Area Mayors Take Offense ("Upset that Barack Obama would characterize them as gun-toting zealots")

Times-Tribune ^ | 04/13/2008 | Jeremy G. Burton

[longtermmemmory]

Obama is really saying if you had Government provided jobs and were fat and happy you would not care about guns and guns could easily be banned.

[mware]

I have been taking note that when Obama speaks off the cuff, he uses the word , “typical” very often.

[OKSooner]

"Obama is really saying if you had Government provided jobs and were fat and happy you would not care about guns and guns could easily be banned."

Good point. The same would apply to religion in his thinking.

[longtermmemmory]

ignored by “administration” seems code for “give the white folks free stuff and they will not care about god or guns.”

(see great society programs)

zero sum Obama, the rubes need to trade one shiny object for a fat belly.

[Erik Latranyi]

...but now I genuinely find myself wondering if this business might not just end up being Obama's own personal "Dean scream" or "Muskie's tears" moment, after all. ;)

It has now been four days and the media is quiet. There is no backlash and the Sunday shows are all about how Obama can put Hillary away in Pennsylvania.

What is more amazing about Obama's statement is that he would make it before elitists in San Fransisco.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

and the media is quiet.

Google results for "Obama" + "bitter": 537,000.

Result even if only 1% of these were materially relevent: 5,370.

Some "quiet." ;)

[Earthdweller]

“He should be very careful with his words and pick the right words to use,” she said.

Oh no you don't. Not this time. The time for the right words has pasted. After three pieces of evidence to Obama's bias, I am convinced that he believes exactly what he said about small town Americans.

[Earthdweller]

pasted=past

[Gondring]

Since the Michelle Malkin link gave the red X...

[Biblebelter]

Mr. Connors said what most offends him is that Mr. Obama said these things on the other side of the country behind closed doors. Mr. Connors bet Mr. Obama wouldn’t have made such remarks in Altoona.

Excellent point, Barry was addressing his fellow hate America comrades, and he was tickling their ears with the bigoted stereotypes that they wanted to hear. Barry never expected for an audio tape of his FULL remarks to be published on the internet by "citizen journalist" just as he never expected that Uncle Jeremiah would go against him by telling someone in his church to go ahead and sell Whitey the damn tapes and show them some of my real preaching.

[rogue yam]

Operation Chaos continues!

[StAnDeliver]

The only thing keeping Hillary in this race, is AFSCaME, who were in the bag for her early, and Dumbama just played right into their hands.

[Earthdweller]

Rush has nothing to do with it...his own liberal friends realized he is not what they thought he was and outed him.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Thanks! ;)

[PennsylvaniaMom]

SPOT ON!!! This is bigger than a Steeler draft pick discussion (in other words HUGH!!! and even SERIES!!)

All kidding aside, it is a very, very big offensive hurtful story here...I think some (even out here in the bitter hinterlands) were ‘falling’ for BHO. But we are just racist hicks...Hillary (in local media) is coming across as the school marm smacking down the bully Obama. FWIW, Hillary and her team in SW PA are handling it very well...I am waiting for Rendell (or Bill) to say something equally offensive...but Hill must have them bunkered somewhere in Potter County...

[PennsylvaniaMom]

and BC, Jr is just so gosh darn eloquent...can’t wait til he opines on BHO’s gaffe.

[mad_as_he$$]

It’s “Magic Negro”.

[Eva]

Obama’s organizing methods let him down in this case. According to the Alinsky method, he was supposed to play up the concerns of the group that he is trying to organize. Play up the concerns until he rubs them raw, sympathize with them and then offer them hope by telling them that they can help themselves by rebelling against the established government and demanding that the government respond to their concerns. It’s all sort of like what Jesse Jackson does.

Obama just messed up.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Hillary is defending small towns, worship, and guns in PA so seemlessly I fully expect a media release Monday morning that she is now an NRA lifer.

[Cobra64]

It’s “Magic Negro”.

Got it. I like it.