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It’s worth remembering that Obama was also talking about focusing more energy on solving the economic problems in Pennsylvania when, in this same speech, he said

“So, it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government … Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government … 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.”

This does not strike me as someone who is looking down on the unfortunate citizens in Pennsylvania. Rather it appears to that Obama is trying to understand the issues and solve the problems. Remember, Obama said “the places where we are going to have to do the most work” at the beginning of the speech. Context matters. Also, note that Obama never talked about the Constitution in this speech at all. He has, however, taught the history of the Constitution to college students while working at the University of Chicago. I bet Obama understands the Constitution much better than McCain does.

States like Ohio, Pennsylvania dem. states maybe.
But wacky far left dem.? Don’t think so.
Obama trying to understand issues and solve problems? Give me a break.

Maureen Moore said, “Context matters” and she is correct.
The proper context in which we should view Obama’s remarks are in an over arching seventy plus years view of far leftwing thought and political speech.
The fact that a free market capitolist system, a well armed citizenry with a faith firmly rooted in Judeo Christian ethics that is proud of American traditions and heros is the great hindrance to what Obama and his Marxist true believers want to set up in this land.
Obama and his ilk want a powerful, centralized, faceless, all knowing , all seeing, nanny state of multilple bureaucracies seeking to stiffle any attempt to have the individual make those decisions that would best serve that person.
The greatest threat to Obama and his view of our future is a healthy traditional christian nuclear family that understands their constitutional rights and respects the history of this great country.
Thats the “context” we should use when reading Obama’s remarks.

Maureen,

Boring, predictable comments. Does the BO ideological followers have anything creative to say? Anything upbeat and positive to say? No, that would go against their almighty leader’s platform of everything wrong with America.

Boring, predictable, and lacks creativity. Same’o pile of liberal trash.

What was that the Amendments to te Constitution said about guns and religion? I can’t remember now. And don’t dare critcize his wife, publicly.

@jbh50…

Your(!) ‘mindless’ cut and paste comments directed at those who take the real time to “think” are getting very boring too now…

Maybe Bart should click this poster’s comments into the ‘automatic moderation’ column…

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McCain is an old, unfunny idiot. This man is least presidential than George Bush and that’s saying a whole lot. He’s tired and so is his campaign. The GOP Congressional Group won’t even back this old PATRIOT Fart!

Woah, this is a grumpy group of posters. I thought McCain “acted” like a conservative quite well.

“This does not strike me as someone who is looking down on the unfortunate citizens in Pennsylvania. Rather it appears to that Obama is trying to understand the issues and solve the problems”

Maureen…those are empty comments. He offered no solutions. Didnt even commit to solving anything except to promise “change”. He is an empty suit.
McCain is no better.

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