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Obama Draws Fire for Comments on Small-Town America
Fox News ^ | April 11, 2008

Posted on 04/11/2008 4:44:23 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Hillary Clinton and John McCain both ripped into Barack Obama Friday for reportedly saying residents of small-town America “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” out of bitterness over lost jobs, a remark his opponents interpreted as arrogant...

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To: GodGunsGuts

IIRC, Hillary said things like this while in Arkansas. Just a little more subtle.


41 posted on 04/11/2008 5:08:08 PM PDT by lawnguy (The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil-Cicero)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I Want You To Stop Acting Like A Typical White Person

42 posted on 04/11/2008 5:08:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: Biblebelter

Thank you!...I’ll be tuning in as sure as I’m sitting here!!!


43 posted on 04/11/2008 5:08:50 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
"...a remark his opponents interpreted as arrogant."

It's not arrogant, it's ignorant.

44 posted on 04/11/2008 5:08:55 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

LOL! What a scary thought!!!


45 posted on 04/11/2008 5:09:19 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
Obama doesn't understand America at all. There cannot be a worse possible candidate for President.
46 posted on 04/11/2008 5:10:24 PM PDT by SaveTheChief (Chief Illiniwek (1926-2007))
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To: GodGunsGuts
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, ...they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment "

That's gonna get him a lot of votes in Fly-Over country...not.

Arrogant, skinny putz.

Hope we get the ads ready and use the sound tape of him saying it.

Whenever, it seems, he's not reading a teleprompter, he opens his mouth and out spills his ignorance and arrogance

47 posted on 04/11/2008 5:10:36 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: hinckley buzzard

He’s a far too brilliant speech writer/deliverer, but thankfully very weak when unscripted. And there will be many more of those situations where he has to be spontaneous and off the cuff, and that’s where his real thoughts and values will be exposed.


48 posted on 04/11/2008 5:10:53 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: infantrywhooah
Oh, I don't know, I think 4 years of an Obamanation would do wonders to wake up dumb white liberals who've long felt burdened by a past they didn't create for people they didn't know or encounter. They would wake up to find that selling a victim mentality to attain political power and agreeing that they are “the oppressor” won't earn them any love.

Let the white liberals experience naked discrimination (payback for the “white privilege” they agree exists). It's only “fair”.

How much will the reparations be that we get for 4 years of Obama and Co. discriminating?

They are establishing racial division where it did not exist. They are setting the foundation for an "us and them" mentality. God help us all.

49 posted on 04/11/2008 5:10:55 PM PDT by weegee (Obama: small-town America “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them")
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To: GodGunsGuts
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.

Well there's your problem right there! They've been waiting 25 years for someone else to do something. Laura Mercy, get off your arses people! Stop expecting the taxpayers of North Dakota to pony up the scratch to move a plant to your town. Stop waiting for the state to do something. Get busy! Pool your skills. Stop electing RATS and RINOs who build a hostile-to-business regulatory and taxation environment. And believe me, Obama isnlt going to solve the problem for you either.

51 posted on 04/11/2008 5:12:21 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: llandres

I think that it is quite obvious from “speaking off script” that he’s got other people writing his lines. He’ll have to show his paperwork to convince me that HE has been writing is “articulate” speeches. He is articulate at delivering someone else’s softsell socialism.


52 posted on 04/11/2008 5:12:32 PM PDT by weegee (Obama: small-town America “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them")
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To: litehaus
Ingraham on FOX is just gettin to it.....

O'Reilly's people threw their story together very quickly. The commentary on Lou Dobb's was SCATHING and they even included Hillary's response which was the best opening she has had in a long time.

53 posted on 04/11/2008 5:12:51 PM PDT by Biblebelter (Barry, let your Uncle Jeremiah speak publicly, so he can set the record straight himself.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
The voting booth is like a confessional booth. Just you and your conscience.

Most people will level with themselves before pulling the lever for Obama. After all, God knows what's in your heart.

54 posted on 04/11/2008 5:13:18 PM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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To: pnh102

Lets not get too hasty in our judgement of illinois. I don’t think we should judge the entire state just by loony chicago.


55 posted on 04/11/2008 5:13:45 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
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To: weegee

I have to agree with you...the “yes we can” and selling us on abolishing division apparently only applied to one side of the street.


56 posted on 04/11/2008 5:13:50 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: maine-iac7
Whenever, it seems, he's not reading a teleprompter, he opens his mouth and out spills his ignorance and arrogance

In other words, when he goes off script (or IS reading from his autobiography) it is amazing how much he sounds like his mentor Jeremiah Wright.

57 posted on 04/11/2008 5:14:18 PM PDT by weegee (Obama: small-town America “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them")
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To: pnh102
These 2 jerks are just a reflection of the people of the state.

Well, there are tons more on the left side of The Bell Curve......as the former center of the curve moves downward from its former meaning--Average.....

58 posted on 04/11/2008 5:14:21 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: gusopol3
we've already fouled off the "Typical White Person" comment

Just so. You don't get those hanging curves so often you that you can afford to blow them, but the GOP blazes new trails in ineptitude. Welcome to the Stupid Party.

59 posted on 04/11/2008 5:15:18 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: llandres

Ever notice how the word MACACA can get you canned from even LOWER office but people will make excuses until the cows come home for Barry O?


60 posted on 04/11/2008 5:16:44 PM PDT by weegee (Obama: small-town America “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them")
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