitable hits them in the face like a shovel. On the bright side, the "ignorant, little people" who foolishly love their freedom, religion and guns will see through the Obama charade long before the progressives will.

#37 macintush 4/13/08 8:58:32 am 1

So if the Dems dump both candidates and get a new face at their convention, can we do the same thing, too?

#38 Nevergiveup 4/13/08 8:58:48 am 2

re: #32 newsjunkie_ky

Send this to your email list. Get the word to every voter in America.
We do not want an America hater as POTUS.

You mean we don't want ANOTHER America hater as POTUS. Remember the Jimmah!

#39 yochanan 4/13/08 8:58:52 am 0

Partisons will not decide the election it is the CENTER that will.

T.W.P.
B. G. & G.
=
A.B.O.

#40 VegasRick 4/13/08 8:59:25 am 0

re: #35 shibumi

Unfortunately, I'd agree.

At this point, he's their chosen Messiah and can literally do no wrong. No matter what he says, he will be excused by the media and the faithful.

Of course, the voting public isn't always so forgiving.

Pennsylvania will be a good indicator, let's see how the voters respond.

#41 jaunte 4/13/08 9:00:38 am 4

I wonder how Obama explains Michelle's bitterness, or her need to 'cling' to the oppressor's symbols of success.

#42 realwest 4/13/08 9:00:41 am 7

OT - HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES!

#43 starboardhelm 4/13/08 9:01:36 am 2

Seattle elite 'news' shows chatter about the criticism his comments elicited from the other candidates, but they very kindly (to him) don't broadcast his actual comments. So I guess we small town crackers can't be trusted to judge his comments for ourselves.

#44 Idle Drifter 4/13/08 9:01:39 am 0

re: #34 Idle Drifter

to => too PIMF

#45 newsjunkie_ky 4/13/08 9:01:41 am 0

re: #38 Nevergiveup
Thanks, I try to forget he was ever president (small p intended)

#46 haakondahl 4/13/08 9:01:43 am 11

God-Damned Senator Obama thinks that Conservatism can be explained away through sufficient deconstruction. This is more of the leftist "Conservatism as Pathology" pap that has been increasingly an explicit belief of those on the left. Stand by for medication and incarceration for holding sufficiently conservative positions. We already have mandatory re-education programs.

This is Fascism with a Smile(tm). Yes, I am speaking from Jonah Goldberg's corner.

#47 VegasRick 4/13/08 9:01:48 am 1

re: #42 realwest

OT - HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES!

Thanks for the reminder. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES!

#48 mountb 4/13/08 9:01:56 am 30

You go into some of these big cities in California, a lot of them — like a lot of big coastal cities, socialism hasn't worked now for over 25 years and nothing’s replaced it. And they’ve gone through the Carter administration, and the Clinton administration, and each successive Democratic administration has said that somehow socialism is gonna regenerate and it has not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to pacifism, or environmentalism, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-white sentiment, or anti-American sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

/how I see it

#49 gman 4/13/08 9:03:07 am 1

re: #20 Pythagoras

Isn't unemployment at 5.1%? Wasn't that considered impossibly low by economists just 20 years ago?

Haven't you heard yet? The recession is caused by the War in Iraq.

It couldn't possibly be caused by the credit crunch and the housing bubble bursting

/

#50 VegasRick 4/13/08 9:03:12 am 0

re: #48 mountb

You go into some of these big cities in California, a lot of them — like a lot of big coastal cities, socialism hasn't worked now for over 25 years and nothing’s replaced it. And they’ve gone through the Carter administration, and the Clinton administration, and each successive Democratic administration has said that somehow socialism is gonna regenerate and it has not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to pacifism, or environmentalism, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-white sentiment, or anti-American sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

/how I see it

That's pretty good.

#51 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 9:04:02 am 1

Change !
Racial division must be what he is talking about
He wants to start a NEW race war
I read someplace here that was the Islamic plan
Anyone remember ?

#52 BabbaZee 4/13/08 9:04:18 am 0
#53 gman 4/13/08 9:04:45 am 0

Happy Birthday To You!

(someone continue with the next line)

#54 MandyManners 4/13/08 9:04:57 am 1

re: #1 LeftJustAintRight

We need to get this to a wider audience

I'm sure that zombie has a higher number of readers after Beck featured her/his "to many" photograph.

#55 haakondahl 4/13/08 9:05:08 am 2

re: #41 jaunte

I wonder how Obama explains Michelle's bitterness, or her need to 'cling' to the oppressor's symbols of success.

I'm sure he doesn't try to explain anything. He just shuts up and does as he's told. Senator Obama is pretty obviously another validation-seeking weak man attached to another cast-iron woman of unbelievable fury.

I have no doubt that she could whip his 455.

#56 baldylox 4/13/08 9:05:12 am 9

I don't think the Dems understand this fundamental principle: Bush didn't win in 2000 or 2004 by people voting for him. They lost because many people voted against Gore & Kerry. McCain will win handily come November for this same reason. Are they that out of touch, or are they deliberately trying to lose? It's beyond parody.

#57 bunker buster 4/13/08 9:05:34 am 0

re: #20 Pythagoras

Isn't unemployment at 5.1%? Wasn't that considered impossibly low by economists just 20 years ago?

Depending on which economist you ask, a 5.1% unemployment rate is within the range that indicates statistical full employment. Which means, like Nevergiveup (ever so cynically but accurately) said, crushing recession if a Republican is in the White House, economic gangbusters if a Democrat is in the White House.

#58 engrpat 4/13/08 9:05:35 am 1

Did a check and the unemployment rate for Pa. 2-2008 is 4.9% which is below the national average, could that be why they are bitter? Got the information from: [Link: www.economagic.com...]

