Posted on 03/30/2008 9:35:13 PM PDT by vrwc54
On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.
March 31, 2008 | ALTOONA, Pa. -- His sleeves rolled up but his tie still firmly knotted, Barack Obama picked up a shiny black bowling ball, strode confidently toward the lane and promptly hurled the ball straight into the right gutter. His second try missed right, too. It wasn't exactly a promising start to his first bowling trip in 30 years, on a campaign stop Saturday night. "Let me tell you something," he said, turning to the crowd of patrons -- and, he surely hoped, voters in next month's Democratic primary. "My economic plan is better than my bowling." "It has to be," a man standing nearby shot back.
But by the time Obama and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr. -- his newest, and most heavily trumpeted, supporter in the Keystone State -- had finished seven frames at Pleasant Valley Bowl, the Illinois Democrat's game had slowly, but steadily, improved. He kept his shots in the middle of the lane, though he rolled them without quite enough force to knock down all 10 pins at once. So what if Casey (who also hadn't bowled in years) wound up beating him? When Obama finally cleaned up a spare, he declared victory, changed out of his Velcro bowling shoes and hopped back on the bus that will carry him through Pennsylvania's small cities and towns until Wednesday.
"He has potential," said Roxanne Hart, 43, an Altoona resident who had invited Obama and Casey to join her lane. She was talking about his bowling; she had already decided what she thought of his politics. "I think he'd be a wonderful president."
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In reality,the only thing John ever hunted for was wealthy women.
John (Nantucket) Kerry was just an ordinary, working class stiff. The F. in his middle name didn't stand for Forbes, one of the oldest families in MA as in the Cabots, Lodges etc.
Since there is virtually no republican party in MA, he never has to worry about being re-elected. There is a democrat, named O'Neil, running against him, but he's to the left of Kerry.
Meanwhile, Gov. Patrick aka Obama, has just signed his own multi-million dollar book deal to write his autobiography entitled "How I Bamboozled a Whole State". His upkeep for his summer mansion in the Berkshires is apparently very costly.
pfft...
I’ve said it several times: Hillary gets the Dem nomination, she rides the white blue collar vote to victory in Ohio and Pennsylvania in the general. Obama gets the nomination, McCain will win both states.
After the socialists get done nationalizing all industries, Osama will indeed be the “Working Class Hero.” Statues, murals, I see great things in His Holiness’ future.
Obama Working class—he has no class. Anyone who would toss his granny under the bus is a crass and craven coward.
Bwahahaha, even I can see it is Barry in the ‘holding the lantern’ pose, and the sinkemperors standing looking on. What an ugly image!
The picture is Clinton’s version of I Have a Dream.
LOL
Hey, ever since Lyndon Johnson, the democrap party has been playing black people fro entitlement fools. Why should we expect it to change with Barry Obama or the clintons?
These are old slogans from the 1930’s. We do not have a
defined blue collar dependent class.
We have moved beyond those old fashioned paradigms of class distinction. Only liberal democrats wish to keep class warfare active. A couple working for the service industry
can achieve an income of $90,000. Yet this group of Americans in the moderate income level would not consider themselves impoverished nor affluent. What they realize is their standard of
living is being erroded by inflation and taxes. Maximizing dollars spent is the most imporatnt factor in choosing
homes school districts and value.
We call these people the middle class.
They don’t live in the old blue collar democrat run cities.
The old class tag lines don’t appeal to the real working class which is highly a highly homoginized community of
blue colloar and white collar people.
I think there’s tremendous pressure behind the scenes for superdelegates to commit to Obama now, because BO and HC supporters are becoming unreconcilable ang angry with each other. Look what happened in TX this weekend as they tried to count caucus votes:
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“Across the state this weekend, tense confrontations — even shoving matches — erupted as partisans for Clinton and Obama battled over how to interpret the March 4 election results and how to choose delegates to the Texas Democratic convention. At one particularly raucous session Saturday at Texas Southern University, a leading Clinton backer, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, was booed by hundreds of Obama supporters, and police were called later to break up heated exchanges that left some in tears.”
