At the beginning of the year, I was worried that the electorate might be tricked into putting Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the White House. Now, I’m less concerned.
In addition to igniting a civil war among Democrats from which it will be difficult for the party to recover by November, both candidates have revealed themselves to be thoroughly obnoxious people.
Obama, fresh from the Jeremiah Wright controversy, has now come out as an elitist snob. During a campaign appearance last week, Obama had this to say about the benighted denizens of small-town America:
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.
This comment has not only angered a lot of people, it has provided a rich source of material for conservative parodists. Meanwhile, in an effort to exploit Obama’s gaffe, Hillary comes off as a shrill poseur:
You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl.
Hmm … Was that before or after she became a life long Yankees fan? Somehow, I’m having trouble seeing Hillary wielding a varmint gun. I imagine we’ll soon find that her inner fantasist got out again.
Let’s hope that such obnoxious behavior, combined with their bad policy ideas on health care and other issues, will disqualify Obama and Clinton as credible presidential candidates in the eyes of the electorate.
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