[Homestead] Obama fans, what say ye?
paxamicus at earthlink.net
paxamicus at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 13 12:30:28 EDT 2008
This spun off an interesting web site. I present to you, in good
humour, http://www.bittervoter.org
On Apr 13, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Don Bowen wrote:
> The comment was taken out of context and have been used as a
> bludgeon by the
> McCain and Clinton campaigns. What this protracted primary is doing
> is
> helping elect four more years of flawed and failed policies.
>
> The contest of some off the cuff remarks.
> "[T]he 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. So it's
> not surprising then that 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."
>
> Don Bowen KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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