Photoshop of the week: Typical liberal snob; Update: New Obama spin – “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 11, 2008 09:32 PM

A big thank you to reader Tennyson, who cooked up this fabulous photoshop that pushes back at small-town-trashing Barack Obama. All native-born, gun-owning, God-fearing, pro-immigration enforcement, pro-sovereignty Pennsylvanians are grateful to you, Tennyson! Yo, Barack. Get over yourself already:

snob.jpg

Keep spinnin’, pal. You’re going to land right back into the gutter, with your bowling ball. Video of Obama’s response to Snob-gate is now posted on his YouTube channel:

Transcript via Ambinder:

So I made this statement– so, here’s what rich. Senator Clinton says ‘No, I don’t think that people are bitter in Pennsylvania. You know, I think Barack’s being condescending.’ John McCain says, ‘Oh, how could he say that? How could he say people are bitter? You know, he’s obviously out of touch with people.’

“Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain—it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he’s saying I’m out of touch? Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt after taking money from the financial services companies, and she says I’m out of touch? No, I’m in touch. I know exactly what’s going on.

The hopelessness of audacity.

***

Congrats, Barry O: You’ve won Knee Deep in the Hooah’s Jackass of the Day Award.

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Update 11:20am Eastern 4/12: Obama in Indiana this morning is still spinning. He has ditched “cling” for “comfort,” and is clinging to the “bitter” part of his quotation to defend The Bitter Truth of his diss against small-town Pennsylvanians:

“I didn’t say it [as] well as I could have,” Obama confessed today during a town hall in Muncie, Ind., in response to the controversy he described as a “political flare-up because I said something that everyone knows is true.”

He then launched into a broad explanation of what he was trying to express: “There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry… So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.”

Ed Morrissey breaks down the dishonesty.

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  1. #285265
    On April 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm, JimC214 said:

    This whole speech translates into you are angry that the government isn’t helping you? Well elect me and I’ll fix everything and you won’t need to have those pesky old guns any more.

  2. #285269
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm, Ignatius Reilly said:

    LOL…I been thinkin’ for a while that that elevated chin thing of Obama’s was a political liability!

  3. #285270
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:05 pm, behiker said:

    So Obama said “…because I said something that everyone knows is true.” and he wants everyone to understand and give him a pass (and his followers will).

    Compare that to what Geraldine Ferraro said about Obama being in the position he was in only because he is black (another true statement), and they wanted her head.

    I thought I’d never say this, but I’ll take 4 more years of the Clintons over 10 seconds of Obama.

  4. #285275
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, letget said:

    Bho and wifeee have managed to degrade or insult almost every one but the muslims or Asians as far as I can tell. It’s early, with the way they are going, it won’t be long till they do. What a pair to draw to, gads. They make my skin crawl, no not a leg tingle.
    L

  5. #285279
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:40 pm, Jim M. said:

    Good thing the Constitution looks out for “bitter” people as well. Right to bear arms, freedom of religion, right to express greviences…

    But then again, according to BO, bitterness breeds ignorance and forces the less enlightened people of the world to cling to silly things like religion and Constitutional rights. It is a shame that he even has to pander to such primitive humans, especially they undoubtedly have little comprehension of what BO says. At least if he smiles at them and makes no sudden moves, the typical white rubes will see BO as a nice man.

    I’d bet that none of those hayseed, redneck, ignorant Pennsylvanians have any idea how much the price of arugula has gone up at Whole Foods. Hell, I’d also bet that most of them would even take a Philly cheesesteak over a piece of $100 per pound ham on a toothpick. Perhaps if they have the audacity to hope for change and elect BO, they will become less bitter, thereby increasing both their IQ’s and civilized demeanor.

  6. #285282
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:46 pm, Regulus said:

    Geraldine Ferraro was right. Any other candidate/spouse combo who’ve shot themselves in the foot this many times would’ve been toast by now; what keeps Obama going is that many people have hypnotized themselves into seeing him as a pigment-based symbol instead of as a man.

