Why Aren't People In Mass. Insulted By GWB's Remarks??

[K8-EEE]

This RW mantra of "Liberal Senator From Massachusetts" is so weird. Don't people in Mass. (and New England or the NE) get pissed off with this redneck BS?

Especially when delivered in that corny accent! How come his kids, wife, & brother don't talk like that?

[Senator Lamb]

1. i know

I always wondered why Kerry never confronted him about insulting his state all the time.

[LauraT28]

2. LMAO

Good point! I've known plenty of Texans that don't "speak" as poorly as bush (yeah that's right I won't capitalize his name).

He sounds like a back country deliverance character... disgraceful that he's our supposed leader.

[Branjor]

3. As a New Jerseyan.....

born and bred in NYC, yes, I am pissed off by it. But it is more than just a regional thing, it is an insult to all liberals.

[cheshire]

4. And they would do what? I'm sure we all are but It is not working so ?

[JuniorPlankton]

5. We are insulted in Mass

But our state has been solid democratic state forever. * has NOTHING to lose here.

[hyphenate]

14. Actually, it's the reverse

Bushit has nothing to GAIN here. So he can condemn and berate and castigate us all he wants--we're solidly Kerry.

[fugue]

6. Clinton leaped to the defense of his state

I forget whether it was Bush I or Perot who dismissed Clinton's experience because Arkansas was supposedly such a poor, backward state, but I remember Clinton leaping indignantly to his state's defense.

Kerry should say "You know, I've had just about enough of these Massachusetts slams. Massachusetts gave America the Boston Tea Party, John and Samuel Adams, and Lexington and Concord, shaping our country in its beginning, back before Texas was even part of it. It has given thousands of our nation's leading citizens, including President Bush, an education at Harvard and other great Massachusetts universities. To strike at Massachusetts is to strike at many of the best and deepest parts of being American."

Well, Kerry could probably say it more eloquently, but he should raise those points.

[K8-EEE]

12. Whoa!!! THAT'S GOOD!! I'm from CA but...GO SOX!

Sorry Yankee fans but I think it would be a good campaign momentum builder to have the Sox in there. Maybe if they won the whole thing Bush would have to call and congratulate them and tell them how their state is "out of the mainstream!" LOL

I KNOW, I KNOW...I'm dreaming, they're 0 for 2 and not looking good.

[dddem]

7. So you've noticed...

I've been saying for a while that every time Bush says the word Massachusetts, it sounds insulting. Personally I don't care - Massachusetts feels the same way about this administration.
I for one am proud to be from a state that can piss him off so much just by being here.
Gay marriage AND Kerry - it doesn't get any better!

[TaleWgnDg]

8. here's some terrifically valuable and note-worthy input on that

very subject (heh):

1.) scroll to #7 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2498312

2.) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1079140

3.) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x1286

4.) and there are others . . .


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[MassLiberal]

9. great way to divide, not unite

I grew up in a liberal, very actively Dem family in Massachusetts, and I am insulted by the stupid references to the "liberal senator from Massachusetts." What gets me most about this though is that this is the president who claimed he would be a uniter, not a divider. Of course, we all know he's not that at all, but I just think it's ironic that THIS president in particular sees nothing wrong with dissing an entire state.

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. Even more ironic

is the fact that Bush is actually from Massachussettes himself.

[Fabio]

10. we are

[wishlist]

11. I wish Kerry would speak more about patriotic history of Massachusetts

Americans should be damn proud of Massachusetts especially for its role in the Revolutionary War-

[MADem]

13. We're used to that crap

But at the end of the day, we as a state are pretty damn smart. Remember, we didn't vote for Nixon, resulting in a bumper sticker that sold ten times the number of Massachusetts residents that said "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts!" Back then, EVERYONE wanted to be a MA LIBERAL--if they spent time on the Mass Pike, or went to college in Boston, or watched the Pops on PBS, they identified with that sentiment.

When they have nuthin', they call you what they think are insulting names. But Liberal is not a bad name, it is the foundation of our nation, and we own a big chunk of that history. We are the Hub of the Universe, a crucible of democracy, we have the Minutemen, Paul Revere, John Adams, John Kennedy and a host of others, who always did the right thing, on our side and in our history. Call us liberals, go on, do it. We bask like contented cats in the heat of that hatred, and we grow stronger for it!

As for weecowboy, he is a Kennebunkport Cowboy, or a Connecticut Cowboy, and no one calls him a 'real' Texan. They even spotted his phoniness in Alabama when he was on the Blount campaign, where he earned the moniker "The Texas Souffle." All air, no substance. It's funny that, no matter how many states he has affiliated himself with over the years, there are plenty of citizens within those states who decline to claim him as one of their own.

It's this administration's sticks and stones that are breaking the bones of our servicemembers--that nonsense needs to end, now. But names will never hurt us.

[Tom Rinaldo]

16. Imagine a Democrat putting down a "Conservative Senator from Mississippi"

Everyone would immediately "get" the subtext,it would be an attempt to invoke past racism, an inference that people from Mississippi thought differently, in a negative way, about fundamental American issues than other Americans.

People in the South have been through this exact type of negative stereotyping. It would immediately be understood as a regional slur directed not so much at the Senator in question, but at the voters who elected him/her to the Senate.

The message Bush is putting out essentially is: "What can you expect from someone from Massachusetts/Mississippi anyway? Surely you don't believe that someone with that _____ way of thinking could be a fitting leader for our nation?" It is at it's very root divisive, playing off one group of Americans against another.