Kiss mine too, rightards.

“You” as is the American people, no. “You” as in duh? By a long-shot.

OR that the democrat party is hopelessly out of touch with most of america, for you non-conspiracy freaks.

So the VAST majority of Americans support killing homosexuals? Gotcha.

Ah yes, the liberal condescension, “we know better than you” attitude.

That is going to go a long way to united the country.

Agreed.

They are America. They are the very image of America.

They are the American Dream that anyone, rich or poor, black or white, can grow up to be President.

No, No, No!!! You are off message!

Oliver has assured us that the evil Republicans have erected barriers to prevent others from realizing the American Dream. Don’t you know that you can’t have opportunities to improve your situation unless you are a rich Republican?

Barack Obama could stand up on the stage and announce that he’s decided to withdraw from the race and support John McCain because the night before his speech, God came to him in a vision and said it was the right thing to do for the country and conservatives would still go batshit crazy for months calling Obama a flip flopper. McCain would run adds attacking Obama for being so presumptious as to believe that God really spoke to him. Evangelicals would lose their fucking minds arguing that it wasn’t God that spoke to Obama but the Devil — or possibly Muhammad — and so people shouldn’t vote for McCain — just before their heads exploded.

Anyone that takes conservative concern for Obama seriously is a fucking idiot.

His father was an immigrant.

He moved to a working class neighborhood of America’s most working class city — Chicago.

He depended on loans and scholarships for college.

He worked as a community organizer.

She group up on the south-side of Chicago.

She went to public schools.

She depended on loans and scholarships for college.

They are America. They are the very image of America.

They are the American Dream that anyone, rich or poor, black or white, can grow up to be President.

And yet some will try to portray Obama as elitist.

My dad was an E-9. We lived in base housing. Fourplexes with ratty carports. I do not think that in the entire time I was growing up I was ever in a house in officers’ country. Heck they didn’t even like us NCO kids playing on their side of the street.

Elitist, do you want to know who is an elitist?

The son of an Admiral. Now that is rarefied air.

I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of a fan.

I have to admit I’m regularly puzzled by the assertion that either major party is out of touch with most of America – if each has so many supporters in every state, how could they be? But more than that: The following is via Polling Report, a pollster site that sort of aggregates polls from major papers around the country, all taken in July and August of this year. I have chosen a few statistics regarding the public’s opinion on various issues that might reflect an ideological difference – but otherwise randomly – to avoid overly cherry-picking those that would support my case.

All numbers are obviously percentages.

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“Do you think abortion should be legal in all cases, legal in most cases, illegal in most cases, or illegal in all cases?”

Legal in all-22
Legal in most-32
Illegal in most-26
Illegal in all-18
Unsure-3

“As I read off some different groups, please tell me if you think they are paying their fair share in federal taxes, paying too much, or paying too little. How about [see below]?”

Corporations
Fair share-15
Too much-6
Too little-73
Unsure-6

Lower income people
Fair share-32
Too much-51
Too little-13
Unsure-4

“Should gay and lesbian couples be allowed to marry, giving them full legal rights of married couples, or not?”

Should – 47
Should Not – 47
No Answer/Unsure – 7

Spoken like somebody who had a 2.0 GPA.

As for being out of touch, Obama doesn’t own seven mansions. He didn’t make his fortuine by marrying an heiress. That’s about as “out of touch” as I can imagine.

I love it, if you win, it is the will of the people, if you lose, it is a conspiracy…I guess in your own, small, shriveled mind you win either way eh, Ed?

Translation: Never underestimate the power of voter suppression, Diebold, and Lee Atwater Politics.

This magical thinking of yours that repeating things again and again makes them true is really misguided.

But, whatever….we’ll see how it all works in November.

I don’t buy that argument. Was George W Bush experienced enough to be pres?

Obama isn’t full of himself, but he is the next President of the United States.

I mean, what, he could have designed it like where conservative bloggers work. But where would Team Obama have gotten Mom’s washing machine, Dad’s pool table and the obscene numbers of Chee-tos bags?