Snob-ama disses pro-gun, religious, anti-illegal immigration activists in Penn.
Typical liberal elitist: Obama serves up another gutterball
Before I get to Barack Obama’s snobbish, condescending, and arrogant comments about small-town Pennsylvania, I wanted to share a little more about my visit to Harrisburg last week.
As I mentioned, I was up in Pennsylvania to speak to Real Alternatives, an inspiring non-profit charity that provides alternatives to abortion for young women in crisis pregnancies. The group has its roots in historic, early support from the late, pro-life Democrat governor, Bob Casey.
“Our business is to fight the poison of hopelessness with love,” Gov. Casey told counselors and volunteers at the first PA Alternative to Abortion Services Program Banquet. Real Alternatives encompasses a statewide network of social service agencies, pregnancy support centers, maternity residences and adoption agencies that offer comprehensive, life-affirming alternatives to abortion to women dealing with unplanned pregnancies. They’ve served more than 135,000 women since 1996–receiving just a fraction of the money that the massively taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood abortion empire receives.
At the RA annual banquet last week, I met volunteers and counselors from all walks of life–black, white, Latino, Catholic, Republican, independent, young, and old. I noted that while Beltway blowhards bloviate about hope and change, they were true agents of hope and change. I was moved by the tireless spirit and enthusiasm of Real Alternatives’ president and CEO, Kevin Bagatta. I met his mom, his wife, new baby, his son, his office mates, former co-workers, counselors from across the Keystone State, other pro-life activists from Texas and Maryland who are on a similar mission. This army of compassion has succeeded against enormous odds. They are doing God’s work–and their success is being replicated across the country.
When I think of “small-town Pennsylvania,” I think of the people of faith and fortitude I met last week–with open hearts, big smiles, and
a boundless belief in the ability to help others, even on a shoestring budget and a steep political incline.
Which brings me to Obama. A HuffPo writer reports that during a fund-raiser with wealthy San Francisco liberals, Obama (now Snob-ama) said the following:
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama said. “And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Now, we don’t need to guess anymore what he’s thinking when he’s on the campaign trail in rural and small-town Pennsylvania. Instead of hard-working, patriotic, faithful Americans, he sees “bitter,” “frustrated,” resentful scary people whom he’ll readily diss while sipping Chardonnay in Baghdad by the Bay.
A real man of the people, that Barack “37” Obama, ain’t he?
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Zombie has exclusive photos of Obama’s visit to SF’s Billionaires’ Row. It’s where he feels most at home:
Typical Democrat elitists.
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Update: Via Allah, the McCain campaign is finally willing to bring down the hammer on Obama.
Update: The Other McCain smells a strong whiff of Eau de Marxism.
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As I just said to Michelle: What an imperious twerp racist he is. He sees McCain and feels his entitlement to the presidency slipping away.
No way to spin that… it’s all over for him.
What has wifeee had to say? My gosh these people are unbelievable. God help America if this man is elected.
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Why, those poor rednecks probably didn’t even know the price of arugula at Whole Foods!
Get the word out on that to small town America! How disrespectful and rude. He really is out of touch with most Americans which is why I cannot understand why anyone would vote for him.
All my life I have never been rich, well heeled, what have you… but I always carry my being raised in Philadelphia and outstate PA with pride. living in MN, I find the same snobbery and entitlement attitude here that I sense in B. Hussein Obama and his wife.. While in the “wilderness” again, I am proud that I don’t express bitterness and frustration and that I still am patriotic, hopeful…. and a conservative with objectivist leanings.
Michelle, thanks for always being there.
Ummmm…
….The Emperor has no clothes.
Was Oh!b♥m♥ referring to Jeremiad Wright here?
He didn’t say anything that wasn’t true in a macro sense. Places that are permanently losing jobs tend to be anti-free trade and anti illegal immigration.
Shouldn’t towns with unemployment problems be bitter? Wouldn’t you be bitter?
Of course, this only highlights both Democratic candidates’ hypocrisy on the trade issue. In places dealing with unemployment like Ohio and Michigan, free trade is bad. Around a wealthier crowd, free trade is good.
Sorry, Senators Obama and Clinton. Can’t have this one both ways.
# 6
Thanks and ditto.
