Posted on 04/11/2008 4:23:18 PM PDT by freespirited
The Huffington Post's Mayhill Fowler reports that, at that same San Francisco fundraiser where Obama revealed his previously unknown college sojourn to Pakistan, the junior senator from Illinois seemed to try to get inside the mind of small towners in Pennsylvania, with a dose of sociology and a dollop of dime-store psychology.
"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," Obama said. "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."
It seems to me that this comment could be interpreted fairly easily as dismissing people who hold views on guns, or religion, or immigration, or trade because they believe in those views -- and not because they're "bitter" or lashing back at a system that has discarded them.
Lou Dobbs program is killing Barry on this.
The penultimate black candidate? There will be exactly one more before Armageddon?
This will cause nary a ripple.
I’m sure he misspoke!!!
He’s always misspeaking. Babies are a punishment.
Clinging to guns and religion (equating guns and religion as something to cling to).
What will he come up with next... maybe religion is the opiate of the masses.
Darn the masses, anyway, they are dum.
Black folk like his Uncle Jeremiah are not haters. They just angry and blowing off a little steam, petitioning God to damn America and celebrating it. Small town white folk is bad, very bad. They against ILLEGAL immigration, PRO Second Amendment, and for Decent paying jobs that have been shipped overseas. Hillary will toast Barry on this issue. She has been waiting for him to step into it and he has.
As someone born and raised in northeast PA, I can tell you it’s basically a paleoconservative-libertarian region. We hate the liberals, but we hate their cousins the neocons just as much if not more. The Meuser-Hackett battle for Congress is going to yield a great conservative either way, and I’m also very confident in Lou Barletta eventually becoming a Senator or Governor.
Clinging to religion like he does.
Speaking of Catholics I think the interview with the president is on ewtn right now.
Speaking of Soros, a poster I respect is sure that much of the money Obama is raising is illegal.
She thinks Soros (and maybe others like him) are somehow funneling their own money through Internet donations in small amounts that aren’t traced... kinda like the donations the Clintons got from Buddist monks, except on a much larger scale because of the Internet.
I wonder if there is anyway of investigating that kind of thing.
Too bad they didn’t announce the final result after the break. They announced 52% NO 46% Yes when the final was 52% NO 48% Yes and closing with 12,264 total votes.
Just “typical Whites”, eh barak HUSSEIN obama?
Bugger off!
One thing that makes me believe her theory about Soros is that ... well, how can I say this in a PC manner?
Oh, never mind that, this is Free Republic.
The fact is that the people who are Obama supporters are probably not the type to make political donations. They never have; they expect to be donated to... not to donate.
It just doesn’t make sense that he’s raising so much money legally.
49% Yes 51% No
Ummmmm, earth to Obama. There hasn't been a "successive administration" post Clinton and Bush 43. That's the office you're running for, fella. Just sayin' in case you haven't got that one figured out yet.
(And the media keeps trying to tell us this guy is SO intelligent.)
And racist, because he means us typical white folks in them there small towns.
I’ve been talking about this lately - there must be a way to find out if the internet logs of Obambi’s donations are subject to inspection by the FEC..... ooops, except that Snob-ama has paralyzed the FEC by blocking new appointments.... there may be method in his madness!
Is there a Freeper who really knows election law plus methods of record-keeping on website donations, who might be able to figure out how it can be known whether Obama’s record-breaking ‘fundraising’ is really legit or NOT??
OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but I think it's fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre...I think they're misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to 'white working-class don't wanna work -- don't wanna vote for the black guy.'
I understand but it is fun to mess with pools!!!
I suspect this is close to the truth, if not the naked truth.
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