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A - Are Hicks, B - Are Hillbillies, C - Are Rednecks, D - Don't appreciate where you're going with this

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  • Posted By: mammaw20 @ 03/03/2009 10:13:54 PM

    I myself am from wv and am pretty damn proud of my state. the memories as being a kid from so far down in the mountains that the sunshine had to be piped in is ok with me and as far as laugh at us at least they are leaving someone else alone. but one very important thing if it wasn't for us folks from the hills the rest of the world wouldn't know anything about job security. thats why alot of us still work in the coal mines.makes ya'all think huh

  • Posted By: mammaw20 @ 03/03/2009 10:06:39 PM

    i myself am from wv yes there is no place like home and as long as you have that feeling then the rest can just pass me by its all about being happy and contentment. I remember granny being in the garden and grandpap telling us that we are from so far in the mountains that they have to pipe in the sunshine and I still love going home to find that inner peace. but no work verry good article I enjoyed it thank you.but also remember one important thing if it wasn't for the hillbillies the rest of the world wouldn't know anything about job security.

  • Posted By: djohnson15 @ 03/03/2009 3:22:42 PM

    First off, does anyone realize that West Virginia is made up of a lot more than white folk. I am from West Virginia and happen to be African-American and my dad was born and raised in Gerradstown WV, where it all began. This story while amusing as it may be, does not full represent all folks of West Virginia and this may be why we catch so much slack from the rest of the world. Please open your eyes wide and look around West Virginia Sirs to get a complete understanding of the current times you are living in.. This is ridiculous..

  • Posted By: tiredofobama @ 07/03/2008 11:31:23 PM

    This article is so typical of the stupid, arrogant, and bigoted buffons who write for Newsweek. Has it ever occurred to the liberal elitists that we do not want to go down the same road that Jimmy Carter led us down? An Obama Presidency would be "Jimmy Carter Revisited." Obama is more or less Jimmy Carter all over again. In 1976, the elitists in the news media blamed all Republicans for Watergate. Since they felt that Nixon was bad then all Republicans were bad. Jimmy Carter came out of nowhwhere. He sounded good, but he ran on no substance. Obama sounds good uttering "change" ad nauseam at all of his pep rallies, but he is running on no substance. NOTHING. People swallow this up as if they were Hoover Vacuum Cleaners. Obama's worshipers want to make independent thinkers who don't follow Obama blindly into bumpkins and bigots. If anything I hope that all of this Obama garbage backfires on Newsweek and their pathetic friends on MSNBC. Wake up people, don't let Newsweel tell you what to think. Send a message in November and don't vote for Obama. If Obama loses maybe these ignorant talking heads will realize that they helped to defeat Obama by continuing to cram his empty campaign down our throats.

    • Posted By: roadkill1965 @ 02/27/2009 1:30:18 PM

      Kind of ironic that you mention "Hoover" during the Bush administration. If Obama is Carter revisted, then Bush is certainly Hoover II.

  • Posted By: Thevail @ 07/02/2008 3:05:09 PM

    I come from a small town (well, it was back then) called Cookeville in Tennessee. I've also lived in a few other places where the word Hillbilly was not utterly misused.

    Mr. Author, grow up.
    Of course people make fun of those people. They ARE different. People from these rural appalachian areas are not stupid, but a huge percentage of them ARE ignorant and choose to stay that way. (don't know, and don't care to find out either)

    Meanwhile there are great public universities EVERYWHERE, and all of these "poor" people do qualify for pell grants and student loans just like everybody else. Too many of them simply put little stock in "book learning". And that's a culture thing.

    Either be honest and admit that you're "making excuses" for them based on their environment and upbringing, just like the excuses people make for "ghetto kids gone bad" and for the same reasons..and that those people are neither better , nor worse than their Southside Chicago banger counterparts.

    Or admit that they choose to stay there, they choose to live like that. They don't want to have to face the fact that with each successive generation that fails to complete school they ARE becoming more isolated, more ignorant, and more irrelevant to modern society.

    Mr. Author, you have a "mighty fine voice", and a pretty big platform. Why don't you help them change those things about their culture that are keeping them in poverty?

    You know why..because they're stubborn as a Missouri mule, and they'll demand "respect" from you and everyone else for their "traditions" and "life-style", even though it merely props up and solidifies all the forces that keep them "down".

    W. Virginia is a beautiful place, but unless the culture there changes drastically and soon..the only way it'll "modernise" is when people like me, who got out, stayed out, and made something of my life go back there with cash in hand..and turn it into a place WE want to retire to.

