Posts Tagged ‘bitter’

The Dems just don’t seem to like country folk

October 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Earlier this year, a pretty good flap was made over Barack Obama trying to understand country life.  He basically came to the conclusion that in order to live in places where people aren’t walking on top of each other, you had to be kind of bitter, and cling to things that aren’t made of concrete [...]

Four more years of Bushisms?

May 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Barack Obama’s campaign has been all about “change“.  However, one thing seems bound not to change if Obama is elected.  Whereas we’ve had to deal with nucular, internets, and global warmings, now we’ll get muddled facts instead of words: Marking the anniversary of the March 1965 “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala., Obama, speaking at a [...]

Obama on small town America

April 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments

“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. [...]