CBN's David Brody, no elitist he, doesn't see what the big deal is.
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What makes a Brody a non-elitist? Being a conservative Republican? It's interesting to see the obvious cognitive biases and assumptions informing coverage of this story. 
Hillary really hits new lows every single day. Now when she says something I cannot tell if it is her or Rush Limbaugh. That she would circulate Republican talking points is beyond belief. For that alone she should be punished within the party. Imagine if any Republican candidate for president based their campaign on circulating Democratic party talking points. They would be crucified. McCain indeed has been vilified by his own party for far less. One thing is certain: Hillary has lost the black vote forever, she has lost the young/college student vote forever. She has lost large swaths of the Democratic electorate forever. She is unelectable, and if she doesn't believe that, maybe she should read and circulate some of the Republican talking points used against her.
This time Senator Clinton is dead right. 'Senator Obama's remarks are elitist and they are out of touch. . . . Americans who believe in the Second Amendment believe it¹s a matter of Constitutional rights. Americans who believe in God believe it is a matter of personal faith.' That's right on target. I don't know much about 'CBN's David Brody', but he sounds pretty elitist to me.
So now Clinton's implicitly coming out against gun control laws and gay rights? Yeah, plenty of scruples there...
Obama's statements proves that he is lying to the American people about Free Trade. He secretly supports it, but is pretending to oppose it to gain Union support. How can anyone vote for a liar like Obama?
Thanks for posting the link to Brody's remarks. It is always good to see a Christian actually practicing the faith. Meanwhile, back in the land of politics as usual, it is depressing beyond belief to watch Clinton dive in (and distort) Obama's words with such gusto. Not that it's news that she's a cynical manipulative pol. But if you want to know why politics turns off so many Americans, have a gander. Gotcha politics unrelated to any substantive issues. The sort of politics that can only work if people choose to check their brains and their integrity and their aspirations at the door.
I may not agree with his general politics but Brody's proving himself one of the most even-handed journos out there. At least as far as Obama's concerned, he's consistently given him the benefit of the doubt. If only more Democrats would do the same...
Depressing, yes, but she sure is happy to have an excuse to lie again. It's like candy to her.
Senator Obama did not disparage guns, or gun ownership. He recognized two basic traditions in rural America -- guns and religion. He missed one other, the local pub (usually associated with the American Legion) where people go to complain about politicians who praised NAFTA to get it passed, but now claim they opposed it all along. When hard times hit, people do cling to their traditions. People do this everywhere. This isn't a slight; it is recognition. My parents were born and raised in a very small Kansas town and neither of them is insulted. In fact, most of those I know are either appalled, angry, bitter or saddened by the current state of our Country. 81% of us think our Country is on the wrong track. How come so many people who neither now live, nor ever have lived in rural America are feigning outrage? Senator Clinton attempted to create a "grass-roots" outrage out of this-- "In Goldsboro, close observers noticed a (light) smattering of stickers being worn by attendees. "I'm not bitter!" read the simple rectangular label on the lapels of a couple dozen in the crowd. The campaign says that the stickers are evidence of outrage at the grassroots level. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/12/882730.aspx Nice try, but it won't work. Most of us are bitter, frustrated, angry and plain sad.
I just wish someone in the media would play the whole context of Obama's speech, instead of the 10 or 15 seconds taken out of context. And, then I would like someone to point out how Hillary and McCain are working together to try and undermine Obama. I am So Proud that we finally have an honest politician, who is "SO IN TOUCH" with what our country needs. It is not Hillary, who believes it is her turn to be President and the party can fall on it's face if she isn't. It is not McCain who couldn't tie 3 words together, without Hillary's help. It's Obama who we believe in. He should not back down in any way because what he said was true. The entire country is angry and bitter and frustrated, because until now there hasn't been a politician around that we could believe in. Obama should not take public funds either. The only reason McCain is trying to force him to do it is because the country's people won't fund his race for President. McCain and the "other" republican, Hillary, need to step back because Obama was right.
Are Clinton's attacks on Obama's statement more "pot calling kettle" talk? This quote from TPM ( http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ ) is starting to pop up on several sites. I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing. Even more so to see her pretending to be a gun-toting non-elite. Give us a break! I wonder if she realizes that gaining a few days of lurid publicity that might reach a slice of voters is going to cost her a great deal in the regard of many Democrats, whose strong support she will need if she somehow claws her way to the nomination -- and even more so if she does not clinch the nomination. The distribution of "we're not bitter" stickers to her campaign rallies is the height of over-the-top crudity, and the reports are that very few audience members seem to have much enthusiasm for this nonsense. Not surprisingly, people cannot see the reasons for so much fuss. Yes, she wants a big break, she desperately wants the nomination she and Bill believe is hers by right. We all know that. But where is her authenticity and her dignity and her sense of any proportion? This has to be one of the few times in U.S. political history when a multi-millionaire has accused a much less wealthy fellow public servant, a person of the same party and views who made much less lucrative career choices, of "elitism"! (I won't say the only time, because U.S. political history is full of absurdities of this sort.) In a way, it is funny -- and it may not be long before the jokes start.
Marc: Do you know how to play fair? That is, can you dissect all pols. with passion, just like JAGs. Here is the video: Politico broke the story. Atlantic did not. Why? Because it was not about GOP? Ha. You are so predictable. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Video_from_San_Francisco.html
It amazes me to see those who are mccain supporters, clinton supporters, obama supporters, and supposed obama supporters but are actually mccain and/or clinton supporters blogging on this topic. Obama doesn't have a working class/small town background, but neither does Clinton or McCain. Obama has come from a more privileged background than I did, but Clinton can from a very wealthy suburban area of Chicago and went to a very elite college and McCain came from a well off family and married a beer heiress so financial he is doing fine. All I have to say is lets me even handed with our criticism people clinton and mccain folks are going to be pissed off at Obama if he said the sky is falling and the world will end tomorrow. At the end of the day, I want to know how will you bring jobs or create jobs in America that have been shipped to China because of cheap labor standards? I don't care about the bitter-gate crap...lets talk about the issues or are we going to go through another election cycle of playing gotcha games with each other? Who will these games benefit? Sure as hell wont benefit working class folks who can care less about this crap and care more about how I will get a job that will provide money to put food the table.
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what's "demeaning" is that Hillary Clinton thinks people are stupid -
that she will become president and the clock will go back to before 9/11, to before the internet boom and to before she was an exceptionally wealthy out of touch washington insider
when the Clinton campaign is sending around talking points and literature from the Republican National Commitee and John McCain's campaign you know this democratic nominating contest has gone on far too long –
"What's the Matter with Kansas?" by Thomas Frank questioned why citizens constantly vote against their own best interests - and that is exactly what Sen Obama was saying –
What;'s the Matter with America?
The Ciintons and the McCain are in the top 1% of wealth in this country; the Clintons are the champions of free trade, McCain believes in all those tax cuts for the wealthy and the media is going to allow them to portray Obama as an "elitist"??
What the matter with this country—
Posted by alison | April 12, 2008 3:49 PM