bulldg4life: Everybody focuses on the "bitter" and the seemingly nasty words about republican rednecks and fails to see that he pretty much nailed it.

Or maybe most people who live in small towns actually believe in their faiths, use guns for the purposes for which they were intended, and think that the government should do more to protect US jobs from illegal immigrant labor.

I guess it's just fashionable to be really tolerant of everyone except gun-owning Christians. It's not "elitist," I hear you cry, but obviously he nailed it, he's smart like big-city atheist anti-gun me--I'm cool, they are not.

Obama's right, religion is a crutch, he just stuck his head out of his hotel during his Easter break from campaigning and told the press he headed a bible reading for his family, because we couldn't get back to Chicago to hear Rev. Wright's sermon about tolerating people different from ourselves. Then he went back in with his top people and did some brainstorming about how to open up US trade to foreign competitors provide amnesty to aliens, and revoke pistol permits, because he is THE OBAMA, and he is better and smarter and more tolerant of his fellow man, except those people in the small towns and the midwest, who clearly are inferior to him.

Farking hypocrite. I hereby rescind the vote I cast for him in the primary.

DamnYankees: Obama is really religious, though - you think he was bashing religion? That doesn't make any sense.

Then he says that other people are bitter and cling to their beliefs. So, that makes him either a) a hypocrite who goes to church because it's expected of a politician, or b) one who is intolerant of other religions, neither of which is acceptable to me. BTW, I'm not particularly religious, don't go to church, etc., a relaxed agnostic for President isn't a problem to me.

Also, he's much less anti-gun than Hillary.

Except for the "I'd outlaw carry permits" thing last week--the most anti-firearm statement by a presidential candidate I've ever heard. I doubt he's ever hunted, ever used a firearm to kill pests, or any of the many legitimate purposes for which most people keep firearms. But he doesn't mind the Secret Service walking around with firearms to protect him, apparently.

Kome: Yup. That's why it's impossible to get into a position of power in this country if you are one.

It sure seems to be the position of his defenders in this thread that Obama was correct in his assessment and that rednecks (note, not "people of rural residence" or similar, but an epithet) are too stupid to even be allowed to exercise their franchise. Nothing hypocritical about that. They are simply better, at least in their own minds, than people they have never met. Because Obama has said so.

zappaisfrank: Oh, you poor widdle victim.

Did I claim to be? I just said he lost my vote because he's a hypocrite. You may not believe this, you probably don't, but there are people in small towns who are smart, independantt-thinking, tolerant of race and sexual orientation, and liberal in most respects. Apparently the same is not true of Obama.

DamnYankees: Using the word 'cling' may have not been as tactful as we would like, but its not an insulting idea.

DamnYankees: The one which says "maybe he has a point about how this stuff works, and even if I think he is wrong, he is being intellectually honest',

What terror, real or perceived, makes him cling to his religion, then? What if the sauce is applied to the goose instead of the gander?

Kome: When did he call them rednecks? And when did he say they were stupid?

I was talking about his defenders in this thread. Perhaps even your post of 09:43:03, which sure seems to say that he is right about the guns, religion and antipathy.

MonkeyVegetables: you werent going to vote for him anyway

Actually, I was. But not now. You know, not everyone that disagrees with you is a small-town republican who watches Christian television. Some voters are looking for someone smart and honest. I used to think that about Mr. Obama. Until he got a little careless around the cameras, and the gilt came off.

/you can make up what ever reason lets you sleep at night

I'll be fine, don't worry.