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Friday, April 11, 2008

Obama Analyzes Small Town America

Since you won’t believe this, check it out at http://www.drudgereport.com 11 April 2008

Today, according to Matt Drudge, Senator Barack Obama put forth his version of life in small-town America:

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


Doesn’t look like Senator Obama left out anything, does it?  Maybe wife-beating.

This from a man who claims to rise above prejudice and seeks to be president of the United States.

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We have here Drudge quoting a blog quoting the Huffington Post; this sounds really incriminating, but quite frankly I’m going to wait for something a little more authoritative--YouTube clip would be good, as would an AP wire--before repeating this one.

Not that I like Obama; I reject him from the get-go for his stances on guns & abortion.  This is in character, too.  I just don’t want to slander him when there are so many real reasons to vote against him.

Bike Bubba on April 11, 2008 at 02:06 pm

Bike Bubba:  Obama’s comments posted above are being reported on FOXNEWS at this very moment.


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pparets on April 11, 2008 at 02:15 pm

Post a link.  I’m curious about whether they’ve got video or a better source than Drudge does.  This is perilously close to gossip.

Bike Bubba on April 11, 2008 at 02:25 pm

Mayhill Fowler wrote the largely sympathetic [of course] article from which this quote comes for the Huffington Post. Huffpo is certainly no enemy of Obama. Drudge, Politico.com, Huffington Post and FOXNEWS will have to do for now.


"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

The stakes are high. Whether the issue is the economy, or energy, or the federal courts or national security, the right answers are coming not from the Democrats, but from the Republicans. The surge of operations that began a year ago is succeeding. The only way to lose this fight is to quit. Richard M. Cheney, Vice President, 30 May, 2008

pparets on April 11, 2008 at 02:38 pm

This might hurt Obama in the Midwest and South of the country in the general election.  Not a smart move on his part. 

Could this be a sign of how Jeremiah Wright really influenced Obama?



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dougee on April 11, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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This might hurt Obama in the Midwest and South of the country in the general election.  Not a smart move on his part. 

Quite right.

Obama is rather stupid to write off the south and the midwest, which he is effectively doing with his comments like this.

Every Democrat President since 1945 - Clinton, Carter, LBJ and Truman - has hailed from the south or midwest.

So yes, Obama.  Keep mocking the rubes from the fly-over states.  See how far that gets you.


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Rob on April 11, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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“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.” So this is what Sen. Obama thinks of us poor, little, feeble-minded, small-town hicks, huh? Nice. And this guy is the “Great Uniter” candidate, right? Then he tries to cover it up by saying, “Oh, I meant that small-town people are bitter about losing their jobs.” And he thinks we are just so stupid that we will fall for that line. Nevermind that he just generally accused us small town folk of being gun-toting, xenophobic, religious zealots. This guy is such a snob.

Cory on April 12, 2008 at 03:36 am

This is not a smart move for Obamoid. PA primary is coming up in a couple weeks, and he needs the rural vote. It ain’t going to happen now. What an elitist moron. Now excuse me, gonna go shot some guns and complain about how free trade is being derailed by Obamoid and the other America hating Democrat assholes.


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