Posted on 04/14/2008 6:33:19 PM PDT by FocusNexus
So let's get this straight: If you are a gun-supporting, God-worshiping, secure-the-border type who feels unfair trade regulations are killing American manufacturing, Barack Obama doesn't just respectfully disagree with you.
After all, you can't respectfully disagree with someone you have utter contempt for.
No, he thinks you're nothing but a sour-grapes, behind-the-times, racist, gun-and-Bible-toting nutcase.
In short, you're just a bunch of bitter, bigoted bumpkins.
Here's what he said recently about the state of small-town Pennsylvania:
"It's not surprising ... 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."
This isn't a misstatement, folks -- not even in the exaggerated sense of a Hillary Clinton "tell-a-tall-tale-over-and-over" misstatement. Nor was this just a case of a poor word choice.
No, this was a very revealing comment. It betrays an elitist, arrogant and, worst of all, condescending view that Mr. Obama and others of the far left have toward mainstream Americans. They view small-town folks, especially in the South and Midwest, as paranoid, xenophobic, spiritually crippled, dimwitted and dangerous with guns.
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He'll be going down in flames worse than McGovern did in '72.
The only downside is that McCain will be the president .. but maybe Johnny's coattails will be long enough to win back some of the '06 losses in the House and Senate.
This is just Boob Bait for Bitter Bubbas...
“This isn’t a misstatement, folks”
I knew that when he said it. I guess he didn’t figure us disaffected folk would rise up and grab our pitchforks!
I'm just one bitter, bigoted bumpkin. I guess I need MiracleGrow(tm) to turn out bunches. And when a newbie posts something like this... I smell Hillary...
You can always tell from the dead turtle smell...
/johnny
Those Bitter Bubbas are just typical white persons from the US of KKKA. Obama’s starting to sound a lot like the RevWright.
Enough already! I am retired and can not turn on the TV because this is all that is on!!!!! If this all Hillary can do to make him look bad before the PA vote, she is doomed!
.. someone who has been here a year isn't exactly a 'newbie'..
It is what it is....Obama said it.
In other words, as identical to the "oppressed" Third World "indigenous pipples" whose "national liberation movements" they support wholeheartedly.
The only underlying bitterness in the above is that our nation has come to this.
One can only imagine what our Founders must think.
/musings from a small town in Pennsylvania...
She’s back up to a 20 point lead, so I think the rural voters respectfully disagree with you.
Why hasn’t any in the news media asked him...
“You want to be President of the United States of America, which means taking an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Since it is plainly obvious that to you, that does not include the Second Amendment, which of the other Amendments would you want to do away with? Amendment III, quartering soldiers in our homes? Amendment IV, the right to be secure in our persons, houses, papers and effects? Maybe Amendments XIII, XIV, and IV, only you’ll want it to be taxpayers who are enslaved to your socialists demands? Or considering your Muslim background, you may possibly want to overturn Amendment XIX and take away women’s right to vote? So which parts of the Constitution would you uphold and defend and which parts would be subject to more than just your trash talk should it snows in Hell and you become the President?”
You forgot the torches. : )
You are so far off base that even my 79 year old mom could pick you off. .....and it wouldn't even be her best move.
It's amazing how someone who is apparently very thin skinned has survived for as long as you have here.
And this is a surprise to whom?
Guns, grab our guns! After all, we're clinging to them, right?
“I despise the little half-breed sissy and everything the pampered maggot represents”
Down south were I came from, we called people like the big O a love child from behind the wood shed.
Also, if PA goes for Hillary 60%/40% it still doesn't improve her situation much. The media is hyping this "race" but her chances to win the nomination are currently very low.
It is what it is....Obama said it."
Thanks, Guenevere and hole_n_one -- I guess JRandomFreeper must be one of Obama's "secret admirers" around here and supports Obama's contention that nobody has the right to criticize him, even by quoting him exactly.
“No, this was a very revealing comment. It betrays an elitist, arrogant and, worst of all, condescending view that Mr. Obama and others of the far left have toward mainstream Americans. They view small-town folks, especially in the South and Midwest, as paranoid, xenophobic, spiritually crippled, dimwitted and dangerous with guns.”
“And this is a surprise to whom?”
It IS a surprise to those — and there were and still are quite a lot of people — who took Barack Hussein Obama at face value as a “moderate, a uniter, who wants to be president of all Americans”. How can you be president of all Americans when you have total contempt for those of faith and those who believe in the Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment. I guess our Founding Fathers must have been a bunch of “bitter” people and that’s why they created the 2nd Amendment — at least so Obama must believe.
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