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1. Rhod:

In the same stereotyping, simplifying rant, he refers to those pious, stupid, envious, resentful armed bigots as “working-class lunch-pail folks”. This is common room talk, the kind of obsolete “progressive” yammering that goes on between the swollen toffs in Obama’s intellectual circles.

No one’s carried a lunch-pail since 1946; he might as well call them proles or kulaks, but never mind, the scorn and nobless oblige is in place in spite of the terminology.

This fool might have started out with some degree of imagination and creativity; but ideology has turned him into a predictable dolt.

Apr 11, 2008 - 6:26 pm 2. David Thomson:

I am completely stunned. Was Hillary Clinton pointing a gun at his head when “Barry” Obama said something this stupid? Was he perhaps snorting an illegal substance? The odds will now heavily favor Senator Clinton in the rest of the large states, especially Pennsylvania. Obama has unwittingly declared war on the middle-of-the-road voter. Indeed, he will have a hard time earning much more than 40% of the vote total on Election Day.

Apr 11, 2008 - 6:57 pm 3. belladonnarogers:

Disingenuous creep: yes! One of your finest posts. Kudos.

Apr 11, 2008 - 7:19 pm 4. Jay McDonough:

from swimming freestyle:

“Barack Obama is a remarkably eloquent man and turning into a remarkably capable politician. But if the Senator believes it’s smart to insult voters from a state critical to your success, he’s hit one of the worst false notes yet in his campaign.

Yeah, I know what his campaign said, and that may have been what he meant. But a sophisticated candidate doesn’t refer to voters in language that can be construed as derogatory or insulting. Obama asserted Pennsylvania voters are bitter and so simple and lacking in maturity and intelligence that they address their frustration by clinging to primitive and reactionary crutches rather than addressing their problems in constructive ways.

It’s divisive. And not the way to attract the voters you need most.”
http://swimmingfreestyle.typepad.com

Apr 11, 2008 - 7:40 pm 5. GringoTex:

He’s the change… as in La change, c’est moi!
Exactly. Obama and his wife come across as condescending Ivy League so-and-sos. (and yes, I was tempted to write something else)
Here is an excerpt from a speech in San Antonio.

”And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world, and someone should ask her where she is from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers ‘I am an American.’ That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.”

The subtext here is: Vote for me and you can once again be proud of America. I might add that I worked overseas for 4 years, was fluent in the language where I worked, and never had reason to feel ashamed of America when working overseas. If you want to change a guilt-ridden liberal into a flag-waving right-winger, send the liberal overseas to work.

Time and again, Obama and his wife show their condescension towards those who are not of the liberal latte sippers.

Apr 11, 2008 - 7:56 pm 6. Lightnin' Hopkins:

Get out there and vote for change, you racist, trigger-happy bible thumpers! What? What’d I say?

Keep digging, Barry.

Apr 11, 2008 - 9:41 pm 7. MikeD:

This is simply a function of a campaign that lasts for more than 18 months. Up to this point we have occupied ourselves (in both parties) by winnowing a field of disappointing candidates down to the present pathetic three through a flawed process that only satisfies the delusions and the unrealistic fantasies of the gullible. Through a series of interminable but still untruthful 30 second sound bites, misrepresentations, outright lies, and dishonest speeches we, in our collective wisdom, have now locked in three completely flawed individuals. During the next 6 months these individuals will take every opportunity to display their shallow, self-serving incompetence so that by November we will not only be sickened by their presence, but wholly convinced that neither one of the final two is capable of performing the duties of the elected office. And, we will be ready to despise the next poor imbecile even more than the sadly lamentable George Bush–even before poor George leaves office. I’m not sure this is good or bad, actually. Maybe it accomplishes letting us all know how lousy we are at selecting leaders. Or perhaps it serves the purpose of dampening expectation. Mine couldn’t be much lower.

Apr 11, 2008 - 9:49 pm 8. Neo:

When I posted about this yesterday, I had found the part ..

anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

.. as just breathe taking in regard to the fact that just the day before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had exercised the “nuclear option” and taken the Columbian Free Trade agreement out of contention for an up or down vote.

But why would Nancy Pelosi be bitter ?