    But how much longer can the illusion last? Until after election day? At this rate, I don’t think so.

    So Hillary’s right, too: Obama can’t win the general. But who’s to keep him from the nomination now? Her? How? With a campaign slogan of, “It’s the Character, Stupid?”

    Hillary’s problem all along has been that whenever Obama commits an unforced error, she either saves him by committing a gaffe of her own, or can’t take advantage without looking like a Godzilla-sized hypocrite.

    2008 is beginning to look like a replay of 2004. The early Democrat favorite collapses, only this time not with a scream but a death-rattle. The nominee instead turns out to be another buyer’s remorse candidate like Kerry was. Result: a presidential election that was eminently winnable slips away again.

    At this rate, the election is McCain’s to lose. Assuming he wins, the bonus question becomes whether he’ll have any coat-tails: can he help the Republicans reduce their expected losses in Congress come November, or will he face a veto-proof Democrat majority?

  7. #285284
    On April 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pm, BrianNY said:

    Has anyone seen the HBO commercial for Bryant Gumbel’s sit-down with Obama yet?

    Obama claims to be quite a basketball player, and he discusses how it was an integral part of his youth and his connection with his father?

    Then he pulls that chin thing and claims that he could definitely beat GW at a game of one on one.

    Seeing that GW runs treadmill everyday and has the lowest heart rate of any US President, I would LOVE to see GW take Obama up on that game.

    After viewing the way he dances and bowls, I bet that Obama would refuse such a challenge. A potential loss to a full white man would be too much damage to the street cred that Obama has spent so much time and capital developing at Jeremiah Wright’s church over the past 23 years.

  8. #285303
    On April 12th, 2008 at 4:09 pm, brooklyn red said:

    So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.”

    or they get frustrated about how things are changing???

    Yeah, basically.

  9. #285327
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm, Mookie said:

    Flesner’s right.

    “You probably see more emotion in Iowa than you do in Arizona on this issue. I was in a town in Iowa, and twenty years ago there were no Hispanics in the town. Then a meatpacking facility was opened up. Now twenty per cent of their population is Hispanic. There were senior citizens there who were–’concerned’ is not the word. They see this as an assault on their culture, what they view as an impact on what have been their traditions in Iowa, in the small towns in Iowa. So you get questions like ‘Why do I have to punch 1 for English?’ ‘Why can’t they speak English?’ It’s become larger than just the fact that we need to enforce our borders.”

  10. #285330
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:09 pm, CC said:

    I’m just a typical, white, gun-toting, bitter, angry American who hates everything and am looking for a messiah to save me.

    I’m especially looking for the messiah who, just two years ago, admitted he was not experienced or qualified enough to run for the presidency. I suppose eighteen plus months of applying for the job now makes him qualified?

  11. #285341
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:32 pm, brooklyn red said:

    mookie, from this day on I refuse to punch 1… if they want my dollars, they can damn well act like it!

  12. #285348
    On April 12th, 2008 at 5:58 pm, flenser said:

    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, geminicontender said:

    Sorry flenser but I will not put McCain in the same category as Hussein….

    You should. McCain displays the exact same contempt for poor white Americans who live outside the cities and own guns as Obama does. Perhaps more. Obama is just saying what liberals say, without really thinking about it. McCain has thought about it, and then taken great relish in siding with the far left against us.

  13. #285349
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:10 pm, Hardhead said:

    Michelle and Barack Obama–now you’re talking about bitter people.

  14. #285355
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, 24Klady said:

    Baraka knows bitterness well. He looks into the face of bitterness every time he sits down to dinner with his wife. Funny how that can change a guy and his general outlook on the world. Coupled with his perceived abusive childhood he has a lot of issues to deal with. Why is he starting to remind me of Slick Willie? He felt your pain too. ;(

  15. #285359
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:32 pm, dakine said:

    BrianNY, Obama can ball. I was a year ahead of him at Punahou HS in Hawaii. Dubbya is a pretty good athlete, but Obama would kick his tail in hoops.

    bit_boy, wow you’re really right up against the line. Why don’t you just go ahead and say what you really want to say, and let’s see how quickly you get banned.

