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Anyone who is willing to be even semi-honest with themselves about these comments can realize that there is a great deal of underlying truth here. It is the fact that people cannot even have discussions about core issues underlying poverty without having love of God and country questioned that really demonstrates what a precipitous juncture our Democracy has reached. When Hillary Clinton, who in posing as a candidate for President who is supposed to represent the more liberal end of the spectrum, criticizes Obama for such comments and boards the same bang-wagon driven by the Republican candidate John McCain, that people who are looking for rigorous, intellectual debate begin to feel all hope fade. Obama's words below should be the punctuation to this, hopefully brief, diversion because they make "sense". ~If that is allowed anymore.
"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."
Anyone who is willing to be even semi-honest with themselves about these comments can realize that there is a great deal of underlying truth here. It is the fact that people cannot even have discussions about core issues underlying poverty without having love of God and country questioned that really demonstrates what a precipitous juncture our Democracy has reached. When Hillary Clinton, who in posing as a candidate for President who is supposed to represent the more liberal end of the spectrum, criticizes Obama for such comments and boards the same bang-wagon driven by the Republican candidate John McCain, that people who are looking for rigorous, intellectual debate begin to feel all hope fade. Obama's words below should be the punctuation to this, hopefully brief, diversion because they make "sense". ~If that is allowed anymore.
"When we get past the politics of division and distraction, and we start focusing on what we have in common there is nothing we can't accomplish. "-- Obama from speech in Indiana.
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