Posted on 08/18/2008 2:12:30 AM PDT by ricks_place
RENO, Nev. | Sen. Barack Obama is taking his campaign to the rural backroads that helped him win early primaries but later slipped from his grasp.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's small town-hall meetings are aimed at showing voters that he understands their economic plight.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama listens to a question at a rally Sunday at a high school in Reno, Nev. Rural voters delivered Nevada delegates to him in January, but abandoned his campaign in later primaries and caucuses. (Associated Press)
"This election is about whether or not we are going to sustain and maintain the American dream for the next generation," Mr. Obama told voters here during an early-morning town hall before later jetting to San Francisco for a high-dollar fundraiser.
The Illinois senator bashed Sen. John McCain's economic plan, linking the presumptive Republican nominee repeatedly to President Bush and saying they have "the same team and ... the same strategy."
"The wealthiest 1 percent have never had it so good, but ordinary families, middle-class families, saw their incomes go down by $1,000" under the Bush administration, he said. An Obama administration would push "an economy that's working not just for some, but for all," he said, drawing cheers.
Lower-income white voters showed up for him in rural Nevada during the January caucus, allowing him to win more delegates than his Democratic rival. But later in the grueling primary season, those voters flocked to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
One explanation is that Mr. Obama was caught on tape in the spring telling San Francisco donors that some voters are "bitter" about the bad economy and then "cling" to religion and guns. Both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain said the comment made the Democrat seem elitist.
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Kin he git him a huntin’ license?
Gets even better;
Another Obama embellishment (lie), doesn’t he remember that private school scholarship?
At 16:50 Obama starts talking about his single mother, that went to work and school, then brings his grandparents into the story
Barack Obama: Reno, NV Event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47pUEOJeuo
Obama: “All the work and sacrifice they made to get me a decent education so I could be standing here in front of you.”
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Hawaii Senator Apologizes for Suggesting Obama’s High School Was Elitist
Obama responded to Inouye’s comments in an interview with KITV the Saturday before the caucuses.
“Shame on Danny for trying to pull that stunt,” Obama said. “I went to Punahou on a scholarship.
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The ‘Rat-Ballers’: Obama’s High School Crew
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3082803&page=1
It was the 1970s and Obama was one of the few black students on campus. The son of a white mother and black father, he attended Punahou on a scholarship starting in the fifth grade.
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Obama’s backyard economics session
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obama17jan17,0,1447567.story
“My wife and I borrowed to go to college and law school because we don’t come from wealthy families. When I got out of law school and we got married, our combined student loan debt was higher than our mortgage,” Obama said. “And so it took us 10 years to pay that off
“Increased lying has been seen with a number of psychiatric diagnoses such as ADHD”
A few reasons to suspect Obama has Attention Deficit, the criteria for ADHD symptoms from;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_hyperactivity_disorder
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1. Often forgetful in daily activities.
Example: Obama says he doesn’t pay much attention to McCains campaign adds, yet he knows what isn’t in them,
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2. Often has trouble keeping attention on tasks or play activities.
Example: Joe Bidens observations;
Biden wasn’t always defending Obama...
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1204594.aspx
On Aug. 1, 2007, when Obama unveiled his counterterrorism agenda, the Biden camp fired off a snarky email congratulating him for his “Johnny-come-lately position” on Afghanistan, noting that during two Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan and other subjects, Obama didn’t ask questions about the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Afghanistan.
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3. Often forgetful in daily activities.
Example: Obama says “ahhhhh” all the time when he isn’t scripted
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4. Often avoids, dislikes, or doesn’t want to do things that take a lot of mental effort for a long period of time (such as schoolwork or homework).
Example: Obama stayed less than 1 day in Iraq to study what was happening on the ground
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Another Freepers input:
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I wouldn’t be surprised. People with actually ADHD (not just six year olds with a lot of energy), actually diagnosable ADHD, when there brains develop they have certain parts of their brain develop at slower/faster rates.
The part of the brain that process speech develops at a quicker rate than the brain. (OBama’s ability to speak well, at least on a TelePrompter anyway could come from that).
