I'm from small-town PA - and I can tell you that Obama's exactly right. Plenty of people in PA are bitter and they're always on the lookout for scapegoats and conspiracy theories. Obama was actually gracious in phrasing it this way, considering PA voters have gone on the record with the NYTimes calling Obama a 'terrorist.'

I'm not sure when we started confusing the truth with racism and hate.

Matthew, I'm trying to take you at your word that you are a Democrat, but it's difficult. If you haven't done so recently, look at your profile. All of your blog entries have been anti-Obama—not pro-Clinton, but specifically anti-Obama. 2 of your 3 favorite blogs are specifically targeted against Obama—again, not pro-Clinton, but anti-Obama. Finally, every single one of your comments that are currently visible on there are anti-Obama instead of being pro-Clinton.

Why is it so much more important to you to attack Obama than to support Clinton?

Obama gets to disparage himself, rather half himself, in the "typical white person" remark as he's half typical white.

As for the "typical small town," I'm from a small town, I've talked to a small town and my friend, he's no small town. Small towns have feelings. They have been disenfranchised by maps around the world. What rightful small town would cast its vote for such a man? Now I'm only speaking on behalf of small towns. The people who live in them, on the other hand, are a lot smarter than getting bent out of shape over these things.

Signed, former small town resident.

Not so, Larry. Not typical at all. In fact, Matt sounds abnormally tired, defeated. Like his heart isn't in the Obama smears anymore, he's just going through the motions. Hardly a "typical" post for Matthew Weaver.

But can you send me some Gorilla Coffee? I can't get a decent cup ever since I left Park Slope. Especially not where I live now.

As opposed to, for example, your hate and racism, which targets Sen. Obama?

I don't believe you voted for Kerry, BTW.

What is it that you like about McCain? I hear he really knows how to treat his lady. Is that why you're going to vote for him? Or is it because he is the only potential candicate who had dropped bombs on civilians?

As an African American I and others I know have been called many things - "Jungle Bunny?"

"Typical White Person" hardly scratches the surface.

I just wish we could elect a candidate without all the racism and sexism (I'm female). I just want the candidate to win because he/she is the best.

Matt doesn't understand that nouns don't make good adjectives, they're ambiguous.

See, I read "Obama Hate" as Weaver himself, because it's such elegant shorthand for his hateful and racist views. He spews and personifies "Obama Hate."

So I think Weaver means that he has "targeted" Pennsylvania.

Maybe, like Christo, he can put a red circle-slash the size of Philadelphia over it in a demonstration of "Obama Hate."

I have in mind a tribute to Weaver.

I am tired of black people defending Barack just because he's black, and calling everyone else racist if you dont support Barack.

To me, Hillary's lies are pathetic, but her lies make me laugh, like she's pulling a joke on everyone. I trust the woman despite her lies because thats what she is.
Barack however manages to present another person in your face while being another persona at the back, and thats scarier.
Furthermore, the fact that catholic figures like Pelosi and Richardson support Barack just goes to show that there are DNC people who wants DNC to lose in the person of Barack. If Barack wins over Hillary, I will bet all my earnings that McCain will win. The catholic pedophile priests will save money and all the work and fights of the christians against the catholic mafia style of Italy, down the drain.

Another slimeball post by a Newsmax/Rush Limbaugh lovin' troll.

*puke*

Oh, the whiteman's outrage. It's so awful when someone generalizes about the behavior of white people, seeing as how they're the racial majority and hold most of the power and money in this country and all.

Sorry, but this is obviously a silly, trumped-up bit of absurdity.

I was not disparaging catholic people duh. BUt the mafia-style catholic pedophiles.

GOd, I dont know, this is like talking to a bunch of second graders.

OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but 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 are most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre...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. They feel so betrayed by government that 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, then that adds another layer of skepticism.

But -- so the questions you're most likely to get about me, 'Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What is the concrete thing?' What they wanna hear is -- so, we'll give you talking points about what we're proposing -- to close tax loopholes, you know, roll back the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama's gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we're gonna provide health care for every American.

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. 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.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.

More Obama-bashing.....

They SCOUR every word, utterance.

In this case, that Mayhill Fowler's rather positive article is SCOURED for some sort of weapon.

Yesterday Fox was going after him because they were arranging people for a photo shoot and wanted more white people in it. Standard stuff. But a "reporter overheard this" and then > Politico > FoxNews > RushLimbaugh .....

Obama must be PERFECT or he is hammered. McCain/Hillary just have to not lie all that much, must limit the racial smears to an acceptable level.

eg. Someone introducing McCain this week called Obama "Tiger woods" and McCain gave him a big hug! Politico, FoxNews, ABC, CNN everyone ignored it.

Matthew = GOP troll

I don't believe you.