"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." --Samuel Adams
Stupid is as stupid does - IMPORTANT!
And if it were not for ignorant liberals Obama wouldn't be President
Uninformed voted Obama - Informed voted McCain - Poll...
The reason the left is so upset about this poll is because the poll reflects the truth. After the establishment left media's attack on Christians and conservatives as uneducated hayseeds, we on the right have known all along that it is the liberals who are simple-minded and uneducated.
Who elected Obama?
By Mark Alexander
Last week we answered the question "Who is Barack Obama" by posing questions that Obama did not answer during the presidential campaign. This week, we take a look at who voted for him.
On 20 January, Barack Hussein Obama will be inaugurated as the next president of our United States, according to our Constitution. However, his largest constituencies tend to view this event as either the coronation of the "royal one" or the ordination of the "holy one."
Before we further define those constituencies, here, for the record, is a recap of the survey data concerning the presidential election.
Some 136.6 million Americans voted -- a 64.1 percent turnout and the highest since 1908. Obama is the first Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote (53 percent) since Jimmy Carter. By sex, BHO's support was 49 percent male and 56 percent female. By ethnic group, his support comprised 41 percent of Whites, 61 percent of Asians, 75 percent of Latinos and 95 percent of Blacks. By age, BHO's largest support demographic was 66 percent of voters under the age of 30. By income, 52 percent of voters with more than $200,000 in annual income voted for Obama. By education, his support came from those without a college degree and those with a post-graduate degree.
So, his victory was largely due to support from non-whites, from those under 30, from those with the lowest income and education, and from a small number of voters at the other end of those spectrums, while those of middle age, income and education tended to support John McCain.
By religion, Obama received support from 46 percent of Protestant voters, 56 percent of Catholic voters and 62 percent of voters of other religions. BHO received 76 percent of atheist and agnostic voters.
The Barna Research Group looked at some other interesting characteristics of Obama voters: 57 percent of those who consider themselves "lonely or isolated," 59 percent of those affected by the economic decline in "a major way," and 61 percent of those who claim they are "stressed out" supported BHO.
So, considering the stats, the Democrats' strategy of fomenting dissent and disunity by promoting themes of disparity was vital to Obama's election. Indeed, the Left's political playbook has only one chapter defining their modus operandi -- "Divide-n-Conquer." No wonder their national leadership calls itself the DnC.
Obama's largest constituent groups fall under the general umbrella of "disenfranchised victims," those who feel they are ethnically or economically handicapped. Other significant constituent groups are those who identify with the disenfranchised; this includes two small but highly ideologically influential groups, the economic and academic elite.
The disenfranchised victim groups and those who identify with them have a number of common characteristics. They have a low civic IQ and virtually no understanding of our Constitutional Republic and its heritage and legacy of liberty. They have fully bought into the "Politics of Disparity" or "class warfare."
However, it is Obama's small economic and academic elite constituencies who pose the greatest danger to that heritage of liberty. They neither know nor care any more about liberty than the disenfranchised legions with which they seek to identify. They are the "king makers," those who have funded and charted Obama's course to the coronation.
Some have made a lot of "easy money," which explains why Obama received far more support from Wall Street than McCain. Others are inheritance-welfare liberals, those who value government welfare dependence because they were, themselves, dependent on inheritance throughout their formative years and never developed the character necessary to succeed on their own initiative.
Whether fast money or inheritance, neither group has direct contact with the unwashed masses other than those who keep their homes, offices and imported autos clean and in good repair. This utter dependence upon the low end of the "service sector" is perhaps the source of the insecurities that drive them to identify with the masses.
Obama's academic elite are just as insecure, but they are driven by ideology. They are Leftists, Western apologists for socialist political and economic agendas. Regular readers of this column will recognize them as "Useful Idiots" for their advocacy of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collectivism. Like Obama, they reject constitutional authority and subscribe to the errant notion of a "Living Constitution".
Among Obama's Left elite are such Marxist radicals as Frank Marshall Davis and William Ayers and his religious mentor Jeremiah Wright.
There are some characteristics that are common to many BHO supporters among both the disenfranchised and the elite.
Obama's cult-like following among these constituencies is not the result of deception. In fact, it can be attributed to something much more subtle and, potentially, sinister, with far more ominous implications for the future of liberty.
Most of Obama's supporters identify with some part of his brokenness, his dysfunctional childhood and his search for salvation in the authority of the state. The implications of this distorted mass identity are grave, and its pathology is well defined.
Another common characteristic is that liberals tend to be very emotive. Ask them about some manifestation of their worldview -- for example, why they support candidates such as Obama or Hillary Clinton and they will likely predicate their response with, "Because I feel..."
On the other hand, ask conservatives about what they believe or support, and they invariably predicate their response with, "Because I think..."
So, the once great Democrat Party has now devolved into constituencies who view the inaugural as either a coronation or an ordination.
Of course, all the MSM print and tube outlets are fawning over BHO and calling next Tuesday's inaugural "historic." Well, it's not often that I agree with the paper media and 24-hour news cycle talkingheads, but this is truly a historic inauguration -- historic for several reasons.
