Here is an excerpt from a CNN newscast. Beware that the Obama audio is very poor quality.
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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.
So we are to believe that Borak Oboma “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’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.”
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 the country are tired, impatient, bitter, frustrated, watching their dwindling dollars,etc.
I take issue with the mainstream media taking issue with perhaps someone and his ideas that much 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, abeit they do it for continiued airetime and adveristing and profit.
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… cuz I know they are just looking to twist, to create, to manipulate a story… a story that was perhaps never a storry 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, glaucks, shot guns, hunting rifles, assault weapons from as far back as the Korean Conflict (funny how we’ve made that term into a politically correct term!)….semi-automatic rifles from WWII and Vietnam eras.
I think Obama is so pure, so true and so real that he simply speaks the truth, as he sees it. No sugur coating,no honey glazed bath, no Calgon.
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 daily to revert back to just those.
Antipathy. Think about it. Truth is, we want to trust in our government to make things riight…. 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 fo Rome. I guess I’m starting to understand that thinkin’ that perhaps one can’t trust their fellows or past, is perhaps a fallacy yet the only thing they can trust is what they see.
When we make this a country of immigrents and allow for the miracles of an operating society of different peoples, of immigrents, 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 I B. Jon Traylor. I have guns, a lot of them. I like to hunt with them, to use them responsibly. I’m a registered Independent. I vote a spIt ticket, and that in itself means we should peryhaps have a third party…. cuz there’s 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
Blah, Blah Blah, Blah Con Games…if Hillary had stated this you would be all over if…if McCain stated this you would REALLY be all over it…it is a tunnel vision of recycled interpretation…Spring is here… go for a walk… heck go on vacation….just turn off the TV/radio/computer…and discover there is more out there in the world to really talk about ….and when you do you might find you have an original thought or expression