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.
John McCain will walk into the endzone vs. this clown.
Pretty sad that there couldn’t be a true Conservative running.
That is what he is doing
Then 20k more, and 20k more over and over again.
Both he and Hilliary can beat McCain.
"The black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way -- because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. This goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trading, the owner -- the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid."
Here’s Kristof’s site:
Obama: Man of the World
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/03/nicholas-d-kristof-obama-man-of-world.html
Let it sink in... i’ve only told people about this (not you obviously), since last year.
Shudder ... the image of anybody--even figuratively--getting into bed with Hillary is just so ... icky ...
I know how you feel about changing registration. I'd been trying to get my wife to do it since long before Rush started in on it, but back in the early days of 2008 I was sure I'd be voting against HRC.
I Never did talk my better half into making the jump, and I turned my own application in at 4:55 PM on the 24th. Nice young lady behind the counter said, "you just made it," to which I replied, "I don't plan on being a Democrat one second longer than absolutely necessary."
PaMom
Reading this effete little snob's remarks about me and my kin, I'm reminded of William F. Buckley Jr.'s remark that he'd rather be governed by 300 random people from the Cambridge phone book than the Harvard faculty. No kidding. It's nice to be reminded how the grandees of liberalism actually view the great unwashed masses. Guess he regards it as the half-white-man's burden to take care of us bitter, jobless, hillbillies.
Sounds like you and your kin just need to get over being “typical white people” and then you might be able to appreciate Snob-ama’s sophistication and brilliance. /s
Thanks, I actually figured that out back in the Clinton era. I know women who are SO blinded that they’d do ANYTHING she says. Jim Jones mentality by the millions, very scary.
Does Obama have a shot in PA, or can Fast Eddie deliver the state for Mrs. Clinton? Can Clinton street money actually suppress the African-American vote enough to get Clinton in? Or will the bosses take her money and the "voters" pull the lever for the Golden-Tongued Anointed One anyway? (Not that that ever made much differnce in your state.)
Look at the bright side, this could be a test of how many registered voters in PA actually exist!
Oh, but I do admire his sophistication and brilliance. In the same way I admire, say, Soapy Smith. I just don't want him to hold any of my money.
when he says Obama recited the Call to Prayer with a perfect accent, was he speaking in Arabic?
“Thats why I’m voting for him in the primary May 6! “
You are nuts. RCP has him leading McCain now...
you want this guy in the White House?
It’s disgusting that this man is not considered a fringe candidate.
Ah, thanks for the link — I had heard of Soapy Smith when I was in Skagway a few years ago but I didn’t realize how ‘impressive’ his career had been before he every got to Skagway.
All of the Demagogues have a lot in common with Soapy Smith.
The truth is that Democrats have been successful over the last several cycles here because a) the PA GOP is moribund and b) so-called Republicans in the suburbs of Philly are really Democrats. Typically Western PA goes heavily enough to overrule Filthydelphia but in the last ten years the five counties in the exurbs (which used to break even) have gone over to the Dark Side.
I can't tell you whether Fast Eddie can deliver Philadelphia or not; that is very heavily black and it's his only real base in state. He never could deliver anywhere else. The endorsement of named Dims means very little in The Commonwealth. BHO and his fawning press tried to turn the Casey endorsement into something "unexpected" and "wonderful" but given that the Casey family have been enemies of the Clintons since his father was shut out of the Dim Convention, and that Rendell and Casey are also enemies, the only real surprise was that it took so long for Bobby to show up.
My guess is Clinton will win, but not by enough. She needs at least ten points and that seems very doubtful. There are "huge" numbers of Republicans registering as Dems in this contest--huge by conventional standards of party-switching--but I doubt that we can account for more than 2 or 3 points at the most and her Thighness needs a lot more help than that. Young voter registration in the last week (3/17-3/24) was enormous, and they will ALL be in Soapy Smith's Tribe. Bad news for November, I'm afraid.
http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/barack-obama.html
February 27, 2008
Barack Obama and the Muslim call to prayer
On this day in 2007, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.” In an interview with The New York Times, Senator Obama recited, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent,” the opening lines of this prayer:
“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet... “
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