But alas, here was the leading contender for the Democratic nomination for POTUS basically saying that this was a cynical act, probably a cynical political act which was not in the interest of the nation, but nonetheless standard Democratic fare of the day.

I’ve noticed today, that some progressive sites seem to leave off the “anti-trade sentiment” portion of the quote, including Reuters.

Are all Democratic candidates so cynical of the voters that they fell free to distort their own positions publicly while secretly knowing that they would not support it themselves ?

I will watch and wait for an answer.

Apr 12, 2008 - 6:20 am 9. Barrett:

BHO is just another “I am smarter than you” liberal who believes he knows what is best for “the people” who are too stupid to know what is right for themselves.

What an insulting SOB! I can’t imagine anyone voting for this idiot. I hope Pennsylvania hands him his head.

He has never even had a real job. What does he know?

We know he is either a racist who hates whites and America or he has a complete inability to assess a person’s character from his association with Rev. Wright.

People confuse being smart with wisdom. There is a big difference.

Apr 12, 2008 - 9:36 am 10. Godzilla:

He’s spacing these things out pretty regularly, giving us a chance to catch our breath. At least it makes sense now why he threw a gutter ball, since bowling is kind of game that is enjoyed mostly by backwoodsy, rural, gun-toting types. How long will it be before we see the big O in a teletubby jumpsuit? Standing in a tank? Reporting for duty?

Apr 12, 2008 - 9:43 am 11. Godzilla:

For the bitter, gun-toting, clinging-to-religion rural types that happen to be bowlers and feel even more bitter after reading my comment about bowling, I was not disparaging the game of bowling. So crack up another beer, get your redneck buddies together, and go have a blast with whatever you normally do on Saturdays…chase immigrants, go to the gun range for target practice, get primed for Sunday church, whatever.

Apr 12, 2008 - 9:50 am 12. ron norman:

I’m starting to think that the reason Senator Obama didn’t leave the church when the “Rev” was going fascist is that he was admiring his own speech writing. He wasn’t dozing, he was listening hard to see how his words were excepted. Can you imagine the problems that would occur if this is indeed the equivalent of a “Manchurian Candidate? No one knows anything about this man except for what is now on the slate, his mentor for 20 years is a former Black Muslim, ‘Rev’ “God damn America” Wright, his wife feels put upon because she only got into Princton and Harvard on affirmitive action, he’s dissing Pennsylvanians in the most left wing city in the United States because he thinks he’s with friends. What if Senator Barack Hussein Obama turns out to be a Manchurian Candidate.” Guess who is the commander in chief, guess who has all of the tax records, guess who has the FBI in their pocket, guess which “Rev” is his counsellor. You think you have problems now?

Apr 12, 2008 - 10:45 am 13. ron norman:

I’m starting to think that the reason Senator Obama didn’t leave the church when the “Rev” was going fascist is that he was admiring his own speech writing. He wasn’t dozing, he was listening hard to see how his words were excepted. Can you imagine the problems that would occur if this is indeed the equivalent of a “Manchurian Candidate? No one knows anything about this man except for what is now on the slate, his mentor for 20 years is a former Black Muslim, ‘Rev’ “God damn America” Wright, his wife feels put upon because she only got into Princton and Harvard on affirmitive action, he’s dissing Pennsylvanians in the most left wing city in the United States because he thinks he’s with friends. What if Senator Barack Hussein Obama turns out to be a Manchurian Candidate.” Guess who is the commander in chief, guess who has all of the tax records, guess who has the FBI in their pocket, guess which “Rev” is his counsellor. You think you have problems now?

Apr 12, 2008 - 10:47 am 14. photoncourier.blogspot.com:

During the glory years of the American auto industry, assembly plants were plagued by employees who would call in sick on the first day of hunting season. Most likely, these people all had guns, and they were among the best-paid blue collar workers in the history of the world.

Gun ownership has a lot more to do with family heritage than with any “bitterness.”

Apr 12, 2008 - 12:29 pm 15. TerryeL:

I live in the country on the outskirts of a small town of 4500 people. We even have real Chinese people running a real Chinese restaurant and we have not lynched them yet.

I own a shotgun and a bible.

