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Obama on small-town PA: Clinging religion, guns, xenophobia
Politico.com ^ | 04/11/08 | Ben Smith

Posted on 04/11/2008 1:08:33 PM PDT by JRochelle

Mayhill Fowler has more from Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday, and they include an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won't be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama's seeking:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

That's pretty broad list of things to explain with job loss.


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To: Shermy

Here’s an Obama cartoon I made that might be appropriate:

http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=obamasnobxm8.gif

(I don’t know how to post images here - this is my first Free Republic post although I’m a longtime reader.)

Please feel free to distribute this cartoon if you enjoy it!


121 posted on 04/11/2008 3:23:08 PM PDT by Gloucester
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To: JRochelle; All

“The Huffington Post’s Mayhill Fowler reports that, at that same San Francisco fundraiser where Obama revealed his previously unknown college sojourn to Pakistan...”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/obama-explains.html


122 posted on 04/11/2008 3:24:16 PM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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To: sitetest
"Hope this gets lots of play throughout the countryside of Pennsylvania."

It won't play the way you think in liberal Pennsylvania...he is just a typical ignorant liberal. All sympathy and understanding from secondary views and no common sense about across the board human behavior in reaction to real time situations.....Retarded.

123 posted on 04/11/2008 3:25:40 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Centurion2000
Here's an editorial from NYT that references that quote
124 posted on 04/11/2008 3:34:27 PM PDT by Verloona Ti
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To: SunkenCiv
This is really astounding folks, that he can say this stuff and stay in the race!

1 Is anyone aware of a single problem caused by RELIGION in small Pennsylvania towns? Only a kook leftist would believe such things.

2 Isn't he supposed to say: "I really respect small town people and your devout religious beliefs, and I respect your desire to hunt and own guns as law abiding citizens." ????

3 Only a marxist kook would blast all the basic beliefs of small town America.

125 posted on 04/11/2008 3:36:27 PM PDT by Williams
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To: JRochelle

yep ... chaos.


126 posted on 04/11/2008 3:37:51 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Williams

Obama is not a Marxist...he is too infantile in his social beliefs to be a hardcore marxist. Hillary is your opportunistic commie.


127 posted on 04/11/2008 3:40:47 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Gloucester
Here you go -


128 posted on 04/11/2008 3:41:36 PM PDT by pbear8 (Typical White Person)
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To: Earthdweller

On CNN now, they have it on tape!


129 posted on 04/11/2008 3:41:49 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Crack?? isn’t that a black drug...i’m forwarding your post to the NAACP


130 posted on 04/11/2008 3:42:51 PM PDT by Selmore (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.)
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To: JRochelle
Image hosted by Photobucket.com just your typical white people... right???
131 posted on 04/11/2008 3:45:05 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: rfp1234

Man, you are on a roll! I’m lovin’ it.


132 posted on 04/11/2008 3:45:16 PM PDT by vortigern (McCain hasn't given me one good reason to support him)
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To: JRochelle

Hillary and McLame are going after the same voters


133 posted on 04/11/2008 3:45:17 PM PDT by Selmore (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.)
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To: henkster; JRochelle; Born Conservative; airborne; smoothsailing; Dr. Scarpetta; martin_fierro; ...
Obama will get a free pass. Never see it anywhere but on the internet.

Believe it or not. Obama's "clinging" quote was on CNN just before the 6:00 PM news toinght. It was on the TV at a CapitolOne Bank.

134 posted on 04/11/2008 3:46:14 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: 4yearlurker
Obama is a pompous,socialist bigot.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

So, how about a repeat?

135 posted on 04/11/2008 3:48:00 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Centurion2000

Obama`s butt-suckers on CNN are falling all over themselves defending the comments.


136 posted on 04/11/2008 3:49:14 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: JRochelle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPD_p5l6z2Y


137 posted on 04/11/2008 3:50:22 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: neverdem

The CNN crew also agreed with Obama`s inference that the folks who live in small towns in Pennsylvania are racists.


138 posted on 04/11/2008 3:56:02 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: sitetest
Hope this gets lots of play throughout the countryside of Pennsylvania.

Well, Mrs. Clinton is already using it in her PA stump speeches...saying that PA doesn't deserve a president who looks down on them. Fox played the clip during the Panel. Mort thought it was bad news for Barry. Charles K. said it dripped of latte liberal condescension.
139 posted on 04/11/2008 4:00:12 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: JRochelle
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

You go into these inner cities in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of inner cities across the nation, there familys on welfare for generations and making lousy choices in their lives...And they believed it when the Johnson Administration, and the Carter Administration, and the Clinton Administration have said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, do drugs, shoot each other with guns or worship bigots cloaked in religion or show antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-semitic sentiment or anti-white sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

140 posted on 04/11/2008 4:01:51 PM PDT by Yankee
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