“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
My garden, my guns, my family, oh and in this day and age,, my job, and By God, the Flag I fly in my yard everyday, for hopes of a better America and our troops in harms way.
I guess I'm a simpleton too that just "doesn't get it" either. ;)
Obama....for change......for all you simpletons in small-town America out there....if you'd just let him...........
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/11/obama-draws-fire-for-comments-on-small-town-america/
The telling excerpt:
Obama made the original comments while speaking to a group of wealthy California donors in San Francisco over the weekend. The Huffington Post quotes him specifically singling out towns in Pennsylvania, where he’s trying to woo voters and overcome Clinton’s lead in the polls before the state’s April 22 primary.
“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not.
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
I for one am tired of being called a racist just because I'm white.
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For how could he be wrong, when he is a Harvard-educated, politically and socially enlightened "Man of the People"; a modern-day Messiah sent to lead us poor fools into a new era!
Messiah, I think in the Bible it says the next so called Messiah would end up being the Anti-Christ.
bho does have that stink about him, no? The Anti-Christ stink that is.
And as bho's pastor would no doubt point out, the Constitution was not just written by dead guys, it was written by dead white guys.
bho is a communist and a tyrant in waiting. he must not be elected President. Getting him out of the Senate would be a good thing too - for this country and our pocketbooks. Of course that goes for more than half of the current Seante, and a goodly chunk of the House as well.
Excellently explained, Mr. Fawkes, and very compelling. I am most certain I can attain enlightenment, as soon as I can resolve just one brief flash of intellectual curiosity.
Imagine magically transporting ones self back into the same room in Philadelphia, at the same point in history, as our Founding Fathers stridently labored over the verbiage of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.. I mean, standing shoulder to shoulder with those giants of our national origin. Then listen to their response when they are shown the front page of USA Today, 2008, with the front runners pictured prominently. What would they say? What else might they, would they, have written? I wonder.
Once I can accept that their works would have emerged unchanged, I'll report for re-programming.
Mac.
Bullseye!
I really dont understand how this guy is up on stage and is seriously being considered a legitimate candidate for President - let alone by soooooooooo many Americans. :o