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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.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
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To: Miss Didi
Headlining on Drudge as we speak...Pointed out on another thread that a link to FR has reappeared there after an absence of 7 or 8 years.
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posted on
04/11/2008 5:28:31 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(John, When will you respect conservatives the way you do fellow senators Barack, Hillary and JohnK?)
To: Earthdweller
Hussein was becoming too comfortable and confidant in his scam, thought he was safe under the MSM embrace.
He relaxed at a fund-raiser with his bathhouse boys in San Francisco, and had to impress them with his tales of hanging out with white trash.
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posted on
04/11/2008 5:29:55 PM PDT
by
roses of sharon
( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
To: roses of sharon
The fun is yet to come. Obummer will have the Dems nomination wrapped up in a couple of weeks. By convention time he will be polling under 40% and pulling the rest of the Dems down with him. He will have the rug pulled out from under him at the convention and then the fireworks (for real) will start.
To: gov_bean_ counter
He will have the rug pulled out from under him at the convention and then the fireworks (for real) will start.
His prayer rug?
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posted on
04/11/2008 5:38:39 PM PDT
by
roses of sharon
( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
To: chessplayer
Now Roland Martin is on the Lou Dobbs show, and he is also agreeing with Obama`s inference that small town whites are nothing but racist, gun-toting, religious fanatics. And he just said Obama should not apologize.Oh yeah that will go over big in small town America.
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posted on
04/11/2008 5:38:52 PM PDT
by
mware
(mware...killer of threads.)
To: CedarDave
That's good news...the Obama story is now off Drudge completely.
186
posted on
04/11/2008 5:40:34 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: roses of sharon
To: JRochelle
To: JRochelle
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. We're still in the Bush administration: what "successive administration" is he talking about? His own? McCain's? Unless I'm reading it wrong...
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posted on
04/11/2008 5:42:36 PM PDT
by
jdm
To: FateAmenableToChange
Obama is not just a democratic idiot, he is a marxist posing as a Democrat idiot.
His recent statements come directly from Marxist doctrine, esp. the writings of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin (as expounded upon by Joseph Stalin).
Take from the “rich” (you keep redefining who is “rich” until you get down to the little guy), tell private businesses how much they can pay their top officials, prevent people from “staying in their comfort zone”, and talk to America’s enemies as though they were amenable to change after tea.
Obama and his wife are the new marxist-heirs apparent to Bill and Hillary.
To: mware
Roland Martin is on the Lou Dobbs
I haven't seen them since "Laugh In".
To: pointsal
Are those "quotes"? I don't see any quotes.
To: Miss Didi
...the Obama story is now off Drudge completely.Yes, I just looked and couldn't find it. I hope (and expect) it will reappear later on though.
193
posted on
04/11/2008 5:49:17 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(John, When will you respect conservatives the way you do fellow senators Barack, Hillary and JohnK?)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Roland Martin is on the Lou Dobbs I haven't seen them since "Laugh In".>
LOL
194
posted on
04/11/2008 5:49:37 PM PDT
by
mware
(mware...killer of threads.)
To: mware
I'm sorta giving Obummer a fickle finger of my own right now.
To: mware; gov_bean_ counter
When I read Roland Martin I thought of Laugh In, too. ;)
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posted on
04/11/2008 5:53:15 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: martin_fierro
Sure this comic book cover isn’t from “Obama Junction”?
Also looks like a scene from the soft skin flick called “Two Moon Junction” or “Half Moon Junction” (I think it’s the first). Garbage. It used to be shown on HBO, which is why I no longer get HBO.
To: CedarDave
Perhaps Matt is working feverishly to get the clips together and will then sound the siren.
198
posted on
04/11/2008 5:54:25 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: Miss Didi
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Sure this comic book cover isnt from Obama Junction?![](http://goneelsewhere.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/black_snake_moan_ver2.jpg)
It was a movie.
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