Category: Small town America
By Bud White on Aug 27, 2008 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democratic Nomination, Donna Brazile, Flip Flopping, Gender Bias, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, Iowa, John McCain, Media Bias, Misogyny, Older voters, Pennsylvania, Race, Race Card, Racism, Sexism, Small town America, White Working Class, women | 161 Comments
In 1993, feminist alt-rocker Liz Phair released Exile in Guyville, a song-to-song response to The Rolling Stones’ superb Exile on Main Street.
I’ve been thinking about Liz Phair’s response to the rockin’ but boorish Rolling Stones after reading Jacob Weisberg’s If Obama Loses: Racism is the Only Reason McCain Might Beat Him in Slate. Unlike Phair, […]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 12, 2008 in 2nd Amendment, Barack Obama, Religion, Small town America | 67 Comments
That’s the bottom line of the very good piece by Mayfill Fowler in Huffington Post Thursday, “Zanesville On Obama’s Faith-Based Initiatives: Thanks But No Thanks.” You may recall that Ms. Fowler is the journalist who exposed Obama’s “bitter, clingy, church-y, gun-y” video a few months back. Interestingly, she is (or was - I don’t know […]
By Bud White on May 30, 2008 in Appalachia, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Current Affairs, Electability, Electoral College, Elitism, Media, Media Bias, Popular Vote, Presidential Candidates, Small town America, White People | 55 Comments
by Bud White and Medusa
In 2001, Gene Lyons and Joe Conason, both respected journalists of the center-left, co-authored The Hunting of the President, a frightening look at the Right’s conspiracy to destroy the Clintons. However, it is more frightening still to realize that the neo-liberals are putting to use the same tactics to destroy Hillary. […]
By Bud White on May 27, 2008 in Barack Obama, Clinton, Credentials Committee, Cultist Thugs, DNC, Daily Kos, Democrats, Disenfranchisement, Electability, Florida, George McGovern, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, Michigan, Popular Vote, Presidential Candidates, Race, Race Card, Small town America, Typical white person, White People | 167 Comments
Dorothea LANGE, “Migrant Mother,” 1936
A friend paraphrases a famous story to illustrate why she may vote Republican for the first time in 40 years: in the late 1960s, when the feminist movement was still thought of as a novelty, a boorish male reporter asked the heterosexual Gloria Steinem if she was a lesbian. Steinem responded, […]
By PatRacimora on May 3, 2008 in Alice Palmer, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Religion, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Small town America, Typical white person | 148 Comments
Perched on a picnic bench his week in Indiana, Michelle Obama asked the gathering to judge her husband based solely by the “choices he has made and his values.” Good directive, so I got started.
1. In his landmark speech in Philadelphia, he chose to say that Reverend Wright, his pastor of and counsel of 20 […]
By PaganPower on May 2, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Qualifications, Small town America, Soldiers/Veterans | 94 Comments
[At the end, I’ve included UPDATES from another great MyDD diary on the Obama campaign’s pathetic error.]
Senator Obama is at it again, taking credit for things someone else is doing and trying to craft an image of himself as an innovator and a leader. The only problem is that he is getting caught with his […]
By Bud White on May 1, 2008 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, North Carolina, Obamedia, Race, Race Card, Rep. James Clyburn, Small town America, Superdelegates, Taylor Marsh, White People, hate speech | 162 Comments
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire
Recent polls show that approximately 30% of Hillary voters could defect to McCain if Obama is the nominee. That such a large swath of Democratic voters might defect should be disconcerting to superdelegates, to say the least. I’ve been reflecting for several weeks […]
By Bud White on Apr 25, 2008 in Advertising, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Clinton, DNC, Electoral College, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Popular Vote, Presidential Candidates, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Small town America, Superdelegates | 50 Comments
After Obama’s devastating defeat in Pennsylvania, the Obama campaign released a memo addressed to the superdelegates but published in the Wall Street Journal which argues that Obama would be the strongest candidate in the Fall against McCain. The memo is so deeply flawed that Jerome Armstrong ridicules it as “satire,” and “exhibit A” for “intellectual […]
By Bud White on Apr 23, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, Clinton, Commander in Chief, Electoral College, Elitism, George McGovern, Hillary Clinton, Immigration Reform, John Kerry, Obama Attack Ads, Obamedia, Patriotism, Pennsylvania, Small town America, Superdelegates, Ted Kennedy, Typical white person | 150 Comments
The Clinton Team has a message for America after Pennsylvania, and it’s not spin. It’s a serious question every American and every Democrat should be asking: Why didn’t Obama win Pennsylvania?
But after the Obama campaign’s “go-for-broke” Pennsylvania strategy, after their avalanche of negative ads, negative mailers and negative attacks against Sen. Clinton, after their […]
By Bud White on Apr 15, 2008 in Abortion, Barack Obama, Clinton, Disenfranchisement, Electoral College, Elitism, Florida, Hillary Clinton, Ohio, Patriotism, Pennsylvania, Presidential Candidates, Small town America, White People | 93 Comments
John B. Judis, co-author with Ruy Teixeira of the superb The Emerging Democratic Majority, has a piece today in TNR on the damage Snob-gate has done to Obama. Judis is a respected observer of demographics and voting trends, and his words in this article are perhaps too cautious for his larger point. Superdelegates and Party […]
