Apr 13 2008
Bitter and clinging to religion?
[LA Times]
Battling for support in Pennsylvania and other blue-collar bastions, Barack Obama fended off charges of elitism and insensitivity Friday after painting a harsh portrait of America’s struggling small towns.
The controversy — fanned by rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain — began when the Huffington Post website published remarks the Illinois senator made last weekend at a closed-door San Francisco fundraiser.
In those comments, Obama said he understood why residents of some hard-pressed communities grew angry.
“You go into 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,” Obama said. “And it’s not surprising, then, 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.”
Read about it here.
[From me]
I’m not angry or bitter. But I do cling to Jesus because without His power living through me I worthless.
What do you think?
3 responses so far
People in Pennsylvania stick together when things get rough. They do not riot or blame the Government like the scum in New Orleans. Obama encouaged the rioting in New Orleans and this will back fire on him.
I am trying to figure out what was wrong about what he said.
75% of my clan (immediate + extended) lives in a small town (cue Mellancamp). They get hit hard when times are tough. But they pull together and make the best of it.
Religion is a sumbitch and it has done more to destroy then uplift. Religion is man-made. Love of Christ is God-made. When we are able to shed the pieces of religion in everybody’s life is when we take a full step closer to fully realizing who God is by His word and not what man has told us.
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Here is what Obama said in 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGF3cyHE7M