I had thought the condescending "sigh" was discredited at the first Bush/Gore debate, Why it persists on the internet as a riposte eludes me.
The reason this statement is so damaging to Obama is that it exposes him as the candidate of the extreme left Move On/George Soros crowd that the MSM wants to pretend that he isn't. The only successful Democrat of the last 40 yars ran as a centrist, yet once again they are on the verge of nominating the most extreme candidate available. They can't help themselves.
His statement re-iterates a notion first articulated by Marx (Karl not Chico) which has been described as "
false consciousness". The idea was recently re-packaged as a book callled "
What's the matter with Kansas?" It's an intellectual device that Leftists use to explain why the working class doesn't support them. The proletariat is in denial, you see, owing to the dilema of their material circumstance. I suspect Obama was exposed to this idea by the more recent book (or a synapsis of it in some left wing journal) rather than by Marx himself. The only people that actually read Marx anymore are hopeless reactionaries such as myself.
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