  16. #285360
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:34 pm, DBNinKY said:

    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, groundhunter said:

    Here is a must read at NRO.

    On April 12th, 2008 at 1:07 pm, katieanne said:

    Excellent article groundhunter. I’ll pass it around.

    I fully agree and recommend it highly! Also of interest is this article at Townhall.

  17. #285362
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:36 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Oops! I forgot this article as well.

  18. #285369
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:51 pm, Lucius Vorenus said:

    Have you guys seen the photographs of the fundraiser where the Bittergate comments were made?

    The visuals are rather stunning:

    Obama Visits Billionaires Row
    zombietime.com

    This blogger has tried to calculate the net worth of the Billionaires on Broadway Street:

    members.virtualtourist.com

    And audio of Bittergate is available here:

    admin.brightcove.com

  19. #285373
    On April 12th, 2008 at 6:57 pm, bloghooligan said:

    Tennyson, you should trademark that and upload that image to cafepress. you’ll make a mint! YaY for capitalism!!

  20. #285377
    On April 12th, 2008 at 7:08 pm, Armigerous said:

    Frankly I’m amazed that when he sat down with Bryant Gumbel and claimed he could beat GW at hoops, that he didn’t say something like “White men can’t jump”

  21. #285405
    On April 12th, 2008 at 7:55 pm, Speakup said:

    New Obama spin – “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

    When you’re someone like Barack who has no real leadership or experience credentials at all, what else do you have if you didn’t say it as well as you could have?

    When he blows the silver tongue devil shtick, he’s got noth’in.

  22. #285410
    On April 12th, 2008 at 7:59 pm, terrig said:

    Gee, an expensive prep school education (Punahou being the most expensive school on Oahu-guess we have others who have a lot of money too on this board), an Ivy League education and now he says “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”. Who is this idiot kidding? I sure wish we could send our kid to Punahou (if we move back to Ewa Beach but I don’t think they’d let you in there if you lived in Ewa Beach) but we’re just your typical white person, who goes to church and owns guns. What an a$$.

  23. #285430
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:17 pm, puhiawa said:

    Obamalitism is sinking the ship and the Captain is getting a bit testy.

  24. #285432
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:18 pm, puhiawa said:

    Lots of us Hawaiians on the thread today.

  25. #285434
    On April 12th, 2008 at 9:29 pm, TexasTiger said:

    “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

    =I didn’t think this would get out.

    Dubbya is a pretty good athlete, but Obama would kick his tail in hoops.

    That’s ’cause no one can backpedal as fast as Oh!b♥m♥. Plus Oh!b♥m♥ would put the rim at 15′ for 43…just to level the playing field.

  26. #285448
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, puhiawa said:

    “I didn’t say it as well as I could have” = “Where is the cover I have come to expect from the MSM? Where every idiocy Michelle and I mutter gets reported like it was an original thought, instead of retread Limousine Liberal BS?”

  27. #285455
    On April 12th, 2008 at 10:19 pm, Marshall Russ said:

    The MSM will be all over the non-apology apology. All the news shows should be interesting tomorrow. The bottom line will be “it’s Bush’s fault”.

  28. #285471
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:14 pm, almeehan said:

    I’m into guns and have my faith, precisely because of dangerous, clueless people like him who threaten my life, my family and my country.
    He would make a good Zimbabwean.

  29. #285472
    On April 12th, 2008 at 11:15 pm, behiker said:

    I’m amazed, I just saw a report on this on my local ABC 11:00 news in Richmond, VA. And it didn’t make Obama look very good.

  30. #285486
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am, behiker said:

    Obama said… “If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that,” Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.

    “IF”? “IF”? Why can’t this guy say “I offended people with my comments, I’m sorry”.

    I’m beginning to fear the damage he could do to this country as much as I did/do fear what algore would do.

    Guess I’m just a typical white person, but I need to go to bed so I can get up early to go to church in the morning.

