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Bitter Clingers 2.0
pjmedia.com/ ^ | 12/27/2015 | Victor Davis Hansen

Posted on 12/28/2015 7:23:01 AM PST by rktman

Barack Obama in the final stretch of his 2008 primary campaign explained away-off the record in an unguarded moment-his unpopularity in Pennsylvania. The problem then was a biased "them"-not so much the hard-left policies and principles of Barack Obama.

These narrow-minded clingers were supposedly not fond of Obama and similar others "who aren't like them." Thus, because of their parochialism, nativism, and fundamentalism, the unenlightened voters of Pennsylvania were unable to appreciate Obama's message of "hope and change" and vero possumus-much less his landmark promises to return the Presidency to constitutional restraint, radically improve American health care, end the role of big money in politics, solve the "bad" Iraq war and win the "good" Afghan war, cool the planet and recede the seas, end government scandal, bridge the racial divide, balance the budget, reset relations with Russia, and win back the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: greatdivider; vdh; victordavishanson
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Thank you Mr. Hanson. Of course agreeing with anything in this article automatically raises your racist quotient by at least 10 points.
1 posted on 12/28/2015 7:23:01 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Just read this article

With each passing day I am further convinced that
the POTUS is a Malignant Narcissist WPOS


2 posted on 12/28/2015 7:27:43 AM PST by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: rktman

A failed administration.


3 posted on 12/28/2015 7:37:30 AM PST by r_barton
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To: rktman

I just read (well, quickly skimmed the PJMedia article). The context of Dear Leaders frustration wasn’t explained. Hillary beat Barry in the Pa Dem Primary (and he was trying to explain how anyone could possibly NOT vote for him).

PA was one of the last “blocks” against the Obama wave that swept thru.


4 posted on 12/28/2015 7:43:24 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom ( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...)
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To: Kaslin

Ping.


5 posted on 12/28/2015 7:50:36 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: rktman

I guess we’re “Bitter Clingers”. We’re on a river where you
have to be to survive!


6 posted on 12/28/2015 7:51:19 AM PST by Twinkie (Kneel at the cross, Jesus (Yeshua) will meet you there.)
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To: rktman
"I agree with Obama that it is both regrettable and foolhardy for conspiracists to dub Obama a Muslim and an Islamic partisan"

Hussein is CLEARLY an Islamic Partisan.

7 posted on 12/28/2015 7:52:45 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: rktman

“As he leaves office, Obama appears angry at the very reality he created. Let us hope in time he develops some introspection rather than continually smearing those for whom he has always appeared so transparently divisive.”

Like the brat or his admirers would ever grow up.


8 posted on 12/28/2015 8:01:38 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

“Let us hope in time he develops some introspection....” Yeah, like that would ever happen. He will NEVER be THE problem. Like most libs. It’s ALWAYS someone else that’s the issue.


9 posted on 12/28/2015 8:04:58 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

The entire progressive platform is built on the dismissal of personal responsibility.

But frankly, NO former president is going to serve up his own dessert of crow pie. Just that the Dem former presidents won’t ever go away, so we’re gonna have to hear from this jerk for decades just like with Jimmuh and Slick.


10 posted on 12/28/2015 8:12:06 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: r_barton

Quote:

“A failed administration.”

And what of the people who elected this disaster not once - but twice?


11 posted on 12/28/2015 8:12:38 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: rktman

“”Obama’s autobiography romanticized Islamic prayer in starry-eyed high-school fashion (”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset”). Rev. Wright, the disreputable former Obama pastor and personal confidant, who inspired Obama to entitle his second tome The Audacity of Hope, has teased journalist Ed Klein with sly suggestions of Obama’s religious ambiguity, at one point hinting that Obama once thought himself a Muslim (KLEIN: “Do you think he ever thought of himself as Muslim?” / WRIGHT: “Yes”).”

Why is it so hard for VDH to believe that these were fabrications? Why isn’t it pretty obvious that there was no need to fabricate here...not until after the decision to run for the Presidency?


12 posted on 12/28/2015 8:13:36 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Twotone

I should have said NOT fabrications.


13 posted on 12/28/2015 8:14:34 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Twotone

Just delve into the rev. wright and black liberation theology. Kind of eye opening but mostly ignored and swept under the rug. And the lyin’ king slept in the pews for 20 years and never heard anything derogatory. Weird.


14 posted on 12/28/2015 8:20:55 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: TTFlyer
And what of the people who elected this disaster not once - but twice?

I said from the beginning that the voting public had either taken a markedly socialist/communist shift or we have had massive/scientific voter fraud, neither of which is easy to fix.

15 posted on 12/28/2015 8:40:10 AM PST by itsahoot (Anyone receiving a Woo! Woo! for President has never won anything after the award.)
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To: TTFlyer

Yes, twice. However, one can take a tiny bit of solace knowing his approval is at 43% - due to the reasons listed: his bad performance and tiresome antics.


16 posted on 12/28/2015 9:00:03 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: TTFlyer

What of the enabling Congresses?


17 posted on 12/28/2015 9:00:36 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: rktman
Maybe I should start a "racist," thread? For example I will title it, "Is Your Race Card Overlimit/Expired?"

First sample question: If I am black, and my parents are white, are my parents racist?

Second sample question: If I'm white, and I married a black woman, who is the racist?

Third sample question: If a black person commits mass murder of only white victims, who is the racist?

Actually, I can think of about 10 other sample questions that would show which ideology is really racist.

5.56mm

18 posted on 12/28/2015 9:12:58 AM PST by M Kehoe
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...return the Presidency to constitutional restraint, radically improve American health care, end the role of big money in politics, solve the "bad" Iraq war and win the "good" Afghan war, cool the planet and recede the seas, end government scandal, bridge the racial divide, balance the budget, reset relations with Russia, and win back the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

None of which he did. Indeed, just about the opposite was accomplished in every instance. I despise the MSM for championing this fraud, and worry for the nation that we have so many rubes who bought this BS hook, line, and sinker. A reckoning is coming.

19 posted on 12/28/2015 9:54:24 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: KC_Conspirator

The Bat-Eared Bolshevik’s “approval rating” should be around 22%(this figure makes up the hardcore Liberal-Leftist demo who would vote for Josef Stalin if he ran as a Democrat).

That Zero’s popularity is still at 43% does not bode well for the future of the country.


20 posted on 12/28/2015 10:03:55 AM PST by TTFlyer
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