Who Is ‘They’?

NRO ^ | 25 apr 08 | Victor Davis Hanson

[rellimpank]

Inside the Obama mind.

“They”? Who in the hell is “they”?

— Lyle Gorch in The Wild Bunch

Recently Barack Obama got into trouble by explaining to an affluent San Francisco audience why the cash-strapped, mostly white, working classes in Pennsylvania and the Midwest do not logically vote for his brand of economic populism, but instead cling to issues that sophisticates can see are extraneous to their economic plight.

[Graybeard58]

From time to time, all Americans, of course, blame they who raised the price of gas, or started a war, or jacked up their taxes, or ruined their schools and neighborhoods.

Not me, I blame liberals and their liberal agenda, not some anonymous "they".

[NonValueAdded]

They are them.

[The Great RJ]

I am reminded of South Park where one of the characters, Kenny, often died horribly in every episode with his friends dryly exclaiming..."they killed Kenny ...the b*****ds". In one episode Kyle was questioned about who was "they" ...his response "..you know..them...they're b*****ds..".

[rellimpank]

——I have been slyly asking , with a look of feigned innocence, “who are ‘they’” for some years-—it is useful as a conversation stopper when you wish to end one with an ignoramus—

[dighton]