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We need advice from someone dumb of ear for two decades while the racist Rev. Wright ranted? Mr. Obama doesn’t know squat about my state, Pennsylvania.
He’s correct, to some extent, for far too many here (especially in the nanny cities) settled for government’s cradle-to-grave hand me little down. It sucks but it is a lively — barely. Yet employment and opportunity are here for those who strive and live by no other man’s persmission.
Go home, Mr. Obama, and back to sleep in your pew.
What an insult! Like people living in blue counties don’t own guns? Does Obama know the crime rates there?
Religion? Maybe he is a closet atheist after all!
People who aren’t like them? What is that supposed to mean? If he’s referring to Hispanics, many of them have strong family values, just like stereotypical rural families do.
In reverse:
It’s not surprising to me how urban liberals get rid of religion, which they see as the cause of all the world’s problems (except Islam and paganism, of course) and the biggest impediment to their secular world where churches are replaced with museums and cold, metal and plastic stem-cell laboratories to give Hollywood stars and their relations immortality.
So they adopt to life in the fast lane that includes sex, drugs, abortion. It’s a place where whites hate themselves for stealing land from the natives and for making blacks slaves. Restitution MUST be made, but as long as someone else is doing the sacrificing, and it CAN’T be the Saudis or emirs who STARTED slavery, because that would make me, the liberal, an Islamophobe!
Not I the liberal! Can’t give up my MP3 player or private school education! It’s those darned, corporate greedy republicans who need to pay up!
And immigration? We need that for HUMANISM. That’s our cover story! But really, we need it so we can have a tax-base for a big government that takes care of me so I don’t have to be responsible, and that way, I don’t have to have kids and get peanut-butter prints on the seats of my non-hybrid Lexus. But those republicans had better drive a Prius! GRRRR!!!
Guns? Well, it’s the NRA’s fault crime is so high! All those hunters in red counties in North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana and Wisconsin are responsible for all the crime!
See how STUPID that sounded? Just like Obama’s words.
I live in a relative small town in Michigan.. Wow.. that’s why I feel so bitter..
Thanks, Messiah..
/sarc off..
that says volumes for what he thinks of the ‘chattel’.. and conservatives especially..
he’ll only spend time with the morlocks as long has he has too.. then it back to the airy surface for him..
What an arrogant, condescending jerk.
Barack Hussein Obama (D-Summer’s Eve)
Typical politician.
…clinging to my gun out here…
I grew up in small town Pennsylvania (less than 30,000 total) where our schools were top notch, had 3 PhDs as teachers in high school and 98% of my H.S. graduating class went on to higher education. The work ethic was tantamount. Personal responsibility was bred into us from toddlerhood on. Very patriotic and independent. Good Quaker/Scots Irish stock whose ancestors have been serving this country and fighting for freedom since before the Revolutionary War. Even when the collapse of the steel industry left my town with close to 30% unemployment, it never destroyed their spirit. Excuse the trite phrasing, but when the chips are down, small town Pennsylvanians take the bull by the horns and keep on keepin’ on. They have incredible resilience because their lives are built on solid core values.
Not necessarily, it all depends on the person.. but then, I’m looking at the individual.. not the group..
as far as the illegal immigration issue.. I know lots of people who want to secure the borders from all points of the spectrum.. to say it is for a bitter small town minded folk is the same sort of small town minded folk thing to do
Illegal Immigration is the new slave trade for big business and anyone in government who wants a house cleaner to work for 15,000 because they can’t stand to see someone work for minimum wage..
My, yes, he’ll be a real “man of the people.” I think I smell a fraud… my, I’m sure those “small town Pennsylvanians” would be so appreciative to hear someone who has gone to private and Ivy League schools for their education talk down to them like that.
What a demeaning, condescending POS he is!
Then, again, I come from your “typical, middle class white family” so what would I know about it?
Ha-ha Michelle, it’s a Subaru! Where were you? Of course the Organic Pampers bumpersticker is the giveaway… (I think that’s what it says.) Actually it only looks like a “Hippie car” in that neighborhood.
Getty, isn’t that Big Oil? Enemy of the People and Cheney’s best friends? Did he rip $110 a barrel oil in his private talks in there?
Well, he almost bowled his age. I couldn’t do that until I was 9…in the third frame.
