And if he didn't realize the implications of his remarks, I shudder to think what a shambles he would make of Foreign Relations with his lack of diplomacy and judgement.
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“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,” Obama said. “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. 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.”
In 1995, Obama's first autobiography is released. In it he writes of his years in college, associating with radicals. "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets . . . When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated."
[Obama, Barack, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,
Random House, Pages 100-101]
"I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's, I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn't my own man anymore. I was my country's."
~John McCain
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This is getting old, every one appears to have a copy of the Obama play book- here is a comment on this subject from the digital journal. BELOW
I see your point, but see that is the beauty of Obama's tactics, as he used with Hillary, say and do anything you want and when you are called on it, insist on talking about the issues.
Well, maybe Obama's audience is smarter than he is. They "got" the joke immediately.
I thought he was just dumb or had poor judgment. May I add that I now think he's just a liar.
After looking at this, can anyone honestly say he didn't know how the "lipstick on a pig" comment would be perceived?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UExcw
He should have just apologized and then it would have past. By getting self righteous he gets to own the whole event.
Lipstick sticks for one more news cycle! Obama caught up in his school yard insult is outraged that this campaign isn’t more about issues?
O BLASTS LIPSTICK SMEAR AS HOGWASH
BUT DISSED GALS GIVE HIM A PIG-ROASTING
FAIRFAX, Va. - Slipping in the polls, Barack Obama yesterday lashed out at John McCain for “lies and phony outrage and Swift Boat politics” after the Republican camp accused him of referring to Sarah Palin as a pig with lipstick - a quip that drew cries of outrage from offended women. …
“I thought it was unbelievably inappropriate,” said Jean Hope “There’s no cause for behavior like that . . . He just insulted all of us who wear lipstick,” she added.
Read More (PT Alert: Link includes pic of enraged lip smacker)
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