Obama Says Some Voters Are Angry, Bitter »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsIn the midst of an assault from his rivals, a defensive Barack Obama said Friday that many working-class Americans are angry and bitter over economic inequalities and have lost faith in Washingtonââ;¬"and, as a result, vote on the basis of other issues such as gun protections or gay marriage.
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rumple4skin1 year, 6 months ago
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You have, along with Fox 'news' experts, latched onto a conversation and taken it totally out of context. Funny things about words. You can spin them to satisfy any agenda. This is another attempt to smear Obama. That's all. I would suggest to the Obama machine to search out the person who spirited comments recorded at this event and, if they are on his staff, fire that individual. I am very suspicious about the source of this recording. I believe what he said is true. Nothing racist, elitist, or condecending ... just a true statement of reality.
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injest1 year, 6 months ago
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Rumple
"You have, along with Fox 'news' experts, latched onto a conversation and taken it totally out of context."
Fox news? Buckie this article is from The Associated Press. Not Fox news.
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The Huffington Post Web site reported Friday that Obama, speaking of some Pennsylvanians' economic anxieties, told supporters at the San Francisco fundraiser: "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 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 really doubt the The Huffington and Fox news are one in the same.
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Georgia501 year, 6 months ago
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So explain the context:
"People don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody is going to help them," Obama said in Terre Haute, Indiana. "So people end up voting on issues like guns and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. They take refuge in their faith and their community, and their family, and the things they can count on. But they don't believe they can count on Washington."
The Huffington Post Web site reported that Obama, speaking of some Pennsylvanians' economic anxieties, told supporters at the San Francisco fundraiser: "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 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."
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 6 months ago
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If that is what Obama said (I haven't corroborated myself), then it does seem clear that he's content to label small town folks in the Midwest as gun-loving, prejudiced, religious fundamentalists who just aren't broadminded enough to support his presidential campaign, unlike the more cosmopolitan San Franciscans...
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rumple4skin1 year, 6 months ago
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You spin his context. I don't have the time or intrest. Keep on beating the Rev. Wright dead horse if it pleases you and gives you comfort. "he would like all of us to attend a church like his." This is silly! Get as grip, please, and take a cleansing breath.
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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It seems pretty obvious to me what he said and what he meant. To me it demonstrates that he knows nothing about small towns and that he thinks he is better then people that live in small towns and knows better than small town folks.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 6 months ago
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I don't know small towns. At most I drive through them.
To me what he said sounded true; perhaps I am an Elitist.
The great thing is, this isn't an intellectual argument.
We will get to see what the small towns think themselves about Obama's words, this November.
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doppich1 year, 6 months ago
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Repeating myself from a less active thread: I sure am lucky I left my small PA town after college, else I'd have become a xenophobic, religious, unemployed gun-clinger. (You know - one of those proletarians that Obama is blaming for his pending primary loss.) A narrow escape, indeed.
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doppich1 year, 6 months ago
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The "context" - as I see it - is that he was explaining to some California bankrollers just who is responsible for his coming loss in the PA primary. It's not his fault, he says, it's the fault of those white, xenophobic, religious gun nuts in small town PA.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 6 months ago
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I don't trust any of them. They are all snooty upper cruster's looking to control the greatest nation in the world.
btw. I love my freedoms and gun ownership. I also love my freedom of choice in religious beliefs which I will vote for.
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jrlecato1 year, 6 months ago
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This is the problem in this country. WHITES are racist and anytime a BLACK leader tell them so they cry FOUL!!! OH, we know it's the truth ,but you can't tell us!! WHAT the ******!! The only people that have a problem with what OBAMA said are RASICT and WHITES(or more RACIST)!!
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doppich1 year, 6 months ago
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As I said elsewhere, in the binary world of the Obamans, there are only two possibilities: one is either an Obama supporter or one is a racist pig. But life in the sty is not so bad. It keeps the Obamabots out as well as keeping us pigs in.
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mmrhe1 year, 6 months ago
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He's correct to say such voters are bitter. He is wrong to say those voters are then apt to be distracted by political tactics. These people are probably the least likely to be distracted. It's the so called Christian Conservatives who I would argue have been "distracted" the most!
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MajJohn1 year, 6 months ago
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Why I wonder do these bitter voters continue to vote the same way? It's not political tactics. One doesn't need tactics if you as a candidate know which party is going to always win in given areas. The biggest boob can be reelected having never anything productive for his constituents.
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rumple4skin1 year, 6 months ago
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Further to that ... I am angry, and bitter about the mess America is finally realising: discovering that the results of this presidency, congress, and the senate are beating their incomes into the ground. I'm angry because, even though gas prices are through-the-roof, I must pay the piper and go to work to pay for an increasing bite of my income. I am very bitter and angry and I do not live in PA! (I endorse my comment.)
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most_reasonable1 year, 6 months ago
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CNN and MSNBC are not doing the coverage this deserves. Obama didn't use a Poor choice of words, he simply let his true feels out, the kind that he and Michelle and Rev. Wright feel.
Obama a uniter, like Bush is uniter. Everyone in the country now hates Bush; but the country has time to avoid another mistake like Omaba bin Bush.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 6 months ago
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His church? Obama doesn't have a church. That's that pastor fella. Also, excepting the horrendous and vile 'typical' obscenity, it was that Pastor fella who said the bad things
just thought you'd like to know...
so one word, 'typical' gets under your skin that bad? all that reading between the lines is bad for your retinas. Can get you in a lot of 'what'd'you mean by that' fights too
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most_reasonable1 year, 6 months ago
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Because I am.
It's time that the networks took off their cloves and gave Obama what he was asking for. I watched MSNBC and the anchorwoman complained how t was unnecessary for everyone to examine every statement with a fine tooth comb, while she spent all of the past two weeks playing and replaying the attacks on Hillary.
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