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Obama on small-town PA: Clinging religion, guns, xenophobia
Politico.com ^ | 04/11/08 | Ben Smith

Posted on 04/11/2008 1:08:33 PM PDT by JRochelle

Mayhill Fowler has more from Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday, and they include an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won't be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama's seeking:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

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's pretty broad list of things to explain with job loss.


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To: Miss Didi
Headlining on Drudge as we speak...

Pointed out on another thread that a link to FR has reappeared there after an absence of 7 or 8 years.

181 posted on 04/11/2008 5:28:31 PM PDT by CedarDave (John, When will you respect conservatives the way you do fellow senators Barack, Hillary and JohnK?)
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To: Earthdweller
Hussein was becoming too comfortable and confidant in his scam, thought he was safe under the MSM embrace.

He relaxed at a fund-raiser with his bathhouse boys in San Francisco, and had to impress them with his tales of hanging out with white trash.

182 posted on 04/11/2008 5:29:55 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: roses of sharon

The fun is yet to come. Obummer will have the Dems nomination wrapped up in a couple of weeks. By convention time he will be polling under 40% and pulling the rest of the Dems down with him. He will have the rug pulled out from under him at the convention and then the fireworks (for real) will start.


183 posted on 04/11/2008 5:35:31 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
He will have the rug pulled out from under him at the convention and then the fireworks (for real) will start.

His prayer rug?
184 posted on 04/11/2008 5:38:39 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: chessplayer
Now Roland Martin is on the Lou Dobbs show, and he is also agreeing with Obama`s inference that small town whites are nothing but racist, gun-toting, religious fanatics. And he just said Obama should not apologize.

Oh yeah that will go over big in small town America.

185 posted on 04/11/2008 5:38:52 PM PDT by mware (mware...killer of threads.)
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To: CedarDave
That's good news...the Obama story is now off Drudge completely.
186 posted on 04/11/2008 5:40:34 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: roses of sharon

:)


187 posted on 04/11/2008 5:40:52 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: JRochelle

Liberal POS


188 posted on 04/11/2008 5:42:25 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: JRochelle
And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

We're still in the Bush administration: what "successive administration" is he talking about? His own? McCain's? Unless I'm reading it wrong...

189 posted on 04/11/2008 5:42:36 PM PDT by jdm
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To: FateAmenableToChange

Obama is not just a democratic idiot, he is a marxist posing as a Democrat idiot.

His recent statements come directly from Marxist doctrine, esp. the writings of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin (as expounded upon by Joseph Stalin).

Take from the “rich” (you keep redefining who is “rich” until you get down to the little guy), tell private businesses how much they can pay their top officials, prevent people from “staying in their comfort zone”, and talk to America’s enemies as though they were amenable to change after tea.

Obama and his wife are the new marxist-heirs apparent to Bill and Hillary.


190 posted on 04/11/2008 5:43:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: mware
Roland Martin is on the Lou Dobbs

I haven't seen them since "Laugh In".

191 posted on 04/11/2008 5:43:55 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: pointsal
Are those "quotes"?

I don't see any quotes.

192 posted on 04/11/2008 5:46:59 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Miss Didi
...the Obama story is now off Drudge completely.

Yes, I just looked and couldn't find it. I hope (and expect) it will reappear later on though.

193 posted on 04/11/2008 5:49:17 PM PDT by CedarDave (John, When will you respect conservatives the way you do fellow senators Barack, Hillary and JohnK?)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Roland Martin is on the Lou Dobbs

I haven't seen them since "Laugh In".>

LOL

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194 posted on 04/11/2008 5:49:37 PM PDT by mware (mware...killer of threads.)
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To: mware
I'm sorta giving Obummer a fickle finger of my own right now.
195 posted on 04/11/2008 5:51:01 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: mware; gov_bean_ counter

When I read Roland Martin I thought of Laugh In, too. ;)


196 posted on 04/11/2008 5:53:15 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: martin_fierro

Sure this comic book cover isn’t from “Obama Junction”?

Also looks like a scene from the soft skin flick called “Two Moon Junction” or “Half Moon Junction” (I think it’s the first). Garbage. It used to be shown on HBO, which is why I no longer get HBO.


197 posted on 04/11/2008 5:53:58 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: CedarDave

Perhaps Matt is working feverishly to get the clips together and will then sound the siren.


198 posted on 04/11/2008 5:54:25 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Miss Didi

Dating ourselves. :)


199 posted on 04/11/2008 5:55:45 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Sure this comic book cover isn’t from “Obama Junction”?

It was a movie.

200 posted on 04/11/2008 5:58:49 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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