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Why don't those hillbillies like Obama? [“Mountain people have long been considered exotic.”]
Salon ^ | May 20, 2008 | By Dee Davis

Posted on 05/20/2008 5:40:08 AM PDT by johnny7

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- In analyzing the returns from last week's West Virginia Democratic primary, a phalanx of reporters and commentators have explained Hillary Clinton's landslide victory by pointing out that West Virginians are a special set of Democrats, white, low income and undereducated.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: hillary; ky2008; marines; obama; ruralvote
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To: johnny7
I wonder how the eminent British historian, Sir Arnold Toynbee, would describe
this strain of garbage from San Francisco?


21 posted on 05/20/2008 6:11:52 AM PDT by johnny7 (Don't mess with my tag-lines!)
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To: johnny7

Barack and his lovely wife Michele, affirmative action babies who are legends in their own eyes, don’t have anything in common with working people who haven’t been to Haavaad.
Their only problem is that “hicks” vote.


22 posted on 05/20/2008 6:13:23 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Jeff Head

Holy macaroni and cheese! Ahmadinejad looks like he’s at about 3rd stage werewolf in that pic.


23 posted on 05/20/2008 6:15:54 AM PDT by Krankor (kROGER)
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To: johnny7

IOW: If you don’t slavishly support Barrack Hussein Obama you are a white racist hillbilly.


24 posted on 05/20/2008 6:16:13 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama: "America is the greatest country on earth, help me change America.")
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To: Sender
Where I come from (San Francisco), Obama does not represent Change - he represents San Francisco Bay Area values, just like Hillary does. The left coast is hating Hillary because she won't enact extremes to the degree Obama will.

That shows smarts in them West Virginians.

25 posted on 05/20/2008 6:17:19 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Jeff Head

I am worried that casting Obama as ‘evil’ and a liar may turn out to be bad for conservatives

Hillary and Bill are EVIL

Obama is just naive and ignorant (not stupid- there is a difference) and NOT qualified to be president.

He seems charming and a nice guy, who just believes in too many things that are incorrect.

We risk plenty by calling an nice charming man a bad man, we end up looking and sounding like liberals (who call ALL republicans evil)

oh- and Neville Chamberlain was stupid and evil


26 posted on 05/20/2008 6:18:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: Mr. K

When you look at Obama’s background, his actual record in the IL Ssenate, and in the US senate...when you look at who he has chosen to surround himself with and then how easily he either simply ignores it, lies about it, or throws them aside...I believe he too is both.


27 posted on 05/20/2008 6:21:02 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: johnny7

Maybe he would recognize them as Hairy Ainus.

(Ainu are an ethnic group native to Japan, perhaps the earliest humans to reach the Japanese islands. I assume they are “hairy” compared to the Nipponese.)


28 posted on 05/20/2008 6:21:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("If Global Warming did not exist, the left would have to invent it. In fact, they did." ~Don Feder)
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To: johnny7

Since they keep electing KKK Byrd to the Senate, we can figure they just don’t like Change.


29 posted on 05/20/2008 6:22:43 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("If Global Warming did not exist, the left would have to invent it. In fact, they did." ~Don Feder)
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To: Alia

They are purty smart, even the ones that can’t spel. They know a socialist globalist Islamist hypocrite black man when they see one.


30 posted on 05/20/2008 6:26:47 AM PDT by Sender ("Why is it that I can't just eat my waffle?" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: johnny7

I wonder how the eminent British historian, Sir Arnold Toynbee, would describe
this strain of garbage from San Francisco?


The LSD branch.


31 posted on 05/20/2008 6:32:15 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (With McCain around we can proudly proclaim, WE ARE SO SCREWED)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Instead, they voted for the hildebeeste.

Let's not forget a little bit of Operation Chaos subterfuge thrown in for good measure.

32 posted on 05/20/2008 6:34:48 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Sender
You know what I really like about them "purty smart, even the ones that can’t spel" -- they know how to do things, how to fix things, how to make life work. That get 'er done.

Hicks and hillbillies may not use 50 cent words, but when they do talk, they make more sense than overeducated boobs nattering nothings. Just amazes me that anyone who knows about self-sufficiency could vote Democrat, tho. I still don't get why they do that.

33 posted on 05/20/2008 6:36:19 AM PDT by Alia
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To: johnny7

That picture is a perfect illustration. When these politicians are more comfortable with that ilk than hard working rural folk, there is a very wide disconnect with those that make this country work.


34 posted on 05/20/2008 6:38:24 AM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: tflabo

We’ll see what the Mountaineers do in November. If they vote for McCain (or don’t vote), we’ll know it was OC. Elsewise ...


35 posted on 05/20/2008 6:39:05 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Mike Darancette

Ah, there’s the gist of the article.


36 posted on 05/20/2008 6:39:08 AM PDT by kenth (Just think, .000001783% of the population is screwing it all up for the rest of us.)
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To: Mr. K

“He seems charming and a nice guy, who just believes in too many things that are incorrect.”

Two quotes spring to mind:

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
[From W.B. Yeats ‘Second Coming’] and

‘Villainy wears no deadlier guise than that of virtue.’

What seems to be mere, starry-eyed ignorance and naivety may mask a dark, clever and deadly agenda.

I think he’s completely aware of reality and determined to “change” it to benefit his Islamic/Marxist brethren.
[whether past or present]

If he is elected, in four short years this country will be utterly unrecognizable as the US of A.

That is close enough to “evil” for me.

Another Hil & Bill presidency is unthinkable, yes, but my screaming gut-feeling is that BO is FAR more dangerous to America.


37 posted on 05/20/2008 6:45:56 AM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: ArrogantBustard

We have a lot of “old-style Dems” here in Appalachian W.MD.
I’m seeing “Hillary/Nobama” bumperstickers.

The Probama stickers are on cars heading back to DC via I-70 after spending the weekend out here, doing whatever it is they come to do in droves, every Friday night.

If local blacks are supporting him, they’re doing so invisibly.


38 posted on 05/20/2008 6:51:22 AM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: kenth

Too true...and you’d be amazed how immune we are to any kind of “-ist” labels.

[listening to 30+ years of “Deliverance” cracks give you very thick skin]...;-D


39 posted on 05/20/2008 6:55:17 AM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: Alia

Just remember they showed both Gore and Kerry to the door.


40 posted on 05/20/2008 6:57:00 AM PDT by meatloaf
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