47 posts tagged bittergate

Hours before bitter-gate at a speaking engagement just before the comments about guns and “bitter” were made, Obama revealed his true feelings about guns.  Obama made the following statement, “[w]e need sensible gun laws,” said the Senator. “I just got back from Montana where just about everyone has guns.

Here Obama patronizes a female reporter who asked him how he proposed to help autoworkers in Detroit, Michigan. Barack displays his usual smugness and arrogance which puts him at odds with blue -collar voters.

The website obamatruth.org has more. It’s easy to not like the Obamas when you see what they are about.  It’s the doublespeak, always.  That makes Obama untrustable.  Like this, from the Baltimore Sun’s The Swamp He said, quoted here: “…What I think is unpatriotic is when I see trade agreements

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, speaks during a town hall-style meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., Tuesday, April 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Barack Obama is looking to get his campaign back on track today after making a strong effort to distance himself from his

EVANSVILLE (AP) — In the midst of daunting pressure from his rivals, Barack Obama caused an outburst and renewed cries of racism today when he called a white fence "black."

Remember the silly scandal that was "Bittergate?" Well, Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, which has been cited too many times to count in the last month, actually did write an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. It is elegantly written: "Elitism" is thus a crime not of society's actual elite, but of its intellectuals.

Via NYT: “Whether watching television news, consulting political blogs or (more rarely) reading books, Americans today have become a people in search of validation for opinions that they already hold,” Susan Jacoby, the author of “The Age of American Unreason,” writes on the op-ed page of The Los Angeles Times.

Sorry, that was completely unwarranted but I couldn’t resist. The Journal has hired Thomas Frank, author of “What’s The Matter With Kansas?” to do a weekly column and in effect be the Journal’s left-of-center token columnist.

Obama: Narrow, Prejudiced, Little Man Posted by Bill Hennessy at April 20, 2008 The thinking, scientific world owes much to James Joyner and Arthur Brooks for this piece examining the socio-economic background of American gun owners.

Obama: Narrow, Prejudiced, Little Man Posted by Bill Hennessy at April 20, 2008 The thinking, scientific world owes much to James Joyner and Arthur Brooks for this piece examining the socio-economic background of American gun owners.