Pennsylvanians won't cling to stupidity

[dancingme]

By John Baer
Philadelphia Daily News

Daily News Political Columnist

SOME THOUGHTS on the latest diversion of Campaign '08, a campaign apparently hell-bent on keeping the nation mired in its own stupidity.

As a native-born, small-town Pennsylvanian, a son of native-born, small-town Pennsylvania parents - one from the coal region, one from Lancaster County - let me assure you that the so-called offensive, condescending things Barack Obama said about the people I come from are basically right on target.

"Bitter" perhaps best describes my late mother, an angry Irish Catholic who absolutely clung to her religion.

Dad, also a journalist, wasn't really bitter as far as I know, but he sure liked to hunt.

.... What's offensive to me is suggesting that small-town, working-class, gun-toting and/or religious Pennsylvanians are somehow injured by a politician's words.

Are you kidding me?

They're injured all right, but the injury is long-term and from lots more than "just words."

They've been injured from decades of neglect by political cultures in Washington and Harrisburg driven by special interests.

They're injured by a system of isolated, insulated political leadership that protects itself and the status quo above all else.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080414_John_Baer__Decades_of_working-class_neglect_-_now_that_s_insulting.html?submit=Vote&17657034=Y&oid=2&mr=1&cid=8500281&pid=17657034

[Moderate-Democrate]

1. Obama got caught and from his angle small towners are dumb

That is who is really is and that is what he thinks of us small town people.

[Armstead]

2. You might actually read the column

[dancingme]

5. why read and be educated?

no need to open their minds.

[Symarip]

3. Oh Noes!!!11

Keep that feigned outrage fire burning bright.

[thevoiceofreason]

6. Read rocketman

[mqbush]

When people feel good about their inclusion in a

national neighborhood, feel good about what their country does in the world, they then don't feel they're being looked down on, insulted. It's insecurity, exascerbated by all the Limbaughs saying that those Commie big-city elitists are trying to take away your guns and your religion and make you marry a gay dope fiend. If all the Limbaughs got laryngitis, and the economy improved, small-towners would become secure again, and go back to good-natured jokes about city-slickers instead of paranoid melodramas.

-from someone who has always lived in small, sometimes VERY small, towns

[rug]

4. That explains why Obama is losing Pennsylvania.

[Lugnut]

7. It ain't over 'til it's over.

We don't vote here until Apr 22nd.

[rug]

11. I'm in Pike County. Where are you voting?

[Lugnut]

15. Luzerne Co

[JTFrog]

8. Right. Because when speculation first began on PA "before" he said this, he was down twenty points.

Now he's down by single digits. :eyes:


Thanks for pointing out the obvious; another opposite day in Hillary world! :crazy:

[rug]

12. A loss is a win. Whose world is that?

[JTFrog]

14. No one has lost or won yet.

Tho Hillary has been prematurely counting those chickens from day 1.

Was there another "that" you were referencing besides the OP? Because your calling "that" the explanation for Obama being behind in PA is not factual or reality based. But then not much in HillaryWorld is.

[Zodiak]

9. Yes it sure does explain why

Because Obama making up a 20 point loss into a 6 point loss can all be explained away by the last 5 days of controversy even though this campaign has been going on for a month.

There is no movement in the polls...this "bittergate" crap didn't work.

Find another one-liner...one that is not so chronologically challenged and doesn't ignore the polls.

[rug]

13. I would take the time to answer but I'm late for church.

[1776Forever]

10. Says it all!

They've been injured from decades of neglect by political cultures in Washington and Harrisburg driven by special interests.

:kick: