Today is the first day I heard Obama talk about "THE FORGOTTEN AMERICA"

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Edwards talked about it every day. Clinton talked about it every other day.

I never heard Obama mention it until the day after Edwards dropped out. His campaign isn't known for being the campaign of the working people, uneducated, or poor.

It sounds perfunctory and awkward in his speeches, almost like he feels like he's getting his hands dirty.

[Fresh_Start]

1. give his speechmaker a break....

it takes time to catch up with news cycles.
He didn't know that Obama wanted Forgotten America until the political opportunity existed

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. I can't vote for him. I really can't.

[Fresh_Start]

19. I know, my husband and I are voting Edwards on Tuesday

can not make ourselves support either Obama/Clinton

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. I just can't. Thanks for voting for Edwards.

:-)

[readmoreoften]

41. I'll vote for Edwards if he's on the ballot.

Will he still be on the ballot on March 3rd?

[gateley]

2. I just read where the main focus of tonight's debate will most likely be along

these lines and the economy -- expressly to appeal to JE's supporters.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

7. good that's where it needs to be

[shaniqua6392]

3. He is trying to convince Edwards to endorse him

by suddenly speaking about "The Forgotten America". It seems to me that I have heard that one before. I think that was a slogan for some President from long ago. I will have to look that one up. He is pandering, in my humble opinion.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

6. Not too subtle, it stuck out like a sore thumb in the speech I just heard

[shaniqua6392]

12. I just remembered where that slogan came from.....

Richard Nixon!!! Seriously. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941290-1,00.html

[Proud2BAmurkin]

14. hahahaa

[mckeown1128]

30. WRONG!!!

It came from FDR. They were just talking about that on MSNBC...

[rodeodance]

35. so Nixon got it Fdr--Now Glitter man wants to FDR

[rodeodance]

15. Slick Obama

[Marie26]

42. FDR

Yeah, blatant pandering.

[rodeodance]

49. but read post 20---i did not hear msnbc--but seems Nixon used it also.

[Seen the light]

4. If you ignore him, he'll go away n/t

[shayes51]

5. What happened to his one America?

You know, the one where the rich really do care about the poor.

[scheming daemons]

8. You're getting more bitter and shrill by the day....

...scared?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

10. I've been scared all along

nominating a loser is scary

:scared:

[rodeodance]

26. see post 20---Obama CHANNELS NIXON--HE DOES

[REDFISHBLUEFISH]

9. Obama is a pandering speaker with a likable prsonna. So was Dubya to many people.

His campaign should chant four more years!

[rodeodance]

52. 8 more years??

[KennedyGuy]

11. Imagine that..quite the opportunistic fellow, that Obama...

[rodeodance]

13. O. is following the LEADER Hillary again--her "SILENT VOICES" oh he is Slick

[Proud2BAmurkin]

17. yeah but comes off as too "small" for the Awesome One

[rodeodance]

33. Awesome ONE will get his ballon pricked very soon IMHO

[Radical Activist]

18. I'm pretty sure Obama got his hands dirty a long time ago

when he lived and worked on Chicago's south side going door to door in the housing projects to help organize people to improve their community. Hillary passed up a job offer from Saul Alinsky to do work like that so she could go work with the establishment where she wouldn't get her hands dirty.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

22. he worked for 4 years after college then off to Harvard and ignoring Rezko's tenants

[glowing]

25. Yeah, and then he wrote a letter endorsing his friend.. and his friend

built inadequate housing for the poor.. and happens to be indicted on charges by the Hero Fitzgerald... Its time for Obama to come clean on that shit..

[Radical Activist]

45. He came clean

and spoke about it many times. Its an old story.

[rodeodance]

50. THEN WHY DID chig. trib a few days tell him to COME CLEAN?--the paper that endorsed him???

[rodeodance]

51. story is NOT dead even though you dream it is.

[glowing]

54. I'm with you on that one

[rodeodance]

20. *** Richard Nixon calls them "forgotten Americans."***some history here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941290-1,00.html



THEY are the descendants of Jacksonian America. Once they were the heroes of the American democratic my thology. Walt Whitman catalogued them. Carl Sandburg cel ebrated them. "The people will live on," he wrote — mean ing the workers, the "common man" in a slightly nostalgic sense, the people nowadays referred to as the lower middle class. The traditional American values and ambitions sus tained them. Today, those virtues seem to many to be mocked and perverted. The white lower middle class feels dan gerously ignored, as outdated as Norman Rockwell's folksy icons. With justice, Richard Nixon calls them "forgotten Americans."

[rodeodance]

21. Obama now channels NIXON--oh boy!!

[dionysus]

43. LOL, you had to respond to yourself cause you thought that was so clever!

:rofl:

[rodeodance]

23. Link added

[Proud2BAmurkin]

24. somebody's speech writer's gonna get a spankeen

[rodeodance]

28. AND obama ponders away.

[dionysus]

29. troll on, troll on and on and on....

[OzarkDem]

31. Shapeshifter is at it again

He's now trying to morph himself into Edwards.

[SammyWinstonJack]

34. I won't support him. I don't care if he gets the nom.

[dionysus]

36. evil scary black man?

or, my candidate can't win so i'll throw a fit and wet the bed?

[Alexander]

40. So why are you here? Just to stir shit?

I'll vote for the Democratic nominee, whomever it is - even Mike Gravel.

If you won't commit to doing the same, you aren't a real Democrat.

[Alexander]

32. Ugh! Me Proud2BAmurkin! Me Shillbot. Me so smart!

[rodeodance]

37. the CURE for SOUR grapes is lots of sunshine--go for it.

[dionysus]

39. we over here got no need for sour grapes...

you shillsters must be askeered...

[Alexander]

44. Sour grapes? My candidate's winning in delegates so far.

I'm sick of Proud2BAshitstirrer's constant negative attitude and race-baiting garbage threads which do nothing but endlessly trash Barack Obama.

[dionysus]

46. one fool's sour grapes is a wise man's merlot

[Alexander]

47. Yum, merlot. It tastes so much better than bullshit...

Which is all I'm smelling from desperate Shillbots lately.

[rodeodance]

53. then take a break--I, for one, will not miss you.

[AX10]

38. He could use that endorsement.

But that would go against his "unity" thing. He can't be shown to promoting divisions in any manner.

[rodeodance]

48. guess he forgot about his UNity thingy with all the going Negitive yester and today