Barack Hussein Obama Part 4

Obama holds the American middle class in contempt. He betrays this contempt in both small and large ways. One small telling way was his response to the successful candidacy of Scott Brown to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate in Massachusetts following Kennedy's death in 2009. Brown ran on the slogan, "I'm Scott Brown, I'm from Wrentham (a working class town, I drive a truck, and I'm asking for your vote". In an off -the- cuff comment, Obama put Brown down by saying, "Anyone can buy a truck". This dismissal shows Obama's remoteness from the real lives of most working Americans.
But Obama's worst display of his contempt of middle class America came in his remarks before a San Francisco audience (caught on tape) during his 2008 campaign, when he offered the following explanation of how working class Americans have responded to a changing economy that has cost jobs in their communities:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for twenty-five years and nothing's replaced them. And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations".
The assumption that he makes is that Americans worship God and engage in hunting, not from conviction or for genuine enjoyment, but purely out of resentment.
This contemptuous elitism comes directly from Obama's background in elite academic institutions and his career as a "community organizer" in mold of his radical inspiration, Saul Alinsky. Marc Landy best explains this as , "Obama is a member in good standing of the "new class" of law and business school professors, economists, foundation executives, think tankers, congressional staffers, and media pundits who have melded with the captains of industry, finance and politics to form the participate of our times".