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In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man





Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008


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There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.

Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.

He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.

His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.

He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.

Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”

He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.

He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.

Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.

He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.

There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.

He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.





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King and Jack et.al., The problem with changing American healthcare is that there is a DEEPLY entrenched system which makes LOTS of money for various participants. Insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, hospital and other health care groups, etc. make BIG money from health care. On a much smaller scale, doctors do reasonably well. Some quite well. Though, many rank and file docs doing ordinary work like internists, general practitioners, ordinary OBGYNs, dermatologists and etc. are almost swallowed up by the insurance companies. They work long and hard for their moderate share of the health care pie.
Anyway, all those big money folks pour HUGE money into political campaigns and do it on a long term basis. They pay off all the players from both parties. It is almost impossible to get those who legislate to seriously threaten the existing system. And it does not matter the political party.
The system has to change and become more inclusive. But it will be a variation of the same old song.
But, you all knew that, right?
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Jack and King Brown:

Thanks for that explanation. Like I said in my original post, it sounds like a good idea. My fear though, is that the Democratic side will take a different path to it. That is my skeptism, neither will explain how it will happen.

Good points on the real life experiences. My wife is British, and she can't figure our system here either. I guess I take it for granted based on being retired military.

I'll keep an open mind, but will still vote Republican. The Dems just stand for too many things that I am against.

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In November 2008, we'll start to cure the world of all it's ills. We'll clothe the poor with the shirts off our back.
...then be handed the bill - and wait for the next heart attack.
Who's angry?


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The fanatics on this board have started the misinformation and innuendo already. I'm still waiting for the real fight to get dirtier!

Barak Obama in the January 15 2008 Democratic debate in Las Vegas
“We essentially have two realities, when it comes to guns in this country. You’ve got the tradition of lawful gun ownership. It is very important for many Americans to be able to hunt, fish, take their kids out, teach them how to shoot. Then you’ve got the reality of 34 Chicago public school students who get shot down on the streets of Chicago. We can reconcile those two realities by making sure the Second Amendment is respected and that people are able to lawfully own guns, but that we also start cracking down on the kinds of abuses of firearms that we see on the streets.”
Hillary Clinton in the same debate:
“I believe in the Second Amendment. People have a right to bear arms. But I also believe that we can common-sensically approach this, and backed off a national licensing registration plan.”

Obama and Clinton both get an F rating from the NRA, while McCain gets a C+, despite pandering to the conservative gun lobby. Poor old dinosaur Huckabee, effectively out of the race , gets an A. Says a lot about the NRA and the 4 million members who allow them put out that type of garbage!

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Originally Posted By: Jakearoo
The system has to change and become more inclusive. But it will be a variation of the same old song.
But, you all knew that, right?


Right.


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Cost of health care . . . if we add the taxes we pay to the insurance premiums we pay, I wonder how that compares to the taxes Europeans pay, to cover--among other things--their health care? It's hard for me to compare, personally, because I've always had good insurance coverage--either because of my job or my wife's. She still has excellent coverage, and now I'm retired military. And I can't remember the last time I've paid a medical (or dental) bill. Both the wife and I just had biopsies (both negative, thank God) and didn't have any problems either with our family physician or the specialists involved.

Kerryman, nearly all the Democrats tend to talk a good game on guns, and they're very careful to pander to hunters. Here in Iowa, our Senator Harkin talks about not taking away guns from hunters and target shooters, but he's also on record as saying that all "Saturday night specials" (cheap handguns--but where do you draw the line?) and assault rifles ought to be put on an old rust bucket and sunk in the Atlantic. How about that--gun control and ocean pollution, in one fell swoop??

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Cost of health care . . . if we add the taxes we pay to the insurance premiums we pay, I wonder how that compares to the taxes Europeans pay, to cover--among other things--their health care?

Larry - total per capita costs (including insurance and/or taxes) were included in the World Health Organization's 2000 study ranking national health care systems. The US ranked number 1 in per capita cost among the nations of the world, and number 1 in health care expenditures as a percent of GDP. Yet we ranked a dismal 37th in overall health system performance - better than Slovenia, but not quite as good as Costa Rica.

Here's an eye-opening report from the University of Maine: http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf


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My thoughts:
Clinton or Obama....Never

McCain? I can't seem to give him a pass over these issues. I thought he spent enough time sleeping with the enemy.

* McCain-Finegold, Freedom of speech
* McCain-Lieberman, Global warming
* McCain-Kennedy, Amnesty for illegals
* Gang of 14, Fillibuster ruling
* Two votes opposing Bush tax cuts
* NRA, C+
* Reported violent temper

I'm very concerned regarding this election. I'll vote, but will take my pencil and write in a vote for DUNCAN HUNTER.


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Originally Posted By: RMC
My thoughts:
Clinton or Obama....Never

McCain? I can't seem to give him a pass over these issues. I thought he spent enough time sleeping with the enemy.

* McCain-Finegold, Freedom of speech
* McCain-Lieberman, Global warming
* McCain-Kennedy, Amnesty for illegals
* Gang of 14, Fillibuster ruling
* Two votes opposing Bush tax cuts
* NRA, C+
* Reported violent temper

I'm very concerned regarding this election. I'll vote, but will take my pencil and write in a vote for DUNCAN HUNTER.


While I totally agree with your thoughts on Duncan Hunter and I also respect your right to pencil in the candidate of your choice, I must ask that you re-consider.

You very specifically said that you would never vote for either Clinton or Obama...... I will submit that while you support Duncan Hunter, a vote for him will be a defacto vote for the democratic nominee.

Sometimes our palatte is best served by swallowing some distaste in preferance to being force fed a real pile of feces.

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