BBC-WS: Virginians at mall speak out on WS bailout. They think it's for those lazy you-know-whats. [View All]

[bushmeister0]

The BBC World Service's Jamie Coomarasamy "asks the average American for their two cents on the deal." (The deal being the Wall Street fat cat bail out.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/worldservice/meta/dps/2008/09/080922_main_street_db?nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&size=au&lang=en-ws&bgc=003399&ls=16021

(It's only five minutes. Listen and quake!)

Here's what's scary about his interview with normal people at the Springfild, VA, mall.

They don't have any idea what the "deal" is.

The three people he talks to -- a mother and her daughter and a plumber -- all take great umbrage at people who took mortgages they couldn't afford asking for a bail out.

The plumber says something like 'I work hard. Why should people who want to sit around and not work get bailed out?'

The two women basically say the same thing, compaining about how they always did right, so why should they have to bail out people who bit off more than can chew?

And when they talk about people who don't want to work, you know who they mean.

They think the Gov. wants to bail out all those lazy negros who drive around in cadillacs, even though Coomarasamy makes it quite clear he's talking about the Wall Street bail out. (It's like telling people Obama isn't a Muslim, they just don't hear it.)

This could all turn around to hurt Obama in the end. If these "Sarah Palin moms" and white blue collar working types don't even grasp what's going on here, some devious fucker like Karl Rove could once again convince the people most hurt by this mess to vote against their best interests.

The Dems in congress better be careful, McLame & Co. will try to turn this around and make it sound like it was Obama's idea all along. Based on the ignorance of the general populous in suburban Washington DC, for Christ's sake, they might get away with it.