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‘Bitter’? ‘Clinging to Guns’? No, ‘Dumb as a Box of Rocks’
Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 12 April 2008 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

Posted on 04/11/2008 6:22:14 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob

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To: mware
"What Barak does not understand about religion, (how could he going to the church he does) is that religion is not about frustration, bitterness, and hate, it is about love and an understanding that there are things greater than ourselves."

Man, you have nailed it. With a Big Hammer.

41 posted on 04/11/2008 7:22:04 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

The rocks of the small towns in America represent the foundation that America is built upon. OB wants to change that foundation. Perhaps to quicksand or clay or maybe just manure. He certainly has been spewing a lot of it lately.


42 posted on 04/11/2008 7:22:28 PM PDT by B4Ranch ( Rope, Tree & Traitor; Some Assembly Required || Gun Control Means Never Having To Say I Missed You)
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To: JimC214
To the folks in Greene County Alabama I'm a Birmingham city slicker. To the folks in Atlanta, New York and Boston I'm a Birmingham countrified rube and likely NASCAR fan .

A lot of that depends on where you stand at the moment. LOL

I used to date a gal that took me out to Los Angeles to meet her parents who eventually got around to asking me what it was like to use an outhouse. I had to sheepishly admit that as soon as I saw my first one I'd give it a try and let them know....

43 posted on 04/11/2008 7:22:35 PM PDT by Condor 63
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To: ridesthemiles

I grew up in Detroit and now live in suburban Detroit. I did spend eight years in the UP though and loved small town life. I was amazed at the work ethic and resourcefulness of the people there. Someone we knew up there built his own house. He cut down and skidded the trees and had them milled into lumber. From that, he framed his own house with the help of his dad. I think he made his own cabinets and a nice big bunk bed for his young boys too. This was after putting in a full day at work. If there is ever a catastrophe in this country, these are the type people who will be able to survive.


44 posted on 04/11/2008 7:35:50 PM PDT by stayathomemom
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To: infantrywhooah

“I knew if Obama got enough rope he would eventually wind up hanging himself with it”.

Oops! Be careful! They’ll acuse him of a hate crime.


45 posted on 04/11/2008 7:35:51 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: infantrywhooah

Forget McCain. The haloed one is going to have to face that psycho Webb, who might actually try to punch him out, fellow Dem or not.


46 posted on 04/11/2008 7:36:34 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Congressman Billybob; Spktyr; SmithL; DeFault User; PGalt; conservatism_IS_compassion; CPT Clay; ...
Armor for Congress PING!


John Armor for Congress

John Armor on YouTube

Freepmail or ping me on the thread to be added to the John Armor for Congress ping list.


And an alert to folks on this thread that John will be
in a live radio debate next Tuesday, streaming on-line.
For details, see this thread.


47 posted on 04/11/2008 7:38:41 PM PDT by MitchellC (Thomas Sowell: 'I will be delighted.. if someone with such views gets elected.' ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: Hot Tabasco

To these elitists, “small town” = 25,000-100,000.

U.S. Senseless Bureau calls anything over 25,000 a ‘city’. Anything 2,500-25,000 is “a place”.

Most of the “places” I lived aren’t nearly big enough to even be “places” at all.

One of my grammer schools had a high of 72 students one year, in 8 grades; two rooms/teachers. The next year, at high school we had just over 300 in 9-12th, and the district extended 35 miles N-S & was about 40 miles E-W!

For me, the smaller the better...as long as I can get broadband. LOL


48 posted on 04/11/2008 7:39:31 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: lightman

“Pennsyltucky”.

I always called it “Pennsylvakia”—


49 posted on 04/11/2008 7:40:05 PM PDT by midnightson (Mama-the ultimate prognosticator- said there'd be days like this.)
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To: ridesthemiles
I lived for a number of years-29-in Los Angeles. Now live rural again.

Well, I've been a Cali native for 50 years, and I can assure that, except for a very small section of west LA, LA isn't a "real" city in the sense that it has a cohesive identity or common culture. Even west LA is just strip retail along a few major boulevards; there isn't any "city" influence at all. BTW, since all retail went big-box, let me assure you, we (or have an illegal) all carry our crap to the car.

BHO's lame commentary probably didn't even resonate with the Pacific Heights crew he was mingling with. Emphasis on 'with'; he's definitely not one of them.

50 posted on 04/11/2008 7:42:59 PM PDT by semantic
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To: Congressman Billybob
****antipathy to people who aren't like them ****

Sounds like a rather perfect discription of the type of nimrods who go to Obama's church.

51 posted on 04/11/2008 7:43:12 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (I'm a happy man, I have a new battery for my remote control!!!)
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To: stayathomemom
If there is ever a catastrophe in this country, these are the type people who will be able to survive.

Already done:

Hank Williams Jr. - A Country Boy Can Survive

The preacher man says its the end of time and the Mississippi River she's a going dry. The interest is up and the stock markets down and you only get mugged if you go downtown. I live back in the woods you see, my woman,and the kids and the dogs and me. I got a shotgun and a rifle and a four wheel drive and a countryboy can survive. Country folks can survive.

