The Real America

This week Sarah Palin has made many references to the "real America" and people being "pro-America"which I think is an interesting card to be played. The McCain camp is playing on the American people's emotions and the fears that they are not good citizens. Saying "pro-America" is just another buzz word that is targeting middle class small town Americans. Obama has been playing up to the middle class, because- well that who all of his policy's will benefit. The McCain camp is trying to steal some of those voters by making them think that they need to be part of the pro-American society that needs to vote for the good ol' boy and his lovely side kick. Fox News has been playing up on this idea by repeating the buzz words over and over in their news casts and talk shows. Hannity even went on to say that the real America is the small towns and encompasses the hard working middle class people. People that live in America's big cities aren't "pro-America," they aren't part of the real America? Small town hard working citizens can't vote for a liberal man? The small mill town I come from is full of very hard working Union men and women who are informed enough to know that Republican policies do not favor them economically and usually are not in line with their values. When Joe Biden toured Ohio last week he visited many small Ohio towns with people who seemed pretty "pro-America" to me. The American Postal Workers I spoke with at the rally in Athens and the students I talked to who are paying their way through school seemed pretty real to me.

- On a side note, Bill O'Reilly gave our Sherrod Brown a shout out on his show today- talking about a speech he made in Athens along with a few other Ohio cities, and then again at the Athens County Democratic dinner on Friday night. I found the story right on the money and very funny- Bill did not. http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html