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Rick Santorum: Obama is 'Detached From the American Experience'

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)6/28/2010 3:54:23 pm PDT

re: #149 tradewind

No, you’re not really interested in that.

You are claiming to be able to read my mind, then, after castigating me for supposedly doing so. Hypocritical.

I think that both Republicans and Democrats routinely attempt to polarize their audiences into ’ like us ’ and ’ not like us ’ camps.

Agreed.


Since Obama’s experience growing up was arguably not one that the majority of Americans would say ’ Oh yeah, that was me too ‘, pointing that out would be one of the ways for a Republican to do just that.

Nor was Santorums, or Clintons, or Bush’s. Nor was anyone’s. Pointless.

A Democrat might point his finger at someone and say ’ (Insert R candidate here)___ doesn’t know what it is to join a union, or walk a picket line, or have parents whose first language is not English, or live in a walk-up, or work in a coal mine… ’ .

Sure. None of which are average experiences. Those are particular examples. And that sort of identity politics— which can at least be locally relevant— isn’t at all restricted to Democrats.

And again: You castigated me for supposedly thinking I knew what was in your mind, and then proceeded to claim to know what I’m really interested in. That is sad.