Hey, Mr. and Mrs. Small Town America! You’re a bunch of gun-toting religious-zealot racist xenophobe protectionist yahoos!
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.
Yeah, that’ll win ‘em over.
To see the typical rich white folks Obama uttered these clever insights to, take a look at ZombieTime’s excellent coverage.
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I don’t know about the folk in Pennsylvania, but this Texas gal clings to her religion and her gun every time Obama opens his mouth.
What an egocentric, self-centered jackbutt.
Hussein Obama is a piece of garbage.
“….they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment…as a way to explain their frustrations’… ”
This guy is so un-American it’s pathetic.
He does not understand this country at all…
Typical leftist - too much time drinking $6 latte’s and reading Marx.
yeeee haaaaw!!! (bang bang bang bang)(that was me shooting a gun)
There once was black man, Obama,
Who blamed his racist views on grandmama,
He cannot conceive,
That others believe
In different ideals, causing him trauma.
He looks down his nose at the “common folk,”
Whose class envy he attempts to provoke,
For life is zero-sum,
And it’s the rich who have won,
But it is “poor” that his policies will choke.
Excellent Tedtam! Pretty much sums it up.
Ivy League schooled Barry Hussein,
Had P.C.-crap poured into his brain,
For President he runs,
‘Dissing religion and guns,
After losing, racism they’ll blame!
Such talent at LST…….
tedtam inspired my Muse…
Me?
I’m just a typical bitter white person clinging to my guns and my religion going after immigrants and free trade to make myself feeel better.
But it’s all Geroge Bush and Bill Clinton’s fault.
Until this fall.
That’s when I’m supposed to be frightened to death that John McCain will do it to me and vote for Obama so he can protect me from the Republicans who use fear to govern us.
It’s a NEW kind of politics doncha know.
Yeah, “BO” will use all his business experience to help generate jobs for our country. He’s such a great “problem solver”. His charisma will be more than enough to make people feel great. What a bunch of HOOEY!!!!! The man is all talk, no action, no experience to generate any action. He promises what you want, change but the kind of change he is offering is only HOPE!!!!! And only HOPE!!!!
megalomaniac
I want to see a picture of him in some swim trunks. There just HAS to be a square peg hole in his back where a large key gets inserted to wind this jackass up and a pull ring that, when yanked, cycles through selections of absolute dribble.
Really? Someone should tell Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Ed Rendell the bad news:
In the words of Charlie Daniels, Watch him boys he’s a thoroughly dangerous man!
Obama doesn’t sell Hope.
He sells a remarkbly grim picture of America and Americans, which is deeply rooted in the beliefs of his racist Anti-American church. Then, after he’s gotten you convinced that it all sucks, he tells you that if you elect him, you can have Hope.
Obama is just your typical baby aborting, pervert loving, God mocking, commie traitor dog — in other words — your typical democrat politician!
Please, PLEASE keep talking, BHO. Keep talking, everyone is listening. I have several older “peacenick” friends that bought into his line of poo before the primary, but I’ve been emailing them links to Youtube, and this sight, showing them what he’s really like. They are slowly (and some not so slowly) coming around.
I still think we should write in Ted Nugent!
And the Democrats are pissed. Not because they think what he said is bad, but that he’s revealed one of their dirty little secrets - they really do feel that way:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/11/obama-draws-fire-for-comments-on-small-town-america/
Good comments abound at Hot air tonite on multiple posts. My favorite, after he tried to change the subject to scary old John McCain:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/11/obama-tries-to-change-the-subject-im-out-of-touch/
and once again, VDH is in my head:
http://mt.pajamasmedia.com/xpress/victordavishanson/
Comment on another “Barack Blak Pastro Flap” (number three for those of you keeping score), this one who made anti-semetic remarks at an MLK Day Rally:
Things are going to get worse when they televise Reverend Wright’s speech to the NAACP coming up.
That’s right, they INVITED him to speak.
It suddenly occurs to me the big mistake the Leftist supporters of Brack Obama are making here.
They are supposing that he is uniquely suited to be thier standard bearer because of his ethnicity, and have plans to shout “Racist!” at each and every opportunity—large or small, real or imagined—to give him cover and get him elected. Always looking for unchallengable moral authority by trotting out Cindy Sheehan’s motherhood or 9/11 widow’s loss, they now think they can do it with Barack’s blackness.
What they may not be counting on are the number of people in this country who are sick and frikkin tired of being called a racist simply because they are caucasian.
the 3 candidates we have to choose from are inspiring people to stay home.
from a guy who’s name is pooponrepubs in another forum, it’s not surprising you’d want to keep people from the pols by echoing the same dark vision of America that Obama does.
sarge i will vote and probably for Mc Cain. The republicans will not run people that at least try to conform to their platform. they make no effort. i know it is the money from the lobbyists that drive our choices but some of these choices are rinos and i wont vote for many of them - skip the box.
The comments to the article are just as worrisome as one radical politician spouting this stuff.
