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Obama's Rural America.. bitter and hateful

Steve

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Obama
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.

I see Obama met OldTimer.. :roll: :roll: :wink:

but to say we cling to guns... cling to religion.. we're bitter and hateful..? shows how out of touch he really is.. :mad:
 

backhoeboogie

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Steve said:
I see Obama met OldTimer.. :roll: :roll: :wink:

but to say we cling to guns... cling to religion.. we're bitter and hateful..? shows how out of touch he really is.. :mad:

Shucks, he at least got the first two right. Do you suppose that came from an "intelligence" source or has he noticed on his own? From what I hear, if you make eye contact in his neck of the woods it is considered agressive. Maybe someone from my culture looked him in the eye and he thought they were bitter and hateful. Nevertheless, he is indeed out of touch based on everything else he says and does.
 

Steve

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BackhoeBoogie
Shucks, he at least got the first two right.

I don't think he meant "cling to" in a good way.. more like it was a crutch we use because we don't know better... :roll: :roll:

it was a condescending remark about rural America..
 

backhoeboogie

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Steve said:
BackhoeBoogie
Shucks, he at least got the first two right.

I don't think he meant "cling to" in a good way.. more like it was a crutch we use because we don't know better... :roll: :roll:

it was a condescending remark about rural America..

Steve the truth doesn't hurt much on this end :D If I needed to cling, I could and would.

He is just trying to stereotype and categorize groups to rationalize things in his narrow logic. It humors me. Is that sick?

It is just another case of him putting his foot in his mouth and revealing himself. All the candidates has slipped similarly in one way or another.
 

Steve

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BackHoeBoogie
He is just trying to stereotype and categorize groups to rationalize things in his narrow logic. It humors me. Is that sick?

nope.. watching liberals say stupid stuff amuses me as well :wink:
 

aplusmnt

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I think Obama was the one that cling-ed on to religion for all the wrong reasons. Some 20 years I believe.

I also think his wife is the one he needs to talk to about being bitter and having antipathy towards people who aren’t like her.........Heck this would also apply towards his friend and Pastor also.
 

Steve

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Obama rues 'bitter' voter remark
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has said remarks about "bitter" working-class people "clinging to guns or religion" were ill-chosen.

After facing criticism,...Obama said he "didn't say it as well as I should have".

He made the contentious remarks at a fund raiser in San Francisco on Sunday.

Mr Obama was accused of taking a condescending view of small-town voters after he was filmed at the private fund raising gathering last weekend, during which he said he understood why residents of some hard-pressed communities grew angry.

Barack Obama was criticized after his speech was published on the internet

like other ill-chosen comments he just says he mis-spoke.. he is well know for his ability to chose words that appease the left.. and now is getting well know for his condescending words that infuriate the rest of America... so much for the "one America".. :roll: :roll:
 

Mike

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I suppose I'm one of those gun toting bible thumpers that hate immigrants? :roll:

I have never seen a group of politicians shoot themselves in the foot more often, as is with Obama, Hillary & Bill.

Too funny!
 

aplusmnt

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Mike said:
I suppose I'm one of those gun toting bible thumpers that hate immigrants? :roll:

I have never seen a group of politicians shoot themselves in the foot more often, as is with Obama, Hillary & Bill.

Too funny!

Yea they been messing up themselves for the last 3 elections including this one. They were poised to win the Presidency the previous 2 elections and this one that they are going to loose.

They just can not give a little and nominate an electable Democrat.
 

Texan

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Mike said:
I suppose I'm one of those gun toting bible thumpers that hate immigrants? :roll:
You're such a bitter typical white person. Just cling to your guns and religion, you damn racist. :lol:
 

Mike

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CattleArmy said:
Unfortunatly he is right about the jobs being gone and nothing replacing them. :(

When overall Unemployment rates are this low, there is nothing replacing them? :???:
 

CattleArmy

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In this area rural towns are just fading away. The overall unemployment rate might be lower but in many rural areas jobs and businesses are leaving and nothing is coming in to replace them.
 

Texan

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CattleArmy said:
In this area rural towns are just fading away. The overall unemployment rate might be lower but in many rural areas jobs and businesses are leaving and nothing is coming in to replace them.
I expect all of us have seen the same thing. It's that way around here, too. But it's easier for some people to blame Bush than to blame themselves.

Those same people that blame everything on Bush go out of town to shop in a bigger place just to save some money because they can get stuff cheaper. Those same people are only too happy to buy the cheap Chinese junk just to save some money. Wal-Mart is their best friend. It's all Bush's fault, though.
 

Mike

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CattleArmy said:
In this area rural towns are just fading away. The overall unemployment rate might be lower but in many rural areas jobs and businesses are leaving and nothing is coming in to replace them.

That might be the way it is in YOUR immediate area, but unemployment rates are highest in the urban areas......leaving the rural areas to automatically have the highest employment!!!!!!!!!!!
 

aplusmnt

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CattleArmy said:
In this area rural towns are just fading away. The overall unemployment rate might be lower but in many rural areas jobs and businesses are leaving and nothing is coming in to replace them.

Rural towns have been fading away for a long time. Possibly dating back all the way to the Industrial Revolution.
 

CattleArmy

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Texan said:
CattleArmy said:
In this area rural towns are just fading away. The overall unemployment rate might be lower but in many rural areas jobs and businesses are leaving and nothing is coming in to replace them.
I expect all of us have seen the same thing. It's that way around here, too. But it's easier for some people to blame Bush than to blame themselves.

Those same people that blame everything on Bush go out of town to shop in a bigger place just to save some money because they can get stuff cheaper. Those same people are only too happy to buy the cheap Chinese junk just to save some money. Wal-Mart is their best friend. It's all Bush's fault, though.

I agree it is the fact that local people quit doing business locally. I know in my own case I buy my fuel in the small town close to us instead of the town I work in. By buying it there I do pay more but I'd hate for the day to come when I need gas and they've closed the door due to lack of business. Plus if you look at ten cents it would save me maybe a buck? I also buy it there because it's more personal and I enjoy the morning coffee crowd or the afternoon visit.
 

CattleArmy

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Mike said:
CattleArmy said:
In this area rural towns are just fading away. The overall unemployment rate might be lower but in many rural areas jobs and businesses are leaving and nothing is coming in to replace them.

That might be the way it is in YOUR immediate area, but unemployment rates are highest in the urban areas......leaving the rural areas to automatically have the highest employment!!!!!!!!!!!

Umm Ok
 
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aplusmnt said:
CattleArmy said:
In this area rural towns are just fading away. The overall unemployment rate might be lower but in many rural areas jobs and businesses are leaving and nothing is coming in to replace them.

Rural towns have been fading away for a long time. Possibly dating back all the way to the Industrial Revolution.

:???: :???: BULLPUCKEY- The Industrial Revolution was in the 1700's-early 1800's...Our part of the country wasn't even settled until the start of the 1900's- with only a few cowboys and Indians prior to that...So unless your counting teepees that don't fly...

The Great Depression and dry years of the 30's put many rural towns/communities under...Then CRP/vertical integration and corporate consolidation of farming/ranching did more to kill little towns in this part of the country than anything else...But that started here in the 80's.....
 
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