High and mighty but compassionate Obama pities those who Cling to Guns

[Roy Hill]

Obama....for change......for all you simpletons in small-town America out there....if you'd just let him...........

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/11/obama-draws-fire-for-comments-on-small-town-america/


The telling excerpt:

Obama made the original comments while speaking to a group of wealthy California donors in San Francisco over the weekend. The Huffington Post quotes him specifically singling out towns in Pennsylvania, where he’s trying to woo voters and overcome Clinton’s lead in the polls before the state’s April 22 primary.

“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “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 going to 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.”

[ismram]

I think I'm one of those simpletons that he's talking about.

[twyacht]

My garden, my guns, my family, oh and in this day and age,, my job, and By God, the Flag I fly in my yard everyday, for hopes of a better America and our troops in harms way.

I guess I'm a simpleton too that just "doesn't get it" either.

[keithm]

“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.”

You mean we cling to the items enumerated in the first two amendments to our constitution?  My god, say it ain't so!  Us poor ignorant cretins.  Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin etc... must've been ignorant cretins too.  Clinging to such hocus-pocus voodoo as our bill of rights. 

Boy, we sure are backwards ignorant #$&!s.

[tombogan03884]

My garden, my guns, my family, oh and in this day and age,, my job, and By God, the Flag I fly in my yard everyday, for hopes of a better America and our troops in harms way.

I guess I'm a simpleton too that just "doesn't get it" either.

We "get it" all right, Every pay day and twice next tuesday (4-15-08) and the proof that we are simpletons is that these know it all socialist do gooders aren't hanging from trees.

[Sponsor]

[Neon Knight Anubis]

And they wonder why we're paraniod? 

[Pathfinder]

Obama....for change......for all you simpletons in small-town America out there....if you'd just let him...........

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/11/obama-draws-fire-for-comments-on-small-town-america/


The telling excerpt:

Obama made the original comments while speaking to a group of wealthy California donors in San Francisco over the weekend. The Huffington Post quotes him specifically singling out towns in Pennsylvania, where he’s trying to woo voters and overcome Clinton’s lead in the polls before the state’s April 22 primary.

“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “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 going to 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.”

This guy is so out of it. So arrogant. So rude. So thoughtless. I hope the people of PA get a good look at this jerk, end his hopes and send him packing to the slums of Chicago. Not that he would ever live there, but that is where he is from. Some things money just won't correct, lying POS he is.

[Lucas]

The men in black mght be at my door by morning but if you said that to my face you might get your a** beat!

[Outlaw]

He just lost that last teeny tiny bit of respect I might have had for him. He and Clinton are now equals.

[DDMac]

JUST saw him give the speech on the news. So he pities gun owners and those who are sustained by religion? Glad he said that. Hope it works for him as I think it will. Mac.