IV. Apprenticeship with Foundation-Funded Terrorists: Ayers and Dohrn 177BITTERGATE BY THE GOLDEN GATE;
FASCIST HATRED OF THE WORKING CLASS
During a visit to San Francisco, Obama unwisely blurted out a series of remarks which revealed
the extraordinary degree he shares the outlook of the present day foundation world. Obama showed
himself to be a very reckless individual, not capable of hiding thoughts and ideas which are proving
extremely damaging to his political ambition. This was especially the case when he turned away
from the glass plates of the Teleprompter and had to speak extemporaneously.
One can imagine Obama meeting with a group of wealthy, ultra left, San Francisco elitists from
whom he expects to get enormous amounts of bundled contributions for his political campaign. We
can imagine some elitist of the general type of Gordon Getty, the partial heir to the Getty oil fortune
and a person who shares with the Emperor Nero the conviction that he is the greatest lyric artist of
the age. Getty or someone like him must have asked Obama why he is doing so poorly in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, and the perfect Master is cut to the quick, since these are obviously the states which a
Democrat must win in order to get the presidency. Obama therefore responds with these fateful
words, which projected the questions of oligarchy, elitism, and class consciousness into the center
of the US political debate in a way so extraordinary that it has not been seen in many, many
decades:
OBAMA: “So, it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we
are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about
government. The people are mis-appre...I think they’re misunderstanding why the
demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just
ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’
That’s...there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today - kind
of implies that it’s sort of a race thing. Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big
industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they
feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being
cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by —
it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laughter),
then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter). But — so the questions you’re most likely
to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What
they wanna hear is — so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — close tax
loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax
breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll
go down a series of talking points. 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. Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what
you’ll find is, is that people of every background — there are gonna be a mix of people, you can
go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama