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…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.
Basically, he thinks the average American is a racist, xenophobic, gun toting, scared, moron who can’t get a job without government assistance.
He should change his name to Joseph. Stalin would be proud as would Mao, Marx and Lenin.
appears he did pay attention to his preacher. Sounds just like him.
He’s speaking of a certain “element” which is painfully present everywhere in redneck America.
Why do you take these things out of context?
Because the term “redneck America” is just as racist and hideous and full of bias as the term “nigger America.”
You’re throwing a whole group of individuals together and judging them based upon the worst characteristics of that groups lowest common denominator.
But that’s ok. Why? Because it’s just White People. And White People are not protected by Political Correctness.
What would be the reaction to McCain saying this about urban area Black people?
How can one take Obama’s comments out of context. Those words stand alone. If he truly believes that then he has more in common with Farakhan and Jeremiah Wright than most of the sheep in his cult following wish to believe.
That and Obama is a Socialist. He’s got more in common with Karl Marx than he does with Kennedy, FDR or Thomas Jefferson.
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