Palin: Watch us hoodwink you the way Obama said we’d hoodwink you, and watch you all eat it up.

[kpete]

OBAMA: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — 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’ve gone 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. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/audio-of-snobamas-bittergate-comments.html
audio:
http://www.zombietime.com/obama_visits_billionaires_row/obamaatgetty.mp3

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Smokescreen

The language Obama used in his bittergate talk was obviously unfortunate, but it’s worth remembering that he was making a very serious point–that Democratic policies are far more helpful to small town Americans than Republican policies, but that the right successfully deploys cultural warfare to prevent those economic policies from resonating with voters. To see these remarks then turned on Obama by a campaign tailored almost exclusively to the needs of the very rich is surreal. Sarah Palin was basically saying, “Watch us hoodwink you the way Obama said we’d hoodwink you, and watch you all eat it up.”

Or maybe not. For all the plaudits heaped on her speech today, I actually think most voters will see it as excessively partisan and angry, and substance-free. Americans recognize that these are serious times–too serious for the sleight of hand the Republicans are trying to pull.

http://www.ryanavent.com/blog/?p=1403

[geek tragedy]

1. Americans are not serious about the issues.

People think they are every four years, and every four years the morons in this country prove them wrong.

Fear, anger, hatred, and yearning for authoritarianism drive the American electorate more than any issue.

[Solomon]

2. Are you being paid to rain on all the good posts?

We're getting tired of it. This post is making a serious post, but then again, I realize that you know that.

[geek tragedy]

3. Self-delusion and a retreat from reality is not a good post.

People are still acting like the bitter comments were anything but a disaster.

People in small towns aren't smart enough to appreciate his point and acknowledge it. I come from a rural state--these people are just not very bright--otherwise they wouldn't be stuck in dead-end jobs in dead-end places.

[stolivodka]

4. otherwise they wouldn't be stuck in dead-end jobs in dead-end places

Quoted for %#^&% TRUTH!