Obama and Bitterness

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This is just a short post because I should be leaving for the post office, but Obama's comments about Midwesterners, etc being bitter about politicians and the economy that he's getting blasted for by both Hilary and McCain?

When he made them here, in a high school gym full of rust belt survivors, there was loud clapping and cheering if not standing loud clapping and cheering.

It was not condescending or whatever else they are saying it was. It was more like "My God! Somebody finally gets it!!"

 

[Totenkindly]

I think all the criticism is crap.

His whole aim was to say, "You guys got shafted during the Clinton/Bush years, and it's made life hard for you, sometimes overfocusing on the few things you've got left to make your lives feel stable or to protect yourself... and we're going to change that."

I am SO sick of political campaigns. The whole point is to exploit someone else's comments in order to make them look bad. Real communication is actually seeking to build bridges and accepting the other guy is trying to do something good.

 

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I am just bitter about politics over all. I don't single any one politician out for this.

 

[cafe]

Yeah. I barely dare to hope at this point.

I mean, say that Obama is the exceptional politician who is everything he appears to be, can the machine even be fought at this point? The House and Senate are corporate property and the President only has so much power.

This is a bunny trail, but I told my sister-in-law I was going to hear Obama and was talking about maybe voting for him. She told me she has a problem with him because his middle name is Hussein and because he smokes (it's a bad example to our kids!).

So I'm thinking "Yeah, I can see how a president that lets people loose their jobs and homes, not have access to health care, and blows people up is a much better example than someone who *gasp!* smokes."

 

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It it the MO for some economic relief when the Democrat gets into office. Of course many people never recovered from the Reagan/Bush recessions, so there will be people who don't recover from Bush II recession. However, there always seems to be a "good cop" show for labor and the economy when the dems are in.

People will have a problem with whatever the news tells them to have a problem with. Just like with this thing over Obama saying the "bitter" thing. Still overall Obama gets good press. Seems pretty favorable for him so far overall.

 

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