Posted by
King David Caul on Monday, April 21, 2008 1:03:37 AM
In the wonderful classic film "Miracle on 34th Street", the young janitor Alfred (who loves to play Santa clause), is counseled by the repressed and ugly psychiatrist Dr. Sawyer; who informs Alfred that his delusion of playing Santa in order to enjoy seeing children smile is actually an illness. He describes this illness as a manifestation of some hatred of his mother, or such.
This is what Barack has done for me. He has helped me to understand that all those years when I was young and I went to my church and found faith, people with good hearts, and teachings of kindness (which I thought had enriched my life), are actually the manifestation of suppressed fears and apparently enormous bitterness. Because I deeply embraced my church, I must have been very, very bitter.
Or maybe, my church wasn't "really" religious at all! After all, I can't remember ever once getting fiery, animated sermons railing against our president and our government, or the evil and sinister oppressive motives of the typical white person. I guess we didn't have the right kind of audacity, so I'm not sure if I get to call it religion or not. But if it was religion, apparently my faith was self-delusion masking deep internal bitterness. Thank you Dr. Obama, Ph.D.
Seriously, It is absurd for this presidential candidate to try to assess this issue. How the hell could he even know if there was a connection? Let's say we are bitter, the question is then "why?" What is the root, if we are bitter? Well... maybe, Dr. Obama (social analyst and expert of national cultural psychologies), we are bitter primarily because we don't have any money, even when we work hard!
What is your solution to that? Would it be... to raise taxes?
"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they’ve gone through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations" - Barack Obama Speech in San Francisco April 6th.
"The word that is killing him here is not "bitterness," it is "cling," because it drips of condescension. They cling to guns and religion because they are too stupid to understand their own class interests. And that is his message" - Charles Krauthammer
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