    And then it'll be the "sad, sweet, song of the south" all over again..those poor simple people, run out by the rich, the foreigners, the carpetbaggers. They are becoming the new "noble savages" of our time.

    Wouldn't they rather be successful, working Americans??

    • Posted By: roadkill1965 @ 02/27/2009 1:26:21 PM

      I'm originally from Appalachia (southern Ohio), and I have to agree with most of what you said. Joining the Army and getting away opened my eyes to a whole world out there, and I just couldn't go back. A lot of people I grew up with DO choose to live that way. It's easier to complain about your situation than to get up off your butt and DO something about it. That said, I do miss the beauty of the hills - just not the weather, poverty, and ignorance. I go back frequently for visits to family, but I just couldn't live there any more.

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 07/03/2008 5:07:29 PM

      Do everyone in Appalachia a favor, Mr. Too-Arrogant-for-words: don't return

  • Posted By: diana t @ 08/03/2008 4:43:48 PM

    Obama's a "puppet?" And, McCain's not? Think again. Do your homework.

  • Posted By: LibraInTheHouse @ 08/02/2008 8:34:37 PM

    Obama has no clue to what he is doing. He is a puppet. He's great at speaking, but he will fail as a president because he is so green or is something else at play here. Was he planted for other reasons? I would like to know how he got so far. How did he beat out Hillary? Something is wrong with this picture. If he gets in office, we will all be wearing the towels on our heads, not just him. He cares nothing for this country, I think he will destroy it.

  • Posted By: ehager @ 08/01/2008 10:08:35 PM

    I go to school in the Appalachian region of North Carolina, and this article rings very true. Between the picturesque mountains there are dozens of one-stoplight towns in as bad a shape as ever, and the author is right, the candidates will flood them promising to help, that no one will feel the burden of poverty under their administration, but they are just promises, and to really affect change will take a lot more than that. And being from NC, I have to say, John Edwards. He has been fighting poverty for years, and Obama should consider him if Appalachia is going to be a key region in this race.

  • Posted By: joho1111 @ 07/18/2008 4:18:08 PM

    The real "SHAME" is the shame that has been brought on the American people by the present administration. All of them should be considered war criminals...tried in a world court and if found guilty of their crimes......they should receive the same punishment that Saddam received. Their outright lies and distortion of the facts, in order to exact their revenge, has cost us the lives of more young patriots than the acts perpetraeted by Osama on 9/11....oh where oh where is Osama today?

  • Posted By: alvinernest @ 06/30/2008 2:11:47 PM

    The appeal of the Obama campaign is its meekness and humulity.. humble enough to ask all Americans for support, not reliant on old sytems and structures that have failed Amercia... the Appalachian American, the Black American, the Native American have been poor and ignored for 200 years, that is the reality of American political history - that's the common ground bringing Americans together... the well educated and previllaged Americans are also turning away from the status quo, because they too recognise that there is a lot that is wrong with American politics... a lot that has gone astray from the path set out by the founding fathers of America... moreover they understand the increasing importance of real democracy to business and economic prosperity...

    The realisation that the Appalachian Ameican has been poor for 200 years, proves that there is no grand racist conspiracy, it proves that even if you are white, black or blue, if you were not considered economically mobile you were forgotten and left on the scrap heap... I believe that both white and black Americans are now realising this, especially as people from these groups become more educated... Appalachia can no longer be appeased by the notion that they are racially superior, when the reality is that they have been bottom of the economic ladder along with blacks for 200 years; blacks no longer believe that they are inferior, they have seen that power comes from organising and focusing their power of consumption... all Americans realise that history has been all about economics, nobody has really cared untill you showed them your money... a new politics is needed to ensure that everyone is enlightened and empowered to deliver what they can for their country and for their families, no matter who they are... because nothing else matters...

    So, I am convinced that Americans will vote for Obama... that is the map to victory... no one who is honest about modern America will do otherwise... he is the only candidate who has ever presented truth and enlightenment to the people... he has not stood up for race or money, he stands only for principle... and deep down inside we all know this!!!!


    • Posted By: HappyDay41 @ 06/30/2008 6:26:28 PM

      LMAO. He stands for TRUTH? hahahhaa....

      He's a professor (NOT)
      His mom was single (NOT)
      He was poor (NOT)
      He is Liberal (NOT)
      He is a Centrist (NOT)

      The only truth about him is ... anything out of his mouth is a lie.

