by Sonja Dupree

Created on: April 15, 2008

How can a man with a background like Obama be esteemed as an elite? Obama father left his mother when he was only two years of age and he was raised by a single parent that had to rely on food stamps to compensate for their lack of funds. This is a man that after graduating from Harvard and could have had pursued lucrative employment, decided to go to the poorest part of Chicago and become a community leader earning a modest $12000 a year. He has spent twenty years in helping people of low income. He has just finished paying off his student loan last year. Now, America does this really sound like an elitist?

Obama was at a fund-raiser that was to have been a closed event to the media, and apparently was asked a question about why he has not been able to successfully gain the vote of small rural Pennsylvanians and he defended them by stating that "he do not think it has to do with his race but more to do with their increasing frustration that they are continually being ignored by Washington and they have become bitter and rightly so, and that they cling to religion, or guns and are anti-immigrants because they want to hold on the those things that are more familiar to them."

A person who has been identified as a "citizen journalist" claims that she just so happen to tape this comment with her phone and was supposedly "upset" with his comment although ironically she was suppose to be an Obama supporter and instead of going to "her" candidate and expressing her concern, this "supporter" decides to tape this closed meeting exchange and put it on YOUTUBE. This does not sound like a legitimate Obama supporter and I think if anyone does any amount of investigation, I would not be surprise that this so called "Obama supporter" being affiliated with "another" candidate campaign and would love to know more about this mysterious woman that the media has ignored. Who is she?

The comment that Obama made in context simply stated a truth. People that are facing difficult times in their lives, DO cling to God and those things that are most familiar. Are we surprise to know this? Is this a huge revelation for the American people? Traditions are an important part of the American culture and yes, the way of life for some does include the right to bear arms for this is a fundamental principle that people cling to as well and during times such as these-when things are slowly eroding in the economy-these rights do become more important and yes, people do cling to these traditions.

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