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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."

That entire paragraph starting from "you go.." was quoted in the CNN 
article.  How is that out of context?"

I understand full well his context, but the jizz still rubs me the wrong 
way, and I'm not a Pennsylvanian!  _IF_ I say something like 'inner city 
kids cling to guns and violence express antipathy to people outside of 
their 'hood as a way to express their frustrations over economic 
injustices' then there are those who would say that I am bigoted.   Did 
he not just do the same thing in reverse?  Would I be a racist if I said 
 "that sounds like what someone from the inner-city would say"

For me, what Obama said is just as closed minded and intolerant as what 
I wrote above.  For someone all about "change" he is just as biased as 
anyone else....perhaps that is how this will spin-he is the common man?

B
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