      • Posted By: hillary1973 @ 07/06/2008 10:41:15 PM

        Site a ligitimate source or just go back to your GOP talking points and watch Fox News. You have no honest information whatsoever to back up you insane ramblings.

        • Posted By: Jose52 @ 07/09/2008 3:21:57 PM

          The shame of it all are the facts that bambi has no experience and judgement as shown his recent and past history. He will promise anything, Anything for a vote and will sell his soul for the Presidency. His character of saying anything will not give him the resolve to deal with the Iranians. His past statements show that he has no GRAVITAS. The Koolaid nation will scream when he can not deal with the new Iranian Hitler.

  • Posted By: USAcitizen @ 06/30/2008 3:31:06 PM

    I was born and raised in WV and left as soon as I graduated from HS in 1984. WV has been predominately democrat and continues to elect the same ole democrats into office. Democrats have done nothing for WV and it shows by WV being at the bottom on of every list, ie poverty, income, education etc. I pray that the state I love will open their eyes along with the rest of this country and vote out these democrats; the same democrats led by the ms. speaker of the house who stated four years age that now that the democrats are in control of congress things are going to change. She was right, things have changed for the worse. The American people are going to have to open their eyes and quit being decieved and vote out these democrats that are determined to lead this country down the tube.

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 07/02/2008 12:05:05 PM

      Democrats in the Federal government are not likely to do much for West Virginia UNLESS YOU VOTE THEM IN!
      Democrats have not had control of the government since 1994. Though voters saw fit to grace them with the majority in the House, it isn't enough to override Bush's veto power much less the split in the Senate.

      You can claim they haven't done anything for you, but since you haven't put them in power, It isn't really saying much, if the Republicans are the ones in control.

      • Posted By: Jose52 @ 07/03/2008 3:43:25 PM

        What a load of crap! Take a decent factual comment and turn it over and wrongly blame the GOP. If you had consenses builders like John McCain who takes issues and decides for the good of the country, not his party. That's why he's a maverick. The Dems are going to ruin this country with their No Drill policy. Our fuel prices will be out of control unless some sanity is restored. We have the oil but nancy and harry do not care about fuel prices. The Left will not allow the Dems to break ranks and allow drilling. Only McCain has a 20 year record going against the Republicans and trying to do the right thing. Obama will not go against his party and open our own lands to drill. Then nancy and her lot will give themselves another raise. You Markist's are blinded by your hate and the term Liberalism is a mental disorder.

        • Posted By: the-commish @ 07/05/2008 3:21:12 AM


          You are dead wrong!

          Drilling for oil on our own lands will not lower gasoline prices. Know why?

          1) It will take years to get it to the pump.

          2) The oil will belong to the Oil company. That oil company will sell it to the highest bidder on the open market. Guess who that's likely to be? Let me take a WAG! China or India. Not America.

          So your whole theory about allowing drilling on federal lands has a GIGANTIC hole in it!

          • Posted By: Jose52 @ 07/09/2008 2:53:52 PM

            Let's start and see if the oil markets will respond. NOOOOOOO! There will be more oil to use and demand will go down. NOOOOOO! Let's not do anything and continue push millions of dollars into the hands of the Saudis and terrorists who want the USA to fail. Meanwhile, your pathetical candidate will continue to pander and promise anything for votes and refine what he meant 2 hours ago; while Iran is preparing its delivery system.

  • Posted By: mimigrammy @ 07/08/2008 11:24:54 AM

    This demographic has seldom voted Democrat in recent past general elections,although Senator Obama is not writing them off by any means, neither is he depending on them to secure the Presidencey for him. His 50 State campaing is including them because he cares about the people, not because he thinks he can defeat McCain in these states. However, he can bring enough votes to the polls to shake up some positions down the ballot. He will enter the White House in January with a conviencing mandate from the voters of America.

  • Posted By: sirhc @ 07/07/2008 10:23:32 PM

    THE MOST TROUBLING THING NOW IS THE "EMBRACING" OF BUSH'S POLICIES BY MCCAIN. HE TWICE VOTED AGAINST THE BUSH TAX CUTS IN 2001 AND IN 2003 IN SAYING "THEY ARE FOR THE WEALTHIEST OF AMERICANS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS, FINANCIALLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND WOULD MAKE US VULNERABLE." NOW IN 2008-WHERE YOU WOULD THINK THERE IS AN EVEN BIGGER ARGUEMENT AGAINST THEM-HE IS NOW EMBRACING THEM TO A POINT WHERE HE WILL MAKE THEM LONGER AND MORE? ADD TO THE FACT HE HAS A 0 RATING ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS , CALLOUS ENOUGH TO MAKE A JOKE ABOUT BOMBING IRAN AND VOTED AGAINST THE MLK DAY TWICE IN THE 90'S-MAKES HIM BEING PRESIDENT ABSOLUTELY FRIGHTENING................

