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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Obama fans, what say ye?
  • Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:18:25 -0800

O.K., perhaps if folks watched and listened without their rosey tinted glasses to the debate last night they will have come away with a better understanding of how Teflon Obama thinks and thus would better understand what James is saying.

Obama stated that he came to religion because it was a tool. T-O-O-L! Not because he had an "ah-ha" moment or an apithany or because he was raised in religion. It was a tool to further his work (ie political aspirations).

In his book he says he went looking for religion so that he wouldn't be left out. Because the folks he was working with wouldn't consider him an outsider. Again, a T-O-O-L. A means to get what he wanted.

So, he sits in his ivory tower and still doesn't "get" the average man because he is NOT the average man. And for whatever reason he has no empathy for the average man. He simply sees them the same way he sees religion -- a T-O-O-L, a way to get where he wants.

Thus, he puts his foot in it and this time the Teflon didn't work. This time folks are jumping on *part* of what he said. They still don't have the brass b*lls to take him on over the part where he says people devolve into racism but maybe someone will grow some and nail him on the part that I find even more objectionable than the rest.

Ya know, I come from a pretty poor part of the country along with coming from a race that is routinely on the fringe of everything. I don't find my county to generally be bitter but rather angry. I don't find that everyone has suddenly gone to voting for guns or buying them nor have they all become religious fanatics. And, they are no more racists now than they were in the past nor will be in the future. When we get really angry, we do something about it. Ask Frank Riggs <g> Ask WallyWorld!

People are bitter because they are bitter. People are religious or religious fanatics because that is who they are. People are either gun nuts or not, worried about their Constitutional rights or not. People are racists or not. AND, people are against ILLEGAL immigration or they are not. And the person who is all of the above *because* of the economy is a rare bird indeed!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>

My respose to both the above is the same thing. Sure there are discontent
people everywhere, some people's mode of life is to be discontent. The point is
this, and I am a bit frustrated in trying to express it because it is quite
clear I am not doing a good job ... so let me try, as you say, to clarify...

The point is this ...There are a lot of people who put confidence in their
guns and in their religion. You can count me in that and don't ask what my
religion is because I won't tell you. And there are a lot o people who are
discontent (and you may NOT count me among those). But the two have NOTHING TO DO
WITH EACH OTHER. Obama's tragic flaw is that he thinks they do. He is saying
people put confidence in guns and religion BECAUSE they are politically
discontent. That is not only unwise an bigoted, but it is extremely stupid.

Let me recap before I go on. Yes, there are people as he describes who put
confidence in guns and religion, do not put confidence in government, and are
politically discontent. But the conclusion that the one is BECAUSE of the
other is his bias and mindset. And it is deeply offensive.





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