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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: 154
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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#5. To: RickyJ (#0)

I proudly use my guns and xenophobia like crutches, and yes I am bitter. I'm bitter against an elitist who uses his color to advance socialism under the guise of hope. I hope his gaffe sticks in this throat all the way to Denver, and beyond. This snake oil salesman will ensure a McCain presidency, and at least McCain is honest about who he is. If he keeps my taxes low and remains out of my gun cabinet, he'd be a better choice for me than Obama or Hillary. It's all about buying time anyway, right? His 100 year war comment was taken out of context, and he's right, we never leave a country we invade and occupy so the silly notion that O or H will pull out is nothing more than campaign promises.

Who knew he'd be the lesser of three evils.?

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-04-15   8:08:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Jethro Tull (#5)

By historical analogy to the most recent Great Depression, we are probably in 1928 right now. So it makes sense for McHoover to be elected.

Phil Gramm is his principal economic adviser, the same Phil Gramm who pushed for repeal of Glass-Steagall and then left the Senate to become vice chairman of UBS AG

I really think McPain is so old, ill-tempered and crotchety that he will have no patience with all the 200 to 250 million whining Americans who are slowly going destitute and will just launch the nukes, probably fairly early on in his Presidency. So we may not have a 1933 analogous-to-FDR Presidency.

Of course, if Congress would regenerate a backbone through stem cell surgery or something, it could impeach and remove him before that were to occur, but any nuclear war would be designed to benefit Israel, which owns most of them, and so they'll continue to play along.

But then you'd probably have Jew Lieberman (I) - and the I stands for "Israel," not Independent - take over and launch anyhow.

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