#59 jaunte 4/13/08 9:06:54 am 0

re: #55 haakondahl

I have no doubt that she could whip his 455.

No way out, Barry.

#60 snowcrash 4/13/08 9:07:06 am 2

This sounds very paranoid but be very careful to maintain your anonymity. Some folks have big stakes in Obamas success and you are gaining name recognition outside the blogosphere.

#61 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 9:07:31 am 0

re: #54 MandyManners

her/his


We all know now Zombie is a young hot asian chick with big hooters


LOL

/sarc

#62 gman 4/13/08 9:08:06 am 0

Fine... I'll finish

Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday Dear Charles!
Happy Birthday to You!

Have a good one and don't get into too much trouble.

#63 brent 4/13/08 9:08:38 am 1

bitter, clinging to ant-trade sentiments..? Isn't that hs whole plan for handling China? I remember hearing his ads in Ohio, when the primary carnival was here - 'jobs going to China', was like a song.

Light. Weight.

#64 baldylox 4/13/08 9:08:54 am 2

It's Charles' Birthday? Whooo hooooo! Happy Birthday :-)

#65 Idle Drifter 4/13/08 9:09:48 am 0

re: #61 LeftJustAintRight

We all know now Zombie is a young hot asian chick with big hooters


LOL

/sarc

So should we start a pool off what Zombie looks like. $5 gets you in and Zombie has to at least name those within the Lizard Army that have seen Zombie to prevent any cheating.

#66 haakondahl 4/13/08 9:11:08 am 11

re: #65 Idle Drifter

So should we start a pool off what Zombie looks like. $5 gets you in and Zombie has to at least name those within the Lizard Army that have seen Zombie to prevent any cheating.

Nope. We should drop this as a topic. Thirty people each trying to manage a secret in public will give it away to a patient observer.

#67 EC Marm 4/13/08 9:11:38 am 0

re: #58 engrpat

Did a check and the unemployment rate for Pa. 2-2008 is 4.9% which is below the national average, could that be why they are bitter?


With Pennsylvania being one of the 'oldest' states in terms of average age, it is a 'workers paradise' for anyone in the health care industry.
I'm not swallowing Barry's 'bitter' pill.

#68 Nevergiveup 4/13/08 9:11:41 am 0

re: #65 Idle Drifter

So should we start a pool off what Zombie looks like. $5 gets you in and Zombie has to at least name those within the Lizard Army that have seen Zombie to prevent any cheating.

I'd put my 5$ in but i think LeftJustAintRight has got it nailed.

#69 storagemanager 4/13/08 9:11:59 am 3

We should stop right now...why put Zombie in danger.

#70 bunker buster 4/13/08 9:12:25 am 0

It's Charles' birthday? Happy Birthday Charles! Your gift box of Berkeley's Finest Gamey Buttocks™ is on its way!

#71 Bobibutu 4/13/08 9:12:54 am 0

Happy Birthday Charles.

#72 bunker buster 4/13/08 9:13:33 am 2

re: #66 haakondahl

Nope. We should drop this as a topic. Thirty people each trying to manage a secret in public will give it away to a patient observer.

I second, third and fourth that. Let it go.

#73 LeftJustAintRight 4/13/08 9:14:57 am 0

re: #65 Idle Drifter

So should we start a pool off what Zombie looks like. $5 gets you in and Zombie has to at least name those within the Lizard Army that have seen Zombie to prevent any cheating.


That is the picture in my mind and thats the way it stays

#74 Sharmuta 4/13/08 9:14:58 am 0

Happy Birthday, Charles. May you be blessed with many more.

#75 taxfreekiller 4/13/08 9:17:50 am 6

So. Mr. Obomba,

How do you think non reservation Apache feel about those who's gene code History have a History of staying employed by the U.S. Army after the civil war and being set free by Abe etal, said employment being at the time in the area of say southwestern New Mexico and they, for pay, went to the camps of the Apache when no one was there other than women and children, and clubbed then all to death.

How do you think others view you and yours with History in mind.?
just saying, from one half breed to another.


silly little person you are!
History sees you,

Here is the deal ,

John F. Kerry lies.
Ted Kennedy lies.
Bill Clinton lies.
Hilery Clinton lies.
Harry Reid lies.
Nancy Polelosi lies.
The New York Times lies.
The L.A. Times lies.
C.B.S. N.B.C. A.B.C. P.B.S.
Dan Rather, Ted Kopple, Cutie Currick, Tim Russert, etal all lie.
and
last of all
Tomorrow April 14, 2008, the temp at my place here in Texas will be 32 F aka freezing, and that will be a record cold from the time records have been kept hereabouts.
Thus the other Democratic leader is the fool of this and the last 200 years and the next 200 years, ya Al Gore LIES TOO ALSO.

So, Mr. Barack do you have the judgement to see a pattern, yourself and these others.?

#76 REDSTATE 4/13/08 9:18:06 am 1

It's amazing - when these leftists speak their mind, it's called a "gaffe", a "mistake" or "taken out of context".

I'd far prefer that they keep revealing their innermost thought processes - telling us what they REALLY think deep down inside. Every time they do, it just drives another nail in their political coffins.

While McCain wasn't my first choice (Pat Buchanon wasn't running), he's FAR less scary than the elitist left.

#77 psaturn 4/13/08 9:19:08 am 0

It's Charles Birthday!?

Well, Happy BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUU!

#78 DownRightMeanAmerican 4/13/08 9:19:52 am 2
a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they’ve gone 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.

He does elitist math also.

Clinton administration = 8 years
Bush Jr administration = 8 years
= 16 years not 25, did John Kerry teach him math?

25 years ago (1983) puts that into Ronald Reagan administration.

Obamamination, who will you pander to today?