If I am bitter it is because a bunch of sissies and cry babies are trying to take the country over so that they surrender in Iraq and create a nice fat nanny state right here.

And all us trailer trash…white trash kind of people know that no matter what they say we will end up with the s**t end of the stick…happens every damn time. We are used to do it. We are used to the regional snobbery and elitism.

I told a friend of mine that it would be easier for a black man with money and an Ivy League education to win the presidency than it would for a poor white man to even get a job mowing the lawn at the White House.

I rest my case.

Apr 12, 2008 - 4:53 pm 16. TerryeL:

And by the way, we like it this way. Why right now we are sitting back and watching and listening to people carry on because the price of corn went up. Don’t those hicks know that the market only goes down when it comes to corn? And rice is up too and so is wheat and soy beans. Everything else can go up, wages, health care costs, everything…but corn? Hell no. Can’t let that happen.

You can go back decades and find that the prices of commodities remained flat, year after year. People whined about subsidies, but the actual alternative of higher market prices was not even a possibility as far as most urban people were concerned. After all it says it right there in the Constitution…life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and cheap food.

So if rural people are bitter about anything it is the arrogance of an urban society which seems to think that our love of guns and God is part of disease and while it is just awful that we are poor and all..the government really should do something about the price of corn.

Puhleaze.

Apr 12, 2008 - 5:01 pm 17. Godzilla:

This is rich. At the end of this article about Hillary coming down hard on Obama today were the following lines about a rally that her husband Bill had attended:

Bill Clinton was the featured speaker of the rally but avoided commenting on Obama’s remarks. When asked about it afterward, he said simply, “I agree with what Hillary said.”

Looks Bill wanted to avoid getting another phone call!

Apr 12, 2008 - 6:59 pm 18. Godzilla:

Look, Obama can’t just talk himself out of this one. He’s going to have to make it visual, be seen in farmer jeans as he’s walking through a rural potato field, spitting tobacco and saying “Yall”, or something along those lines. Or be seen hunting birds with hicksters from mudville, maybe, ripping out beer farts and remarking, “ah, that was a good one.” Things like that. Things that we hicks understand.

Apr 12, 2008 - 7:20 pm 19. Neo:

Obamaís only major contact with religious people are those at Trinity UCC. From the ìGD AmeriKKKaî, I get the sense that they may be frustrated and bitter, so by obvious extension .. what guns are they clinging to ?

Apr 13, 2008 - 8:32 am 20. Lem:

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

That statement is not an off-the-cough, slip of the tongue. This is the real Obama who believes in a white version of Black Rage.

Some of you may remember ‘black rage’ refers to a purported psychological phenomena and ‘innovative’ defense proposed, but not used, for the 1994 Colin Ferguson mass murder trial. Ferguson’s lawyers William Kunstler and co- counsel Ronald Kuby argued that he should not be held criminally because he was overcome with rage by his perceived society’s racist discrimination against African-Americans. – Wikipedia

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Apr 13, 2008 - 8:52 am 21. exguru:

Obama’s San Francisco remarks clash diametrically with his pious unction for M. L. King a few days ago, when he made much of how the most important thing of all was “religious faith.” Who do all the atheist liberal politicians think they are kidding?

Apr 13, 2008 - 11:18 pm 22. Always right:

10 smackeroos to bet BHO wonít be seen in a camouflage suit, shot gun in hand, with a bunch of ìbeer buddiesî. Pity, I would be real happy to lose the money, just to see the picture, though. However, I think that wife of his is going to disown him if it happens.

Apr 14, 2008 - 12:46 pm 23. joshuamev:

In light of Obama’s recent elitist remarks, I thought I’d post some more elitist, anti-religious words.

“How Can I Keep from Singing”

1. My life flows on in endless song,
above earth’s lamentation.
I hear the clear, though faroff hymn
that hails a new creation.
Refrain:
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I’m CLINGING.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?

2. Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear that music ringing.
It finds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?
(Refrain)

3. What though my joys and comforts die?
I know my Savior liveth.
What though the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night he giveth.
(Refrain)

4. The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
a fountain ever springing!
All things are mine since I am his!
How can I keep from singing?
(Refrain)

Apr 15, 2008 - 11:37 am

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