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The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Barack Obama

Verbivore Wrote: Sep 18, 2012 10:16 AM

#26. 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. And it's not surprising then THEY GET BITTER, THEY CLING TO GUNS OR RELIGION, OR ANTIPATHY toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

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a Concerned American Wrote: Sep 18, 2012 11:03 AM

There's only one type of person who would speak of small-town Americans like this - one that seeks to take (by coercion, force or whatever) all of the above from them. And yet, Obama leads Romney in Pennsylvania in so-called (and possibly slanted, biased) public opinion polls - showing that many in that state are certified morons with super-short memories.

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The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Barack Obama

25) "No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." -- Barack Obama

24) "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." -- Barack Obama

23) "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." -- Barack Obama

22) "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets....

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