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/04/2008 9:29:01 AM

    From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
    From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
    From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
    From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
    From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

    And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!

    From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

    • Posted By: hillary1973 @ 07/07/2008 8:36:59 PM

      Do you really believe everything you read on GOP blogs? Good God, at least make an attempt to determine lies instead of spreading them.

      http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

      You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading debunked lies and propaganda, maybe you believe it's the only way your candidate can win or maybe you're just a racist bigot. Nice smear campaign loser!

  • Posted By: Thevail @ 07/02/2008 4:27:29 PM

    Obama WILL be president. The alternative is too terrifying to think about.

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/02/2008 7:44:55 PM

      YOUR STATEMENT IS TERRIFYING TO THINK ABOUT KOOL AIDE FOR EVERYONE !!

      • Posted By: hillary1973 @ 07/06/2008 10:44:43 PM

        Is that the only drink you know? It seems like you use it in every response. I doubt you even know where the statement "drinking the Kool Aid" comes from. By the way, the drink doesn't spell aide with an e.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/02/2008 10:45:05 AM

    the kool-aid recipe is the reason you should not vote for him it sums up his reasons for running and if you think he's qualified to be president then you have been slipped a micky so to speak someone slipped you some obama kool-aid check his record his votes but most important check his agenda and ask your self is this who i want to run the country ! think about his tax plan think about his willing to give free health care to 15 million illeagles think about his forgien policy or lack there of think about all his plans and if you feel like he's the one take some ipecac syrup because you've ingested his kool-aid then go vote for someone who will get this country back on track i prefer the John McCain/ Mitt Romney ticket hopfully thats who will win the election in november if Obama gets it we are gonna have a hard row to hoe !!

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 07/02/2008 11:20:20 AM

      Kool Aide is all you know, because it's all you get fed.
      You watch FOX News and YouTube and you don't question what they say. You haven't looked at Obama's record objectively, nor have you researched anything else about him objectively.
      You haven't looked at McCain or Romney objectively either.

      You're so clearly misinformed that you think illegal aliens are in the system, and would be elligable for care under Obama's healthcare plan. You're so naive that you don't get that illegal aliens either pay cash or don't pay at all, or they already have health care. The whole illegal alien thing regarding it's relevance to Obama's healthcare plan is just something that somebody made up, and you just accepted it and repeated it. That is the Kool Aide that you drink.

      .

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/02/2008 11:35:42 AM

        you liberal buddy obama has said that we need to take care of the poor illeagle people comming to this great country and i have checked on obama's record and posted it for all to see and i've also checked on mCcain's and romney's although i'm not exactly happy with either of them i will vote for Mccain you need to do your home work you leftist liberal azz wipe !!!

        • Posted By: hillary1973 @ 07/06/2008 10:30:16 PM

          Our liberal buddy Obama also promotes better education as well, which I'm sure includes grammar and spelling. It would seem this type of policy would have benefitted you greatly.

        • Posted By: metzlerd @ 07/02/2008 12:52:00 PM

          I take that to mean you don't want to do the research.
          Obama never said we need to give illegals healthcare insurance. YOU DID.
          It doesn't make it true, and neither does any name you call me.

          And I'm not a Liberal by the way. Over time the group of people that are sick of the corruption in the Republican party will get larger, and the group that you insult will get larger. Therefore you aren't doing your party any good. I was a Republican, back before the psychos took control of it.

          • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/02/2008 4:19:22 PM

            senator Barack Obama has voted in favor of giving illegal aliens further rewards and other incentives to come such as in-state tuition, educational benefits, welfare and health care services.
            http://immigrationstance.diggersrealm.com/il/senator_barack_obamas_record_on_immigration_reform_and_illegal_aliens.html ........ NOW DON'T CALL ME A LIAR YOU LIBERAL PUNK !!!