“It’s bedlam,” said Houston lawyer Daniel J. Shea, a Clinton backer.
“Democrat-on-Democrat clashes over delegates have been playing out in Iowa, Colorado, Florida and other states — the latest indication that the feel-good nomination race of the era has veered into a political ditch.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-dems30mar30,0,4277084.story
Anyone remember the John Lennon “Working Class Hero” song? Lennon was quite the socialist and self-proclaimed revolutionary, yet he moved to America in part to escape the oppressive taxation in his native England. For all his musical brilliance, the simple concept of cause and effect escaped him.
Too funny!
Does he fish, too?
But he finally got is from one of the insane hero posse types who follow muscians around idolizing them.
Yahoo! News
Uprooting the New Racism
Pat Buchanan
Fri Mar 28, 3:00 AM ET
In his Philadelphia address on race, Sen. Obama identified as a root cause of white resentment affirmative action — the punishing of white working- and middle-class folks for sins they did not commit:
“Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race,” said Barack. “As far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything. ... So when they ... hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed ... resentment builds over time.”
On this issue, Barack seemed to have nailed it.
But then he revealed the distorting lens through which he and his fellow liberals see the world. To them, black rage is grounded in real grievances, while white resentments are exaggerated and exploited.
White resentments, said Barack, “have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. ... Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.”
What Barack is saying here is that the resentment of black America is justified, but the resentment of white America is a myth manufactured and manipulated by the conservative commentariat. Barack is attempting to de-legitimize the other side of the argument.
Yet, who is he to claim the moral high ground?
Where does this child of privilege who went to two Ivy League schools, then spent 20 years in a church where racist rants were routine, come off preaching to anyone? What are Barack’s moral credentials to instruct white folks on what they must do, when he failed to do what any decent father should have done: Take his wife and daughters out of a church where hate had a home in the pulpit?
Barack needs to reread the Lord’s admonition in the Sermon on the Mount: “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
Longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote that all great movements eventually become a business, then degenerate into a racket.
That is certainly true of the civil rights movement. Begun with just demands for an end to state-mandated discrimination based on race, it ends with unjust demands for state-mandated preferences, based on race.
Under affirmative action, white men are passed over for jobs and promotions in business and government, and denied admission to colleges and universities to which their grades and merits entitle them, because of their gender and race.
Paradoxically, America’s greatest warrior for equal justice under law and an end to reverse racism is, like Barack, a man of mixed ancestry. He is Ward Connerly. And his life’s mission is to drive through reverse discrimination the same stake America drove through segregation.
And when one considers that the GOP establishment has often fled Connerly’s cause and campaigns, his record of achievement is remarkable.
Connerly was chief engineer of CCRI, the 1996 California Civil Rights Initiative, Proposition 209, which outlawed affirmative action based on ethnicity, race or gender in all public institutions of America’s most populous state. Two years later, Connerly racked up a second victory in Washington.
In 2006, Connerly went to Michigan to overturn an affirmative action policy that kept Jennifer Gratz out of the University of Michigan, though she had superior grades and performance records than many minority students admitted. The Michigan proposition also carried and has been upheld by the courts.
One U.S. senator, however, taped an ad denouncing Connerly’s Proposition 2 in Michigan and endorsed affirmative action for minorities and women. That senator was Barack Obama.
Comes now the big test. Connerly is gathering signatures to place on the ballots in Nebraska, Arizona, Oklahoma, Colorado and Missouri — the latter two crucial swing states — propositions to outlaw all racial, gender and ethnic preferences. Voting would be the same day as the presidential election.
“Race preferences are on the way out,” declares Connerly.
Now that our national conversation is underway, Barack should be asked to explain why discrimination against whites is good public policy, while discrimination against blacks explains the rants of the Rev. Wright.
America is headed for a day, a few decades off, when there will be no racial majority, only a collection of minorities. When that day arrives, if some races and ethnic groups may be preferred because of where their ancestors came from, while others can be held back because their ancestors came from Europe, America will become the Balkans writ large.
Folks need to be able to separate the true friends of racial justice from the phonies who believe with the pigs on Orwell’s Animal Farm — that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
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