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ORIGINAL: rcjames

I think the statements just expose the true Obama; arrogant, racist, ant-American, and possibly a Manchurian Candidate.

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and possibly a Manchurian Candidate.

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Obama is just a junior senator and I think this is why he is getting support from big name senators like Ted Kennedy. In my opinion their thinking is that if they can get Obama elected then they will have a president that they can control/influence. Compare this with what happens if Hillary is elected, they know they won't have any control over her or Bill.

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ORIGINAL: colliefan

Imagine the furor that would erupt if McCain would make a comment about welfare mothers in the 'hood. The blatent double standard in the media is maddening.

The RNC should take the statement and start using it in "fly over country" and then close with a question "is this the kind of man you want leading our country>"

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ORIGINAL: inthysite

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and possibly a Manchurian Candidate.

While this may have been meant as a joke I truly believe there may be some truth in it. Obama is just a junior senator and I think this is why he is getting support from big name senators like Ted Kennedy. In my opinion their thinking is that if they can get Obama elected then they will have a president that they can control/influence. Compare this with what happens if Hillary is elected, they know they won't have any control over her or Bill.

Regarding the elitist statements made by Barack I think this just adds another piece to the puzzle and helps us to see the whole/true picture of his beliefs. These statements fall right in line with the extreme left. Put that with the comments of his wife, the comments of his pastor, and the lack of judgment in the people he surrounds himself with and we are starting to see who Obama really is.

He can try and spin this as much as he wants, saying that his words are again taken out of context but we have what he said in black and white and there is no denying what he said and/or meant.

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I did not mean the post as a joke, I only paused with whether to say "Possibly a Manchurian Candidate" or to say "Probably a Manchurian Candidate".

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ORIGINAL: colliefan

Imagine the furor that would erupt if McCain would make a comment about welfare mothers in the 'hood. The blatent double standard in the media is maddening.

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“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into 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 going to 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.”

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ORIGINAL: Evangel70

o.k. I'm going to make some people mad here, but taken in context, I agree with Barack's statement...

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“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into 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 going to 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.”

How many communities have shut down steel mills or auto plants, or factories, or have seen their jobs shipped to some foreign country and suddenly blame, blacks or whites or illegal immigrants or gays for their economic troubles. These are the people who turn their bitterness and frustrations into hate groups like the KKK or Fred Phelps group or Nation of Islam and see anyone not like "them" as a threat.

One may disagree with Obama's politics but there is truth to his statement. There is a lot of frustration in America over the a war with no end in site, an economy that is in a recession, a congress the went from republican run "do nothing" to democratic "deadlocked" and a President who has soiled the reputation of the United States for decades to come.

Even the "church" has been affected. Look at how divided the "church" is over politics. Even to the point of questioning another believer's faith, authenticity or commitment based, not on their walk with God, but on their political affiliation.

How many "churches" have blamed 9/11 and Katrina and other natural or man-made disasters on homosexuals or liberals or democrats or illegal aliens or muslims or the media, etc.?

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ORIGINAL: LivingParadox

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ORIGINAL: Evangel70

o.k. I'm going to make some people mad here, but taken in context, I agree with Barack's statement...

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“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into 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 going to 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.”

How many communities have shut down steel mills or auto plants, or factories, or have seen their jobs shipped to some foreign country and suddenly blame, blacks or whites or illegal immigrants or gays for their economic troubles. These are the people who turn their bitterness and frustrations into hate groups like the KKK or Fred Phelps group or Nation of Islam and see anyone not like "them" as a threat.

One may disagree with Obama's politics but there is truth to his statement. There is a lot of frustration in America over the a war with no end in site, an economy that is in a recession, a congress the went from republican run "do nothing" to democratic "deadlocked" and a President who has soiled the reputation of the United States for decades to come.

Even the "church" has been affected. Look at how divided the "church" is over politics. Even to the point of questioning another believer's faith, authenticity or commitment based, not on their walk with God, but on their political affiliation.

How many "churches" have blamed 9/11 and Katrina and other natural or man-made disasters on homosexuals or liberals or democrats or illegal aliens or muslims or the media, etc.?

I don't doubt there are sentiments of bitterness in a small towns blaming illegal aliens, job losses due to corporate bottomlines, etc. But as someone who was raise in a small town and still have family members in a small town I find it very offensive to put those "with guns" or "believe in Jesus" as bitter and basically discounting values these citizens, yes, citizens believe. It is simply a biased view no different than views he speaks out about - same thing different face.

Maybe those he was giving the speech to had deeper financial pockets than small town Americans...that is unless he's going after the NASCAR crowd.

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ORIGINAL: Evangel70

o.k. I'm going to make some people mad here, but taken in context, I agree with Barack's statement...

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“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into 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 going to 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.”

How many communities have shut down steel mills or auto plants, or factories, or have seen their jobs shipped to some foreign country and suddenly blame, blacks or whites or illegal immigrants or gays for their economic troubles. These are the people who turn their bitterness and frustrations into hate groups like the KKK or Fred Phelps group or Nation of Islam and see anyone not like "them" as a threat.

One may disagree with Obama's politics but there is truth to his statement. There is a lot of frustration in America over the a war with no end in site, an economy that is in a recession, a congress the went from republican run "do nothing" to democratic "deadlocked" and a President who has soiled the reputation of the United States for decades to come.

Even the "church" has been affected. Look at how divided the "church" is over politics. Even to the point of questioning another believer's faith, authenticity or commitment based, not on their walk with God, but on their political affiliation.

How many "churches" have blamed 9/11 and Katrina and other natural or man-made disasters on homosexuals or liberals or democrats or illegal aliens or muslims or the media, etc.?

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ORIGINAL: Evangel70

o.k. I'm going to make some people mad here, but taken in context, I agree with Barack's statement...

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“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into 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 going to 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.”

How many communities have shut down steel mills or auto plants, or factories, or have seen their jobs shipped to some foreign country and suddenly blame, blacks or whites or illegal immigrants or gays for their economic troubles. These are the people who turn their bitterness and frustrations into hate groups like the KKK or Fred Phelps group or Nation of Islam and see anyone not like "them" as a threat.

One may disagree with Obama's politics but there is truth to his statement. There is a lot of frustration in America over the a war with no end in site, an economy that is in a recession, a congress the went from republican run "do nothing" to democratic "deadlocked" and a President who has soiled the reputation of the United States for decades to come.

Even the "church" has been affected. Look at how divided the "church" is over politics. Even to the point of questioning another believer's faith, authenticity or commitment based, not on their walk with God, but on their political affiliation.

How many "churches" have blamed 9/11 and Katrina and other natural or man-made disasters on homosexuals or liberals or democrats or illegal aliens or muslims or the media, etc.?

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The problem here is that he is applying that logic to everyone in most small towns.

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Barack "the same old political tactics that every politician uses and ends up dividing people rather than uniting them, just read most of the threads here relating to Barack.

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ORIGINAL: DonnyPauling

I think making a big deal of his comments is a result of people overreacting or simply needing something to talk/gossip about. What he said was no big deal and actually contains quite a bit of truth.