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  redacted at 11:12 AM JST - 13th April

  “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.”

  You can't get much more disdainful of ordinary Americans than that.

  But I'm confident our impartial, unbiased media will find a way to restore the sheen to the Anointed One's image.

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  redacted at 11:57 AM JST - 13th April

  Victor Davis Hanson:

  "No rural Pennsylvanian clings to religion more than Obama himself, who for 20 years sat silent in the pews, while a hate-spewing minister damned his country and most everyone else. The question is not why Pennsylvanians “cling to their religion”, but why do the Obamas still cling to the Trinity Church that seems far more extreme than anything I’ve seen in rural America."

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  "So here we have the essential Obama, a walking paradox between the postmodern hip-Ivy-Leaguer who sneers at middle-class America’s supposed prejudices and parochialism, while at the same time courting an anti-Enlightenment, prejudicial demagogue like Jeremiah Wright. For free trade or anti-free trade? For 2nd-amendment rights or not? Post-religious or pious and fundamentalist? For public campaign financing or not? A uniter of various groups or someone who sees America in terms of “they”? Straight-talking or someone who evokes "context" to explain away the inexplicable?"

  http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2Y3MmU4OTViZjQ5YTA5ZGUzZjhiOWJhYTIzMGM2ZTE=

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  GrouchyGaijin at 04:08 PM JST - 13th April

  I'm telling y'all, I have NEVER seen Americans this bitter, uptight and grouchy (even more than I am on an average day in Tokyo, and that's saying something,) and I blame it on the divisiveness with which the Cheney-Bush Administration has blessed America. I also think loss of sovereign power to a vassal state like Israel has been the means by which this has been achieved. The tail is wagging the dog. Paper ballots people, paper ballots, and public counting. That "whop-whop-whop" sound you hear is the sound of the founding fathers turning cartwheels in their graves!

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  realist at 04:33 PM JST - 13th April

  America is messed up. I am not American, but if I was, Obama would get my vote if for no other reason than to save America and the world from that awful Clinton woman, whom I simply cannot stand. However, with the Democrats pulling each other apart, McCain is well on his way to the White House. The one grouch I have about Barak is the fact that that other awful woman, Oprah Winfrey, is supporting him. She is becoming nmore and more scary as time goes on - her utterances are those of a fanatical religious leader, and are mostly rubbish. Some talk of the "Oprah Factor" helping Obama - I see her support as detrimental.

  Obama has acknowledges his verbal gaffe - more than can be said for the Clinton woman when she frequently puts her size whatever-it-is in her big mouth!

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  SuperLib at 05:27 PM JST - 13th April

  Obama still has my vote.

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  RomeoRamenII at 05:51 PM JST - 13th April

  barack hasn't a clue as to how individuals in rural America feel.

  He states they "cling" to religion, insinuating it is some sort of crutch. Of course, barack has no probelm pointing out how his beliefs and those of his pastor have influenced his life. But yet, it is others who "cling" to their beliefs.

  In barack-o-vision, gun ownership is a bad thing.

  He belittles middle America because they want to maintain their way of life and not have to change to accomodate someone else. He calls them "anti-immigrant", but more likely they anti-illegal immigrant, just like a lot of the country. To barack, Middle America is not "progressive" enough for him.

  Yep, heh, a true unifier.

  RR

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  RomeoRamenII at 06:06 PM JST - 13th April

  Wonder if barack will be trotting out a typical angry, gun-tottin', bible-carryin', free-trade-fearin', immigrant-hatin' white relative while making a speech in front of 20 American flags - one for each year he's been a member-in-good-standing at "Rev." Wright's Temple of Latter Day Racists - this tme around?

  RR

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  Farmboy at 06:08 PM JST - 13th April

  Yep, all those staffers at the Clinton campaign finally found something to pick at. It seems that is all the Clinton campaign can manage - to pick at Obama, because her own message doesn't go anywhere. Well, this one will get some support, but it'll wind up supporting McCain more than helping Hillary, in my opinion.

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  RomeoRamenII at 08:25 PM JST - 13th April

  but, but, but ... barack started out his campaign by telling everyone he was pro-gun. And he assured his followers that he was a good christian.

  Just keep flappin' your gums, barack. The more he talks, the more he exposes his true self.

  RR

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  curlygene at 08:37 PM JST - 13th April

  Romeoramen11,

  Your suggestion that being Christian requires one to be anti-gun is not supported by history ,theology or even logic, for that matter. Now, had you said he told everyone he was pro-murder-by-gun, then you'd be on firmer ground. Of course, you'd also be putting words in his mouth.

  Speaking of "mispeaking" (love it!), I wonder if he'll also start talking about having to dodge bullets at airfields. Somehow, I doubt it. He'll be a lot more careful before shooting off his mouth now, won't he?

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  presto345 at 08:47 PM JST - 13th April

  People who suggest they are good Christians have my immediate suspicion.

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  RomeoRamenII at 01:07 PM JST - 14th April

  Way to go, barack.

  He successfully insulted Pennyslvanians (interesting political strategy: piss in the corn flakes of voters in the state you are about to have an election in), Midwesterners, small town folks AND the unemployed all in one speech.

  A brilliant, inspirational oratory that will make voters, heh, come out in droves to support him.

  And the best part of this?

  He made his comments directed at the less fortunate than him during a fundraiser thrown by Gordon Getty (of Getty Oil) at his house on Billionaire's Row in San Francisco - said to be the richest block on the planet.

  RR

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  skipthesong at 01:30 PM JST - 14th April

  I am getting sick of these word games.. I heard Jesse Ventura on some news program and one thing that cought my ears, "why don't we have a choice whe voting - none of the above"?. Why don't we?

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