PA to Hillary: PA Doesn't Need a President Who Looks Down Her Nose and Tells them How to Think

berni_mccoy

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Mon Apr-14-08 08:41 PM
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PA to Hillary: PA Doesn't Need a President Who Looks Down Her Nose and Tells them How to Think

Edited on Mon Apr-14-08 08:43 PM by berni_mccoy

This is the blowback I mentioned yesterday that was coming for Hillary (http://journals.democraticunderground.com/berni_mccoy/277)

I knew that she would not be able to stop banging her pot on this issue. She kept on using it over and over and over again. She used it in her stump speeches on Friday and Saturday. She had the gall to use it at the CNN Compassion Forum. Perhaps this is why she only got polite applause while Obama got a standing ovation when he both entered and exited the stage. He had the grace to say it's politics as usual and instead, said "we should be lifting the country up instead of tearing each other down." Note that he didn't say SHE. He said WE. Clinton can only dream of having such grace and dignity.

And she staged an entire event around pointing out that she's a down-to-earth people person who throws back shots with the men while she saunters around with beer in hand, forgetting about her two mansions and $109 million in the bank. It's about as authentic as Dukakis in the tank. Maybe it was the buzz from the booze that caused her to plan an entire week of events around Obamas statement, but it was definitely the hangover to the morning polls that must have given her a headache. If she really is a down-to-earth person from a small-town in the rust-belt like myself (I grew up in a small town in northeast Ohio), she must have cursed and spat as Gallup showed an increase lead for Obama nationally and several respectable PA-specific polls came out showing no loss, and even some gain for Obama in PA since Friday. She must have thought, 'WTF do I have to do to knock this guy down in the polls?'

Her hangover must have gotten worse as she appeared before the American Association of Manufacturers and she started retelling the story of Obama's statement and how Pennsylvanians ought to interpret it, and she was told "NO" in loud shouts by the audience and when she tried to continue and say that they weren't bitter, more loud yells of "NO", denying her any sort of gain from it. The remaining of the speech was awkward and silent with no more shouts, but also, no applause or cheering.

And tonight, in Philadelphia, while addressing the Philadelphia County Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, where the press had arrived nearly two hours before hand, she was forced to cut her speech short right around 5 minutes when a chatty and meddlesome crowd kept her from grasping their attention. The crowd was never quiet during her speech or afterward.

Yes, Pennsylvanians are smart Hillary. They understand what Obama said, very clearly. You think they are stupid enough to believe your twisted interpretation of it, but they get it. And they are pissed at an elitist like yourself who has never had to work a hard day in your life, who has $109 million in the bank and pays Union-busters like Mark Penn as your chief strategist and who sits on the board of Walmart where goods sold come from China who has the nerve to tell them how they should see things. Pennsylvanians don't want to see the world through Hillary-eyes. They have their own, very good, understanding of it. And they are telling you loud and clear that they don't want you looking down your nose at them telling them how they should see the world.