Barack Obama, April 6, San Francisco fund-raiser:
"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."
4 months earlier....somewhere in middle America:
I'll never forget coming across this license plate. It was a few months ago when I was working for Tempur Pedic making deliveries across a lot of the Ohio valley states, and my driver and I had a short drop off to a mattress store in rural, and I mean rural Indiana. After we finished unloading, I walked to the side of the store to pet a man's German Shepherd (cause lets face it, those dogs are awesome) and I came across the owners truck, which had this license plate on the front. My first instinct was to take a picture, not so much cause I was in total agreement, but because the sentiment it carried with rural America was too perfect to ignore. Was it a little over the top? Possibly. Jingoistic? Maybe to some people. What I can guarantee however, is that store owner was obviously proud of having that on the front of his truck, and that there are millions of Americans living between our two mountain ranges that carry the same beliefs with them when they go to work. The more our Harvard educated, self anointed potential savior of this country understands this, the more he'll regret rubbing those tapered shoulders with pseudo intellectual San Franciscans.
"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."
4 months earlier....somewhere in middle America:
I'll never forget coming across this license plate. It was a few months ago when I was working for Tempur Pedic making deliveries across a lot of the Ohio valley states, and my driver and I had a short drop off to a mattress store in rural, and I mean rural Indiana. After we finished unloading, I walked to the side of the store to pet a man's German Shepherd (cause lets face it, those dogs are awesome) and I came across the owners truck, which had this license plate on the front. My first instinct was to take a picture, not so much cause I was in total agreement, but because the sentiment it carried with rural America was too perfect to ignore. Was it a little over the top? Possibly. Jingoistic? Maybe to some people. What I can guarantee however, is that store owner was obviously proud of having that on the front of his truck, and that there are millions of Americans living between our two mountain ranges that carry the same beliefs with them when they go to work. The more our Harvard educated, self anointed potential savior of this country understands this, the more he'll regret rubbing those tapered shoulders with pseudo intellectual San Franciscans.
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