  31. #285513
    On April 13th, 2008 at 3:35 am, puhiawa said:

    LOL. Obama makes Bush seem tone deaf.He is SOOOO clueless.

  32. #285563
    On April 13th, 2008 at 7:47 am, cf said:

    Really incredible — with the nuthouse church Obama belongs to, & he has the nerve to ridicule churches in Pennsylvania.

  33. #285574
    On April 13th, 2008 at 8:11 am, iamsaved said:

    Foxnews kept asking its listeners to respond to a survey to indicate whether or not they found Obama’s comments offensive. Personally, I didn’t find them offensive, but rather enlightening as to the make-up of this man.

    One thing I noticed is Barack Obama must not consider himself very religious as he doesn’t find his rascist church’s doctrines worth clinging to.

    His statement also let me know without a doubt his stance on the 2nd Amendment.

    My question is, what does he cling to? What does he hold as precisous to him? Power? Prestige? Money?

    I wonder who he is talking to when he makes condescending statements like that? It must be a small minority of people who are still bitter about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the Midwest 25 years ago. Most people evenually accept the fact and move on with their lives. Those who are still wallowing in self-pity are the same ones waiting for the government to come and rescue them – sort of like many of the Katrina victims.

    If you really want to see arogance at it’s pinnacle, watch Michele Obama if she becomes First Lady.

  34. #285589
    On April 13th, 2008 at 9:15 am, ajmontana said:

    cf said:
    Really incredible — with the nuthouse church Obama belongs to, & he has the nerve to ridicule churches in Pennsylvania.

    exactly, obama is high. still.

  35. #285592
    On April 13th, 2008 at 9:51 am, Dimsdale said:

    Obama is a lawyer, supposedly a fairly good one, given his election (?) to editor of the Harvard Law Review (even without publishing in it himself).

    For lawyers, words are the tools of their craft. You know the old legal saying, “never ask a question for which you don’t already know the answer.”

    So how come the Obamas make such egregious and elitist gaffes? Occam’s Razor demands that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one, and as such, it follows that the Obamas ARE elitist snobs who got much of what they have via means that did not involve their personal skills or abilities.

    How can anyone say that BHO was a good lawyer? Is there a trail of court battles we can look at? Of course, the exact same thing can be said of Hillary.

    They are both portrayed as the best, the brightest, the most capable, the most experience, and then they make the ameteurish mistakes of the most inexperienced tyro, a sure sign that everything has been spoon fed to them all of their lives because of who they are and not what they can do, and when push comes to shove, they stumble.

    I think they call that an empty (pant)suit.

  36. #285594
    On April 13th, 2008 at 10:09 am, DaveC said:

    Dimsdale #13:

    that sums it up nice..

  37. #285597
    On April 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am, jim m said:

    So, Michelle has now become a Communist/Socialist and demands that everyone must be equal in America irrespective of their hard work and education? The US is a meritocracy–the best people go to the best schools and get the best jobs. That’s the way it is.

    Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

  38. #285613
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:20 am, Jim M. said:

    Again, there are two people here that use “Jim M” – I use caps for the first letters of my name and the evil one uses small letters.

  39. #285618
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:27 am, TexasTiger said:

    Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

    Jim M:
    It’s sweeter than that. She got into Princeton because her brother was a star hoopster for the Tigers. In other words, she was a LEGACY–the same term semi-literate liberals use to smear 43 in reference to his admission to Yale.

  40. #285620
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am, TexasTiger said:

    Oops. Sorry, Jim M.

  41. #285624
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am, radio relay said:

    Hey, “evil jim m”! Here’s a clue…

    The ivy league schools discriminate against Asians. Seems that Asians believe in hard work and actual scholarship to get their good grades. That’s not popular with the bitter elites

  42. #285627
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am, gandolphxx said:

    If you want to have a fun jolt for the morning – Halp us Brak… – it really a nice takeoff on the Kary fiasco.