McCain talking about Obama being out of touch with average Americans is irony at its finest.
Spot on!
When I read this, I couldn’t help but think he was describing some of the regular commentors here at MM.
Here in Wisconsin, our business climate sucks and we’re a pretty blue state. You know why? Not because we’re Bible-thumping, gun-totin’, backwater illiterate hicks. Because the DEMOCRATS who run this state have taxed and regulated businesses into bankruptcy. In his years as Governor, Jim Doyle and his Democratic cronies have caused untold damage because of their liberal tax-and-spend policies, their loathing of “big business” and “excessive profits” and their redistributionist mentality.
Case in point: One business owner was interested in expanding her business here. She made repeated phone calls to different bureaucracies to get permits to buy the land next to her business and build. After months of dealing with rude and incompetent government workers, she received ONE phone call…from a government employee offering to help her pack up her business and move her out of the state.
Bitter? Hell yes, I am.
But where conservative values of independence, free market capitalism, and rewarding hard work usurp liberal feel-good economic policies, business tends to flourish. I can show you many examples.
Obama’s comment is not true in the remotest sense. What he’s knocking are hard-working people screwed over not by corporations, but a government that loathes when their companies make a profit.
Clearly, he thinks if we eschew our religious beliefs, our Second Amendment rights, and our vision of national security and soveriegnity, and follow his messianic vision for America, it’ll all be great!
Wrong, Mr. Obama.
TOS..
You have a rather narrow minded view of the people on here.. it might even border on being bigoted..
The trolls are out early today. Must have cashed their payday loans and knocked back a few forties already.
I just watched Bob Beckel affirm the following on FNC:
1. There ARE a lot of bitter people in PA.
2. They DO tend to “take it out on illegal immigration”.
Wow. You folks from PA sound like a bunch of “Typical White People”. I mean, Beckel IS one of the most honest pundits out there, right?
Right.
In other words, vote for me, give up all your constitutional rights, and you will be happy.
What a maroon!!I mean a real Maroon!!
One of the reasons that the jobs don’t come back is the anti-industry perspective of the left. As a nation, the USA has been in a de-industrialization binge for a number of decades. Between environmental, health and safety, and EEO regulations, many “dirty”, “unhealthy” and “men only” industries, like the old steel industry in Pittsburgh, PA, have been driven oversees. (Services industries just don’t require skilled labor and special training – and the pay is accordingly low.)
Obama trashes the very people who he and his leftists have victimized. This, of course, is the typical blame anybody but yourself approach that is so consistent with liberals. Scream racist, scream sexist, scream more, but never admit it was your mistake in the first place. And the media, being dominated by the left, conveniently hides the truth or shifts the blame to somebody else, particularly conservatives.
Au contraire. Physicians, dentists, bankers, brokers and IT professions are members of the service sector and are paid quite well.
Actually, Sen. Obama, we’re “clinging to our guns” in case your Marxist vision for this nation becomes a reality. We’re gonna need them then.
“Don’t pay him no never-mind, that’s just the liberalism talkin.”
Obama’s openly-expressed condescension and contempt for small-town America is akin to that of my moonbat sister, who refers to anyone living outside the Portland metro area as “rednecks” and spends most of her time hanging out with other self-anointed snobs in Portland who talk the same way.
It’s easy to get lazy when you get too used to saying what you really think “among friends.” A key weakness for both of the Obamas is that they’ve become so used to being surrounded by sycophants that they’re letting their guard down: hence the off-hand remarks about “Being proud of my country for the first time in my adult life,” or “A typical white person,” and now this.
If I were Obama, at this point I’d assign a campaign staffer to “Mirandize” me and my ingrate wife before any public appearance:
“You have the right to remain silent. If you choose to give up that right, any ignorant, bigoted or moronic thing you blurt out without thinking can and will be picked up by the blogosphere and used against you…”
TOS/Barry:
It’s just the way us typical ole white folk get along. Like the scenes in Borat – that is small town America – doncha know?
Thought you were safe among your racist, effete, divisive friends and nobody would ever hear what you said? Even for a politician you are a sorry excuse for a human being. Better go polish up another speech about unifying us peons.
The Obamessiah can kiss my Pennsylvanian, gun lovin’ God fearing ass. We don’t need his snobby type around these parts anyway.
