Underemployed people that vote Republican because of abortion or gay marriage or fear of gun control ought to consider voting Democratic for economic reasons. They keep voting for what they want the government not to do rather than voting for what they want from the government. Obama explains:
No, it’s not the end of his campaign, it’s one more shining example why he is a better politician that we’ve seen come along since…well…Bill Clinton pre-senility.
it’s just the beginning of Obama’s campaign.
Note to McSame and GOP rethugs, swiftboaters: Obama is one tough candidate. You’ll have a high wall to climb..in the end you’ll accept defeat.
Note to wavering Dems super-delegates: this Obama ‘small town’ flap should end your timidity. Obama has proved himself the strongest candidate. Just view the standing ovation he received in Indiana.
People are angry, and bitter. He’s in touch.
That the Clinton campaign and her allies in the media (yes, her allies in the media) have called this a gaffe is only a show of how pitifully but willfully out of touch Clinton is out of touch. Will she get any mileage out of this? The true believers who already celebrate Clinton will latch onto this, but who else does this kind of bizarro world claim that everybody’s happy in Pennsylvania reminds me of that old Buzzcocks song, and not in a nice way, either.
OT: I seem not to be able to get any of the comments sections over at TalkLeft. (I go there to keep my eye on when the mass suicides will begin.) This all seemed to have happened when I countered Jeralyn’s claim that there was proof of Obama’s anti-semitism because a fundraiser for Obama was held by a Muslim with all that money Bill Clinton just got for that oil deal he “brokered.” Then again, maybe it’s my computer. Last week The Left Coaster just disappeared on me for a few days.
Nothing that will break through the fantasy allowed. But you don’t actually get banned. You just lose the ability to comment or see comments.
Not that I’ve been banned and gone back under a different name or anything! 😉
Then you should be able to at least read the comments. But only do it for that site or you might hose all of your logins for sites like BT.
This is problem. I’m kinda of old and baffled by computer things. The last time I cleared my cookies I had food poisoning.
Actually, commenting at TalkLeft isn’t as important as knowing that Jeralyn cares enough to ban me.
Heh. Actually I kind of like the world of computers. Especially Linux/Unix, where
is a perfectly valid series of commands.
If a weird partial post shows up it’s because I have a heckuva time typing on this laptop. I’m always hitting something I didn’t mean to!
Anyway, this reminds me of the way Dean’s comment about Confederate flags and pickup trucks was twisted. What Dean meant was that we all want the same basic things, and we can’t ignore people who don’t live as we do.
Obama was only expressing his understanding of how people got so disenchanted with the political process. As usual his opponents and the MSM (and Lou Dobbs) cherry-picked the parts of his comments that they could turn against him.
I wasn’t at all surprised that Hillary jumped on it. She’s desperate, and especially so since Bill reanimated the Bosnia flap.
When trying to think of the words to describe the current stage of Hillary’s campaign, “dumpster diving” sprung to my mind.
Watching this unfold on MSNBC last night, Hubby and I rolled our eyes at each other wondering why Obama was being attacked for speaking the truth. We’re bitter and pissed off and we don’t even live in PA. Later, when HRC did her little speech about how optimistic people are, we burst out laughing.
Actually, Obama was attacked precisely because he was speaking the truth. The real scandal is how far away from reality the McCains and the Clintons want people to be.
I’m really happy to see that the verdict from everybody on CNN — the obvious exception being uber-xenophobe Lou Dobbs — was that Obama was 100% correct. If he can get allies like Cafferty and Toobin on this, this has the potential to be turned into a big positive. He needs to slam McCain and Clinton the way he did in that clip, over and over again.
Didn’t he read the handbook? He’s required to call people “single-issue” voters and say that all Americans are happy at all times.
I like the 100 million dollar woman and John “I have 7 houses” McCain claiming a guy who worked with folks on the southeast side of Chicago (a place where the mills and plants were shut down) is out of touch.
Marrying money and working for Walmart are clearly better ways of getting to know people.
OT but worth a look.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trade12apr12,0,5178534.story
This is an MSM look at Hillary’s amazing shift away from Free Trade in the last little while. This is worth reading and even more spreading around. It’s Clinton’s and McCain’s shared Achilles Heel. As for the small town stuff, Obama will use it to connect with these people. Watch, he’s already started.
Of course Johnny Assrocket thinks Obama is done. He thinks everyone in the world is entitled to his own opinion.
After all, those guys at Powerline have been so terribly right on the electorate since 2006.
Thanks, NYT for burying the voices of PA in defense of Obama; these come at the end of the second page of Clinton Seizes on Obama Remarks to Question His Appeal to Working Class: