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.
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The nice thing about an offer as open as "change" is that everyone can see it as whatever they want it to be.
It's like offering up tofu--or feces (same thing)--and telling everyone to just imagine it is their individual favorite dish.
And all those rural Southern Blacks who voted for Obama are intellectuals?
For some reason white people are the only population segment of America who aren't allowed to be poor, rural, and undereducated.
Why would they vote for Hillary?
“Undereducated and low income” I thought that was the Dem stock in trade?
Future $350,000.00 Medicaid cases at End of life Aids Hospital residents?
Hillbilly? I prefer the term Mountain William, thank you.
I have it on good information that the Hairy Ainus are angry, bitter people, who cling to God and guns and xenophobia to make themselves feel better.
carolyn
It isn't because of the brilliance or the generosity of the Republican party that so many have switched; it's because the Democratic party has gone balls-out freaking liberal.
Unions still cling to the Democrats, but the unions have pretty much priced themselves out of existance. Not even Hillary can bring back legions of high-paying, guaranteed jobs and benefits for life with increases every contract. Now the unions are competing against workers in China who don't know what vacations or benefits are, and who are grateful for a few dollars a day. Good luck with that, Democrats, as you helped outsource all the jobs over there. Don't tell me you are going to bring them all back, you aren't.
The real question is why black people are addicted to the Democratic party. Don't they know that the Democrats fought tooth and nail against civil rights? Don't they know that the Southern Democrats were the slave owners, and the Northern Republicans were the abolitionists? I guess they don't. They aren't as smart as West Virginians.
I loved West Virginia. That was a place where total strangers would wave to you and smile as they drove by, and where a traffic jam was having to stop for a school bus. Where you could drive through the mountains at high speed for hours and just look at all creation.
My Grandfather died in a mine accident in that area back in 1905. My Dad was 5 at the time. Tough times for a widow with 5 sons. Soon the oldest ones were pitching in. They all moved to Louisville and she got a job making fixtures for American Standard.
She had FIVE STARS during WWII.
West Virginians are a special set of Democrats, white, low income and undereducated.
“OUCH!”
Thanks, especially for not saying “you’re an A$$h@le” like many others here when you politley disagree and try to make a point.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but I don’t think he is really evil like the murderous arkansaw twosome. I am not away of any deaths or ‘arkancides’ link to Obamarama, nor any of the other messes that surround them
I just think we want to avoid the negativity that you see in places like D.Uh. where anyone NOT like them is EEEEEEEvill and Republicans are ALL EEEVillllll and anyone who disagrees is EEEEvillllll....
He may just be ignorant and naive- which is bad enough, granted, and dangerous too
I can never remember Ronald Reagan ever talking about anyone (even his known enemies) in such hateful terms- he was such a pleasant guy! and I would like to see us not degenerate to calling everyone we disagree with EEEEEEvvvillllllll
“Thanks, especially for not saying youre an A$$h@le like many others here when you politley disagree and try to make a point.”
Not really my style.
A person has to pretty much antagonize me endlessly to receive nastiness in return....:)
I believe in true and absolute free speech, even if it’s something I don’t believe or even necessarily want to suffer listening to.
Anything less is censorship.
[though the ever-genteel Reagan did, if you recall, refer to the USSR as the “Evil Empire”]....LOL!
It is *my* belief that Obama’s “evil” is simply much more subtle and insidious than the Dreadful Duo’s obvious and overt “evil”.
IMO, that makes him infinitely more dangerous because those who are less astute and/or aware will be more easily led astray by it.
No one mistakes a Rattlesnake for anything less yet they might be tempted to pick a Coral snake, thinking it a harmless Scarlet Kingsnake.
Pardon my tenacity of opinion but there is just *something* in the eyes of that man that sets off all kinds of warning alarms in “my gut”....alarms which I have learned the hard way ~not~ to ignore.
Here in the northeast, we pretend they don't exist, and when we encounter them, the thought is "so what is your problem and why do you even exist?" I am serious.
Great post to which I add one anecdotal post-script:
During the 2000 election insanity, a local TV station asked a [black] Baltimore woman why she voted for Algore.
She replied that had done so because “Algore was a Democrat, just like Mr Lincoln.”
I kid you not.
Was she brain-washed, un[or erroneously]educated or simply oblivious?
You decide.
The real question is why black people are addicted to the Democratic party. Don't they know that the Democrats fought tooth and nail against civil rights? Don't they know that the Southern Democrats were the slave owners, and the Northern Republicans were the abolitionists? I guess they don't.
It's quite possibly they might know this information, but since Democrats give blacks all kinds of freebies, I guess Blacks (as a group) consider this "reparations". I also presume many of these don't give three honks that they are taking food out of the mouths of other identity groups. Maybe some consider it is far safer to stay on the "plantation" than to venture forth into a real, free world with self-accountability and rugged individualism.
A town in GA is named after an ancestor of mine. She was an abolitionist. She paid dearly for her actions and activities.
The nice thing about an offer as open as "change" is that everyone can see it as whatever they want it to be.
Thank you for reminding me. And I’ll be watching come November.
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