Rusty #9: We are not bitter around here. You know not of what you speak. This part of the country built what America is. Sorry if you don’t think we are as enlightened as the rest of the country. Maybe we don’t want illegal immigrants because we have a hard enough time taking care of our own without having to take care of others.
Piss off troll
More ammo for Operation Chaos. I love it.
Hitler, too, charmed the rich industrialists. Obama is a fraud.
That’s interesting. In my small Illinois town people are trying to cling to freedom, the Constitution, and the law.
This guy wants to dictate so many things that it threatens the basis of the foundation of the country. Really, the last thing we need is a Chicago machine politician in the White House.
Typical Chicago attitude. Small towns overlooked by the politicians all the time.
That’s 2 times today I posted something right after another person. Delos World, Born and raised in Springfield. Can Gov. Bag-O-Chips point that out on a map of Illinois? I’d pay to see that, he’d probably break his fingers trying to pull his hair out.
You’ve got to be quick on the trigger around here Ansell.
It’s almost Darwinian!
LOL
What, you aren’t happy that you got high-speed tolling with I-Pass?
Unfortunately, it is true … it is true for people of African descent, too. Like small town America, other segments of our society decry what others have done to them, vice accepting responsibility and taking action to better themselves. It is easier to point a finger outwardly instead of at one self.
What would be interesting is if Sen Obama said something similar about people of African descent. Wait a minute … he did, in that speach on race. He acknowledged that all of us have our axes to grind and that we readily find fault, have greivances, and must attempt to move beyond these perceptions, real or imagined.
Yep, it is easier to blame others. But, sometimes we blame the wrong people.
Que?
snob-ama did not say “anti illegal immigration”. He sad anti imigration sentiment. I’m not against standing in line like everybody else. I’m just agaisnt cutting in line illegally.
What a chameleon our Obama is. He can blend into any crowd he finds himself in. Black, white, poor, elite, bowlers, well, maybe not bowlers. But he sure knows what to say to make everybody happy. Guess he never thought that folks would find out what he says about THEM when they aren’t around. Kind of makes you wonder how well he would blend in with the Iranians he so badly wants to talk with.
I guess we need to figure out how to be victims too instead of God fearing knuckle dragging self reliant gun toting xenophobic racists. After all they are the ones that get all the breaks, all the government money, a free ride in the most prestigious seats of academia, and free medical care from the local emergency room paid for by “Big Daddy” government. It’s just not the Obamination that is out of step and out of touch with the average American “she who must not be named” and the grumpy old man are no better.
# 48 “sad” should be “said”.
Stark contrast.
Just because we cling to religion, guns, and are anti-(illegal) immigration doesn’t mean we’re bitter.
Meanwhile, the fund-raiser in Atherton was at the home of Sohaib Abbasi and his wife. Born in Pakistan, he came to the US, went to U. Illinois, later worked at Oracle. He and his wife gave $2.5 million to Stanford University “to establish and endow a new Program in Islamic Studies”.
I guess it’s OK for a rich Pakistani (disclaimer, don’t know if he’s a citizen or not) to fund a US Presidential hopeful…
Just ‘typical white people’ there in PA. Elitist bastard Hussein.
Hussein=Wright=converted Muslim? hmmmmmm!!!!
Gemini, see #53.
Does Chicago have any madrasas similar to those in MN? And Hussein Obama….any connections thereof?
I wonder how those Iowans feel now about their choice? Rubes!
Well if he is going to get rid of guns I suggest he start with his body guards.
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Yup, thought so
Since someone told me to “piss off,” let me explain myself.
Out of all the coastal elitist Democrats, I assure you I’m probably the friendliest towards conservatives on guns and immigration that you’ll find.
That being said, I know of what I speak. You think Obama and Clinton were anti free trade in Ohio and Michigan (for Clinton anyways) for the Hell of it? No. Those are Midwestern states where the number one priority is getting their jobs back. So of course free trade and immigration are going to be important issues. And, what do you know, polling shows that to be the case.
I was very careful to qualify my statement with the word “macro.” Everyone has their reasons to think what they think. But certain beliefs are held more strongly in certain areas of the country.
If you really want to nail Obama, nail his hypocrisy in being anti free trade in Ohio and supporting it elsewhere. I thought that shameful. Also shameful: Senator Clinton was no better. My party is pandering and it’s sickening.