First, never before has such an ill-prepared president-elect been sworn in as president. Second, never before has a more liberal president-elect been sworn into office. And third, never before has a candidate had so little regard for the constitutional oath he is taking.
Oh, and some suggest this election is historic because half of the president-elect's genetic heritage is African -- and here I thought Bill Clinton was our first "black president."
It is no small irony that the day before Obama's inauguration, the nation will pause to honor Martin Luther King. In 1963, King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave his most famous oration, the most well known line from which is, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
But Obama and his party have divided the nation into constituency groups judged by all manner of ethnicity and special interests rather than the individual character King envisioned.
Perhaps the most famous line from any Democrat presidential inaugural was uttered by John F. Kennedy in 1961. He closed his remarks with these words: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
Barack Obama and his party have turned that clarion call on end, suggesting that their constituents should "ask what your country can do for you."
On Tuesday, Barack Obama will take an oath "to support and defend the Constitution", but he has no history of honoring our Constitution, even pledging that his Supreme Court nominees should comport with Leftist ideology and "break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted."
Some have suggested that since the election is over and Obama is the victor, we should accord him the honor due his office. But if he does not honor his constitutional oath, why would anyone extend him the honor of its highest constitutional office?
On cross-examination
"From 1992 to 2008, the share of the vote cast by African-Americans jumped from 8 percent to 13 percent. For Hispanics the share soared from 2 percent to 9 percent; for Asians and other minorities combined, from 2 percent to 5 percent. Meanwhile, the percentage of the vote cast by well-educated whites remained unchanged at 35 percent. The big losers were blue-collar whites -- those without college degrees -- whose share plummeted from 53 percent in 1992 to just 39 percent now. That's a threat to the GOP because those culturally conservative, working-class whites are today its most reliable voters.... Demography will indeed be destiny if Republicans can't broaden their reach" --columnist Ron Brownstein
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* Number of States won by: Democrats: 20; Republicans: 30
* Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000; Republicans: 2,427,000
* Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million; Republicans: 143 million
* Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2; Republicans: 2.1
I understand the bitterness I blamed Bushes wins on ignorant rural folk. But in truth over the last 8 years Ive come to figure out its not the rural folk or the inner city folk that decide these elections. Its the middle of the roaders who break either way I know some of them.
ReplyDeleteThey pretty evenly split in 2000 and Bush was granted that win.
2004 they broke Bushes way on a late Osama message that scared enough people who thought Bush would protect them.
2008 Those people were disgusted with themselves for voting Bush in again. You guys started with the deck stacked against you but McCain had a shot then Palin scared the bejesus out of them and the economy tanked and you guys had no answer that resonated with them. Sorry Joe. Romney would have made this thing close but it wasnt close.
It was a blowout. We can play games about square footage all you want he lost. By a lot. Hopefully Obama will govern towards the center and our country can start to heal but this stuff here this red is right blue is wrong, ignorant amoral evil or whatever stuff doesn’t resonate with the voters that are the republicans only chance to regain any power.
My opinion at least. Have a good weekend
Kael
Your opinion is welcome even if it does violate the facts. For example every poll and informed analysis I have seen shows that Plain was a huge asset to the McCain ticket.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that Obama seems to be practical enough to govern from the center for the time being.
Hopefully the 2010 conservative (not Republican) revolution will prevent Obama from going where he would really like to go with our country.
Obama will be a one term President if he lasts that long. Several states have passed laws requireing proper vetting of candidates before they get on the ticket; like real birth certificates.
Do you really think Obama would have won the election if all the things he is hiding were known? Do you think he will be able to finish his first term if all the things he is hiding are made known?
My wife will be out of town for the week-end. I will miss her, but one's wife being out of town isn't all bad. I'll probably go to the drag strip.
She was a great asset for the base but the base wasnt going to win this election. Hed have taken every one of the states he took with or without Palin. He needed states like FL, OH and PA and while the base was enough to flip states like that before it wasnt this time. A guy like Romney could have helped him in those states.
ReplyDeleteI know you like Palin but really outside of the circle of the base she is considered a joke and the thought of her being a 72 year old heartbeat away from the presidency never helped McCain. I really hope she runs again and there are days I think about buying the domain beatheragainin2012.com
I honestly dont think hes hiding anything on this birth certificate thing. And as Ive said before it flunks the Hannity test. If Hannity wont touch it then I dont give it much credence that guy spent 2 years a radio show a daily show and a special sunday show trying to take Obama down and he wont even allow it to be discussed on his message board much less talk about it on his many shows.
Now if your right and this is such a big conspiracy that even hes in on it the you my friend are on the cutting edge of the biggest non-reported story ever but my flawed liberal logic tells me otherwise ;)
Yes he will finish his term and he'll beat Palin again badly in 2012.
If you agree hes going to govern from the center why are you so hell bent on kicking him out before he ever takes office? You do realize that there is not going to be a hardline conservative government in this country for quite sometime right? I just don’t see it happening I think everyone hard core liberals included need to tone down the rhetoric and work to together for the betterment of the country.
This totalitarian your going to do it my way crap needs to go.
Enjoy your weekend tell the drag queens I said hello
just kidding
Kael