VDH BODY SLAMS OBAMA
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“Like Rev. Wright’s mendacious views on 9/11 and AIDS, almost everything in Obama’s single sentence was either untrue or disingenuous. Pennsylvanians valued gun ownership and religion for centuries before the supposed current economic downturn — and while times are perceived as rough, the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania is still about 5 percent. Obama himself has whipped up “anti-trade sentiment” by trashing NAFTA and other proposed trade accords.
That he gave this speech in liberal, upscale San Francisco only added to the aura of condescension — especially the standard liberal trope of false consciousness: The ignorant working classes turn toward extraneous palliatives rather than follow the advice of Harvard intellectuals to agitate for economic redistribution that would better solve their mostly material problems. Had Hillary Clinton used the same sort of “they” language — say in front of a conservative, Midwestern white audience — to explain why inner-city, gun-toting, church-attending African-Americans were turning out en masse for Obama, her campaign would have been rightly finished then and there.”