Posted on 04/25/2008 4:57:15 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
Recently Barack Obama got into trouble by explaining to an affluent San Francisco audience why the cash-strapped, mostly white, working classes in Pennsylvania and the Midwest do not logically vote for his brand of economic populism, but instead cling to issues that sophisticates can see are extraneous to their economic plight.
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 sentence has been analyzed to death. But a single word struck me — who are Obama’s distant they?
Are they basically decent people, without a lot of education, who turn to religious and national superstitions like guns and church, or to primordial passions like racism and xenophobia, in lieu of Obama’s nostrum of “hope” and “change”? “They,” then, turn out to be the nice, but deluded folk — and yet sometimes dangerous people when riled by immigrants and other races that don’t look like them?
But the bitter they can’t be the same they that Obama also said are jacking up the cost of his condiments in the store?
“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
“they” = White Folks
“they” = anybody who ain’t “us”
Remember when Ross Perot referred to blacks as “you people”?
SSDD!
That depends on what the definition of the word 'is' is...................
To nit pick, arugula is not a condiment, it is a bitter salad green. It is also known as rocket. Quite trendy with foodies and high-priced restaurants.
Other than that, VDH gets it right.
They is YOU PEOPLE for liberals
No, but too many fall for this BS.
If he weren't protected by the media, he'd have been finished a long time ago.
“they” = TYPICAL White Folks.
Don’t forget the “typical”
Okay, sure, WE might be ready for B. Hussein, but I noticed she didn’t ask whether “they” are ready for him.
“They” are the same as “vast-right-wing-conspiracy” or G_d damn America.
Divisive rhetoric by disingenuous, delusional, deranged democrats meant to create a bogeyman in their constituent victim’s head.
Name they.
Name the right wingers who are conspiring.
Name the Americans god should damn.
They won’t. They can’t.
BO doesn’t offer “economic populism.” He offers the same and lame mushy socialism that they teach at our “elite” universities, like those he attended, and the fiery economic leveling espoused by his mentors.
So, this election boils down to “they” vs. “you people.”
I don't have time to go to Whole Foods. Too busy reading my Bible and cleaning my guns.
Then you must be a "they".
US News says McCain likes to shop at Costco.
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