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Election Day American Idol - Vote for None of the Above

I think we’ll do both AI and election snark tonight, because I think the election is far more interesting than Susan, Cookie, and Crazy Carly. So see? You don’t even have to be a masochist and watch AI to jump in and heckle the chumps–heckle the chumps from AI or the candidates with us!

Brooke (who seriously needs to STFU) is the latest target at Vote for the Worst, although VFTW seems to have the opposite intended effect this year. (Thank God!)

UPDATE:
Be here tomorrow night for execution–er, elimination night!

Election Day Twitter Watch

Get all the updates about the election on Twitter. Here’s what I’m watching today:

Be sure to watch updates from Election Journal and Patrick Ruffini in particular.

Arrests and more fun already in PA!

Wanna stay on top of reports of election shenanigans today? Go to Election Journal.
The latest (as of 8:30 Eastern):

At the Police Athletic League Center, Frankford & Ruan, which houses polls for 2 precincts, witnesses report a campaign worker for the local State Rep began ripping down signs for his primary opponent. An altercation developed between volunteers for the rival campaigns. The police were called to calm the situation.

You can report incidents to them here, and you can get updates from Twitter. This being a contentious Democrat primary, I’m pretty sure you can expect a lot of action today. It’ll be like watching hockey. ;)

If you don’t support Obama, you are mentally ill.

Bitter, angry, and yes, RACIST. It’s not just a difference of opinion; there’s something wrong with you, you ugly, bitter racist.

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 (laughter), then that adds another layer of skepticism.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall during one of Prince Barry’s private conversations about voters.

HALP US BRAK, WE R STUCK IN SMALL TOWN

Lorien1973’s small town:

I’m thinking that between this and SNOBama, we might have a full-blown photoshopfest coming, á la the Mohammed cartoons or Pallywood. How about it, y’all?

stein hoist More at Ace’s.

Bitter people cling to God; enlightened people cling to teh Obamessiah

I know, I’ve posted this before. It just seems so appropriate right now. ;-)

Barack Obama or Jesus?

And then there’s this (which I hadn’t posted until now):

Bamboozled, indeed.

What Barack Obama’s “bitter voters” sentiment really means

I’ve looked around at the blogs talking about this elitist crap, and found (as has everyone else who’s looked) a lot of apologetics saying “he speaks the truth.” Well, they’re partially right. He does speak the truth about what the Left thinks of Middle America/Flyover Country. This, of course, is nothing new–we all know how they think anyone who doesn’t subscribe to The Party Line is ignorant, backwards, and bigoted. And nowadays, it’s even worse: anyone who doesn’t support Obamessianism is a “racist.”

Remember this?

Barack Obamism -Fuck Middle America

Think Prince Barry feels any different about you “typical white people” who have religion and God as a salve for your “frustrations?” Your “fears?” You know, like in ancient times when people were terrified by solar eclipses and other natural events and blamed the gods for them? That’s you, ignorant rube. You are full of fear and ignorance, so you turn to guns and God, just like cavemen and primitive people. That’s you. “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.”* Isn’t that what Obama and his “church” are all about–”oppressed” people? A “heartless” nation? “Soullessness” in America?

That’s why you fall for “the politics of fear”–the Left’s favorite lie–because you’re afraid and ignorant, and if you were only educated and enlightened like they are, you would have all the answers, and you’d have Hope™ for Change™. THAT is what they think of us.

But hey, we can’t help it. We’re just “bitter.” We aren’t capable of critical thinking, because we didn’t drink the kool-aid from academia (if in fact we’ve ever seen higher education at all). That’s why only the “unsuccessful” end up in Iraq, because they’re brainwashed and otherwise hopeless, right? That’s why we rednecks (Southerners) consistently vote Republican, right? We don’t vote in our own best interests, because we’re brainwashed by fear-mongers and don’t understand the “truth.” They know what’s best for us little people, and when we don’t vote for them, it’s “Fuck Middle America.” The truly “bitter” people vote for angry, arrogant liberals anyway. Now he’s saying he was talking about the “bitter” people in his hometown and the people he’s met among his supporters? LOL. Those aren’t the people who are “clinging” to God, guns, and anti-immigration thought, anyway. He was absolutely insulting everyone who doesn’t support him–you know, the same people who don’t support him because we obviously are just afraid of the “scary black man.” The real truth is, if we’re bitter, it’s because we’re sick and tired of the arrogant bigotry of elitist jackasses like Barack Obama on the Left.

