Redefining The Liberal Elitists

4:59 pm EST February 20th, 2008 | News | 5 Comments

Tom Buffenbarger president of the machinists’ union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) was the the latest in a string of Clinton junkyard dogs unleashed upon Obama. Prior to Hillary Clinton’s speech last night in Youngstown, Ohio, Buffenbarger delivered nothing short of an Obama diatribe.

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But it was Obama supporters for whom Buffenbarger saved his most vitriolic contempt, and he proved that the Democratic Party’s coalition is nothing if not fragile. Channeling Howard Beale from the movie “Network,” he yelled into the microphone, “Give me a break! I’ve got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius- driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies crowding in to hear him speak! This guy won’t last a round against the Republican attack machine. He’s a poet, not a fighter.”

Trust fund babies.

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced today the union’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president. The endorsement is the first step in mobilizing the union’s 1.4 million members and their families to elect Obama.

“Senator Obama understands the challenges working people face every day,” Hoffa said. “He is the candidate in the best position to lead our movement to restore the American dream for working people in this country. Senator Obama will fight for better wages, real health care reform, stronger retirement security, fair trade and an end to the outsourcing of good jobs. He understands the importance of giving workers a voice at work and will fight for strong unions to help rebuild America’s middle class.”

More of the Birkenstock crowd.

The International Executive Council of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers, AFL-CIO, proudly offers its unanimous endorsement, on behalf of our 65,000 members and their families, for Senator Barack Obama as president of the United States of America. We believe that Barack Obama represents our nation’s best opportunity to begin rebuilding our leadership standing in the world community and to regain our economic footing here at home.

Barack Obama, like our good friend Senator John Edwards, stands with those who are the heart and soul of our great country . . . those who clock in early and often work late, those who build and maintain our industries and our infrastructure, those who make America great through their simple daily contribution to our economy and our way of life . . . among them, Boilermaker members.

I got your trust fund babies right here.

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5 Responses to “Redefining The Liberal Elitists”

duros62 says:

February 20, 2008 at 5:29 pm

man, I really don’t like this division. It seems to be really true that Clinton is one of the most divisive figures in politics today, more so than Joe Lieberman and Bush. Why do her supporters embrace the fracturing of the party? It makes no sense.

If you people gonna be racist pricks, then just come out and own it and say you don’t want a ni**er in a position of authority.have the courage of your indefensible convictions, for gods sakes.

That goes for you too, Taylor Marsh.
LeftHandedMan says:

February 20, 2008 at 5:57 pm

The Obama Derangement Syndrome comes from existing in denial and in a bubble and its only getting worse as we get closer to clinching time.

They cannot fathom that Mark Penn was so, so wrong and that Hilary not only simply wasn’t inevitable, she didn’t even have the best Democratic campaign of the frontrunners.

So, since it can’t be that people didn’t want to embrace Hilary Clinton, since she is inevitable, and since it can’t be that the Clinton campaign was a disaster, since its the only ruthlessly competent lean mean Democratic machine that can fight the right, it must be that Obama and everybody else is crazy, deranged, sexist, and-or deluded.

So fine, lets set aside how sad that is and look at pointing at Obama and screeching and screaming like a rabid howler monkey, insulting voters that didn’t vote for Clinton, and dismissing states that didn’t go for Clinton, as a functional day-to-day campaign strategy.

How was this strategy of vomiting bile and derision supposed to make people, who weren’t already Clinton supporters and are inclined to vote for somebody else in the first place, drop that preferred choice and vote for Clinton?

I didn’t see any part of Sun Tsu that advocated peeing on people in your camp who don’t agree with you as being the best way to rally people to your view of better leadership.
scottricketts says:

February 20, 2008 at 6:53 pm

Yes, insulting your constituency is working so well for the Republicans, it must be the winning stragety! The only thing that gives me pause is that Bob Shrum says it’s a bad thing, and I hate agreeing with him.
Bruce Godfrey says:

February 20, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Well, Clinton did get these folks, though who actually did the voiceover is unclear to me (but makes me want to join immediately.)
James E. Powell says:

February 20, 2008 at 10:15 pm

Memo to people who support Senator Obama:

There aren’t enough big issue differences between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton to sustain an argument outside of the world of political junkies and policy wonks. Therefore, the only attack issues are personal attacks.

Senator Obama just won ten straight primaries/caucuses. Support for him appears to be growing steadily while support for Senator Clinton is fading steadily. When one’s candidate is winning, it is useless, not to say unseemly, to be crying about desperate attacks from the supporters of the candidate who is losing. Therefore, just ignore them. They will be very quiet after March 4th.