            • Posted By: OldUncleTom @ 07/02/2008 8:26:53 PM

              Somehow, the quoted web-page does not appear to me to be published by either Sen Obama or his campaign. So, it is a rumor mill. The internet can be dangerous to the unschooled. I was recently directed to a movie called "Zeitgeist" that is a lovely fantasy about religion, economics, history and politics. I was interested enough to check on some of the film's assertions, and debunked about half of it in 15 minutes at Wikipedia.
              I have no idea who "diggersrealm" might be, so I must assume that the information contained there has about a 50% chance of being accurate... it either is, or it isn't... my money is on NOT, considering the source of the reference.
              Another disillusioned and highly disgruntled GOP member----

              • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/03/2008 9:31:12 AM

                check his stance on thr immergration at wiki then !!!

      • Posted By: OldPhart @ 07/03/2008 5:03:04 AM

        Hmmm...I actually commented today that my last two visits to the doctors office was extraordinary. I actually got in on time and there weren't three hundred sick mexicans in the waiting room.
        When illegals "don't pay at all" who do you think makes up the difference?
        Metxlerd, you obviously don't live in So. California where WE ACTUALLY SEE THE "MADE UP ILLEGAL THING, or in So. Arizona where THE MEXICAN ARMY INVADED MORE THAT 100 MILES (oh, sorry, Newsweek doesn't report that does it?)
        Obama HAS no record...he's the FNG....that means the F*kin New Guy, he hasn't accomplished crap other than speak well in public.
        I can't vote for McCain, he was endorsed by the LA and NY Times.
        I can't vote for Obama, he hasn't done anything to warrant the office.
        And I don't understand the so-called "Obama-nation" that is being touted. Say the word aloud,
        and, if you graduated after 1982, you may recall what that rhymes with.
        Oh, and I can give a rat's a$$ what color or religion he is, he just hasn't made the cut so far.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/02/2008 11:37:09 AM

    KOOL-AID??????..From the kitchen of the obama sheeple!! take one heaping spoonful of an inexperienced elitist white male seeking self validation through exploitation of his african-american genetics. Combine two parts black liberation theology clerics spewing intolerance! With two parts of unrepentant intellectuals committed to the destruction of America. Stir in one cup of militant black wife harboring the overwhelming desire to stick it to whitey and one spoonful of typical white person grandmother mix well. Pour a gallon of anti-patriotism into tall glasses and sprinkle with naïve foreign policy ideations. Serve on a platter of meaningless oratorical hyperbole with a generous dollop of wealth re-distribution. Sprinkle liberally with zest of white guilt flip it and flop it till it tastes right.top it off with a ounce of anti-semitism and Serve large portions to the undiscerning and spellbound masses convinced that the Second Coming is upon America and now you have a complete recipe for disaster!

    • Posted By: OldPhart @ 07/03/2008 4:51:45 AM

      But it tastes like chicken!!

      • Posted By: nimodahooligan @ 07/03/2008 1:35:20 PM

        sounds like your not voting for obama then... and you know, the "all mighty" GOP wasnt/isnt much better buddy. get off the horse and act like an adult please. being a bigot is for elementary minded people with hate that has no bounds. if you havent noticed POLITICS is to blame, not individual candidates, they are just playing the game that everyone else is playing. the way things are run from the PENTAGON, which is the real "white house" now-a-days, is to blame. shoddy policies across the board from foriegn policy to immigration to education. all crap. so i think you need to get over your personal beef with a wealthy well to do black man that is more successful at life than you ever will imagine being. get a new set of ideas brother. at this point i would much rather have a president not ingrained with the good ole texan mindset of shoot first ask questions later. a president that yes, maybe has some radical beliefs and views. if you want radical change you need radical leaders that think bigger than the rest.

        hence, whatever recipe you and "your candidate" are cooking up has a 100% chance of being just as much of a disastor as obamas. no one is perfect, the president in reality is nothing but a single face for the country to identify with, its much easier than memorizing and knowing all the senators, state reps, congress members, supreme court justices...the people that make real decisions. obama and mccain can neither fix the economy or the war or global warming. one is just a lawyer and the other is a retired serviceman with all they're own individual little white lies and propaganda. they are people. not the anti christ. get over it and stop thinking with a clouded head you moron.

        • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/03/2008 2:50:13 PM

          HEY FUCCC YOU ALRIGHT I HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY WHAT EVER I WANT ABOUT THAT LAME ASS CANIDATE OBAMA SO GO POUND SALT UP YOUR ASS

          • Posted By: hillary1973 @ 07/06/2008 10:27:20 PM

            Wow, that response seemed much more mature and enlightened. Because you have the right to say whatever you want doesn't negate our right to comment on it. You're posting on a blog genius.

