So are we to believe that Barack Obama “is out of touch with average Americans?”
How much spin is indeed enough spin? The Clintons and McCain are very much scared of Obama. Why?… because he tells the truth, and he connects with common ordinary Americans, no matter what their party affiliations may be.
Read this verbatim comment, and I mean read it! It is pure, it is honest, it is real. It comes from a man who should be our next President, a man who gave up his Harvard Law education to walk the poor streets of south Chicago and try and make a difference in our world.
“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 has 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.”
Yes, people this is real…. and this is a real person here…. this is B. Jon Traylor, or Bobby Jon, or JimBob Jumpback or Butch BaldKnobber, or whatever….
I think what Obama is eloquently trying to say here is that the people of our country are tired, impatient, bitter, frustrated, watching their dwindling dollars indeed dwindle,etc.
I take issue with the mainstream media taking issue with perhaps someone and his ideas that are perhaps more than abstract art, with a hidden line to reality. I take issue with the mainstream for-profit media creating issues and stories that do not exist, albeit they do it for continued air-time and advertising and profit while also creating more stories for more air-time, advertising and profit and more stories.
Finding faults, even false faults, is a product of the American Free Enterprise system of economics. I don’t care what the media has to say anymore… because I know they are just looking to twist, to create, to manipulate a story… a story that was perhaps never a story to begin with. Why are we afraid of what looks likes like, sounds like, smells like the truth? Is that the 64,000 dollar question? I’d like to think its not nearly that complicated.
…. “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.”
I completely get and understand this comment. First, sure, yes, I have guns. I have many guns. I have pistols, revolver and semi-automatic, shot guns, hunting rifles,etc. And yes, I have quite the security system in place… including me.
I think Obama is so pure, so true and so real that he simply speaks the truth, as he sees it. No sugar coating, no honey-glazed bath, no Calgon, no “take me away.”
I think most of the people in this country know what their constitutional rights are. We know that we can’t get so pissed off at our country, our government, that we freak out and start shooting people, start beating or raping people.
But, we know, that if and when things get really bad, we can stand up, rise up, and tell our government that “we don’t stand for this.”
I am sure that that is what the gun comment was about. I get that, and I own guns. They will have to pry my gun from my dead cold hands before they ever take them. Borak Obama also owns guns.
But I think the coolest comment in regards this this quote from him is the immigration portion of the quote. I invite those of you who read my columns to revert back to just those.
Antipathy. Think about it. Truth is, we want to trust in our government to make things right…. how right?,… to perhaps just let “us” do the right thing for ourselves and the betterment of our society.
Honestly, and yes, I know this is on record….
I don’t believe I can ever trust my government anymore. I can trust me, though.. I have read and studied the fall of Rome. I guess I’m starting to understand that perhaps one can’t trust their fellows or past, yet the only thing they can trust is what they see.
When we make this a country of immigrants and allow for the miracles of an operating society of different peoples, of immigrants, to function as a self-supporting economic society, with enforced laws to keep those trying to come here illegally out,…. then perhaps we can start making progress.
This is B. Jon Traylor. I have guns, a lot of them. I like to hunt with them, to use them responsibly, to shoot them in fun, at firing ranges or up in the high country, away from your civilization. I’m a registered Independent. I vote a spit ticket, and that in itself means we should perhaps have a third party…. cuz there are alot voices unheard out there– unless you are lucky like me to have a voice heard on the information super highway known as the internet.
Whatever happened to “WE THE PEOPLE?”
– J0N (in a JimBob Jumpback mode tonight, though.)
Jon,
I think the spelling you’re after is “Borat” not “Borak.”
Cheers,
That was funny, thank you Mitch…. –J
Careful G,
I’m thinkin I smell a trap here.
I haven’t logged on for a little while, but I’ve had it up to my neck with this utter nonsense. The quote that has given Obama so much unmerited grief has been dragged through so much bogus punditry that I wonder if these people aren’t the bigger problem. Yes Hillary latched onto it like a mongoose with a rat in its teeth, but that doesn’t mean that one iota of what she said about it is true.
Senator Obama’s whole campaign is and has been a repudiation to wedge politics, as practiced by the late Karl Rove. If anyone has exploited guns and religion and homosexuality more thoroughly than Rove…show me. If Obama had been clearer, he might have said that these are the vary issues that Rovian politics put in play, and used to exploit the bitterness of ‘lunch Bucket’ Americans. But Obama was honest enough to speak to the fear beneath the fear. He wasn’t saying don’t cling to familiar things, he was saying don’t be used by those who would exploit them for their own gain.
We have a candidate in Senator Obama who has stood astride the ugliness of Rove’s approach — an approach that would, in its pursuit of power, rather see a deeply divided America, than one which Obama by his every utterance is promoting. Perhaps he’s so loathe to play the game their way, that in mentioning guns and religion he forgot to say that the exploitation of these issues started far from his campaign, but were core Republican strategies from the start of GW’s cynically managed campaign.
You are right Hugh in that Rove, to date, is the master of what I call the ‘divide and conquer’ politics being played today.
You are right again when you say “so much bogus punditry that I wonder if these people aren’t the bigger problem”.
All one has to do is look at what a show this whole electoral process has become. From its ever extending timeline to the expanding (cess)pool of fractious yet fraternal pundits. Pundits who backslap their way to the bank while leeching their financial gains from the exploitation of a broken system they refuse to acknowledge, at the expense of… ‘we the people’.
But hey, what a show! The best money can buy!
[I'm thinkin I smell a trap here.]
Now that’s a conspiracy theory…
Cheers,