I can plow a field all day long, I can catch catfish from dusk til dawn. Make our own whiskey and our own smoke too aint to many things these boys can't do. We grow good old tomatoes and homemade wine and countryboy can survive, country folk can survive.

Because you can't stomp us out and you can't make us run, cause we're them ole boys raised on shotguns. We say grace and we say mam amd if you aint into that we don't give a damn. We came from the West Virginia coal mine's and the Rocky Mountains and the Western skies and we can skin a buck, we can run a trout line and a countryboy can survive, country folks can survive.

I had a good friend in New York City he never called me by my name just hillbilly. My Grandpa taught me how to live off the land and his taught him to be a business man He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Nights and i would send him some homemade wine but he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife, for forty three dollars my friend lost his life. I'd love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes and shoot him with my ole forty-five cause a countryboy can survive, country folks can survive.

'Cause you can't stomp us out and you can't make us run, and we're them ole boys raised on shotgun. We say grace, we say mam, if you aint into that we don't give a damn. We're from North California and South Alabam' and little towns all around this land. We can skin a buck, and run a trout line and a countryboy can survive, country folks can survive, countryboy can survive, country folks can survive.

52 posted on 04/11/2008 7:44:55 PM PDT by Condor 63
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To: Congressman Billybob
Mellencamp asked McCain to stop using his music, but maybe Obama can use Mellencamp music and start a new campaign song out of this...

Well I was born in a small town
And I live in a small town
Probly die in a small town
Oh, those small communities

All my friends are so small town
My parents live in the same small town
My job is so small town
Provides little opportunity

Educated in a small town
Taught the fear of jesus in a small town
Used to daydream in that small town
Another boring romantic thats me

But Ive seen it all in a small town
Had myself a ball in a small town
Married an l.a. doll and brought her to this small town
Now shes small town just like me

No I cannot forget where it is that I come from
I cannot forget the people who love me
Yeah, I can be myself here in this small town
And people let me be just what I want to be

Got nothing against a big town
Still hayseed enough to say
Look whos in the big town
But my bed is in a small town
Oh, and thats good enough for me

Well I was born in a small town
And I can breathe in a small town
Gonna die in this small town
And thats probly where they'll bury me.

53 posted on 04/11/2008 7:55:22 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Congressman Billybob
HALP US BEROK O'BOMBA-- WE R STUK HEAR N ALTOONA

LOL!

[Hat tip: Just One Minute blog]

54 posted on 04/11/2008 8:03:35 PM PDT by Timeout
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To: Congressman Billybob

Hey Obama Baby, I don’t “cling” to my guns but I damned sure know how to use them. I’m not bitter either, I love my small town and it’s people (1,500 folks), we’re unincorporated so we don’t have a city limits in order to have an official census. Our small town cafes, post office and hardware store are where we see each other and find out about folks. Our small town still posts obituary notices ASAP in all our businesses and post office. We stop and remove our hats and caps for funeral processions too.

Our three kids grew up and graduated from our small town HS too, went on to earn degrees, one serves his country proudly as a combat infantryman, have you ever served your country Obama? My infantryman also volunteered in our VFD since HS too, did you ever volunteer to serve your community Obama?

We don’t “cling” to our religion either, our family lives our FAITH as much as possible although fall short of the mark many times. Our faith is a RELATIONSHIP with our Lord, strange, when all that clap trap broke lose about you and Rev. Wright, we then knew what you were all about.

Stay away from our small town B. Hussein Obama, we’re doin’ fine thank you very much. You have greatly underestimated small town people, I assure you.


55 posted on 04/11/2008 8:07:37 PM PDT by brushcop (B-Co. 2/69 3rd Infantry Div., "Sledgehammer!" ...and keep hammering 'em!)
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To: Congressman Billybob

” it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to...antipathy to people who aren’t like them “

But enough about your church, Senator.


56 posted on 04/11/2008 8:14:38 PM PDT by Humble Servant ( Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: Humble Servant
Ace of Spades writes:

---------------------------------

Obama To Rural Pennsylvanians:

Vote For Me, You Corncob-Smokin', Banjo-Strokin', Chicken-Chokin', Cousin-Pokin', Inbred Hillbilly Racist Morons

57 posted on 04/11/2008 8:24:27 PM PDT by Timeout
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To: WestSylvanian
And where do you suppose the Scots-Irish who settled the Carolinas originally came from? Small towns in Pennsylvania in the 1700s and 1800s. Look at the Pennsylvania place names if you need proof of the Scots-Irish heritage—Armaugh, Donegal, Grampian, Edinboro, and on and on.

Right on! My family emigrated with the Boone family (Scots-Irish) from Bucks County, Pennsylvannia to the Forks of the Yadkin in North Carolina in 1750.

58 posted on 04/11/2008 8:24:28 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: JimC214

I leave my keys in my cars and don’t even have a key for my house. How about you?


59 posted on 04/11/2008 8:28:53 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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To: goldstategop

I’m sure you’ve got the market cornered on understanding. Why else would you say such a foolish thing?


60 posted on 04/11/2008 8:35:48 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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