I got to thinking, Obama is right about us small towners.

[Rebel Yell]

Barack Hussein Obama has generated a lot of heat for this comment made April 6: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and ... the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them ... 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."
Yes, Mr. Obama, you are right.

1.) Jobs are gone.  Yes.  The U.S. has been shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service economy for years .  Now we're shifting from a service economy to a welfare economy.  Unearned money from the government is welfare.  This will kill us.  In order to bring back jobs, Americans must shift focus.  We must do two things.  Buy American.  Insist on quality.

2.)  We cling to guns.  Mr. Obama, if you get the chance to come after our guns, as you very much want to do, you'll find out WHY we cling to guns.  It's the only way to preserve what liberties we do have.

3.)  We cling to religion.  Well.  For someone who claims to be a Christian but is muslim educated, supports a hate mongering pastor, and is well schooled in double talk, if you were a real Christian, you'd understand why.  Our hope is not of this world.  But while we're in this world, we intend to preserve our right to worship our God and if it requires guns to protect that right, we'll do it.

4.) We have antipathy to people not like us.  Yes, we do.  We're tired of "experts" from Ivy League schools and major cities who've never known what it's like to wonder how to pay the light bill coming to our towns and telling us what to do.  You and Ted Kennedy need a reality check.  Most Americans work hard for what we have, only to see people like you threaten to take it away.  Yeah, we have antipathy.

5.)  We have anti-immigrant sentiments.  Yes, we do.  We massively object to to immigrants coming to our towns illegally, drinking and driving, getting into fights, clogging our emergency rooms, our court systems and getting welfarefrom the government they do not support with taxes.  Come into our towns legally, get a job, obey the law, buy a few guns, join a local church and we'll cheer our heads off when your kids makes the winning touchdown in the football game.

6.) We have anti-trade sentiments.  We massively object to trade treaties that don't level the playing field.  We massively object to the use of DDT in foreign countries on crops imported to the U.S.  We massively object to 9 year old kids working 16 hours a day for e few cents.

Frustrated?  Yes, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, we are frustrated.  we are frustrated with a governmentthat has lost touch with us.  We are frustrated with a government that that seeks to take away even more of our rights.  We are frustrated with a government that coddles our enemies and penalizes us for criticizing our enemies. Yes, Mr. Obama, we are frustrated, frustratd with the kind of government you support and seek to make stronger.

[CactusCarlos]

Well stated.  H5.

[DixieBelle]

Well said! H5 buddy.

[Rebel Yell]

That is the overwhelming sentiment in this small town, anyway.

[PatriotGame]

Buck Ofama!

H5+1

[franksolich]

4.) We have antipathy to people not like us.  Yes, we do.  We're tired of "experts" from Ivy League schools and major cities who've never known what it's like to wonder how to pay the light bill coming to our towns and telling us what to do.  You and Ted Kennedy need a reality check.  Most Americans work hard for what we have, only to see people like you threaten to take it away.  Yeah, we have antipathy.

I think this can found true for an entire state, too, such as Nebraska, the 9th-smallest state in the union.

But it can backfire.

In 2000, some people got the gay-marriage issue on the ballot (to okay it, not to ban it).

Ho-hum, most people here thought.

Barely were the petitions to put it on the ballot certified, and barely before the news had gotten out in the state, the gay lobbies from New York City and San Francisco decided to make Nebraska a "test case."

All these strangers were deplaning and deautomobiling before anybody here had any idea who, and what, they were, and why they had suddenly come here.

This happened within hours; no Nebraska voter even had a chance to think about the matter, to mull over the matter, of gay marriage in his own mind, and here all these strange people were telling us what we were to think of the issue.  There were lots and lots of them running around, and they weren't soft and gentle in their "persuasion."  It was like we were being bullied.

Constant "in your face stuff."

Now, Nebraskans tend to be live-and-let-live, and no one has any idea how this might have turned out if the rude outsiders had stayed away, although one quite reasonably suspects in the worst-case scenario (worst for the gay marriage advocates), it would have lost by a slim margin.  It might have even won; after all, Nebraska has gay people too.  As it was, it lost by an overwhelming margin.

What turned the Nebraska electorate so decisively was the rude inconsideration of the gay lobby, prancing and dancing and hopping and skipping and frolicking through Nebraska, their gaudy bright earrings and nose-rings and chin-rings and tit-rings and navel-rings and rings further down, jingle-jangling all sorts of noises and the sun reflecting at odd angles from the sparkling ornamentation.

All this noise, all these sudden spurts of bright lights, these strange things running around, spooked the cattle.

Even urbanities in Omaha and Lincoln know the importance of cattle to the state and its livelihood, and get nervous when something's wrong with the cattle.  Spooked cattle, panick-stricken and running amok, are a difficult thing with which to deal; people get hurt, and even killed, trying to calm them down.

And so the issue lost, big-time.

[Chris_]

1.) Jobs are gone.  Yes.  The U.S. has been shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service economy for years .  Now we're shifting from a service economy to a welfare economy.  Unearned money from the government is welfare.  This will kill us.  In order to bring back jobs, Americans must shift focus.  We must do two things.  Buy American.  Insist on quality.

2.)  We cling to guns.  Mr. Obama, if you get the chance to come after our guns, as you very much want to do, you'll find out WHY we cling to guns.  It's the only way to preserve what liberties we do have.

Lots of firearm manufacturers in the United States.

Give an American a job: Buy a gun.