Letters to the Editor
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Obama's Sin
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The relevance I attach to whatever class Obama belongs is probably best demonstrated by the fact that when I finished reading Ms. Walsh's article I didn't understand what she was talking about. Going back and re-reading the parts I had skimmed over, I realized that the big transgression that had her and the political commentariat up in arms, had something to do with the fact that this guy had, in their minds anyway, made some sort of comment which they took as insultingly condescending in his speech.
Well, I still didn't quite get it. I went back and re-read what he'd said. Informed now of the nature of his offense, and thinking that maybe I ought to go ahead and shell out for that new early onset Alzheimers genetic test that I read about the other day, I finally found it. Or at least I thought I did. It was that stuff about voting based on guns and religion and the like. Am I right?
Whatever class Mr. Obama originated in, has been initiated into, or otherwise is going to be identified with by the political elites in this country, what he is saying, while perhaps offending the refined sense of politesse that the status of the commenteriat affords them, nonetheless has the singular virtue of being true.
Not only is it true, it matters.
Now, that is not to say that the commentariat cannot, by endless repetition of their vapid pronouncements into the media echo chamber, gin this into some kind of an "issue", and that they may not actually be able to pin it on his back, so that they, and their mortal enemies over at the Faux network can have endless fun engaging in shooting contests to see who can knock the candidate down first.
That's what the commentariat is good at. They certainly aren't worth a damn when it comes to informing the electorate about the substantive issues, and what the candidate's stands are on those issues.
If they were then we might still have something approximating constitutional rights in this country.
The next several years are going to be some of the most trying this nation has ever been through.
The one thing Obama has demonstrated, and in a manner which puts him in another league entirely compared to the other candidates, is the ability to confront uncomfortable, but critically important subjects, without flinching.
If we don't do that in the years ahead, whatever remains of our democracy will be lost