Jul
16
Obama Not Playing Well In Oklahoma
Filed Under American Politics
As you know, I’m a devotee of The West Wing. I remember an episode in which Bartlet’s White house are annoyed by a Democrat saying “If President Bartlet comes down here, he might not get out alive”. The reason for this. A post by Ben Smith at Politico about Democrat Representative Dan Boren from Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District:
Rep. Dan Boren, a conservative Democrat in the reddest state in America, Oklahoma, says in the bluntest terms imaginable that President Obama has become a political liability:
“Barack Obama is very unpopular,” said Boren, who represents Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District. “He got 34 percent of the vote statewide, and less in our district. If he were to run for re-election today, I bet it would be even worse.”
I realise that the job of a Blue-Dog in a red state is a tough one at the best of times. Nevertheless, I find this a remarkable statement by a Democrat about his President so early in his first term. I think it illustrates how divisive Obama has been in this Presidency. Despite the bipartisan rhetoric, there has been very little effort on the part of Obama to try to unite the Red State/Blue state division in American politics and culture.
As an aside, following recent debates about the comments on the Free Republic website, I thought it interesting to highlight some of the comments accompanying this story:
I don’t think it has to do with being “too liberal”. I actually think that it has more to do with race. Boren’s district is a racist district.
Let’s be real. In Oklahoma, being black isn’t exactly an asset when running for ANY office.
Oklahoma – where people keep their potential dating pool “in the family”. The best place to get laid? Family reunions!
Oklahoma! Where the highest aspiration is moving into a double-wide on a rented patch of turf.
Who cares what the ignorant redneck Okies think about anything? There isnt much there other than white trash anyway.
And so on. OK, it’s not trashing a young girl, it’s just trashing a whole state.
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Cabbie
As I have stated before I have spent a considerable amount of time in Oklahoma my little brother lives in Broken Arrow.
It’s a beautiful state but it does have some drawbacks, the weather being the first freezing cold in the winter and hot as a pistol in the summer.
The people can be a bit weird my sister in law works at State Farm the huge insurer and because she is democrat she is not allowed to join the morning prayer circle eb=ven though she is a commited Christian
I imagine that if you flew to Dallas and drove your rental north to Tulsa you might have a few of your illusions about the heartland shattered.
Oklahoma is not in the slightest representative of the US, it’s peak wingnut and it’s a place where anyone who isn’t one of them just leaves concentrating the wingnutiness even more. I doubt Obama is losing much sleep over it.
People have a united opinion and that makes them wingnuts…well, well, well…
THX1138,
Is that really true about the Oklahoma Christian Morning Prayer Circle Apartheid. You are having us on?
So do they only allowing GOPers into Heaven. In that case I am glad I am a non believer in all that stuff!
Hayward I promise you it’s true. You have know idea how nuts it is.
Tulsa is the home or Oral Roberts who told his flock that a 900 ft Jesus came to him in a dream and told him that if he didn’t raise a ton of money by a certain date God would “call him home” I.e he would die, the gullible emptied their wallets.
I remember that a popular bumper sticker amongst the more cynical Tulsa residents of the time was “Send Oral to Heaven in 87″
All those fakes will be judged by God. But that does not mean the central message of Christ is wrong.
Just because a guy messes up flying a spaceship ‘cos he ignored the manual, doesn’t mean it isn’t the most perfect spaceship ever made.
OT glad you have the same opinion as me on those awful TV evangelists.
My hero Hitches puts the boot into that biggot and fraud Jerry Falwell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrFgX83OsEY
THX…if you hero worship such a foul-mouthed creep as Hitches then I feel worried about your character.
For someone to author a book that ‘God is not great’ is a pompous fool.
I have rarely seen so much hate in a man.
Hitchens is a hero of mine a true believer in free speech and God is not great was a wonderful read and got to the core of the hypocrisy and the war against humankind that the man made religion has set upon us.
OT,
An interesting analogy “the most perfect spaceship ever made”
That would be good, if a perfect spaceship could be built and if whoever the TV evangelist built it with their own money and not promise a lot of gullible folk that they will reach their destination safely as passengers with said TV evangelist as both pilot and purser.