BO Leaks the Truth

"But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. 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 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. So it's not surprising then that 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."

Guys like BO need to always tell us "but the truth is", and then continually lie when their lips start moving, since their actual views are completely out of step with 70-80% of the American public. It isn't that HillBilly really believes anything different, but the Clinton campaign is furiously trying to get some play out of this. We will see how effective MSM blockage of the real smell of BO is.

I happen to have grown up on a very small dairy farm and went to school in a town of 2K people. My wife grew up on a crop farm and went to school in an equally small town. Unlike Michelle Obama, and most likely BO, we have always been proud of our country, and the vast majority of folks that live in those towns would still do a far better job of speaking for the values of America than BO and his poor ashamed wife.

Might they justifiably be unhappy about a candidate who runs on no substance whatsoever, has a wife that isn't even proud of the country he wants to be president of, and whom maligns the very people who know way more about character and values than BO ever will? Sure, but it doesn't have much to do with him being black. Yes, there are folks that are taken in by the MSM and elites like the BOs in even small town America, but in general, those folks are a lot closer to "clinging to" the American values of hard work, character, personal responsibility, and yes, even faith in God than Ivy League lawyers like the BOs.

Are they unhappy that they have lost jobs? Sure, but mostly because the MSM and the Democrats have convinced them that you can still have union wages and work rules, not have to get the education to compete and that "some corporate CEO" was "taking their jobs". Those same Democrats were running the tax, regulation, union support, and "it isn't your fault" rhetoric that was TAKING their jobs. Nobody likes losing jobs, and they like it less when they are told it is part of some "vast global right-wing conspiracy", rather than simply the need to compete successfully in a global market, which all those "clinging" folks are more than capable of doing if they were told what the playing field really was, rather than just being filled with a bunch of useless class warfare rhetoric.

BO needs to get his story straight. In his book, he talks of the disaster of "the '70s and '80s", blithly running the Reagan ec0nomic boom in with the Carter economic swoon, but giving Willy credit for "good times". The numbers and ranking are so easy to see that anyone that can't figure Reagan as the best economy and Slick and Bush so close to each other that one could nod either way if we didn't consider 9-11 and the stock market crash of 2K that moved to recession. We can bet that whatever happens BAD in the economy this year will be charged to Bush, and this year isn't over, so we can't say for sure.