Barack Obama has been under attack for statements made at a fundraiser in San Francisco where he stated that Americans from small towns or rural areas are bitter about the economy because they feel that they aren’t being listened to in Washington. He claimed that they clung to issues about guns, religion and illegal immigration because of their bitterness.
His chief rival, Sen Hillary Clinton, spent the weekend calling Obama an elitist who is out of touch. Talk radio has echoed her charges and go on to say that Americans are not bitter at all, but are the backbone of the country and will carry on.
Senator Obama has been forced to expain his remarks in an attempt to quiet the attacks which will likely hurt him in the polls.
Senator Obama was at least partially correct. The people in small town America are indeed bitter. Where he got it wrong is why they are bitter. They are bitter that their first and second ammendment rights are constantly under attack. They are bitter about the fact that Social Security has been in trouble for years and nothing has been done. They are bitter because they want our borders sealed and nothing has been done. They are bitter at the thought of higher taxes that they cannot afford.
Yes, Americans in rural and small town America are bitter.
April 15, 2008 at 4:51 am |
White people are bitter and frustrated. Better-qualified white students, employees, etc. face intense racial discrimination. Obama and his liberal comrades call it “Affirmative Action”.
Millions of white Americans see “people who aren’t like them” illegals and inner-city parasites sucking up on free benefits.
Millions of tax paying white Americans can no longer use the public school system because “people who aren’t like them” have made the schools awash with violence, drugs, and gangster rap.
April 15, 2008 at 7:11 am |
I agree with your comments.
April 15, 2008 at 6:28 pm |
Obama and Hillary are both elitists engaged in a snow-job and the hapless blue-collars, church-going, gun-toting, Nascar-watching, Polish/Germanic/Irish/Russian, beer-swilling hayseeds who they both desperately need to pull a lever for them. Neither is concerned with their plight. This issues you raised will never be remedied because the PA proles are only sheep manipulated to give them power.