Posted on 10/09/2008 11:10:17 AM PDT by weegee
Tony Viessman, 74, and Les Spencer, 60, got politically active last year when it occurred to them there must be other lower income, rural, beer-drinking, gun-loving, NASCAR race enthusiasts fed up with business as usual in Washington...
"We believe in him. He's the best person for the job," Viessman, a former state trooper from Rolla, said of Obama, who met the pair briefly on that July day in Union, Missouri...
Rednecks4obama.com claims more than 800,000 online visits. In Denver, Colorado, Viessman and Spencer drew crowds at the Democratic convention, and at Washington University last Thursday they were two of the most popular senior citizens on campus.
"I'm shocked, actually, but excited" that such a demographic would be organizing support for Obama, said student Naia Ferguson, 18, said after hamming it up for pictures behind the banner.
"When most people think 'redneck,' they think conservatives, anti-change, even anti-integration," she said. "But America's changing, breaking stereotypes."
A southern comedian, Jeff Foxworthy, defines the stereotype as a "glorious lack of sophistication".
Philistines or not, he said, most rural southerners are no longer proponents of the Old South's most abhorrent ideology -- racism -- and that workaday issues such as the economy are dominating this year's election.
To an important degree, however, race is still the elephant in the polling booth, experts say, and according to a recent Stanford University poll, Obama could lose six points on election day due to his color...
But Viessman, who says he owns a dozen guns, said Obama "ain't gonna take your guns away."
Viessman says he'd like to think his grassroots movement could sway enough people in small-town America to make a difference...
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What quality people The One attracts.
“...just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right...” Barack Obama, 2008 — Philadelphia primary debate
On the campaign trail, Senator Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights to sidestep and camouflage the truth. But even he can’t hide from the truth forever… his voting record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history. The facts speak for themselves. This election day, vote to defend freedom…because if Obama wins, you lose.
http://www.gunbanobama.com/default.aspx?NavGuid=00bdd116-898f-4f21-8e99-a68a40642560&t=Hunters
“Thank you for a memorable afternoon, usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a redneck of your stature.”
'N Obama's gonna fix the stock market crash, 'n he's gonna git us all free health care, 'n ice cream - all our favorite flavors, 'n kittens, 'n cute puppies, 'n ALL!
I was driving home tonight and the top of the hour news came on. They talked about the campaign trail, and how concerned everyone was over the stock market and the credit crunch - then they segued into how everyone is concerned about what the politicans are going to do about health care.
HELLO!!?!!!! We just cut a loan check for nearly a TRILLION freaking dollars, you IDIOTS!
MORONS, there ain't any money left. None. Zilch. Zip. Nada. Zero.
Which brings me back to Obama...
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