Letters to the Editor
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Wow... Just... Wow
Yet another long anti-Obama hit piece on Salon. Ill-conceived and executed; so desperate to fling mud at its target that it is barely coherent. Obama points out the obvious: that vast numbers of Americans are bitter and disengaged to the point that most of them don't even bother to vote anymore; that they don't even believe that their voices are heard anymore... and that makes him an elitist????????????????
I really don't understand how that equates. For me, it makes Obama into a politician who is truly and genuinely trying to find the real pulse of America, find out where they really live, what is really in their heart, and trying to deliver a message that it is okay to come out of hiding, to come join a discussion. That is where I would be if I was a politician.
For years, the norm has been that if you can't get them to come out and vote for you, it works just as well to convince them to stay home out of disgust at the whole stupid pointlessness of voting when you no very well that ALL of the benefits will go to the rich and entrenched. You will still lose your farm, the factory will still close and the jobs shipped away, wages will remain stagnant and your only hope, possibly ever, of buying a home is to take a crap shoot in the sub-prime mortgage in the hopes of a better tomorrow. And when the better tomorrow doesn't come, remember, it is all YOUR fault, and you should have known better, and Republicans will say that it's not the government's job to reward you for your bad decisions even as they arrange bail outs for the lenders who fucked you over.
Bitter? Sure? Aren't American's entitled to a little bitterness?
Surely it is infinitely more elitist for McCain and Hillary to behave as they have for years and expecting people to remain good little Americans, endlessly being fucked over while maintaining a "Can Do" smile on their face, never complaining. How cynical that position is; how truly condescending.
Thank you, Senator Obama. Yet again you have shown yourself to be the only candidate running who seems to truly be listening to the people, not just packaging sound bites and slogans that you think they want to hear.