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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Bitter as hell in Pennsylvania

Folks agree with Barack Obama in at least one Pennsylvania trailer park. But will angry voters help or hurt Democrats in swing states this fall?

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  • Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:27 AM

    Onward Macduff

    How about that Hillary Rodham Clinton telling white Pensylvania folk that they've just been insulted by the elitist Barack Obama! Are Pennsylvania's god fearing gun lovers so daft that they need Hill to tell them when they've been insulted by one high fallutin Barack Obama? Only a Clinton could be so shameless and pathologically ambitious to paint the first serious African American candidate for president as the elitist. Obama came from a dadless and often momless family and was raised by his granny. Who can forget Bush Sr.’s Willy Horton poster used to scare the white American working class away from Dukakis back in '88, Hill's doing the same now by trying to paint Obama as a Vanderbilt! Wow, what spin! The elitist candidate isn't Anglo-American but African-American! Bill and Hill have made $110 mil the past 8 years. What more proof does anyone need on just whose personal interests the Clinton's politics have served during their careers other than their own? Theirs is not a politics of hope or change, but a politics of dirt to exploit an "enemy's" weakness, exploiting that weakness for their own personal gain. Perhaps you've met people like this at work. You are more than competent at doing your job and then some lazy selfish SOB wants to climb on top of you so they don't do the hard work but scheme and cleverly slander you in the presence of those who can forward their careers. The repubs are just as bad when it comes to Obama, old-moneyed military academy McCain and his heiress wife are just as rich as the Clintons, perhaps the Clintons ought to consider switching parties, as they are now pandering to the red-neck faction of the democratic party, the faction that would really be more at home in a "red state", and would more naturally form a part of the Republican base. Knowing now that Hillary Clinton was a gun-toting good-ol’ gal as a girl in Pennsylvania, now trumpeting the American right to bear arms, and that she supports the NRA, really seals the deal for me on her character; for Pennsylvania's sake she's morphed into a female Charlton Heston: she really is the devil in blue dress or whatever color dress she happens to be wearing on any given day. Her response to criticism is to not take a reality check if the criticism was deserved, but to exact revenge and stab her most recently identified enemy in the back. What about that Bosnian yarn she spun and spun until some old news footage proved her to be a liar? Hillary is the personification of a bitterly ambitious human being who's feels she's entitled to beknightment, and she's the multi-millionaire so many times over, not Obama. Revolting! She still believes the old American adage that there's a sucker born every minute! If she wins Pennsylvania and then goes on to win the nomination she'll prove there is! If Obama loses the nomination this independent voter is going to vote for McCain, he actually did come under fire, unlike the phoney Hillary. The Clintons live in a fantasy world of their own making, their genius is to get their toadies to slavishly believe in their BS.

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