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Obama's hypocrisy is shocking for being so blatant:
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of 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. 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. So it's not surprising then that 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.
"...or antipathy to people who aren't like them." Let's compare that to some of Obama's other remarks, from his own book, "Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" - much of which you can hear him reading out loud:
And yet, even as I imagined myself following Malcolm's call, one line in the book stayed with me. He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.
[.....] The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals.
[.....] That hate hadn't gone away; it formed a counter-narrative buried deep within each person and at the center of which stood white people -- some cruel, some ignorant...
"White blood... white culture... white people"... that's how Obama thinks. He's full of antipathy towards people who he believes 'aren't like him' -- and as seen through his prejudiced eyes, skin color is all it takes to make someone different from him. He declaims against people's supposed "antipathy to people who aren't like them", but in his book, he exemplifies such antipathy.
His hypocrisy is astounding.
And the bitterness he speaks of, is his own.
