DELIVER UNTO US THE UN-AMERICAN! And anti-American, too...


"Why must the kuffar Democrat do anything right in God’s law if in fact he doesn’t fear Him?"

On Sunday, the New York Times magazine returned to the issue that has apparently plagued journalist Matt Bai for some time: How can Barack Obama and the Democratic party win the salt-of-the-earth vote of the uneducated white man?

DD's sick of this false dilemma which tells us that the demographic is the core of something vitally important, one unfairly looked down upon by us wine-sipping elitists in nifty and upscale places like Pasadena. Throughout the political cycle the meme has almost always been delivered by journalists who are only visitors to Redneckburg, USA. Alternatively, they've been away from the place so long they no longer remember (or choose not to recall) how grinding it was to have matured there and been regarded as educated and, therefore, phony.

The magazine article goes on for pages, stacking up the image of the conceited Democrat against the alleged average Joe. It almost seems reasonable until one grows nauseous from the hand wringing and sensitivity toward what's called the need of the put-upon lower middle-class white guy. Around the same time, common sense arrives to nag you the demographic isn't quite that well-defined.

For instance, although wine is sipped in Pasadena, your host does not personally do so. I prefer Pabst, the same kind of cheap beer I used to drink in Schuylkill County and the Lehigh Valley, the redneck environs of Pennsyltucky Obama has allegedly so alienated.

Months ago this blog reasoned, with experience of having lived there, that Obama could never persuade such a demographic. However, it doesn't constitute the entire electorate. And that one key to victory in the general election would be to not overestimate its importance and instead focus on getting out more people who were not sold on the predatory and fraudulent advertising operation which is the Republican party.

Visiting past-their-prime bars and miscellaneous gone-to-seed neighborhoods in Ohio and Pennsyltucky for photo-ops while clinking beer glasses or otherwise engaging with the white manly men low proles doesn't cut it. (Although getting over a hundred thousand out in St. Louis does.)

So registering newer voters and energizing what one already has on the table might looks like it's working.

Near the end of the article an idea dawns on Bai, a thing some figured out years ago.

"Obama's strategists accept that there will be some number of voters -- particularly white men -- who will reject Obama because he is black," it goes. "But they are betting, first, that most of these voters wouldn't have voted for a Democrat in any event and second, that the groundswell of black support ... will produce enough new African-American votes to offset them."

And, finally, delivered by Obama, a knowing description of the way he's seen by this so-called most precious of demographics and why nothing moves the caricature.

"If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn't vote for me," Obama told Bai. "Because the way I'm portrayed 24/7 is as a freak. I am the latte-sipping, New York Times reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun owning, effete, politically correct arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?"

"I guess the point I'm making ... is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it's powerful."

Not a day goes by without the Republican party, John McCain, Sarah Palin or some other contemptible person you've never heard of until she popped off on how she really feels, running with at least five atrocious claims which only broken minds could find compelling: (1) about half the country must be un-American; (2) that Democrats support a man who is a Manchurian candidate, one who pals around with terrorists; (3) to be "eloquent," very bright and accomplished -- is very bad; (4) the Democrat is either godless, or worse, a believer in the wrong god; and (5) the foe is for the imposition of a gray socialist state.

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Clutch along with old Tetany

It's time for today's edition of the Lehigh Valley's funniest blog, as approved by the Morning Call newspaper, the Lehigh Valley Conservative.

Delivering the pure and true anger of the faithful, Tetany bellows from his pulpit:

"And further more if he [the Democrat] does not believe that the father will bring wrath on him for his evil doings ... Why would he obey/follow the teachings of His son Jesus Christ? So we have evil hands joining evil hands across this land like we have not seen in this country’s history."

Our writer also wonders whether evil is creeping into the American way here.

And Colin Powell -- traitorist!

If you, like DD, have noticed a slight tremor in the fulminating, it may be because polls in Pennsylvania show Obama pulling away from McCain.

Now, DD knows he's damned. The odor of brimstone is thick here. But what of others?

So for the sake of balance, also from the Lehigh Valley, a blogger irked at possibly being thought of as un-American.

It puts the fellow in good company with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, who commented, "[Yep] -- we’re all traitors here in central New Jersey."

Related:

The Lehigh Valley Crank

The butthurt codgers of Pennsyltucky

Democrat class war

Hey Heevahava! Tell us Scranton's opinion of Barack Obama!

Class and cultural war during the Democratic primary.

Pigeon shooters for McCain

Republicrat barflies for Clinton