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Title: Bitter bumpkins take note!
Source: Augusta Chronicle
URL Source: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/041508/edi_195085.shtml
Published: Apr 14, 2008
Author: Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Post Date: 2008-04-14 23:10:09 by RickyJ
Keywords: None
Views: 135
Comments: 6

So let's get this straight: If you are a gun-supporting, God-worshiping, secure-the-border type who feels unfair trade regulations are killing American manufacturing, Barack Obama doesn't just respectfully disagree with you.

After all, you can't respectfully disagree with someone you have utter contempt for.

No, he thinks you're nothing but a sour-grapes, behind-the-times, racist, gun-and-Bible-toting nutcase.

In short, you're just a bunch of bitter, bigoted bumpkins.

You have to wonder: Is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright writing Obama's sermons now?

One supposes that you could offend more people in one fell swoop than Obama did with his recent recitation of small-town-America's mental problems. Like if you offended all 1 billion people in China, for example.

But you have to go back to former Atlanta Braves loudmouth John Rocker to offend as many categories of people as Obama smeared in his ugly pronouncement.

Here's what he said recently about the state of small-town Pennsylvania:

"It's not surprising ... 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."

This isn't a misstatement, folks -- not even in the exaggerated sense of a Hillary Clinton "tell-a-tall-tale-over-and-over" misstatement. Nor was this just a case of a poor word choice.

No, this was a very revealing comment. It betrays an elitist, arrogant and, worst of all, condescending view that Mr. Obama and others of the far left have toward mainstream Americans. They view small-town folks, especially in the South and Midwest, as paranoid, xenophobic, spiritually crippled, dimwitted and dangerous with guns.

Such a world view is not only contemptible and patronizing, but also quite out of touch with reality. Consider: The vast majority of gun violence occurs in big cities, where the bumpkin population is presumably next to nil.

Obama later tried to make it sound as if he was actually sympathizing with small-town Americans rather than belittling them. As spin goes, that's about 180 degrees!

Yet, the root sentiment behind his original statement is that Americans are bitter types who "cling" small-mindedly to God and guns out of fear and because they hate foreigners and "people who aren't like them."

Whew! Now, there's a dim view of the good, freedom-loving, church-going backbone of this country.

Previously, Obama, speaking about his white grandmother, called her a "typical white person" who feared blacks on the street.

This is the man we need to turn to in order to unify the country?

It depends, one supposes, on how dense those bumpkins really are.

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thanks for bringing us a great rebuttal to Obama's abomination. sorry if I offend the Obama-philes. I think Obama really screwed up over the weekend.

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