  43. #285630
    On April 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am, Marshall Russ said:

    Well, the talking heads are trying to explain what Obambi really meant when he said what he said. What they are not saying is that Hillary is staying in the race because of this very reason. He is going to self destruct beyond help if he has not already done so. I for one am glad she is. The MSM will not be able to ignore his total ineptitude and hide his incompetence as long as Hillary is screeching about it.

  44. #285635
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, 3Steps said:

    I am bitter.

    /and a Christian
    //and a gun owner
    ///and against Shamnesty
    ////But then.. there wasn’t a chance in heck I was ever going to vote for him anyway.

  45. #285648
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pm, Bob1234 said:

    As one born and raised in small-town Pennsylvania a long time ago, I can assure you that many of the folks there are religious, and many are strong supporters of Second Amendment gun rights. But, those attitudes are definitely not the result of “bitterness” resulting from economic setbacks, as he suggests. They existed long before the factories moved away. I doubt there is, by and large, any more “bitterness” among Pennsylvanians than among folks anywhere.

    And, coming from someone who has sat through 20 years of Wright’s sermons oozing with insane bitterness of Herculean proportions, the irony of his comment is overwhelming!

  46. #285651
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm, SHoward said:

    “jim m,”

    Are you talking about our lovely and gracious hostess, or Michelle Obama?

    Inquiring minds want to know…..

  47. #285659
    On April 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm, Travis McGee said:

    I’m going to cling to my guns until Barack sends somebody to pry it from my cold dead hands.

  48. #285661
    On April 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm, brentano said:

    The leftist equivalent of religion = knee jerk darwinism & global warming mythology.

    The leftist equivalent of guns = kangaroo courts and “human rights committees” as weapons to shut down speech that threatens you.

    Oh, and you don’t know the meaning of bitter until you’ve come face to face with a typical democrat.

  49. #285684
    On April 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm, txvet2 said:

    I just don’t understand what everybody’s so exercised about. It’s not as if he called somebody something derogatory, like “macaca”. After all, every liberal knows that rural and small town people are all inbred and stupid, easily led by their preachers and KKK bosses.

  50. #285705
    On April 13th, 2008 at 2:46 pm, Helene said:

    I grew up in small-town in western PA when the steel mills were downsizing. The economy was fragile then and is fragile now. Some people were/are bitter ata the job loss. Others moved on.
    Obama appears to be speaking from experience. His minister is bitter. His wife is bitter. This bitterness may actually be coloring his comments now.
    People in PA are not a bunch of knuckle-dragging, gun totin’, snuff dippin’, crazed, bitter people supporting dubiouis churches.

  51. #285740
    On April 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, Dimsdale said:

    brentano said:

    Oh, and you don’t know the meaning of bitter until you’ve come face to face with a typical democrat.

    I think you left out “hateful,” if liberal blogs are any indication. Ignorant is probably apropos as well.

  52. #285838
    On April 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm, jim m said:

    I’m talking about our hostess, Michelle Malkin. You know, the one that got into Oberlin (okay, it’s technically a mini-Ivy, not a full blown Ivy) probably because she was Asian.

  53. #285851
    On April 13th, 2008 at 6:53 pm, terrig said:

    Again Jim M, is Oberling the only stinking college in this country? There are not other colleges and universities?

  54. #285853
    On April 13th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, terrig said:

    Sorry, should be Oberlin-

  55. #285870
    On April 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm, terrig said:

    Mea culpa again to Jim M, should be jim m.

  56. #286030
    On April 14th, 2008 at 12:44 am, Dimsdale said:

    “little” (lowercase?) jim m said:

    Michelle must be bitter because she’s a failure even though she peobably got into her Ivy League college through affirmative action.

    I hardly see Ms. Malkin as a “failure,” particularly as she is so successful at tweaking the noses of liberals such as yourself (the truth really does hurt).

    It is amusing to watch little jim m try to turn the observations of elitism in the Obamas against Ms. Malkin. Yet it is Ms. Obama that complains about the country that allowed her to achieve her success, while Ms. Malkin does nothing but praise it. Ms. Obama is the one crying that she just can’t make it on her (their) enormous incomes, yet I hear nothing remotely analogous in Ms. Malkin’s writings.

