Barack Obama:
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 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.
Mark Warner:
One of the things you are going to see is a coalition that is just about completely taken over the Republican Party in this state and if they have their way it’s going to take over state government. It is made up of the Christian Coalition, but not just them. It is made up of the right-to-lifers, but not just them. It’s made up of the NRA, but not just them. It is made up of the home-schoolers, but not just them. It’s made up of a whole coalition of people that have all sorts of differing views that I think most of us in this room would find threatening to what it means to be an American.
[...] that’s why Mark Warner and Barack Obama made their infamous comments about pro-lifers, Christians, home-school…. Maybe that’s why U.S. Representative Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) made these comments about his own [...]
[...] Just wanted to bring to your attention a great blog we discovered today called The Journey, which we’ve added to our blog roll. It’s the project of Bob Kirchman of Staunton and we appreciate his commentary today on one of our recent posts regarding the elitist, condescending and hateful remarks that Mark Warner and Barack Obama made about Christians, pro-lifers, home-schoolers and Second Amendment advocates (”Sound Familiar?” from October 22). [...]
[...] Sound Familiar? Sound Familiar? October 22nd, 2008 by admin in Culture, Faith And Religion, Issues, Politics, Values Barack Obama: 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 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 frust [...]
What a shame that there are those aspiring to public office (again) who think that a fetus is something to discard on a whim and those who wish to protect that fetus are some kind of right-wing whacko, gun toting, home schooling neanderthals who have somehow lost their Americanism! I certainly don’t like all that the current administration had done to us in the past eight years, but if we continue down the same liberal path, we are doomed as a people.
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[...] himself one of the common folk with his Southwest Virginia roots, has an office at street level. Warner, Mr. High Tech, very Northern Virginia high end, is waaaaaaaaaaay above it all in the SunTrus…. A staffer gave one of the organizers a pile of sheets that had room only for name, address, a box [...]
[...] the myth the Mark Warner (contact) is somehow a “fiscal conservative,” not to mention these famous remarks (click here). Starting with his Virginia record tax increase (breaking a campaign pledge) in 2004 to his 50 [...]
[...] The flap over President Barack Obama’s “jobs” speech is interesting not so much in what the pundits are making of it relative to the presidential campaign and the president’s attempt to upstage the Republican candidates at their debate next week, as true as that is. But it says a lot more than that. It’s a reflection of what he long has thought about ordinary Americans. (Remember this about being “bitter” and Bibles and guns?) [...]