His recent comments about how middle class America is a bunch of bitter gun crazed religious bigots is revealing, even as it is not a shock.

Unshockingly we discover an upper class politician is out of touch with the people he claims to represent.  Unsurprisingly we discover that the liberal elitism we have all remarked on in the past is just as ingrained in Obama as any other liberal. 

For all his claims to be just a middle class guy who did well, his success, like so many others who claim to have that connection, has left him out of touch.  His claim to being a 2nd Amendment scholar has left his no idea why Americans love guns. 

Most revealing is that his roots in his church have left him clueless about how many people rely on their faith as an integral foundation in their lives.

Maybe that is the most revealing aspect, and one of the sources of the greater points of hypocrisy.

Obama’s church and his mentoring by Rev J Wright have left Obama with a very cynical view of religion.

Obama’s church and Wright himself are apparently more concerned with the Afrocentric message of despair than a message of hope in which most American’s see their faith.  Faith in God and in their church to many middle class people gives them a solid foundation of hope and love they can cling to when life does send the twists and turns.

Obama’s by contrast preaches despair and anger and ignores the positives.  Obama’s religion, for all his comments about bitterness, is rooted in encouraging bitterness.

I find it interesting that his own church uses bitterness as a core value, and he himself has defended that bitterness as understandable, and now in another attempt at relativism he extends that bitterness, but with negative implications.

Is this just more liberal elitism, or is this a new twist?

“Have a cookie. You’ll feel right as rain.”

–The Oracle

That’s the Oracle’s answer to Neo in “the Matrix after telling him he is not ‘The One’.

In one of my moments of disconnected thinking, I realized we are all slaves to cookies, particularly this time of year.  You know what I am talking about:  The Girl Scouts.

One of my daughters was a Girl Scout and we sold those damn cookies for her every year.  And every year the pitch was and is the same:  Support the girls, buy the damn cookies. 

And we did.  We bought them for ourselves and plugged our friends, family, co workers and strangers on the street to buy more.

For some it was a dire competition.  The troop leader one year used her husband to drive her daughter’s sales through the roof, to get the grand prize:  A stuffed animal.  Cheaper to go buy the damn stuffed deer.  And the child learned nothing except that when your father is a Flight Engineer on a military cargo plane, he knows lots of people who will buy cookies.

We do love them.  Sure, occasionally the kind they sell changes, but we still love em, and we all have a favorite.  And every year we buy the sales pitch and buy the cookies.

We don’t need them mind you.  Particularly me, a slightly overweight guy with high blood pressure and lousy cholesterol.

But we love them.  They taste good, and they make us feel good, even if there is a price to pay (both now and later).

We love that we support the girls, even though in reality the Girl Scout troop only gets about 50¢ a box (it varies, historically it ranges from about 45¢ to $1).  Maybe you didn’t know that.  That $4 box of cookies get heavily eaten away by many groups and levels before the money trickles down to the actual GS troop.

But even so, that paltry 50¢ adds up when it is several hundred boxes sold.  So yes, it does help the troop to plan activities.