Comments on: Awkward: McCain Accidentally Admits that Western PA is Kinda Racist http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/10/21/awwkward-mccain-accidentally-admits-that-western-pa-is-racist/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:52:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: klynn http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/10/21/awwkward-mccain-accidentally-admits-that-western-pa-is-racist/#comment-15988 klynn Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:23:13 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/10/21/awwkward-mccain-accidentally-admits-that-western-pa-is-racist/#comment-15988 <p>This should bump to FDL page.</p> <p>Thanks Lindsay. I would update with cinnamonape’s comment and quote @ 2.</p> This should bump to FDL page.

Thanks Lindsay. I would update with cinnamonape’s comment and quote @ 2.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/10/21/awwkward-mccain-accidentally-admits-that-western-pa-is-racist/#comment-15976 cinnamonape Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:41:10 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/10/21/awwkward-mccain-accidentally-admits-that-western-pa-is-racist/#comment-15976 <p>“I couldn’t agree with you more than the fact that Western Pennsylvania is the most patriotic, most god-loving, most, most patriotic part of America, and this is a great part of the country.”</p> <p>Obama seems to be given advanced copies of McCain’s speeches now. Two hours before he said </p> <blockquote><p>At a defining moment like this, we don’t have the luxury of relying on the same political games and the same political tactics that are used every election to divide us from one another and make us afraid of one another. With the challenges and crises we face right now, we cannot afford to divide this country by class or region; by who we are or what policies we support. </p> <p>There are no real or fake parts of this country. We are not separated by the pro-America and anti-America parts of this nation – we all love this country, no matter where we live or where we come from. There are patriots who supported this war in Iraq and patriots who opposed it; patriots who believe in Democratic policies and those who believe in Republican policies. The men and women from Florida and all across America who serve on our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America – they have served the United States of America.</p> <p>We have always been at our best when we’ve had leadership that called us to look past our differences and come together as one nation, as one people; leadership that rallied this entire country to a common purpose – to a higher purpose. And I am running for President of the United States of America because that is the country we need to be right now.</p></blockquote> <p>How different can one get between the visions of these two men?</p> “I couldn’t agree with you more than the fact that Western Pennsylvania is the most patriotic, most god-loving, most, most patriotic part of America, and this is a great part of the country.”

Obama seems to be given advanced copies of McCain’s speeches now. Two hours before he said

At a defining moment like this, we don’t have the luxury of relying on the same political games and the same political tactics that are used every election to divide us from one another and make us afraid of one another. With the challenges and crises we face right now, we cannot afford to divide this country by class or region; by who we are or what policies we support.

There are no real or fake parts of this country. We are not separated by the pro-America and anti-America parts of this nation – we all love this country, no matter where we live or where we come from. There are patriots who supported this war in Iraq and patriots who opposed it; patriots who believe in Democratic policies and those who believe in Republican policies. The men and women from Florida and all across America who serve on our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America – they have served the United States of America.

We have always been at our best when we’ve had leadership that called us to look past our differences and come together as one nation, as one people; leadership that rallied this entire country to a common purpose – to a higher purpose. And I am running for President of the United States of America because that is the country we need to be right now.

How different can one get between the visions of these two men?

]]> By: JoyB http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/10/21/awwkward-mccain-accidentally-admits-that-western-pa-is-racist/#comment-15909 JoyB Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:38:07 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/10/21/awwkward-mccain-accidentally-admits-that-western-pa-is-racist/#comment-15909 <p>WTF? That poor old man is just addled.</p> WTF? That poor old man is just addled.

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