Collapsing Empire's Journal: Obama belittles white working class

"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 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell 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. 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."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Obama_on_smalltown_PA_Clinging_religion_guns_xenophobia.html

I am not exactly sure what guns have to do with the job situation. Religion is not a reaction to the job situation by any means, its the common set of values and traditions these people have had for a long time, in good times and bad (I'm not a fan of modern Christianity by any means - just pointing out fact).

People oppose immigration and importation of cheap goods because those things actually do affect their welfare. You can't support your family when your job is devalued by an influx of labor who is willing to work for less than what you are making. China (as a singular example) is essentially a giant slave labor camp who can produce things for far cheaper than we can here because China invests far less in social welfare, worker's rights, environmental regulation, and etc. than we do, so of course, the importation of cheap goods from overseas will create less demand for domestically produced goods and subsequently depress wages and/or cause job loss.

There is no group that is belittled, mocked, and treated poorly more today than the white working class. Successful and hard-working whites are mocked for allegedly benefiting from "white privilege" rather than their actual effort. Whites are denied meaningful political representation while other ethnic interest groups are allowed favorable presentation in the media and attention from politicans. Legislation and court rulings have essentially made white people into 2nd class citizens who are given lower priority for admissions into college, government contracts, grants, hate-crime laws, and what not. If you're white and you try to represent your people politically, you're considered racist and bigoted (while the NAACP gets a pass). If you're white, you're made to feel guilty for being white and made to accept responsibility for historical events and other people's inability to succeed.

So these are the choices you have in Nov. 2008: a neo-Marxist who belittles the white working class (Obama) and a Zionist shill who wants to invade Iran and do Israel's bidding (McCain). This is the pinnacle of democracy!