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Can Obama Be a Working-Class Hero?
Time ^ | 8-21-08

Posted on 08/21/2008 6:05:27 PM PDT by SJackson

Nothing makes me feel sorrier for the once powerful local bosses of each political party than the spectacle of a modern nominating convention. In their glory days, these wily neighborhood sloggers would listen to speeches, size up the appeal of each candidate against hometown tastes, wheel, deal and finally make the thousands of individual decisions that would eventually choose the nominee.

Today there is only one big decision to be made, and the job belongs to a TV programmer, not a political boss. Conventions are little more than soundstages now. Everything from the backdrop to the musical choices asks the question, Who is the convention trying to reach?

For Barack Obama and the Democrats, it all comes down to this: Should Obama try to win by running up big numbers among the young liberals and well-off independents who cheer his hip style of designer politics? Or should he concentrate on recapturing the older and decidedly unhip working-class voters who rejected him in droves during the primaries?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; bluecollarvote; obama
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Good luck Barry. Sorry, Barack.

1 posted on 08/21/2008 6:05:27 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/08/021290.php

A Scene From the Life of Barack


2 posted on 08/21/2008 6:07:59 PM PDT by roses of sharon (SAVE YOUR GAS RECIEPTS, SEND TO PELOSI!)
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To: SJackson

I dont see how he’d pull that off, never having been a member of the working class.


3 posted on 08/21/2008 6:10:53 PM PDT by Mr Inviso
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To: roses of sharon

Or should he concentrate on recapturing the older and decidedly unhip working-class voters who rejected him in droves during the primaries?


I’m glad to see them say that these voters rejected Obama during the primaries. Hillary and her boys spun those elections in West Virginia, Kentucky, Penn. etc. to say that they all loved Hillary, and that she could win those states. She won them in a Dem. primary, but she would have had a tough time in those states in a general election. Obama will have a hard time in these states and those voters too.


4 posted on 08/21/2008 6:11:48 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SJackson
Sure he can,who do you think this guy really is????lol


5 posted on 08/21/2008 6:11:57 PM PDT by Snurple
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To: SJackson

Barry the babe magnet

6 posted on 08/21/2008 6:12:21 PM PDT by They'reGone2000 (Lose the Zero. Get with the Hero. McCain.)
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To: Mr Inviso
I dont see how he’d pull that off, never having been a member of the working class.

In fact I don't think I've heard him claim to ever have been a member. Relatives maybe, but I don't think even then, he usually describes them is "oppressed" terms, goatherder, on food stamps. I'll have to pay attention for that, but I don't think he's bragged about a working background.

7 posted on 08/21/2008 6:14:00 PM PDT by SJackson (as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, Michelle O)
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To: They'reGone2000

Future cabinet members?


8 posted on 08/21/2008 6:21:20 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: Mr Inviso

Didn’t you know that Barack Obama is veritiable George Jefferson. He moved on up!


9 posted on 08/21/2008 6:26:52 PM PDT by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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To: SJackson

(Alan Jackson/Don Sampson)

A callused right hand
Holds a shiny gold watch
For thirty years spent on the clock
But you won’t see no tears
>From this workin’ class hero
He’s always been hard as a rock

But he knows he’s too old
To really start over
Besides he just wouldn’t know how
I guess he’s just glad
That he’s not alone
But he’s got to wonder what now

‘Cause there’s no hall of fame for that working class hero
No statute carved out of stone
And his greatest reward is the love of a woman
And his children
So after he’s gone
That old working class hero lives on

That three-bedroom house
He built in the ‘50s
Seems so much bigger today
With just him and mama
And not many bills
‘Cause all of the kids moved away

What he’s done with his life
Might not be remembered
But he’s got every right to be proud
‘Cause the blood sweatin’ years
Of this workin’ class hero
Is really what livin’s about

‘Cause there’s no hall of fame for that working class hero
No statute carved out of stone
And his greatest reward is the love of a woman
And his children
So after he’s gone
That old workin’ class hero lives on

Yes, that workin’ class hero lives on
That workin’ class hero lives on

Better than Lennons tune

Obamas’ hands would bleed tying his shoes,he ain’t any kind of hero.


10 posted on 08/21/2008 6:36:09 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (In my day,Flunking gym was not an option , even for Stupid Kids!)
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i thought you actually had to WORK once before you could be a working class hero...
11 posted on 08/21/2008 6:37:02 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: Chode
i thought you actually had to WORK once before you could be a working class hero...

I think you're allowed to worry about them now, that's good enough.

Can you imagine Barack Hussein "organizer" Obama as a union organizer last century.

I can imagine him as a Chicago politician.

12 posted on 08/21/2008 6:45:03 PM PDT by SJackson (as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, Michelle O)
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To: SJackson
he's certainly crooked enough to be both...
13 posted on 08/21/2008 6:51:27 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: SJackson

Obama can be whatever the media wants him to be. His entire political creation is of and by the media. He has done virtually nothing to get where he is, with exception to being born black, and he wasn’t even responsible for that.


14 posted on 08/21/2008 6:53:16 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: SJackson
Obama's too much of a pussycat....minus the cat..to get the working class vote.
15 posted on 08/21/2008 7:02:15 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Obama "You sell your oldest friends. You sold your countrymen. And yet we know your name. Traitor!")
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To: Darren McCarty

Yes, I think our enemies know that.


16 posted on 08/21/2008 7:11:08 PM PDT by SJackson (as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, Michelle O)
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To: roses of sharon

That was good....


17 posted on 08/21/2008 7:25:30 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: SJackson

A Harvard Lawyer as Working Class hero ?....Or a rookie Senator ?...even the dimRATS know better than that...They can make Heidi Fleas into a working class heroine, or even a golden Rooster weather vane, but BHO?...Never...


18 posted on 08/21/2008 7:27:19 PM PDT by billmor (Friday:Red Shirt Day- meaning the silent majority is silent no more..Wear yours please..)
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To: SJackson
On the way home this evening I ended up behind a car driving very indecisively. It had an Obama bumper sticker. About 1/4 mile down the road, it turned down onto one of the sleazy trailer park streets. It's an area full of druggies, petty criminals and persons of ill repute. I wasn't very surprised.
19 posted on 08/21/2008 8:59:05 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: silentreignofheroes

“Better than Lennons tune”

Exactly.

Lennon’s tune here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs

Thanks for posting the lyrics to Alan Jackson’s great tune.


20 posted on 08/21/2008 10:20:09 PM PDT by PGalt
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