Notice how these liberal collectivists never talk about American values, liberty, freedom … It’s all about them and their quest for power. I wonder why all the people want to come to America — Obambi thinks it is to wait in his soup lines.
Democrats, raise taxes, fund socialism and gun control — Fit the parts together for yourself.
Real mature.
I think we conservatives have every right to be a little bitter.
Liberals tax the wealthy and call it “fair redistribution of wealth”.
Liberals tax and regulate business into the ground (or out of the country) and consider it “good economic policy” while they wonder why unemployment goes up or wages go down.
Liberals take our guns and call it “public safety” while gangs and criminals are put into a revolving-door prison system.
Liberals fight against immigration laws and give benefits to immigrants that my husband and I will never see (like social security).
Liberals bail out irresponsible homeowners while folks like us will probably only dream of ever owning our own home.
Liberals call families with three new cars, a home, and business “poor” and in need of taxpayer funded insurance.
Liberals also call families with nice homes and things “exceedingly wealthy” and say they must “share their piece of the pie.”
Liberals hate traditional religion and work hard to remove it from the public sphere.
Liberals endorse the murder of 1.3 million unborn children and call it “choice”. Liberals like Obama don’t even consider a child born – ALIVE – after a botched abortion human and worthy of medical treatment.
Liberals endorse the “humane” murder of the disabled (via “euthanasia”) and call it “progress” and “compassion”. Obama called his vote on the Terri Schaivo matter the “biggest regret” of his career.
Liberals pander to terrorist nations and call it “foreign policy” while they forsake national security.
Liberals let their moonbat contingent smear our troops and violate our laws and call it “free speech”.
So perhaps we are a little miffed at what folks like Obama and his constituents want for, do to, and have done to America.
Then he has the nerve to speak out of both sides of his mouth:
But I think it’s justified. Don’t you?
Jason Lewis was in place for El Rushbo today. Interesting point was made regarding why immigrants (legal & illiegal) come here. Very many for the work I am sure. Many also for the ‘free’ handouts as a ’socialist’ society would be. There is nothing, nothing about being an American anymore. This diversity crap is what is destroying our nation and our ideals because everyone is a ’seperatist’. Rome fell for similar reasons…..
People need to come here with an undeniable desire to be American and live how Americans live. That is disappearing quickly
Short Obama:
“You know what really bugs me about small towns? All those typical white people.”
The pictures told a million words or $dollar$ for those who followed the link, it was more like $3,000,000!
No thank you. This guy is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
And therein lies the Freudian slip.
1) anti-immigration: The gubmint is determined to ram amnesty thru in spite of 2/3 to 3/4 of Americans being against it. Rationale-these small-minded folks don’t know what’s good for them, hence we will not pander to this bias. Never mind that wages have stagnated and compromised identities.
2) anti-trade: The gubmint just derailed the Columbia trade deal because 1/4 to 1/3 of Americans are against free-trade. Rationale-the People have spoken and we must do their will. Never mind that the economy and employment has thrived under free trade.
See the irony? According to Obambi, anti-trade is so provincial, so why did he and company scramble to gut it, yet stands resolute against the small-mindedness of anti-immigration? I’m guessing all his hot air on trade is just pandering as he has no intention of slowing trade.
Come to think of it, didn’t his staff recently tell Canada to pay no mind to the rhetoric? Didn’t Slick recently tell Columbia to invest in Democratic consultants to help push trade forward? If only we had a real conservative nominee that could pound Obambi into the dirt with straight talk. I won’t hold my breath for McVain to step up to the plate, but he can’t lest he flip-flops.
As for clinging to religion, it’s now plain as to why he and Michelle cling to Charlatan Wright – because they’re bitter and frustrated with the “lack” of progress in race relations. Things such as long overdue reparations, govt sponsored AIDS/Crack poisoning & modern day Jim Crow victimization.
Thanks for the explanation Mohbambi.
Obama Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot, Then Shoots Foot.
Obama just sees Typical White People.
Thanks Michelle.
I wonder if Obama will pick up a fly rod and particpate with the rest of us “bitter,” “frustrated,” resentful scary people to open the first day of trout season tomorrow?
