Should Barack Obama have made a speech on Class and Religion?

David Brooks of the New York Times on the 4/20/08; NBC's Meet The Press,
(note video clip, Obama: Inspiring and Tough Enough?) said in his view Barack Obama should have made a speech on Class and Religion as he did on Race, over his remarks that small town America is bitter and clinging to guns, religion, antipathy e.t.c.

Yes on face value it does seem like a good idea, Obama giving another dissertation on Class and Culture. But the fact of the matter is Obama's remarks on the play of wedge issues in America politics, which is what his clinging to Guns and Religion was about, has nothing to do with the phenomenon and it's recurrence in politics, which others have documented so well even giving it the classification Reagan Democrats and Cultural Conservatism, being complex and improperly formed to be observed clearly.

Because it's idealistic nature is all to clear. So-called cultural-conservatism is a reaction, an immature social activity which has no other motive than holding in disdain, even to the point of compromising and betraying it's economical needs at the behest of a politics that is oppositionary to it's motive, a specific historic grouping. Whether the question is the rural, urban clash of the 18th century America and it contemporary consequences of a reaction to specifically Black American Self-Determination.

The idealism of American politics regardless of tendency is it's suppositionary rigidity. Obama's speech on race wasn't an eye-opener it simply legitimized critique of dialectical fact of race in all it's suppositions. Class and Religion, it's critique requires ideology.

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