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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 04:48 PM
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Hillary "WalMart" "Tyson Foods" "Outsource" Clinton Accuses Obama of Elitism??
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=6971

Being RIGHT doesn't make you an elitist, it makes you competent to represent the people of Pennsylvania as the President of the United States.

If Pennsylvania doesn't know what it's like to have someone in the Whitehouse who is actually working for and with them, as opposed to conspiring against them, imagine our shock.

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It would funny, or sad, if it were not so pathetic.

Obama uses the word, "bitter" to describe areas of the country that have been systematically trashed by the likes of the Clintons and their Republican co-conspirators using NAFTA, the World Bank, the IMF and the Federal Reserve.

No, Obama understated his case as usual.

The people of the "Rust Belt" and other victims of outsourcing and NAFTA aren't the least bit bitter...they are ENRAGED. The line in the sand has been drawn and Hillary is trying to be on the side she will never be on.

Who called the Canadian embassy and stated that the anti-NAFTA rhetoric in the primary campaign was just "talk?" That was Hillary's campaign, folks. And she promptly lied and attempted to pin the whole incident on Obama.

Obama, the child of a single mother who grew up to work with the poor people of Chicago's south side, is an elitist who is out of touch with the people of Pennsylvania?

The people of Pennsylvania work their butts off and always have; so has Barak Obama. His great "sin" in this case is that he is listening to what EVERYONE in the "Rust Belt" is saying. And some people are not doing well no matter how hard they try. Some are doing better than others. Obama wants to listen to working people, wants to advantage them over the lazy corporate thieves who foolishly ship jobs overseas.

Hillary Clinton? She supported NAFTA until Obama pointed out the utter stupidity of that position. The Iraq War? Hillary supported it until Obama pointed out the utter stupidity of that position.

On every major issue, Obama got it right the FIRST time. No politician who has been in a position to be considered as a frontrunner for the President of the United States has gotten any of these issues right the first time. Not since since Eisenhower, and even he screwed the pooch on a few issues.

Being RIGHT doesn't make you an elitist, it makes you competent to represent the people of Pennsylvania as the President of the United States.

If Pennsylvania doesn't know what it's like to have someone in the Whitehouse who is actually working for and with them, as opposed to conspiring against them, imagine our shock.

None of us really knows what having an actual President of the People looks like. But we've had thirty years of glimpses of what is possible. For the first time, we have a near complete model of an ideal person for the job.

Get it wrong, Pennsylvania, and life will get a whole lot more challenging than even your parents and grandparents can recall for you. It will be you and your children who will be hiding money in strange places throughout your house; it will be you and your children who will be boiling shoe leather just to quell hunger pains. It will be you and your children who will know what it means to stand in line for hours just to eat stale biscuits and watery gravy.

Make us proud as you did in Gettysburg and at Valley Forge. And, again, in Philadelphia.



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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 04:51 PM
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1. Pennsylvanians like you make me proud
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yourout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 04:51 PM
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2. Hillary is the walking talking definition of an elitist.
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earthlover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 05:38 PM
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8. Not an elitist...Hillary is a member of the elite!
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Zachstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 04:52 PM
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3. Good words K&R!!
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nebenaube Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 04:58 PM
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4. What's the tie to Tyson?
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 05:36 PM
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6. Google It - It's All About Favors & Money
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 05:12 PM
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5. Hillary "Summers on The Vinyard" Clinton is the perfect example
Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 05:14 PM by C_U_L8R
of an upper class twit. She's totally out of sync.


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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 05:38 PM
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7. The list of her hypocrisies on this topic is 109 million long
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 05:58 PM
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9. by the way how did your canvassing go today - were you able to get out?
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 06:23 PM
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11. No, I Personally Don't Think It's A Good Idea On Sunday Here...
In my town. Others did go out though, but I don't know how they did.

On a side note, the office the Repub for Obama set us up with is awesome! It's a free-standing office on the main street of town and he's decorated the hell out of the place.
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 06:31 PM
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12. I checked their web page and found them to be very substantial folks
can republicans switch in PA? I thought it was a closed primary.

Are they trying to reach so called Reagan Democrats?
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TLM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 06:06 PM
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10. Not only is she more of an elitist...
Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 06:06 PM by TLM

She's got more connections to the sources of the problems facing middle America.

This is going to backfire on her HUGE.

Not only because she's worth 109 million and laughs at the conflict of interests that may expose... but because she sat on the board of walmart and voted for the bankruptcy bill.


However now it seems Hillary and Bill have both made similar comments

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/noteworthy-political-scie_n_96436.html

Harvard University political scientist Theda Skocpol - also an elite, I guess! - provided Talking Points Memo with a following statement, which, in part, reads:

I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing. Even more so to see her pretending to be a gun-toting non-elite. Give us a break!...

This has to be one of the few times in U.S. political history when a multi-millionaire has accused a much less wealthy fellow public servant, a person of the same party and views who made much less lucrative career choices, of "elitism"! (I won't say the only time, because U.S. political history is full of absurdities of this sort.) In a way, it is funny -- and it may not be long before the jokes start.
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