I could do like you and make some up without giving any references
Here's a question: Does the fact that Obama appears to have outright lied during much of his campaign for President not bother you? (I'm not claiming that the same wouldn't have turned out true for McCain, by the way)
Here's a good one for you, with a source, not like it matters
Even though it happened (tail end of video on that one), I guess it's fine to just hope it's made up.
A presidential candidate lied on the campaign trail? Holy ****, breaking news here Brizz. This happens so often it's a dead-horse joke, Obama is no different. I've said as much on several occasions. He's a clod.
And while "bitter people clinging to their guns and religion" was a pretty hard rip, I don't equate
*people being bitter over the government's failure to help their communities explains things better than just calling them racists
with
*people hate the country or are unpatriotic or are not real americans because they don't vote for your party. Dissenters or protesters should worship us for fighting a war -- which has nothing to do with domestic free speech rights -- so that they have the right to protest that we give to them.
For reference, full text of his statement minus some irrelevant self-advertisement bits was:
Obama said:I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre…I think they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today – kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.
Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).
But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ <snip>Talking points about his tax cut for 95% spiel<snip>
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. 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.
Paraphrased: We're going to have to work hard in areas where people are cynical about government. I think people are misunderstanding when they say it's a race thing and that these people just don't want to vote for the black guy. These people's communities have been hit hard, the government has lied to them and not helped them and -- while me being black does add a layer to it for some people -- when they hear somebody preaching a government solution, they don't buy it. Our challenge is to prove that our methods help in their everyday lives, which they haven't seen until now. They've gotten bitter and cling to guns and religion, etc.