    It is BHO that belittles people with beliefs he does not share, imperiously declaring that their religious beliefs, their beliefs in the Second Amendment etc., are aberrant products of their economic problems, as if they are going to go out on some sort of religious shooting spree. To listen to Ms. Obama’s tales of woe, you might then expect her to be toting a Colt Python!! And these two are hardly in a position to be criticizing other’s religious beliefs and churches.

    To address another little jim m point: in my years at different Boston area colleges, I have never found Affirmative Action programs directed to Asian students (including Far East and Southeast Asians). For whatever reason, these programs are primarily directed towards blacks and Spanish speaking students. If that is racist, then you need to speak to the directors of said programs, but the fact remains: Ms. Malkin is unlikely to have even been considered, much less the recipient, of such a program. If it is different at Oberlin or elsewhere, then please provide that information, or, if you have information specific to Ms. Malkin, this is the place to present it.

    Otherwise, you are just sucking wind, as we used to say back in the eighties.

    I, for one, don’t need some racial animus to criticize either of the Obamas: their words and actions are sufficient to that task.

  57. #286108
    On April 14th, 2008 at 7:38 am, DaveC said:

    On April 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm, jim m said:

    I’m talking about our hostess, Michelle Malkin. You know, the one that got into Oberlin (okay, it’s technically a mini-Ivy, not a full blown Ivy) probably because she was Asian.

    small jim m.. even if I go by what you say and that MM DID get into Oberlin because she is Asian..

    So did a lot of other people too.. And what have they done with their lives? Did they sit back and expect the money train to arrive because they have a fancy degree?

    MM has drive and determination.. started two (count them, 2) successful websites, author, and you can check out her resume to see what else she has done..

    it is what you do in life.. not where you went to school..

  58. #286445
    On April 14th, 2008 at 11:18 am, Tennyson said:

    Hello. I finally got a chance to register here, and I want to thank all of you for your kind comments about the SNOBama poster.

    Many thanks to Michelle Malkin for putting it on her site, and for making it available through the Hot Air store.

    Thanks also to everyone who picked it up and posted it elsewhere. This is my first attempt at political cartooning and now I’m thinking it might not be my last.

    The most encouraging thing is the discovery that I’m not alone in my assessment of this candidate. I don’t appreciate the disparagement of my fellow citizens and am very grateful to have the opportunity to fight back.

  59. #287730
    On April 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm, j2k4real said:

    Makes sense, Obama, the guy who gave up a lucrative law career to work for indigent citizens in Chicago is the elitist, nope.. not the Clintons and their 100 million dollar bank account and dirty back door deals.. right.. wow.. if I would expect anyone to see through a Clinton lie it would be here, but I guess it’s now convenient to use her fabrications when they can be used to shoot down the best candidate the Dems have… sad sad sad… the fact that instead of dealing with the issues we now sit back and wait for someone to misspeak and jump all over it. Mind you, he could have said he was dodging sniper fire as he built his 35 years of political experience (despite in office for < 10).

  60. #287742
    On April 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm, j2k4real said:

    I think you left out “hateful,” if liberal blogs are any indication. Ignorant is probably apropos as well.

    And right wing sites are statues of virtue to educated discussion covering such learned topics of: Obama is a secret Muslim plant who eats babies, Democrats hating America, and other assorted rubbish. If Democrats hated America, it would cease to exist since they account for roughly half of the political spectrum, and I won’t waste my time here discussing the ridiculous rumors that get spread in the blogosphere about Obama. Its wrong when people do this to McCain and its wrong when they do it to Obama. Period.

  61. #287872
    On April 15th, 2008 at 1:58 am, purealchemy said:

    Barack and Michelle are in desperate need of diversity training so they won’t offend white people every time they open their mouths.
    What he needs to do is show that he understands why certain, people are offended but it doesn’t seem like he has the life experience to support that. He should have to go live with the Amish for awhile. ;o)
    p.s. my first time here

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