Posted on 01/16/2009 1:34:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
BRINKLEY, Ark. - Wayne Loewer's truck reveals a lot about his life. A 12-gauge shotgun for duck hunting rests on the floorboard. A blue thermal lunch bag containing elk meat is shoved under the seat, left in haste that morning by his teenage son rushing to catch the school bus.
Binoculars in the console help Loewer scan his 2,900 acres of rice, soybeans and corn.
The dashboard radio is set to classic rock, playing the same Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes from Loewer's high school days, when Brinkley was still a thriving small town with stores and a movie theater.
His muddy truck is 900 miles from the kiosks crowding Pennsylvania Avenue selling "Hope Won" T-shirts. But more than miles separate Loewer from the coming celebration in Washington over Barack Obama's inauguration as president.
The 52-year-old farmer is a conservative Democrat who bet on Republican John McCain and lost, a description that would apply to many in the white South. Now Loewer wonders about his place in Obama's America.
"I'm worried that he's not gonna understand the rural way of life," he says.
On this cold January day, Loewer makes his morning rounds -- the irrigation company, the seed distributor, a well supplier -- and everywhere he goes, the same anxieties are expressed.
"That comment he made about guns and religion, it's frightening, you have to admit," says the secretary at his accountant's office.
Loewer agrees. "I don't believe in going around with a gun strapped to your hip, Wild West-style," he says. "But you ought to be able to protect yourself."
He understands the cultural chasm between him and Obama's Ivy League, biracial, global polish. He realizes he is set apart from the 53 percent majority that put Obama in the White House.
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Obama and the Ivy League? Let’s see his grades, his papers, things he has written and if he was enrolled as a foreign student. Why is it ALL sealed.
The only writing we have seen, not the ghost written Ayres books, is his creepoy poetic odes to his “daddy” figure pervert Franklin Marshall Davis.
The arse cannot finish a sentence unless he is on a teleprompter.
How about his clever wife who wrote a racist screed paper that Christopher Hitchens said was so poorly written it was laughable.
How dare rural Americans who obey the law not want to be like a con man from murder city Chicago. Typical condescending sh*te from the dying MSM.
The only way that life style can continue is by having a steady stream of revenue. That only comes from have people productively employed. Keynesian spending of money stolen from the taxpayers generates nothing of value. The politicians are on a drunken spending spree. They're killing the economy with high taxes and regulations.
The gun you have beats the one you don't have.
“”I’m worried that he’s not gonna understand the rural way of life,” he says.”
Well, sir, Bush, McCain and most of the elite running this country don’t understand it either. They don’t like the ‘rural way of life’. That points to independence, self-reliance....can’t have that going on! Sarah Palin gets it....that’s why they hate her so.
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premise. his views arent urban. urban does not equal socialist. urban does not equal leftist. urban my rear end.”
Go take a look at some of the election maps. The Urban areas are liberal....they elect our representatives. People in rural areas have NO representation. Urban and liberal go hand in hand and have all through history.....crime comes with it.
Excellent....Isn’t posting a post like this the way ALAMO Girl got started?
urban areas are majoratively liberal, mainly because they’re majoritively black/hispanic.
there are still plenty of conservatives, they’re just unrepresented!
that doesn’t mean his views are “urban”. that’s just a darn codeword for leftist. always trying to hide who they really are
Appreciate the compliment, but truthfully, she did so much more:
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Ayn Rand was a prophet.
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Hey It’s a start....Thank you for pinging her. Could not get name to come up..... spelling incorrectly, I guess.
If someone wishes to do a DSL for the Obama administration, I'd recommend using a database: gather the urls and source information, title, lead sentence, list of names or things mentioned in the article.
What he is doing and what he plans on doing is going to ruin this country. I worry about the life our children and grandchildren will be living.
I have stopped reading anything about Obama. Otherwise I would spend my days crying.
Nice presentation. Hold that thought.
“There were a lot of dumb whiteys who voted this time.”
Very true. “dumb whiteys” for 0?
“I hope that you were jesting about urban areas being mostly black or hispanic.”
A bit of an overgeneralisation, but mostly true. http://www.city-data.com/ - useful site. Lots of cities where “minorities” are the majority.
I’m as encouraged as anyone when I see a black conservative like Clarence Thomas, who would make a fine president, probably a lot better than Bush. But vast majority they are reflexively voting for dims. And in the race between obama & clinton, we discovered that blacks easily are the most racist people in America. the numbers don’t lie. Whites don’t deserve the crap attitude from blacks. The generation of whites around now have done nothing bad to the blacks.
I will scribe it on the frontlet of my forehead...
Thanks, LucyT
Ping.
You're a class act here on Free Republic, backhoe.
Is it time to divide the nation for real?
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