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NEW - Video from San Francisco - Obama jokes about small town hope
Politico ^ | April 12, 2008 | Ben Smith

Posted on 04/12/2008 5:01:49 PM PDT by renotse

Here's a clip taken by somebody at the San Francisco event; it's the passage just before the lines everyone is now focused on, in which he talks about the skepticism he encounters:

Here's how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn't buy it. And when it's delivered by -- it's true that when it's delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism.


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To: donna

Oh, come on, who hasn’t taken an occasional sojourn to Pakistan to reconnect with their inner executioner?


61 posted on 04/12/2008 8:30:29 PM PDT by Sender (Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.)
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To: renotse

And the pro-Obama bamboozled worshippers are eating this video up! They claim it proves how insightful and truthful Obama is! What have they been drinking?


62 posted on 04/12/2008 8:39:43 PM PDT by Sender (Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.)
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To: renotse

“Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it.”

And well they shouldn’t because his message is complete and utter BS.

Will Obama’s higher taxes bring jobs to these towns?
Nope.
Will his reregulations get the towns economies going?
Nope.
Will his catering to San Fran gay activists and leftist unions take America in the direction that small-town citizens want it to go in?
Nope.

He offers the Politics of Hyped-up Socialism.

YES WE SHOULD BE CYNICAL. GOVT DOESNT WORK AND POWER CORRUPTS.


63 posted on 04/12/2008 9:03:11 PM PDT by WOSG (Solve all the world's problems .... Just build more nukes already.)
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To: NormsRevenge

It is sickening to me that they grew rich on what American freedom has to offer, and then turn around and waste their money on supporting causes that destroy that legacy.

There is something truly hateful and/or profoundly ignorant about that behavior.


64 posted on 04/12/2008 9:05:36 PM PDT by WOSG (Solve all the world's problems .... Just build more nukes already.)
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To: STARWISE

Jedi Mind Trick video:

http://videos.newsobserver.com/index.php?a=player&id=1816319


65 posted on 04/12/2008 9:10:04 PM PDT by WOSG (Solve all the world's problems .... Just build more nukes already.)
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To: renotse

I was wondering—are the politicians beating down the people in PA and Ohio democrats like Murtha of Johnstown?


66 posted on 04/12/2008 9:17:27 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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To: milwguy
You tube video:

John Mellencamp - Small Town

Good music!

67 posted on 04/12/2008 9:59:03 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: WOSG; Bahbah; SE Mom; Laverne

Good one.


68 posted on 04/12/2008 10:07:33 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: potlatch; STARWISE; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; Grampa Dave; gonzo

69 posted on 04/12/2008 10:18:57 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: dinoparty

“We continue to hurtle to the ultimate meltdown, complete with race riots and violence”

Yeah, it’s gonna make Rodney King’s case seem like a card party!


70 posted on 04/12/2008 10:33:10 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite ("HOBo's already done more damage to race relations than Sharpton-Jacko combined.")
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To: renotse
Hope? Obama...you ain't got no hope. All you have are huge holes in your perception of what America is about.

President of all the people...I don't think so.

71 posted on 04/12/2008 10:48:48 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: renotse
"...by a black man..."

Well, at least he didn't say "typical." Just WHO is being racist in this campaign that SOMEONE said it shouldn't be about race???

72 posted on 04/12/2008 10:59:28 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: renotse
Well I heard Mr. Obama talk about us
Well I heard ole Barry put us down
Well I hope Obama will remember
A small town man don't need him around anyhow.
73 posted on 04/12/2008 11:09:46 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in - Michael Corleone)
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To: renotse

I think he is trying to spread the “I am a victim” ideology to whites. It has worked so well with blacks, especially for people like Rev. Wright and other black preachers and black politicians, that he sees it working just as well on whites. He is trying to sell the same Kool Aid to whites that he and others have been selling to blacks for generations. He is urging whites to “play the victim card”.


74 posted on 04/12/2008 11:24:59 PM PDT by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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To: TeleStraightShooter
Yes, leftists as BHO does indeed believe deep down they are dumb racist hicks; that's why they get all bent out of shape for using his given middle name.


Hillary Rodham Clinton

Baraq Hussein Obama

75 posted on 04/12/2008 11:29:28 PM PDT by glock rocks ( Woof.)
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To: george76

Thanks G.


76 posted on 04/13/2008 12:11:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

In those two photos, the kids look different to me. Straighter lighter hair versus darker wavier hair, plus, free-hanging earlobes in the wavy kid, not in the straight-haired kid.


77 posted on 04/13/2008 12:43:46 AM PDT by Squeako (Obama because he's black, Clinton because she's a woman, McCain because he's a Vet/POW. No thanks.)
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To: renotse; All

Does anyone know the venue for the “bitter” statement? Did this occur at the Billionaire’s Row event that Zombietime documents?

Obama Visits Billionaires Row
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998779/posts


78 posted on 04/13/2008 1:42:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (<===Typical White American)
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To: okie01
And, more and more, it looks like the Obama fundraiser was penetrated by a Hillary operative. And it's being exploited by some pros.

Well, we knew the Clinton machine wouldn't lie down and just take the defeat gracefully. But I didn't think Obama would be dumb enough to hand them material to work with.
79 posted on 04/13/2008 3:00:50 AM PDT by CottonBall (A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority. "Civil Disobedience", Henry D.Thoreau)
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To: donna; All

Just out of curioisty, why is the Huffington Post, of all things, leading the charge on this? Are they that firmly in Hillary’s pocket?


80 posted on 04/13/2008 4:33:20 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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