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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: Paleo Conservative
Found this on Flicker....LOL..Had to be a freeper that made it! LOL!!
321 posted on 04/12/2008 7:24:33 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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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.”

It’s amazing how few people realize this.

It’s a bit frightening to consider the effect on a huge percent of blacks who live in a world of delusional and self-pitying thought, that is the natural result of the pandering of the Left for lo these many years.


322 posted on 04/12/2008 7:25:42 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: JRochelle

Heard all about this on the radio last night. It’s nothing to a DemonRat, the only people who matter live in east and west coast cities. Flyover country means less than nothing to them.


323 posted on 04/12/2008 7:28:41 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberals: can't live with them, can't ship them to Syria.)
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To: JRochelle

I take it back, this guy really is as stupid and ignorant as his skiffy wife.


324 posted on 04/12/2008 7:29:18 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberals: can't live with them, can't ship them to Syria.)
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To: Bender2; Lil'freeper
"Well, ya typical white guy knows if ya gunna shoot a moose, ya better has a big gun. Ain't nuthin bitter about that."

"Mr. nObama, I'm not your typical white guy but I know of someone who only has bitterness and religion of some sort... Can ya say Rev. Jeremiah?"

325 posted on 04/12/2008 7:29:35 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use words". ~ St. Francis of Assisi)
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To: F15Eagle
He’s a stinkin’ America-hating commie.

So are his supporters. What's new?

326 posted on 04/12/2008 7:35:02 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I'm beginning to think we have spent decades working on racism when we should have been requiring students to spend a year or two swapping between city and country.

I am astounded by the retarded social education in our elite schools. I would have thought Obama knew better than to make such ridiculous comments about small town people.

327 posted on 04/12/2008 7:37:03 AM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: wardaddy

Couple this latest by Barack Hussein with what his wife says about our not being allowed to be complacent any more, and you have a vision of soft totalitarianism.

Soft only at first, until resistance is met.


328 posted on 04/12/2008 7:37:59 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

“Soft only at first, until resistance is met.”

I think you hit on something there. I think the Obamas are getting bolder and bolder as their march continues. As long as the money keeps pouring in, they will get bolder and bolder and won’t care about what arrogance shows. They will act as if they are invincible.


329 posted on 04/12/2008 7:47:03 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: JRochelle
Can't wait to see how the Obama-worshippers in the MSM spin this one. Heck, by the end of next week, it will be "racist" not to think of small-town America as a bunch of bitter, gun-crazy religious xenophobes.
330 posted on 04/12/2008 7:53:39 AM PDT by Wade827 (Job 21:3)
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To: austinaero

Obama was on FNC mid-morning, campaigning in Muncie, Ind., attempting to spin his previous remarks about Small Town USA when campaigning near S.F. Not doing a very good job IMO. I doubt this will fly with those small town Democrat voters in the mid-west who were on the fence about voting for him. I think Hillary will win here in PA comfortably after he has been caught showing not only his elitism, but also his disdain for ordinary people.


331 posted on 04/12/2008 7:55:26 AM PDT by penowa
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To: JRochelle

There is more to Obama’s remarks than the stupid white guy sentiment. He reveals that his own anti-trade remarks were simple pandering to the unions.

The fact that rural towns have not regenerated can be blamed in a large part on the radical environazis. They don’t want rural towns to regenerate, except in their prescribed image. The environazis oppose small family farms, they hate horses and all domestic animals. Heck, they hate people and would prefer that everyone live in little boxes in the big cities and eat soylent green. I read a quote that said that the only species that the left would like to see made extinct are humans.


332 posted on 04/12/2008 7:55:28 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE - the new euphemism for Marxist revolution)
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To: penowa

You missed the disdain that Obama showed for anti-trade voters. There goes the union vote.


333 posted on 04/12/2008 7:56:58 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE - the new euphemism for Marxist revolution)
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To: chessplayer

And also, this doesn’t look like the original transcript I got re: San Fran either:

http://thepage.time.com/transcript-of-obamas-remarks-at-san-francisco-fundraiser-sunday/


334 posted on 04/12/2008 8:01:06 AM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: Eva

I’m not sure the union vote was up for grabs in PA. I think Hillary has it sewed up through Rendell. Not sure what the union situation is nationally, but from what I’ve seen, I think Hillary is in good shape for the most part.


335 posted on 04/12/2008 8:03:07 AM PDT by penowa
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To: penowa

You may be right, but the opposition to free trade is one of the tenets of Liberation Theology and most of the other leftist groups as well.


336 posted on 04/12/2008 8:06:52 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE - the new euphemism for Marxist revolution)
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To: chessplayer; All

Barack Obama: What’s the matter with Pennsylvania?
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=11801

Man those commenters are something else. What he meant was, your twisting his words, we need to have this conversation, he’s so right... I feel exactly that way, you rightwingers are distracting us from real issues like the quagmire, healthcare for all and lastly jobs...

Take out the campaign Obamatrons, the jihadis and socialists from comments, you still have a lot of brainwashed Americans out there.

The guy is a dissembler, he knows exactly what he’s saying, trust me.

Any time I could post a link to al-Jazeera video of them cold calling voters for Obama FROM GAZA and they still don’t get it...

http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/story/steven_foley/2008/04/10/aljazeera_palestinians_campaign_for_obama_in_gaza

Like I said before, he could lay down a rug at a rally and recite the call to prayer... all of them would drop to their foreheads, no questions.


337 posted on 04/12/2008 8:09:10 AM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: Eva
"...the opposition to free trade is one of the tenets of Liberation Theology..."

I didn't realize that, but it figures. At least the left generally preaches that, but the elites they vote for don't pay much attention once elected.

I guess the Columbians are not big US wine drinkers or there would not have been a shutdown of the trade agreement.

338 posted on 04/12/2008 8:13:23 AM PDT by penowa
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To: Kenny Bunk

Amen.


339 posted on 04/12/2008 8:21:38 AM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: All
It is clear throughout this thread that most posters are out of touch...

with the bitterness of unfulfilled political aspirations...

of the millions of Americans in Pennsylvania & throughout the US...

who WILL be voting for Barack Obama.

340 posted on 04/12/2008 8:28:59 AM PDT by O Neill (Aye, Katie Scarlett, the ONLY thing that lasts is the land...)
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