Barak Obama 'Belittles' Small Town America (UK Version)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-13-2008 | Tim Shipman

[TigersEye]

Steve Schmidt, a senior aide to the Republican candidate, John McCain, said: "It shows an elitism and condescension toward hard-working Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking."

He was talking about Obama right?

[ErieGeno]

Orchestrated to deflect attention from his association with a racist pastor...... What better way to get people to forget his support of a preacher who damns America than to get the same people to argue about something else????? This empty-suit Obama is a shrewd SOB.........

[Shermy]

McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain’s job offer.

“I’ll take it!” one man shouted.

McCain insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season. “You can’t do it, my friends.”

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an oldie

[oldenuff2no]

Small town America heard him loud and clear. WE will keep our God and our Guns but we don't need him or any other liberal socialist either.
Small town America will elect our next president. Some one should tell this ignorant butt head the facts.

[igoramus08]

Obama just let out what really thinks.
Typical White People are ignorant racist bible bashing trigger happy hicks.

[RoseofTexas]

"Mr Obama, campaigning in Indiana, refused to apologise.He claimed both Mrs Clinton and Mr McCain are themselves out of touch, accusing the former First Lady of being beholden to lobbyists in the financial services industry and the Republican nominee of waiting too long to come up with a plan to tackle the subprime mortgage crisis."

Condescending SOB ain't he?! Fame has poisoned his pea size brain!!!

[TomGuy]

a frantic damage limitation exercise

LOL

Or to put it more succinctly, damage control.

[OeOeO]

Boy I wish I was wealthy enough to be a Trotskyite. I’d like to know who these donors are, I’ts bad enough what he said but they lapped it all up. These are the people who believe they are revolutionary,
Boy are they going to be surprised if it ever comes,God, guns and the rest.

[Ciexyz]

bump with no comment.

[Thrownatbirth]

It seems Barry was paying attention to Rev. Wright all those years.

[homeguard]

Obama = Racist, Marxist, Muslim, Anti-American, Black Radical....enough said....pretty straight forward...

[tarheelswamprat]

...He insisted he was not out of touch and attempted to recast his words in a more sympathetic light. "When I go around and I talk to people, there is frustration and there is anger and there is bitterness," he told a rally in Terre Haute.

Of course there is, and most of it is coming from you, Barack... /grin

[farlander]

Don’t think so. This is MUCH worse. Some folks were willing to give the benefit of the doubt (insanely) on the Wright issue - this one it’s damn hard to get over, unless you’re on DU, where they show themselves what condescending elitists they are.

[dalebert]

ya, aint we though

[blam]

"Boy are they going to be surprised if it ever comes,God, guns and the rest."

I agree.

Welcome to Free Republic.

[dalebert]

I think Obama has shot himself in the foot with double barreled mouth. Nobody says such things mistakenly. Not he, his wife or his pastor.

[Lancey Howard]

This scumbag Obama must be buried. I don’t care what does it - - his own assinine hypocrisy or Larry Sinclair. Barack Hussein Obama’s political career needs to come to a crashing and final end.

[donna]

I had the same question.

[DJtex]

This reflects something else about Obama and his single-minded strategy of "change". His primary appeal, beyond the elites, is to the bitter and the desperate. He is actually lumping small town whites with the hopelessness and bitterness of the black neighborhoods that he was an "organizer" for.

The elites, of course, support having an Obama to be the savior to both these outcasts. The problem, I think, is that it's simply impossible to lump inner-city hopelessness to small town bitterness, even assuming that bitterness is a widespread dynamic of small towns, which I haven't observed.