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April 13, 2008 at 12:43:27

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Obama and The Bitterness in America

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The Clintons are all over Barack Obama because of his quip about small town people often displaying dismaying bitterness about their economic (and social) plight. Obama had the kernel of an idea that he should have taken back to his brain trust to smooth out the wrinkles and develop into a strong theme, for clearly he has struck a nerve and his opponents, the Clintons, are trying to push him around to the wrong side of it. Obama no more disparages the small town people than he disparages big town people or any people, he just noticed the symptoms displayed by people who are not riding confidently into the future or even hesitantly. They are "left behind" in a way that Republicans and desperate Clintons could never understand.

Obama should take this one by the horns and show Americans that their hopes and fears, their bitterness and their hunkering down are the result of careless and heedless Republican social-darwinist social policy ... that, indeed, these people have been left to fend for themselves.

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OBAMA DID NOT APOLOGIZE

iF ONE GOES BACK AND REVISITS what Obama said, he said he wished he could have said it better, but he stands by the essence of what he said, that people are afraid for their jobs and incomes, and disenchanted, and take refuge in minutiae. IT IS THE MEDIA that say that he apopologized, that he was sorry, that he was flip flopping, that he will not be a resolute leader. That is what is behind all the hype aboyt Obama apologizing. Its not true. Obama is a rock.

by Antonio (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 63 comments) on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 1:17:16 PM

Dr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.
John R MoffettDr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.

No surprises

Hey, we're Americans, we know by now that liberal candidates never get a fair shake, and that Republicans get the media’s best Teflon coating.

Expect the Republicans to ramp up the slime rapidly as we head into the Summer. This time it may not work. If it does work on “bitter” Americans again (fool me a million times?), say hello to President McCain.

by John R Moffett (79 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 595 comments) on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 1:52:50 PM

I'm a 61year old white guy, Veteran of 66-68, operate my own business with my wife and love to travel. Built a big sailboat in the 70's and went sailing for a few years, which ruined me for real work. Now, I fly hot air balloons for a living. Have been initiated as an Andean Paq'o. Yes, I am a liberal.
RogerI'm a 61year old white guy, Veteran of 66-68, operate my own business with my wife and love to travel. Built a big sailboat in the 70's and went sailing for a few years, which ruined me for real work. Now, I fly hot air balloons for a living. Have been initiated as an Andean Paq'o. Yes, I am a liberal.

The Truth Stings!

Read a book called 'Deer Hunting with Jesus'....it is all about the gap Obama spoke to and why the poor and uneducated keep voting for Republicans. I found it an eye opener.

by Roger (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 327 comments) on Monday, April 14, 2008 at 9:56:21 AM

Bia Winter is an Artist/Writer from Maine, and has been an activist and letter-writer since the 60's. In 2004 she received the Roger Baldwin Award from the Maine American Civil Liberties Union for furthering Democracy after she got a Resolution Against the USA"Patriot"Act passed in her small home town of Mount Vernon, by overwhelming show-of-hands vote at Town Meeting. She continues to Write, Activate and Cartoon for Progressive causes. Her Letters are often seen in the Baltimore Chronicle, as w...

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Bia WinterBia Winter is an Artist/Writer from Maine, and has been an activist and letter-writer since the 60's. In 2004 she received the Roger Baldwin Award from the Maine American Civil Liberties Union for furthering Democracy after she got a Resolution Against the USA"Patriot"Act passed in her small home town of Mount Vernon, by overwhelming show-of-hands vote at Town Meeting. She continues to Write, Activate and Cartoon for Progressive causes. Her Letters are often seen in the Baltimore Chronicle, as w...

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Guns & God

Funny, how Lou Dobbs' recent poll asking if Americans were "Bitter and Angry" , Partisan and Pathetic", or "Independant and Proud" yielded a majority of votes for "Bitter and angry", instead of the answer Lou was obviously angling for (Independant and proud) !

I too live in a small conservative town in rural Maine, and there's alot of that, for sure. People have just cause to be angry, even though it's often misdirected.

Guns and God.

Saddest is when they shoot themselves in the foot on election day over one issue, like guns, because they bought the Repug propaganda that liberals will deprive them of their guns, so they end up putting the very kind of politicians in office that we need guns to protect ourselves from!

But.. there's also the pleasant surprises, like the Town Conservatives supporting my initiative to pass a Resolution against the "Patriot"Act in '04 at Town Meetin' . Their reasoning to counter the prevailing rhetoric of "Only Terrorists and Criminals should worry'?

"If they've got it, they'll USE it!"

Now, THAT is good ole small town Horse Sense!

Too bad the framed copy of our Resolution, which should be proudly displayed on the Town Office walls, has been deep-sixed into a desk drawer for fear of putting a few town Nazis' noses out of joint!

(Is THAT a sign of the times, or WHAAAAT!?)

by Bia Winter (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 216 comments) on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 7:41:00 AM

James R. Brett, Ph.D. taught Russian History in several universities before becoming an academic administrator in curriculum and faculty research administration. His academic interests have been in the history of science and the history of ideas, particularly Marxism and classical liberalism, but also psychology and consciousness studies. He is a frequent contributor to liberal and progressive blogs and is the founder and publisher of The American Liberalism Proj...

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James BrettJames R. Brett, Ph.D. taught Russian History in several universities before becoming an academic administrator in curriculum and faculty research administration. His academic interests have been in the history of science and the history of ideas, particularly Marxism and classical liberalism, but also psychology and consciousness studies. He is a frequent contributor to liberal and progressive blogs and is the founder and publisher of The American Liberalism Proj...

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Bitterness

I believe you. The problem with voters is that two things have happened in their lifetimes that really affected them. Forced integration and the decline of American industry, both of which the Republicans blame on Democrats! So, when they say Dems will take away their guns, their final response to the "humiliations" they have already endured, they figure the Democrats will be arrogant enough to do it.

Civil rights and integration would have gone much more smoothly if LBJ had not embroiled us so deeply in the war, but Washington eventually took the blame for Vietnam and it tarred Civil Rights with the same brush.

The blaming of Democrats and unions for the decline of industry is laughable , ironic, ugly, and so utterly false that it really does require an explanation. The short explanation is that the period when Democrats should have been defending trade unions as part of the escalator to the middle class, trade unions became more corrupt ... and industry began to buy out the souls of Democrats in Congress! It is a sad story and, yes, people have a right to be bitter, but they need to get over themselves too. I think that's the Obama message, and I hope it is not too late!!!

by James Brett (80 articles, 95 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 79 comments) on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 10:07:04 AM

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