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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:03 PM Feb 2012

Orrin Hatch: Obama Has Traded In The Hardhat For “A Hipster Fedora And A Double Skim Latte”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/orrin-hatch-obama-has-traded-in-the-hardhat-for

The Utah Senator attacked the President as an out of touch urban elitist today in a speech on energy policy, saying the President put the interests of hipsters ahead of workers.

"President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for the hipster fedora and a double skim latte."



What an idiot Hatch is.
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Orrin Hatch: Obama Has Traded In The Hardhat For “A Hipster Fedora And A Double Skim Latte” (Original Post) steve2470 Feb 2012 OP
I'm guessing coffee isn't the Official State Beverage of Utah. eShirl Feb 2012 #1
Didn't you mean to say a "pimp hat" Orrin? rfranklin Feb 2012 #2
I think that is exactly what he meant. Keep digging, Republicans. yellowcanine Mar 2012 #7
if obama were really sly he could just say "what's a fedora?" unblock Feb 2012 #3
hatch recalls the good old days when uppity black people were unwelcome in his church nt msongs Feb 2012 #4
I think it will be hard to sell that meme if Romney is the candidate. JDPriestly Feb 2012 #5
their racism eventually leaks out spanone Feb 2012 #6
This is just their warmup call. Segami Mar 2012 #8
hipsters are cute patrick t. cakes Mar 2012 #9
Ugh..... a kennedy Mar 2012 #10
what does this man who has enriched himself through his government job bigtree Mar 2012 #11
So says the dandy of Congress lunatica Mar 2012 #12
the hipster fedora part went over my head Enrique Mar 2012 #13
Hatch is up for re-election this year BumRushDaShow Mar 2012 #14
These fucking racists libtodeath Mar 2012 #15
Douchebag trumad Mar 2012 #16

unblock

(52,257 posts)
3. if obama were really sly he could just say "what's a fedora?"
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:20 PM
Feb 2012

and with that, obama becomes everyman and hatch is the elitist!

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
5. I think it will be hard to sell that meme if Romney is the candidate.
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:38 PM
Feb 2012

And even if it isn't, people just don't see Obama that way.

Not the least because Michelle Obama is such a normal looking woman.

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
8. This is just their warmup call.
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 01:29 AM
Mar 2012

Their heavily deep-seeded in-your-face hatred will rear its racist head after the rethug's nomination convention. I believe some of those demented haters simply will not rest or accept a democratically elected black President quarterbacking this country for ANOTHER 4 YEARS. So much at stake this coming election.

bigtree

(85,999 posts)
11. what does this man who has enriched himself through his government job
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 08:12 AM
Mar 2012

. . . know about working people? We wear fancy hats from time to time, and sometimes opt for an expensive coffee. For Hatch, that wealth-advantaged lifestyle is all he personally knows. Either he's just bullshitting, or someone else wrote that for him. All Hatch has ever cared about is business and business interests. he can't fool me that he all of the sudden cares about and knows anything at all about the working class.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. So says the dandy of Congress
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 08:21 AM
Mar 2012

As he purses his lips in slight distaste at what everyone else is wearing.

BumRushDaShow

(129,131 posts)
14. Hatch is up for re-election this year
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 08:38 AM
Mar 2012

He watched the teabaggers in his state dispatch of Bob Bennett in 2010 and he knows he is next. It's remarkable to see how even further to the insane crazy right he has gone, but it's all to save his own hide.

The rethug governor who he endorsed refuses to endorse him:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53607090-90/argument-bid-doesn-doing.html.csp

The Chief of Staff for the one who booted Bennett out feels that he is going to lose:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73144.html

The sudden departure of Olympia Snow just killed one of his last chances for justifying re-election:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/53608849-90/campaign-finance-hatch-republican.html.csp

And so what does he do? The comfortable and familiar - juvenile cheap shots at the President.

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