Also, parts of the brain (the lining of it) that don’t develop is the front part of the brain (frontal lobe, also called the executive function) as quickly (or in the case of adults the fact that the delay is caused has permanent effects) and cause that person to exhibit hasty or seemly thought out speech/actions. Causes a lot of Foot in mouth syndrome.
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That’s just it, Obama never was engaged in the issue, yet he claims questions ‘kept coming up’, and the Biden earlier posted comment shows Obama questions weren’t ‘coming up’ in the Senate at that time.
Comments about Obama being ‘intellectual’ and ‘thoughtful’ are void of reality. Obama embellished, lied.
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More evidence Obama has Attention Deficit, from;
What is Compulsive Lying?
By Derek Wood, RN, BC, MS
Clinical Content Director
Get Mental Help, Inc.
Mental Health Matters
Mental Health Professional
Psychiatric Nurse, PhD Candidate
http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=153
There are a number of reasons that people lie. The first is fear. This is the most common reason that people may lie, and they are taking shelter from a perceived punishment. It may be because they know they have done something wrong a single time, in which case it is not compulsive lying.
But if they are always in fear of being punished, it may become a habit, which is a second reason for lying. In this case, it may become compulsive lying, which is lying by reflex. Even when confronted by the truth, they insist the lie is the truth in this case.
A third case is learning to lie through modeling. When a people see others lie, especially when they get away with it, they may become more prone to lying.
Finally, people lie because they feel if they tell the truth they won’t get what they want. Thus, out of the main reasons for lying, only lying by habit can truly be called “compulsive lying.”
Increased lying has been seen with a number of psychiatric diagnoses such as ADHD and Bipolar Disorder. With ADHD people will often say “I don’t know why I did that”, and when confronted about why they lied, their answer will be the same.
ADHD children also display impulsivity, and they may lie implusively. Bipolar Disorder can be associated with low serotonin levels, which has been implicated in impulsivity, which, as indicated before, makes a person more prone to lie.
Here’s the QUESTIONS THAT AS I SPOKE TO EXPERTS KEPT ON COMING UP” lie from the transcript;
http://www.rickwarrennews.com/transcript/civil_forum_transcript-01.txt
1 AT THE TIME THAT WE DID NOT HAVE STRONG EVIDENCE OF
2 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND THERE WERE A LOT OF
3 QUESTIONS THAT AS I SPOKE TO EXPERTS KEPT ON COMING UP,
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Me Again,
Where did those question come up, Senator Obama? Trinity?
Example: Joe Bidens observations;
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1204594.aspx
On Aug. 1, 2007, when Obama unveiled his counterterrorism agenda, the Biden camp fired off a snarky email congratulating him for his “Johnny-come-lately position” on Afghanistan, noting that during two Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan and other subjects, Obama didn’t ask questions about the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Afghanistan.
Here’s ‘iron our shirts’ sexist Obama moment where he implies ‘women’ are the only ones collecting welfare, or he didn’t care about the men “WHO WERE GOING TO BE KICKED OFF THE ROLLS”, transcipt is all in capitols at link;
http://www.rickwarrennews.com/transcript/civil_forum_transcript-01.txt
REFORM WHERE I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT WELFARE HAD TO BE CHANGED. I WAS MUCH MORE CONCERNED TEN YEARS AGO WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON INITIALLY SIGNED THE BILL THAT THIS COULD HAVE DISASTEROUS RESULTS. I WORKED IN THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE
TO MAKE SURE WE WERE PROVIDING CHILD CARE AND HEALTH CARE AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE WOMEN WHO HAD — WHO WERE GOING TO BE KICKED OFF THE ROLLS AFTER A CERTAIN TIME.
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Only the delusional ratmedia could think this bag of shiite ever had a chance in small time America.
Since these guys are all ex-military, perhaps this is to be expected, but most ex-military are going to vote for mcpain.
I can’t wait to see him show up at some rural bait shop and blurt out, “Kin Ah git me a huntin’ lahcense heah?”
Kin he git him a huntin’ license?
bitter, clingers for Obama? No..uh uh...
LOL! Good one!
I live near a small town and I say most the people there say Fochim.
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