Obama on Rural and Working Class America, Circa 2004
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Stumble ThisThis should provide some context to the recent controversy over some of Obama's comments.
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Barack Obama,Charlie Rose Obama on Rural and Working Class America, Circa 2004
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Those with guns and religion to cling to are the lucky ones. The rest of us are left just being cynical and bitter.
The whole point being that we can't have a reasonable discussion about issues that affect quality of life, because people have become too cynical. Instead politics is nothing more than such hot-button topics as religion-based values or guns. If you draw strength from being able to own a gun or from your religion then more power to you. Well, you are lucky because politicos will say lots of interesting things for you to listen to. Those of us without such strong feelings who would rather have more substantive discussions within domestic politics about such things as the economy, the way the government operates, and the quality of life are out of luck.
Seems to me this candidate wanted to have an honest discussion with people, and instead the focus is turned onto the word "cling" like it was a terrible thing to say. I did not intend my sarcasm to offend. It was aimed at the environment of political discussion and not one particular group of people. Thus, I will cling to my cynicism until we can get past this war of words. If we can stop being offended at every turn of phrase and have honest and thoughtful debate I'd be pleasantly surprised.