Maybe this is what he really meant:
Obama….the boy who put the ninny back in pickaninny
It’s really quite simple. Obama Wants You To Cling to Government, Not Religion.
#73
Perfect — I always wondered what that meant.
What a condescending, smarmy ass.
Englishqueen,
When I made my original statement, I did not have you in mind, as I generally appreciate your posts. However, your free and adamant admission of bitterness, coupled with your stringent postings on said issues, seem to validate my point better than I could have.
Heb 12:14-15
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
#23 said:
That’s a stretch. Especially when one compares their American experiences and service (including that pesky “war hero” thing.)
Let me ask you, do you think John McCain was less in touch with average Americans after moving through 20 different schools as a Navy brat, attending the Navel Academy, and then serving 23 years with other “average Americans” in our Armed Forces?
Or perhaps an upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, Indonesia, schooling at Columbia and Harvard, and then a career catering to African Americans on the south side of Chicago is more of an “average American” experience?
Obama said:
Isn’t Barack half white? Why is he snitching on the poor white people of Pennsylvania?
Didn’t Reverend Wright say that Barack knows what it means to be a black man in America?
Well, I guess he isn’t black enough to realize that “snitching” ain’t cool.
What a pouser!
Let me start off with this disclaimer: I am not a Democrat or a progressive or a socialist or an apologist for ANY candidate for the POTUS.
MM said
I don’t understand this descriptive leap. Obama is clearly saying that successive administrations have failed middle America and that, in lieu of government assistance for job creation, people turn to other things for security in the vacuum left there, such as guns and religion. He also states that people will find something to blame such as immigration (he didn’t say “illegal”) or trade policy or “people who aren’t like them”.
Absolutely nothing in what he said means that people wouldn’t have “big hearts, big smiles, and boundless belief in the ability to help others”. One can be bitter about the ineffectual nature of government and still have these qualities.
I also failed to see a “scary” mention in his comments. And how is pointing out that people are tired of lost jobs a “diss”?
The snarky comments about wine sipping and San Franscisco only serve to undermine the point about Obama’s snobbery. Geez, they sound…bitter. And I doubt it would be Chardonnay, more likely a Pinot Gris or maybe a Pouilly-Fume.
And I’m guessing that it’s a matter of dogma around these parts, but not all atheists are liberal.
Let me repeat: I am not an apologist for Obama or any POTUS candidate. The hubris around the notion that government is even responsible for solving these issues is the real problem, shared by Rs and Ds alike, or conservatives and liberals, if you prefer.
Free trade, enforce the immigration laws that we now have, put a bullet in the concept that government can “create” jobs, and just leave us the hell alone.
The only differences between the candidates are the varying speeds at which they will erode our freedoms and take our property.
MM, thanks for the kind words about PA. I just left the Philly burbs but have a lot of family in more rural areas. I don’t see bitterness there. It’s a really misanthropic way of looking at it by B.O. Those small towns have a special place in my heart, and it’s deeply offensive to hear the condescension from a guy who went to an expensive prep school in Hawaii, Columbia, and Harvard Law (as a legacy student).
It’s as if he called it “Pennsyltucky” in a really clean and articulate way!
I’m sure if he gets the nomination, he’ll be magnanimous enough to thank all of the little people.
DougT @ # 80
Your comment on the cure is essentially correct, however, you give Obambi too much benefit of doubt as to what he really means.
Obama believes that we’ve been in decline since 1990, thanks to NAFTA — see devsatating chart on NAFTA.
It’s all lies and misleading for the politicians like Obambi & cHillary to wail & moan about how bad it is now. If they think the economy is bad now, then they haven’t paid attention to how it was in the 1970s & early 80s.
Heck, even the subjects of “Roger & Me” had it worse than nowadays. Well, in BHO’s case, he was stoned off his gourd on Maui-Waui, so he wouldn’t know anything about that. BUT he could tell you all about Chech & Chong or Porkys.
The worst State economy in the Union today is Michigan. Thanks to tax-n-spenders gone wild. There is only one thing that socialist progressives, AKA Dems, are good at and that is destroying the economy.
Our fearless marxist leader Hussein Obambi can’t wait to take us back to the glory days of the late 70s. Heck, if we give him a second term, the Great Depression would be a recession compared to his immaculate plan.