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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (378389)4/15/2008 11:56:15 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574854
 
"What Obama was trying to say, without saying it, was that the rednecks won't vote for him 'cause he's black. He's really walking a rhetorical tight rope."

I am not so sure. This isn't the first time he has addressed that issue in public. He shows a great deal of understanding of the dynamics.

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I think there is context missing here. Given his earlier statements, he doesn't strike me as someone who was being condescending.

Here is Josh Marshall's take on it.

My understanding is that Obama was answering a question from someone who planned to go canvass for him in Pennsylvania and what they should expect since it's portrayed as being unfriendly ground for him. And what I understood him to be saying is that years of economic abandonment have left many communities in middle America even more reliant on community, tradition, their religion, etc. -- and from a political standpoint very protective of it.
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