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Obama on small-town PA: Clinging religion, guns, xenophobia
Politico.com ^ | 04/11/08 | Ben Smith

Posted on 04/11/2008 1:08:33 PM PDT by JRochelle

Mayhill Fowler has more from Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday, and they include an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won't be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama's seeking:

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 gonna 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.

That's pretty broad list of things to explain with job loss.


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To: JRochelle

VISIONS by B. Obama

Dark and lonely on the campaign trail
Fool the white folks, fool the white folks
Why do bloggers, against me rail?
Fool the white folks, fool the white folks
I come into their town
I’m circumspect
Then middle class folks I disrespect
Got my reasons, I hate rednecks!
Fool the white folks, fool the white folks
P - H - U - L the white folks.


361 posted on 04/12/2008 11:43:53 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: JRochelle

Are we sure McCain does not agree with him? If a McCain campaign worker criticizes Obama on this, will the worker get fired?


362 posted on 04/12/2008 11:53:26 AM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: JRochelle
"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."

The right to bear arms is part of the Bill of Rights, which, if my knowledge of history is correct, predates the Clinton and Bush administrations.

363 posted on 04/12/2008 12:02:53 PM PDT by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Amen.


364 posted on 04/12/2008 12:13:02 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: San Jacinto
McCain camp hammers Obama on small town comments
365 posted on 04/12/2008 12:17:49 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: JRochelle

As far as I am concerned Barack Obama’s image should not be appearing on campaign posters.

His image should be appearing on “Wanted” posters in every post office in the country.

He is, pure and simple, a criminal and treasonist who belongs in prison.

When you sleep with dogs you get fleas.

He has slept with Wright and a known terrorist, figuratively.


366 posted on 04/12/2008 12:18:47 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron ("Terisn" is my new favorite word. Thank you, Allegra.)
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To: F15Eagle


OBEY

367 posted on 04/12/2008 12:28:09 PM PDT by Sender (Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.)
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To: Disambiguator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY8NR7jZCYs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-TEtqD-oY8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmnWJaFz6lw&feature=related


368 posted on 04/12/2008 12:29:53 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: JRochelle
Notice that in his statement he does mention PA but he broadens it to most small towns in the Midwest.

Thos of us in the South are offended. We cling to our guns and religion, too. Hard to find people who hate anyone different from us, but we at least deserved a mention.

369 posted on 04/12/2008 12:30:42 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: El Gran Salseron

... and you don’t know the half of it yet. Trust me.


370 posted on 04/12/2008 12:33:40 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: gitmo

He wants you to have a new religion. Communism/spit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xtNr5-up0U


371 posted on 04/12/2008 12:35:19 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: AliVeritas
He wants you to have a new religion. Communism/spit

Already have one, so no thanks. Someone on this thread said it earlier, He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Spoken is getting scary.

372 posted on 04/12/2008 12:49:45 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: Rome2000

“If this is a fact, if you give to every man, who has no property, a vote, will you not make a fine encouraging provision for corruption by your fundamental law?Such is the frailty of the human heart, that very few men, who have no property, have any judgment of their own. They talk and vote as they are directed by some man of property, who has attached their minds to his interest…”

****

Artistotle believed the same thing. In his perfect “State”, good government was a “virtuous” government. A virtuous government consisted of people who cultivated “virtue”, i.e. good moral character. But such moral character takes time to study and develop. Only those who had the leisure time could develop such virtue. The only people with sufficient leisure time were people of property and money.

According to Artistotle, the other people in the State, i.e. farmers, laborers, mechanics, artisans, etc., could not become citizens because they didn’t have the leisure time to develop “virtue”. Why? They were too busy making a living.


373 posted on 04/12/2008 1:07:37 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: gitmo

Oh yes. He’s already scary. If you know anyone from the Southside of Chicago, ask them... they’ll tell you.


374 posted on 04/12/2008 1:08:30 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: AliVeritas

Yes, I did borrow from “Images” by Tyrone Green.

:^)


375 posted on 04/12/2008 1:53:20 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: FateAmenableToChange
Well, he shoots the 2nd amendment and the freedom of religion all to hell in one fell swoop. He's such an idiot but it goes to show that his greatness was seriously over stated.

He's been coddled his whole life and it's starting to show.

376 posted on 04/12/2008 1:57:10 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: XR7

Obama did not say, ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. He said anti-immigrant. What a little brainwasher he is.


377 posted on 04/12/2008 1:59:09 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: AliVeritas
Did you see the al Jazeera link...

Yes, I did; muslims support Hamas, muslims support the Muslim Brotherhood, muslims support obama because he's a muslim.


378 posted on 04/12/2008 2:28:08 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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To: Earthdweller

and no more clinging! unless between consenting adults.


379 posted on 04/12/2008 2:41:41 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: floriduh voter

I think we should start a CLING PING!


380 posted on 04/12/2008 2:48:40 PM PDT by austinaero
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