What else is new? Socialists, Communists, and Tyrants always exploit the disadvantaged to their own ends.
The author is just “staff writer?” Why the anonymity? Maybe because if he lists his actual name, his inbox will instantly become deluged with requests for where to buy that awesome crack he’s smoking?
McCain needs to start talking creativity, entrepreneurship, social capital, social entrepreneurship, community, etc, etc, etc. It’s like he is stuck in the past. There is so much opportunity to leverage technology to structure society so it’s more tuned to conservative values but they’re not even engaging in that sphere. Obama is kicking there ass there. They need to stop calling him an empty suit and reverse engineer and refactor his policies so that the same outcomes can be gotten out of the private sphere.
“We’re getting a great response in rural communities that have been ignored by Washington and left behind in the Bush economy.”
I, for one, am greatly RELIEVED that Washington has basically “left me alone” and “ignored” me for the past eight years. President Bush’s tax cuts have put thousands of dollars back into my pocketbook and out of the hands of Government, not to mention two awesome SCOTUS appointments. :)
As if. As if red state residents will be fooled into thinking things would be BETTER under Osama van Krushev than under Juan McCain. No, they’ll hold their noses and vote for McCain. Or not, and vote 3rd party, allowing Osama to win. But no, they won’t pull the lever for Osama. NOT going to happen.
Most of the people out here are ranchers and farmers, and they all say they’re going for McCain. This is the Left Coast, Barack Hussein Obama has no chance of winning the rural hick vote anywhere.
He’ll do well in San Francisco, though.
Thing is, Osama is going to win because a lot of furious conservatives are going to sit out the election or write in Ron Paul or some other jackass who has NO chance to beat Osama, instead of just wrinkling up the nose, biting a bullet and somehow forcing themselves to vote for Juan McCain, like I am going to FORCE myself to do.
Won’t matter. Osama is a lock due to all the conservatives who refuse to vote for McCain. A lock. No libbies are going to vote for McCain. He was just selected by the DNC to hedge their bet incase someone with an “R” behind their name happened to win.
Heads, they win. Tails, they don’t lose. What a scam. And it is all planned in advance, just like Michael Savage says it is. 4 years of Bush. 8 years of Clinton. 8 years of Bush. 8 more years of Clinton, or in this case, Osama. The beat goes on and we get screwed.
“Indeed, many of her friends have told her they’re either not voting for Obama or are staying home. “They just won’t vote for him because he’s black,” Dettloff said.”
How long did it take to find someone to say this?
America is so screwed.
What if we just declare the Oval Office vacant for the next four years, until this blame thing gets sorted out?
It is NOT the job of the government to create jobs, but rather provide for an environment conducive to the private sector creating the jobs, i.e. less regulation and taxation. THAT is how jobs are created.
Pay no attention to his "sincere" desire to raise your taxes, weaken the nation's defense, spend you into poverty and provide wretched, untimely but "free" health care for all. It's the "nice" and "sincere" that count.
As a very rural resident of the West, my political litmus test is small government and a sharp pull back on draconian environmental regulations that are strangling rural economies. So far, neither candidate satisfies my interests. Obama would continue the spread of regulation throughout every aspect of our lives - controlling us, locking up our natural resources and transferring our wealth to international interests.
So far, I don’t see anything different coming from “Teddy Roosevelt” McCain.
“But tough economic times in Mifflin County and in rural areas all around the country have created possible openings for Democrat Barack Obama.”
ROFHWL! To quote John Wayne - “Not hardly.” ;)
Note to Obama: Calling people bigots, etc., based solely on the color of their skin and/or where they live, is a bigoted statement and *not* the way to get said people to vote for you. ;)
(heading back to lurk mode :)
economy is not perfect. Let’s tax it!!!!!!!!
Oh, yeah, man! All the farmers down at the CO-OP can’t wait to vote for Obama! That “God Damn America” stuff was music to their ears.
According to the story the economic decline around that part of the country has been going on for decades. One woman worried about her son’s economic prospects. Gee, what could they possibly do to change things for the better? I guess for them staying in an economically depressed area is much better than moving to a place where there are good jobs. (smirk)
ratmedia wishful thinking.