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What small-town America is saying about Obama In diners and mobile homes from New Mexico to North Carolina, I listened to working-class people try to make sense of a black president named Barack.
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  • to -- tillerylakelady

    Hmmm, let's see the people in your town are worried about:

    -Rev.Right (that is Wright. Worried about him?)

    -Father Pfleger - does such horrible stuff like lobby against the proliferation of liquer stores in poor neighborhoods. What a terrorist.

    -Louis Farrakhan - dont like him, OK.

    -William Ayers - I LIVED in the city and wouldn't know his name unless someone explained. Boy, are you learned in your small town.

    -Jodie Evans - who? Medea Benjamin - who? Frank Marshall Davis - who? Otis Moss 111 - who? Dr.Khalid-Al-Mansour who? Hatem-EL-Hady - who? and then we wonder why Radical Muslim Countries keep endorsing Obama,this has never happened to an American running for President in our History.

    Countries like,Lybia,North Korea,Iran,and Hamas. We have to ask ourselves WHY DO THESE PEOPLE WANT THIS MAN TO BE OUR PRESIDENT? These Countries are our Enemies.

    - as well as the rest of the planet, who recognized that Bush was a lying oil-soaked psycho. You know what troll? I'll bet the people in your town are dealing with forclosures and kids in Iraq right now and you are wallowing in this tripe. Evil is as evil does.

  • @wcarlijr

    I'm with you. Let fuck up some of these fat complacent assholes.

  • @wcarlijr

    You're right the young aren't all hung up on race, that particular hang up belongs to AKASmith and her reactionary elders of disgrace.

  • How is it..

    that your country, The Unuted States of America, with all the amazing resources available, with a massive population and a history of relatively well eductaed people end up looking so DUMB AND STUPID to the rest of the world? How is it that idiots like Bush are allowed to ruin your economy? How is it that when an educated, black man stands up for the top job the only debate going on amongst the public is whether they think someone will shoot him? What the f*#k is wrong with you people? Don't you get it? The world is sick of your stupidity, your nationalist nonsenses, your aggressive foreign policies and your overt RACISM and your crap culture. No matter how well informed your small town cretins mentioned in this article are they still come across as self serving, selfish and STUPID with so little curiosity about the rest of the world and a dyslexic disfunction that borders on autism as shown by the prattling of those quoted in this article. Did the interviewer actually talk to any intellignet people? Or perhaps there are so few that they, feeling ,like a minority do not hang out in the working class dumps he visited. In either case this article simple reiterates the view, held by many outside of your insular country, that the most dangerous people with nuclear weapons today are not the Iranians, could never have been Saddam but are actually sitiing in the Whitehouse right now. If God is blessing America I can only say i would hate to see the wjhat the world would be like if he cursed America as she justly deserves. But perhaps that is yet to come. Hurricane Ike blow on towards crawford then make a beeline to Washington and wipe these neocon scum off the face of the earth once and for all . Have a nice day, y'all.

  • Sad to say...

    Obama continues struggling to gain wider support, particularly among white working-class voters and independents in battleground states...

    But this is why Obama is not winning by a much larger margin as he should be...for all the vaunted claims that America has turned the page on its sordid, repellent, prejudice past, the signs indicate that we have not yet reached a level of open-mindedness that some among the Democrats seem to think has happened. Obama supporters like to tout the legions of cell phone users not counted in polls as evidence that he is probably doing much better than anticipated...until we have empirical evidence to prove this meme, one should be excessively cautious of such claims.

  • JESUS MAY HAVE BEEN A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER....

    But the roof over His head didn't top a Southside mansion, did it?

    And He didn't fly over to Rome to get a bunch of beside the point Europeans to stage Big Brother rallies for Him, did He?

    If Obama was such a memorable community organizer, how come we haven't heard all that much about the success of His projects? What exactly did His organizing end up doing for that community, anyway? Who are these workers that witnessed His organizational triumphs? Who in the end benefited most from His community labors?

    And more to the current point, Obamabots, who is this majority that is going to be voting for him? And why would they? Based on what?

    Where exactly are they supposed to be coming from?

    If this majority was really there, would articles like his one even be necessary?

    Instead of delusionally partisan reporters give you the Happy Spin Cycle, maybe you could step away from your computers long enough to drive a few hours outside city limits and ask any small town cafe waitress just how many people there are supporting Obama. But that's really not what you want to hear, is it.

    You don't want information. You need affirmation. All zealots are more gullible than logical.

    You insisted on foisting Obama onto the ticket. But it sure doesn't mean we have to vote for him.

    Or McCain either. But, unfortunately, in times of crisis, the stressed skew to the familiar. And that's precisely why today you know so much about Sarah Palin. Instead of Hillary Clinton. And if you think that last sentence is irriatating now, just keep it in mind over the next four years.

    Tough luck, Democrats. When we who are now Independents and will write in our choice told you that this was a bad idea, all you could do was insult us.

    And now you think somehow there is going to be enough of a majority to share your Kool-Aid. Why would they do that?

    Change is built on incremental trust. There is nothing at all reassuring about either Obama, McCain or Palin. But most Americans will relate least to Obama. Palin was hand-picked for exactly that reason and you know it.

    The only possible way a GOP candidate could win this election would be to run against a completely unelectable Democratic candidate after eliminating any viable contenders.

    And, such a Rovian coincidence. That is just what has happened.

    gala1

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