Ah but GJT, he is not just one radical politician, This man wants to be the most powerful man in the world. Harry Reid is a radical politician. Obama’s history, which we are supposed to ignore, tells us this man is not who he is selling us he is. Like Big45 says, buy ammo.
The comment is snoballing trough the blogosphere. It’s on audio, so that mean’s that it’s going to be a very large snowball by the time it gets put on campaign commercials in October.
The only real question is will folks try to cram it in with the racist statements of Reverend Wright and the homophobic statements of Reverend meeks and the anti-semetic statements of Rev. Lee (which would make for a pretty long commercial anyway), or is this good enough for a stand alone commercial?
Commentary is pretty consistent, my favorite so far is Ace of Spades HQ who also has video of Obama trying to change the subject to scaring people with John McCain:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/260003.php
Wanna know why Republicans don’t run the most conservative candidates that they can find?
Lookm at the candidates the Delomcrats run. Republicans dont need the most Conservative Presidential Candidate they can find to beat either one of them. One is a crook and a pathological liar, the other is an elitist Socialist who doesn’thave any respect for the people who’s votes he needs so he spends all of his time selling them soap.
When I shot a lot of pool, I noticed that I played better against good players, and not so well agains poor ones.
The Republicans are just playing up to thier competition.
#26 Sarge, Republicans may not need the most conservative candidate, but what is an election about? Is it a game of chess……… and f*** the country and people? Or, is it a party trying to give the citizens the best possible choice? I’m supposed to be proud of republicans, who must be saving their best horse for another race? That’s ridiculous. Let me ask one question. With a liberal congress, how best is our country served, by a moderate republican president, or a conservative republican president?
Barack, keep on yappin’ sans script. It is entertaining to count the ways he can stick his foot/feet in his mouth and subsequently watch him pry them out–with the help of hangers on and willing media accomplices. Each gaffe and resultant spin provides instant ammunition for Hillary’s camp, which is a positive point in keeping the battle raging in the Dem camp until Denver.
Then of course there’s the Hillary/Bill selection of gaffes for the Obama campaign arsenal. Watching this ping-pong match is great theater. The downside to the merriment is they aren’t running for school council president.
Meantime, the McCain camp has a great selection from both sides delivered on a platter to deposit in the memory bank. And when a particularly insulting one rockets by, a well-modulated zinger delivered immediately has the desired effect. Can’t pass up a hanging curve ball very often.
A Moderate President isn’t a real problem.
A Liberal Congress is.
A Moderate President can temper the excesses of both sides of the aisle. I tend to favor that.
Power line has the audio:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020274.php
(so does Huffpo, but we don;t want to raise thier hit count)
Micheal goldfarb told us before this come out how Obama spins stuff like this:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/03/obama_its_all_a_distraction.asp
Folks in glass houses….never heard any condecending remarks here.
Simple
Umm, Simple Simon, nobody here is running for POTUS.
#14 -
Since those comments a year ago, the PA governor has said this on the state’s economy and the latest rise in unemployment rates to 4.9 percent:
“While Pennsylvania’s economic picture has been a positive one thus far, we do have concerns about the national economy and the negative impact it may have on our future growth.”
Manufacturing groups though tend to agree with the more negative assement over the longer period, part of the continuing concern over the shift from a production to services base.
“Since 2001, manufacturing employment in Pennsylvania has declined by 24.3 percent, a loss of 207,300 jobs. Not only are Pennsylvania’s manufacturing job losses considerably worse even than the record shattering U.S. figure of -19.7 percent, but only nine other states have experienced a greater percentage of losses. Moreover, Pennsylvania’s job losses from the worsening trade deficits with China doubled, from almost 40,000 in 2000 to near 80,000 in 2007, a loss of 40,000 jobs.”
http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?pagetitle=Manufacturing%20job%20losses%20cripple%20growth%20in%20Pennsylvania&articleid=11398
4.9% unemployment?!?!! Do you realize that that number used to be the “gold standard” for “full employment”, that is, everyone who wants to be working is working? The sky is NOT falling!
Has anyone heard about the New Republic article from last spring that claims J. Wright is a former muslim?
With John Sidney McCain III (using everyone’s full name to be fair) at least you get “strict constructionist” judges, victory in Iraq, and disdain for earmarks, but if you can’t vote for him, vote for the REST of the Republicans all the way down the ballot! I agree with Sarge #29, that if we let Congress go we’re in DEEP trouble.
Possibly moree interesting than what obama said was
where he said it. In a mansion where the media was excluded
We really were not meant to hear these comments. They were addressed to the superior like minded individuals at this intimate gathering. Just between our rulres to be.
http://www.zombietime.com/obama_visits_billionaires_row/
With BHO’s remarks…telling the “beautiful people” in San Fran behind closed doors what’s wrong with fly-over country…speaks volumes about him and his supporters. This is what the Democratic Party thinks of anyone the isn’t with them. After this latest flap with BHO…voting Democrat is another nail in America’s coffin. There is no way a rational, thoughtful person can vote for the Democratic Candidate for President.