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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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.
"It’s all good. All the enlightened folk from San Francisco (the center of all reason and moderation) have to do is explain to those poor rubes how Barry will bring in high-paying jobs at the new Gucci factories, open the secret government bins of fairy gold to pay for universal, top-notch health care and research, & etc. Once that message is spread, trailer park Joes will accept him as their personal savior, lose their bitterness, put aside their antiquated belief in God, their plebian concern for more than amendment one, and their naïve expectations of a secure border. Then they join our legions of the rational! Hooray!"
I always love it when Hillary sits there in her $5,000 pale azure pants suit, telling us how her buddies, the trailer trash so beloved by Bill Klinton, don't trust Barack. Of course, she still has the powder burns on her hands from duck hunting.
How do you go duck hunting in a $5000 pants suit, anyway?
Sounds like Mike is not only angry, but he is also a luni. It's ok if he wants to be insulted by Hussein Obama, but not me. I take pride in been a hard-working, tax-payig, law-abiding American.
Hussein's comments put down people like me who is fighting for the freedom both Obama and Madden enjoy. This is now my second tour in Iraq and I have seen may of my buddies blown into pieces.
Yes, these are the same small-town people who hold onto their religion and guns yet they were patriotic and have died fighting for their country.
If anyone needs to be mad, it is the people who are supporting Hussein Obama. They should have their heads examined. Just what is it about this guy they like?
Could it be that Hussein associates himself with the racist Rev. Wright for 20 years spewing hatrad for white Americans?
Could it be that Husseing hands around with the cespool of corruption king, Tony Rezko who has given Obama lots of $$$?
Could it be that Hussein calls the self-proclaimed Pentagon Terrorist, William C. Ayers "a friend"?
Could it be that his wife hates America and has called Americans stupid?
Do you get the message Mike?
Before you defend Hussein, read about him and learn. Maybe you are one of the ones Obama calls "dumb" small-town people?
James C.
Iraq Vet
Proud to be an American!
http://www.obamaunveiled.com
I used to back Hillary, but that changed after time and again having to endure lame attacks on Obama instead of Republicans . . . and it culminated in this one. It's not the attack, it's the total lazy lameness of it.
What she should have done is steal Obama's message and state it correctly, make it her own, and champion the truth of American frustration for the last 8 years. What she did was twist it like a Republican.It's disappointing to see someone incapable of seizing a true political moment, instead taking a page out of the Republican strategy book. That's lazy, that's desperate.
I think Obama told the truth and when people get over being sore about it, they will rally to him because they will understand that someone knows what's going on and will do somthing about it.
I was nauseated by Bush's comments this morning when he greeted the Pope on the White House grounds. He alluded to a prosperity most of us are not experiencing in a country that has betrayed its promise and its citizens in the process. Fortunately, the Pope is intelligent and probably knows a heck of a lot better -- that a lot of his constituents, patriotic and Catholic, are suffering under this misadministration. I expect that he will deal with it in his own way.
Most people I know (not living in small town America but in the suburbs and exurbs of New York) are hurting and they are bitter.
I was actually quoting that great Clinton advisor, James Carville, who once stated "Paula Jones is the kind of girl who turns up when you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park."
Yep, Hillary is certainly the champion of the lower classes. You can buy good shotguns for $109 million dollars, that's for sure.
Democratic and Labor strategies to reach Blue Collar workers succeeded in PA in 2004, and should again.
...it makes me wonder if I can keep from goin' under.
...how many of them were heard saying "He's one of the GOOD ones."
You're right, Carters12; those poor rednecks have been carefully taught. They can't possibly have opinions of their own (especially not to the extent that they would vote convictions over financial interests).... not like real people, anyway.
If one person tells you to your face honesttly what he thinks makes you tick and is only partly right (hence partly wrong) and another lies to you about everything he or she has done for twenty years, but tells you what he or she thinks you want to hear, do you go with the message or the messenger?
This is the dilemma for Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina voters who have been, as Fed Chair Ben Bernanke(multi millionaire) so delicately puts it, "dislocated" by the economic policies of the Clintons and the Bushes. More plainly, you either lost your job or were traded down in salary and benefits, despite years of loyalty to your employer.
I don't care if you have a house full of legally obtained firearms--that's a second amendment right. And how and when and where you worship is a right guaranteed by the first amendment.
I do have hopes. I hope you will keep a scorecard of the number of times the Clintons have lied to you only in order to advance themselves and their dynastic intentions. Keep a list of the things Obama has done and said that have turned you off, or made you reject him, and then see how he has handled controversy by more fully explaining what he meant,and ask yourself not whether you agree with him, but whether you think he answered straight and consistently. Before you vote, comapare the two scorecards, and ask whether Obama's consistency is worth less to you than the pattern of lies the Clintons have told to get your vote. Is honesty or pandering more likely to be worth your vote?
The likelihood is that those who can't tell the truth before they are in office are even less likely to do so once they get there, when their goals become reelection and legacy, not living up to promises they never intended to keep.
Look hard at your heart, at what your head tells you, and with clear eyes at the next four years. Then vote.
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