Hi again Hillsie. I just read an article in the WaPo (which, like ABC news, is near & dear to my heart) I wanted to let you know that other people are saying what I said yesterday:
“He did a nice job of speaking directly to us. That was one of my biggest concerns . . . if he knew what he was talking about with respect to” the economy, said Marianne Deitche, a high school teacher. “There are so many ways you can gloss over it, but he didn’t gloss.”
In Reading, Dale Pszczolkowski, 55, said he does not expect any candidate to be able to prevent the closing of the factory where candy has been made for more than a century, where he has repaired machines for the past 29 years and where 350 people will lose their jobs this year. But he said he is warming up to Obama, even though he knows that Obama’s target audience tends to be younger and more cosmopolitan. “I relate to him,” he said. “I have nothing against him.”
We’d say this about you if you’d do it but (1) you’re in denial that Pennsylvanians (=> Americans) feel this way and (2) you’ve only talked to people in Philly & Pittsburgh and a few college campuses. While you’re in big cities and at universities, he’s at factories, mills and small town meetings. You call him “elitist” but do you see the irony of what you’re saying and why Pennsylvanians wrre going around this weekend literally laughing at that characterization? You get what I’m saying yet? The clock is ticking.
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April 13, 2008 at 10:53 am
The two of them fighting over who better understands the poor unemployed blue-collar worker never fails to crack me up.
April 13, 2008 at 11:02 am
I’ve pretty much stopped watching any coverage of the campaign. I am so sick of it, I just have no interest. That’s saying a lot for me.
April 13, 2008 at 11:03 am
It is just ridiculous. A lot of people around here are saying, “At least he’s been middle class at some point in life.”
What I find funniest about the whole thing is Hillary Clinton calling Barack Obama “elitist.” Come on! If she wants to keep attacking him (which is among the “stupid shit” I referenced in the previous post), she should at least be accurate and find points on which he’s weak instead of calling him names that are perceived untrue of him and yet true of her!
We here at Chez Piggyhawk were Hillary supporters until the last few weeks. Hillary’s not said anything to us while Barack has been around a few times and is talking about issues we find important.
And then I get a note from a Hillary minion telling me there are events in my area this week. Is she coming? No. She’s sending Samwise Gamgee (you can’t carry Pennsylvania, but I can carry you!). Much as I like Sean Astin (and much as I think he robbed of an Oscar nom for ROTK), wtf is he doing here? It makes her look more out of touch, more “elitist,” and really sends the “I can’t be bothered” message, which is another thing people are saying about her in the vast area between Philly & Da Burgh.
I think if PA goes for Obama (and it’s smelling like it will), it’ll be indicative of how very poorly handled the Clinton camp is. If you can’t run an effective campaign, how do you run an effective White House? They sat back and decided PA was in the bag. Meanwhile Obama came to listen to people and people are responding. I think if she’d put forth the slightest bit of effort around here, she wouldn’t be losing support the way that she is.
In any case, I’m an independent. Just give me a candidate I want to vote for in November and things’ll be great.
April 13, 2008 at 11:54 am
Perhaps neither can truly understand what being poor is like, but it makes sense that the person who actually meets with and listens to them is going to get closer to it.
April 13, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I’ve thought from the beginning that Hillary had no real chance. More and more, I think I’m right.
I don’t know how you stomach your elections.
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