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I think Kerry touched on this in his campaign. The the financially disenfranchised (read as poor rednecks if you will) should be voting Democratic for their own good.
Yes, they've been taught by the Republican Party that government is bad, so you must elect people of your religion to insure morality; the world is dangerous, so you must be able to buy a submachine gun when you feel threatened; your job is threatened mostly by the changes bought to to this country by foreigners and that the country will go to hell in a hand-basket if queers get married. The Republican party sold the working poor a bill of goods that has cost them dearly.
I hope Obama's bitter pill is exactly what they need to hear.
I hope the coverage grows to cover the substance of what was said, not simply the choice of words.
I hope "Yes we can" and "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" can coexist and coalesce.
Why couldn't Clinton have agreed with that message rather than parsing words and inventing controversy? She should have, could have joined the battle against Republicans lies.
I believe she is afraid of the type of sea-change that Obama represents.