Now, Obama can repackage that garbage in lofty platitudes all he wants, and those who share his opinion of “middle America” will lap up that lie and “make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they (we) will believe it.”*

Sorry, Pennsylvania, you’ll be part of Dumbfuckistan as well, if you don’t vote for teh Obamessiah. Those states in which he won the primaries are only granted a temporary reprieve until you readmit yourselves in November.

Middle America - Dumbfuckistan

UPDATE: A commenter at Just One Minute nails it.

HALP US BROK O’BOMBA– WE R STUCK HEAR N ALTOONA.

That quite nicely sums it up. :D Ed Morrissey has more distillation of this colossal slip of the tongue.

SNOBama

Exactly what I was looking for. This one’s a keeper.

What next, a Jon Carry “botched joke” about dummies ending up in Iraq?

(Related entry, also here.)

stein hoist BSC Beth (more blog reactions there, along with a nice takedown of his cryptomarxism)
SPECIAL thanks to Tennyson for the brilliant artwork!

Hey, Pennsylvania: Obama is better than you hicks!

What an arrogant, elitist, out-of-touch, ignorant, closed-minded asshat.

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…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.

Oh, but he will. LOL. That’s not the good part, though.

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.

Shorter Obama: You’re all a bunch of ignorant, xenophobic, fundie hicks, but that’s okay, because you little people can’t help it.

I’m not a Pennsylvanian or a small-towner (well, maybe I am, compared to those in the liberal meccas of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, or NYC), but I’ve known more small-towners in my adult life than not. In fact, I married two–one from Pennsylvania, in fact, and the other from the southern tier of New York State (for all practical purposes, just like PA). I’ve got news for Obama and his ilk: You don’t know jack about those people. Far be it from me to defend my exes, but damn. “Those people” are very representative of America as a whole, Barry. You FAIL. Your contempt for “flyover country” will not be forgotten.

This is typical liberal elitist crap that his latte liberal supporters “know” is the “truth”–at least in their sheltered, pretty little world. I’m sure his remarks didn’t strike anyone in his audience at the time as remarkable; in fact, they probably were nodding their heads in agreement. I’m sure Obama didn’t even understand how his remarks would appear to the rest of the voting public outside his little amen corner.

What’s funny: his apparent disdain for religion. It just goes to show how his “church” and his “spiritual mentor” have nothing to do with Christianity, but instead, class warfare. And worse, limousine liberal class warfare, because they think they know what’s best for the “little people.” In fact, they have absolutely no idea–everything they stand for is old, tired, and failed. If liberals gave a damn about the “little people,” they’d support things like school choice, school vouchers, and lower, flat taxes (unlike them, I’ve done the math). They wouldn’t look at children as “punishment.” They wouldn’t be pushing the disadvantaged and minorities to abort their children at every turn, regardless of whether they believe it’s “better” for those people to have fewer children. It’s not The Elites’ decision to make.

Mayhill Fowler at the despicable Huffington Post (the first comment says: “he is right”), who reported Obama’s faux pas:

Wednesday in Levittown, Obama told his audience, “We can find areas of common ground.” But if we are going to move from divisiveness to comity, then Obama must show that he can lead us to see one another at our best and to measure one another at our highest worth.

Exactly. Obama is quickly becoming even more polarizing than Hillary Clinton, because he just can’t hide his true self forever. Common ground? Frankly, I can find more “common ground” with Shrillary than I’d ever find with Obama. “Just words” is all he has, and those words, those platitudes, are so obviously false that it makes me howl with derision.

Here’s common ground I’ve found with Billary: “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

Oh, I forgot. Criticizing Teh Obamessiah is “racist.” Go to hell, lying leftard bottom-feeders.

HopeChange™. NO THANK YOU. I spit on his elitist, arrogant latte liberalism.

UPDATE: The McCain campaign responds:

“Barack Obama apparently believes that for Americans less privileged than him, religion is an economic-based and not faith-based condition,” Mark Salter, a senior campaign adviser for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tells ABC News.

“It is hardly news that Senator Obama’s ‘new’ approach to politics is based on the presumption that voters are easily fooled,” Salter continues, “but the arrogance and elitism he shows here is truly astonishing, and very revealing about how he would govern this country.”
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McCain adviser Steve Schmidt called Obama’s thoughts on small town Pennsylvanians a “remarkable statement and extremely revealing…It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking. It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans.”

Breathtaking, indeed. To put it politely.

From South Flyover Country to you, Barack Obama:

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