trainwreckpolitics.com — The irony about all the “outrage” that’s being manufactured over Barack Obama's small-town Pennsylvania statement is that it’s coming exclusively from out-of-touch rich people like John McCain and Hillary Clinton, who are making the assumption that this is something small-town Pennsylvanians should be offended by.
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afruff23Apr 13, 2008
The point wasn't that government spending is destructive. The point is that government spending gets rid of another job that could have been there. When you say "infrastructure", you are neglecting the opportunity cost. The alternative would be subject to the laws of economics and thus be pressured into services demanded most by people, rather than a few individuals creating the budget.
ajajadudeApr 14, 2008
I WAS all for Clinton until late last year when it became apparent she was about as capable of leading this country as Bush is. I used to love McCain, but his recent turn to the dark side of politics (extremism) for the sake of the Republican nomination turned me off of him. Obama has been the only one who has been consistent with what he's said throughout this whole thing and the only one out of the 3 big candidates that doesn't scare the s**t out of me.And if you think I'm an elitist, you'd better go look the word up in a dictionary before you make yourself sound even more like an ignorant moron. If I'm an elitist, then I'm a pretty pathetic one.
Closed AccountApr 14, 2008
It's not elitist to call people "bitter and out-of-touch" for being offended by a comment someone made? Please...anyone who dares to tell people "you shouldn't be offended by that!" is just screaming elitist.
mindybApr 14, 2008
What offends me, as a Pennsylvanian, is that two multi-millionaire snobs like Clinton and McCain are telling me that I need to feel offended by Obama's true observations about on our feelings over the state of affairs in our lives. What offends me is that the McClintons thinks that despite the jobs lost and gone forever thanks for faulty trade agreements like the Clinton supported NAFTA, and conglomerates like the Clinton friend Wal-Mart swallowing up the small "mom and pop" shops, our educational system in shambles, our increasing food, gas and housing prices, that we should be these optimistic happy campers! as if we were a bunch of happy idiots! That is what is offensive! They constantly insult our intelligence, they speak down to us and now they claim to be speaking for us! C'mon! Now that pisses me off!The observations made by Obama were true and accurate and nothing he said was offensive or demeaning. He was not passing judgment, he was not criticizing, he was just stating his observations which happen to be quite accurate.I just realize that I now hate hate hate Hillary Clinton for being such a childish, snobbish, condescending and selfish idiot. She is the reason why we are going to loose the general election--damn her for that!
kjeffvApr 14, 2008
Hold up, I'm still printing your Copy Editor's cardboard certificate.
chubbybubbaApr 15, 2008
The instant you use the word "typical" in regard to race shows a stereotypical bias. You don't say "typical woman" or "typical black man" or "typical white person". Dividing people into "typical" categories implies predjudice and is a basis for racism. By the way, Barack called his grandmother a "typical white person" when defending her racist comments disclosed during his post Rev. Wright speech. (fyi.. I am not anti-obama)
Closed AccountApr 17, 2008
Nice run on clunky sentence. Way to switch from 1st to 2nd to third person without so much as period. It's always hysterical when an monkey gets a thesaurus and starts mashing the keyboard.
kawaiiroboApr 25, 2008
It's not about the guns, or religion, or immigration concerns, it's about the derogatory tone he took concerning small town people. He made broad generalizations and basically insinuated that small town people are ignorant and cling to illogical things. That my friend is what I consider insulting. He might as well have said 'can you believe these dumb honky's?'