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Boiled
down, the new Obama message to Americans is: you're too stupid
to
overcome your fears. To be fair, it's not entirely new. During the 2008
campaign, Obama was caught on tape at a San Francisco fund-raiser
saying it was not surprising that voters facing economic hardship "get
bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who
aren't like them".
At a fund-raiser in Massachusetts this month, Obama spoke of Democrats
having "facts and science and argument" on their side. As opposed,
presumably, to the lies, superstition and prejudice that Republicans
rely on.
This year, Democrats have embraced with gusto the notion that
Republicans, and by extension anyone thinking of voting for them, are
dimwits. Their mirth over the likes of Tea Party figures like Christine
O'Donnell, the former anti-masturbation activist who once she had
"dabbled" in witchcraft and is now a no-hoper Senate candidate in
Delaware, seems to know no bounds.
In choosing California and Massachusetts, two of the
most liberal states in the union, to demean ordinary Americans during
election campaigns, Obama did not display a whole lot of his
much-vaunted intelligence. But Obama's decision to plug Stewart's rally
approvingly and appear on his show three days beforehand is even more
foolish.
- The
(London) Telegraph- A Real Read
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