Listen up! I know something that all you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't know...
Posted on 04/15/2008 5:42:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
People who cling to guns vote, too By: Roger Simon April 15, 2008 06:57 PM EST
Barack Obama thought he was among friends. That was his problem. He is an urban sophisticate, and he was talking to other urban sophisticates.
He was in San Francisco last week explaining at a closed-door fundraiser how the rubes of small-town America often do foolish, misguided things when the economy turns bad.
“It’s not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigration sentiment or anti-trade sentiment,” the golden-tongued orator from Illinois said.
I still can’t figure out what that sentence is supposed to mean, but then I am not as sophisticated as Obama. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, not far from where Obama now lives, but politicians didn’t talk like that when I was growing up.
Politicians there dealt with all kinds of people — rich and poor, black and white, sophisticated and unsophisticated — and the pols found out that almost everybody wanted the same thing: They wanted to know what was in it for them.
If they didn’t have a job, they wanted to hear how the pol was going to get them a job. If they were having trouble making their house payments, they wanted to know how the pol was going to help them keep their house. If they had a problem, they wanted a solution.
What they didn’t want was to be derided for not having a sufficiently nuanced worldview.
Obama’s statement, which he now says he “mangled” but was not a “lie,” probably will not matter much in his getting the Democratic nomination.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“This guy is going to get creamed in the general. It’s going to be embarrassing for him and the Democrats.”
Then they’ll whine and riot.
They are already preparing to riot at the Democrat Convention, they have a group called, “Recreate ‘68”, already making plans.
It is a real shame that this fake is the first black in contention for the presidency. He is a disgrace to his race and America. A damned shame.
LOL at the Hillary cartoon!
And I hope they make Chicago ‘68 look like a tea party.
As one who has lived in rural areas for nearly all of my adult life (by choice), rural people have an intelligence built on a foundation of common sense. I would label this as sophisticated, since their world view is generally rooted in reality.
I find that many "urban sophisticates" lack that foundation, and their "sophistication" is rooted in their imaginations' view of how the world works, not how things really are. They live in a closed system, and are often unwilling to consider that they are wrong.
“He is a disgrace to his race and to America”.
Which race? And as far as that goes, which America?
Obama is the reason I will vote for McCain.
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No; Barrack {redacted} Obama is academic Marxist !
It’s funny you mention “Recreate ‘68”; I looked up their website and sent them an email which basically said “...didn’t the Chicago Police Department actually win the street battles and Richard Nixon, the Republican, win the ‘68 election? So how did the rioters win in ‘68 at the Chicago Democratic Convention”? I never got a reply.
i agree can’t wait til november so we can get rid of this phony
Opiate of the masses, eh Hussain?
Both sides of the Hillary vs. Obama fiasco seem rather impassioned.
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