Hard-Working Americans

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   Physiogroupie IV

   December 2, 2008 at 12:24 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Hah, no one is touching that one.

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   Nan

   December 2, 2008 at 12:26 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Or poor. After all, if you were hard-working, you wouldn’t be poor.

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   Professor in Training

   December 2, 2008 at 12:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Hmmm … is someone still a little hungover from Thanksgiving?

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   Katharine

   December 2, 2008 at 12:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   HardLY Working Americans, you mean.

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   Lemur

   December 2, 2008 at 1:00 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   You also can’t be gay, and you probably can’t be college-educated; that’d make you an elitist, right?
   …Hmm, the pool of “Real, Hard-Working Americans” is getting smaller, somehow.

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   shane

   December 2, 2008 at 4:20 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Code words and dog whistles: the language of the Right.

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   Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde

   December 2, 2008 at 9:00 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Gotta imagine that academics don’t naturally fall into the pool of real and hard working, either.

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   Isis the Scientist

   December 2, 2008 at 10:53 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Wow

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   leigh

   December 2, 2008 at 11:39 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   and i suppose the assholes up in DC call themselves hardworking americans too, while many of us out here don’t count?

   fuck that.

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    Juniper Shoemaker

    December 3, 2008 at 2:05 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    CPP, I love you, but boy are you weird.

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    Happy Spirochete

    December 3, 2008 at 8:42 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    It is undoubtedly true that PP is weird—very weird. But his terse statement is the absolute truth. I don’t just hear it from politicians, but from people i run into every day, and it’s VERY clear what they really mean.

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    Hipple, Rev. Paul T.

    December 3, 2008 at 11:16 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    We are not monolithic. For the record, some Conservatives Republican (Christians) are not afraid to call it EXACTLY like we see it.

    -RPTH
    “Support our Border Patrol Troops”

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    bikemonkey

    December 3, 2008 at 11:23 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    and how do you see the fraction of those on welfare that are white, Rev?

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    Anonymoustache

    December 3, 2008 at 12:38 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    bikemonkey,
    that would be “good god-fearing, church-going, salt of the earth, hardworking americans who would all have great jobs if only we eliminated the estate and capital gains taxes but now are merely victims of the economic downturn caused by tax and spend liberals”

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    Hipple, Rev. Paul T.

    December 3, 2008 at 1:17 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Yes. All that.

    And let’s not forget the crippling effect of Affirmative Action programs on the psyche of God-fearing White (Christian) Workers. These poor folk were raised thinking it was enough to be just good enough, and then the rug was pulled right out from under them. Can they really be blamed for turning to Meth?

    -RPTH
    “Boycott Companies with Dial 1 for English Services”

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    Juniper Shoemaker

    December 3, 2008 at 7:57 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Oh, Happy Spirochete, I wasn’t disapproving of CPP’s weirdness. I could use more of CPP’s brand of weirdness in the world, in fact. Because, like yourself, I’ve run into the repugnant codespeakers too. :/

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    Jim

    December 5, 2008 at 8:07 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Your anger and hate just became a bit more frightening.

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    vegofish

    December 13, 2008 at 7:37 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    It certainly does not include politicians or liberal academics, most of whom suffer severely from SPS or “selective perception syndrome”, the not so rare ability to take any statement and twist it to fit their extremely skewed views of reality.