....Senator Obama made reference to the bitterness of the people of Pennsylvania and the 'Lics, feigning outrage, proceeded to pounce all over the words with the usual meme of "hard working Americans." Well, here are a couple of news flashes for the 'Lics:
1. If you have no job, or you are severely underemployed, you are not "hard working," you are barely surviving because of a lack of imagination. For example, I came out of Johnstown, PA (one of Obama's stops), twenty years after the steel mills closed there are still people who are "hoping and waiting" for the mills to open back up. And who do you think closed the mills and outsourced the work to Japan, why a bunch of 'Lics of course.
2. While 'Lics love to play to the salt of the earth crowd and bestow the title of "hard working" on them, how many jobs have they created so that "hard work" can be done? Answer: next to nil. They'll give them all the minimum wage, no benefit jobs in the service industry, but a good manufacturing job? Give it a fucking rest. Again, working at the local Big Box isn't hard work, it's stupid work. In the words of President Insane, "you got three jobs? Get any sleep?" (May I add, what a motherfucker).
Don't fucking pander to me, 'Lics. I know what hard work is and I've had to retool my career three times so I can continue to work hard. Go fuck yourselves with your small members.
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Republicans Quickly Pounce on Obama Remarks
If Democrats are wondering what awaits Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) this fall if he becomes the party's presidential nominee, the events of the past few hours should serve as something of a guide.
Early this afternoon, Huffington Post turned up audio from an Obama fundraiser in San Francisco in which the Illinois Senator offered this take on Pennsylvania voters:
"But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of 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."
Within moments, Republicans had pounced. Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign told Politico's Jonathan Martin that Obama's comment revealed "an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking." Schmidt added: "It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans."
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