Clearly said? I don/t think so.
Even before his respone took place, there was a wide divergence among people as to what he clearly said.

His original statement was clumsy, to be sure. A legitimate criticism is that he was not clear enough about his meaning. But 'clearly' is something that resides only in your personal interpretation, not in his words.

Clearly said? I don/t think so.
Even before his respone took place, there was a wide divergence among people as to what he clearly said.

His original statement was clumsy, to be sure. A legitimate criticism is that he was not clear enough about his meaning. But 'clearly' is something that resides only in your personal interpretation, not in his words.

Americans want to vote for someone they believe understands them. Americans don't want to spend time debating the finer points of the sub-prime bailout or whether the fed should begin to regulate investments banks if the fed bails them out.

So politicians win by saying something subjective like, “Obama is an elite and he is out of touch with your concerns, vote for me because I know you're having tough times and I can help you the most.” It's all about connecting with the voter.

That's why Obama must push back and show voters that both McCain and Hillary are out of touch and that he understands their concerns, that he hasn't spent the last 16 years with Secret Service protection and he doesn't have 8 houses. It's fine for Obama to regret his badly phrased statement. But that won't win him any votes.

Americans want to vote for someone they believe understands them. Americans don't want to spend time debating the finer points of the sub-prime bailout or whether the fed should begin to regulate investments banks if the fed bails them out.

So politicians win by saying something subjective like, “Obama is an elite and he is out of touch with your concerns, vote for me because I know you're having tough times and I can help you the most.” It's all about connecting with the voter.

That's why Obama must push back and show voters that both McCain and Hillary are out of touch and that he understands their concerns, that he hasn't spent the last 16 years with Secret Service protection and he doesn't have 8 houses. It's fine for Obama to regret his badly phrased statement. But that won't win him any votes.

The Hillary Camp's reaction to this flap is EXACTLY why I turned against The Clinton's in January of 2008. I wish my voting records were public, because I thought at the time that I am not the only person who voted for each of them twice, defended them over and over again, and suddenly thought, “Enough!”

Obama did not express contempt for small town America, or anything else. He said people whose jobs have vanished forever, whose life choice went from making 20 dollars an hour to making 7 dollars an hour are frustrated and angry.

Ironically, Obama CANNOT help those people either. We need new models and new solutions. David Brooks is correct about the opportunity awaiting educated and educatable people in the new economy, but many people do not have the ability to be engineers or Registered Nurses, or Analysts.

They have desire to work, gumption, drive, but many jobs in the service sector top out at 10 dollars an hour and that is where some 30 to 40 % of jobs are.

We need a new model. Hillary and the bloggers like Talk Left who occupy her bunker see Obama's truth as a demagogic Godsend to her campaign, and it is both demagogic and God-sent.

But there is Hillary, now the great hunter, the woman whose family income was 110 million in the past 6 years, the former Valedictorian of Wellesley condemning Obama.

Like her namesake, Hillary takes the low road “Because it was there.” Except Sir Edmund wasn't whom she was named after, climbed Mount Everest: Hillary climbs into the dumpster.

If anyone reading this is still addicted to The Clinton's: why? They are liars and destructive.

The Hillary Camp's reaction to this flap is EXACTLY why I turned against The Clinton's in January of 2008. I wish my voting records were public, because I thought at the time that I am not the only person who voted for each of them twice, defended them over and over again, and suddenly thought, “Enough!”

Obama did not express contempt for small town America, or anything else. He said people whose jobs have vanished forever, whose life choice went from making 20 dollars an hour to making 7 dollars an hour are frustrated and angry.

Ironically, Obama CANNOT help those people either. We need new models and new solutions. David Brooks is correct about the opportunity awaiting educated and educatable people in the new economy, but many people do not have the ability to be engineers or Registered Nurses, or Analysts.

They have desire to work, gumption, drive, but many jobs in the service sector top out at 10 dollars an hour and that is where some 30 to 40 % of jobs are.

We need a new model. Hillary and the bloggers like Talk Left who occupy her bunker see Obama's truth as a demagogic Godsend to her campaign, and it is both demagogic and God-sent.

But there is Hillary, now the great hunter, the woman whose family income was 110 million in the past 6 years, the former Valedictorian of Wellesley condemning Obama.

Like her namesake, Hillary takes the low road “Because it was there.” Except Sir Edmund wasn't whom she was named after, climbed Mount Everest: Hillary climbs into the dumpster.

If anyone reading this is still addicted to The Clinton's: why? They are liars and destructive.

He only wants to do that until the mind control drugs he's going to put in our food kicks in. Then that stuff can be repealed.

He only wants to do that until the mind control drugs he's going to put in our food kicks in. Then that stuff can be repealed.

Senator Obama supported the Louisville school systems program to assign students based upon race for social engineering purposes. That supports what I wrote. Senator Obama supports racial set asides for government jobs, government contracts, college admissions, and magnet public schools. That supports what I wrote. Senator Obama wants the government to have control over mortgages, retirement savings plans, and even what kind of care I can drive.

In Senator Obama's world view, middle class and blue collar whites (along with virtually all minorities) are too stupid to sign a mortage, save for their retirement, decide what to study in college, or even how to commute the work. He is consistent in proposing government programs that give the government decision making authority over others. His everyone is a victim goes along way to justifying his nanny state-ism.

I have thought this for many years. Politics has basically boiled down to a boilerplate of issues that the country will most likely never resolve, and all someone has to do is check which issues they “support” and promise lobbyists to do a bunch of deals and now they are a successful politician! You are liberal if you check the boxes on the left, conservative if on the right and centrist if you just randomly choose.

All analysis of the efficacy of policy and ideas about how to move forward is completely missing from the debate when it comes to: a) focusing on things that are far more relevant to every day life and b) synthesizing new ideas about how to attempt to reconcile the sides on the fringes issues.

The recorded remarks he made completely mangled the point. But if you watch this you'll see that he respects and understands people's personal culture. What he was trying to say (and I fully agree) is that the domination of politics by those issues is poisonous and while he focused on the traditional “conservative” stuff so far, I think he is going to swing it back and hit the “liberal” stuff just as hard too.

You have to willfully ignore every public statement Obama has made, his two books, his record as a legislator, his time spent as a community organizer, AND read his remarks out of context to make a statement such as this one. If you do not support Obama that's fine, but make your argument against him honestly rather than resorting to distortions.

Of course I guess he would not be talking about CERLCA, NESHAPS, NPDES, local tax rates, workman's compensation, tort liability, and the failure of the public schools as reasons that small towns cannot compete in the world economy.