            "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and prove it".... Abraham Lincoln

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/05/2008 1:15:54 PM

    Comment: Posted By: olderwiser @ 07/05/2008 10:58:21 AM
    Comment: Barack Obama had the right as a U.S. Senator to go to look at Iraq. He did not. Then, one of his big vote getters was a promise to get us the hell out of Iraq. Now, nominated, he plans to go to Iraq to see if he needs to change his mind. I voted for him principally because he promised to get us the hell out of there. If he goes there and comes back to endorse staying there, then I reserve the right to flush my Obama vote down the toilet.

    HERES PROOF THAT THE OBAMA MESSIAH IS FALLING APART!

    • Posted By: hillary1973 @ 07/06/2008 10:15:44 PM

      If you'd actually take a step back and read what Obama has said from the beginning he has not changed positions at all. It's just typical GOP spin tactics. He has always said he would never be like George Bush and blindly stay the course. He simply stated that he has an agenda of getting the combat troops out within 16 months, but if that pace has to be slowed for the safety of the troops then he would make that call based on the information from the field at that time. So please explain how he's said anything different?

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/05/2008 8:48:52 AM

    This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines Barack Obama's connections to a number of key individuals and organizations. In some cases, these affiliates are notable for the leftist views and objectives they share with Obama. In other cases, they are notable for their collaboration with Obama in controversial or unethical activities. In all cases, they offer a window into Barack Obama's values and priorities. Taken as a whole, they verify Thomas Sowell's observation that Obama has "spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."


    Radical and Socialist Influences:

    Saul Alinsky
    Bill Ayers
    Carl Davidson
    Frank Marshall Davis
    Democratic Socialists of America
    Bernardine Dohrn
    Gamaliel Foundation
    New Party
    Socialist Scholars Conference


    Political Allies and Advisors:

    Ali Abunimah
    Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji
    David Axelrod
    Gregg Craig
    Jim Johnson
    Marilyn Katz
    Anthony Lake
    Robert Malley
    Alice Palmer
    Eli Pariser
    George Soros
    Cass Sunstein
    Dorothy Tillman
    Joyce Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler


    Religious Affiliations:

    Louis Farrakan
    Rev. Joseph Lowery
    James Meeks
    Rev. Otis Moss
    Rev. Michael Pfleger
    Rev. Al Sharpton
    Jim Wallis
    Rev. Jeremiah Wright


    Organizational Affiliations:

    ACORN
    Arab American Action Network
    Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
    International Crisis Group
    MoveOn
    National Council of La Raza
    Planned Parenthood Federation of America
    Project Vote
    Sojourners


    Academic Affiliations:


    Rashid Khalidi
    Edward Said
    Cornel West


    Foundations:

    Joyce Foundation
    Woods Fund of Chicago


    Money Scandals:

    Nadhmi Auchi
    Robert Blackwell, Jr.
    Tony Rezko


    Family:

    Michelle Obama
    Raila Odinga

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/04/2008 10:32:43 AM

    WELL ITS THE FORTH OF JULY AND I'M GOING TO THE LAKE WITH MY FAMILY AND MY MARINE CORP BUDDIES WE ARE GOING TO PARTY !!! I'VE GOT MY TRUNKS AND THE SUN SCREEN FOR THE KIDS AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO WEAR OUR NEW OBAMA SLIPPERS ! (THEY ARE FORMERLY KNOWN AS FLIP FLOPS ) THATS WHAT WE ARE CALLING THEM! NOW OBAMA SLIPPERS ALL MY FREINDS SAY THAT IT FITS PERFECTLY... SO LOOK OUT AMERICA BECAUSE OBAMA SLIPPERS ARE COMMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU !!

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 07/04/2008 11:13:32 AM

      Here is a prime example of a nasty, idiotic attitude -- scary to think this guy has never experienced being in the minority, never questioned his country's policies, never learned much about the rest of the world. Talking about flip-flops as "Obama slippers" is supposed to exemplify a significant opinion worthy of gravitas and comment? He sounds like a throw-back to the pre-Civis Rights days of the 1950s, where white supremacy reigned supreme. Interesting specimen of "American" hubris.

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/05/2008 7:01:18 AM

        if you want racist comments read obama's book there are some excerps below *** liberal !

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