The O’Drama plot finally begins to thicken…
The left and the Democratic Party (but I repeat myself), have had this nasty habit of being very out-of-touch with the American mainstream. President Jimmy Carter won office by faking an average-guy persona, but ended up being a squishy liberal more concerned about international opinion than America’s interests. John Kerry fit the stereotype of Ivy League snob (no offense to our great Ivy League chapters who are full of great Republican who understand how our country works) and could never really connect with Americans working hard for a better life for their families.
Barack Obama, despite his change-oriented rhetoric attempting to convince people otherwise, is just as out of touch with Americans as these prior two leading Democrats - and I think people are starting to take notice.
Peggy Noonan poses some very interesting questions that she believes many voters are starting to or are about to ask:
Are the Obamas, at bottom, snobs? Do they understand America? Are they of it? Did anyone at their Ivy League universities school them in why one should love America? Do they confuse patriotism with nationalism, or nativism? Are they more inspired by abstractions like “international justice” than by old visions of America as the city on a hill, which is how John Winthrop saw it, and Ronald Reagan and JFK spoke of it?
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Why is all this actually not a distraction but a real issue? Because Americans have common sense and are bottom line. They think like this. If the president and his first lady are not loyal first to America and its interests, who will be? The president of France? But it’s his job to love France, and protect its interests. If America’s leaders don’t love America tenderly, who will?
Pretty valid questions considering where Barack Obama got his political beginnings.
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
In fact, Ayers and Dohrn are both known quite well for planting bombs in places like the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department, and for their leadership in the Weather Underground - one of the most radical domestic terror groups in American history.
The point here is that O’Drama is nothing new, nothing fresh, nothing revolutionary in American politics. While he espouses some vague sort of post-partisan change, he remains of the same far-left, radical political bloodline that has dominated Democratic politics for decades.
Barack Obama is out of touch with America, as America and Barack are about to find out.
