Obama offers a non-explanation

After the fallout from his comments I discussed in the post just below this, Obama is now trying to explain his elitist, ignorant, bigoted remarks. His idea of explaining or apologizing is to repeat them again.

What an asshole. Seriously.

He now says,

"I said something that everyone knows is true..... There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry… So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response."

What if John McCain came out and said that affirmative action is racist against whites (which it is) and said that we need to focus on uniting the black & white communites? What if he then went on to quote Dr. King to expose the racism of affirmative action, explaining that we need to look past racial differences and judge men "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character?"

He'd be saying something completely true and not insulting or degrading to anyone (unlike obama's remarks) but blacks, especially black leaders would go crazy. It's a sad fact, but a black man in America can make racist, insensitive, and untrue statements about whites and it's OK. A white man can't utter any criticizm, no matter how truthful, towards the black community without being thrown under the bus.

Let's talk about equality. If McCain made essentially the same types of remarks about inner city blacks how do you think it would play in the media? Does anyone think the media would defend him and try to explain away his comments? Hell no! He'd be crucified, and we'd have to hear Al Sharpton babble nonsensically for a week or more.

Obama's remarks are not only unacceptable, they are WRONG. Dead wrong. The fact that he's unwilling to accept this and apologize should tell us what he thinks of rural white America.