Desperate Unthinking People

In the run up to the Presidential election, one of the networks had a couple on in Virginia, who were white rural denizens of a trailer. As I recall, both had at one time been gainfully employed, but at the time the story aired only one was and hours had been greatly cut back. The couple were portrayed as gun-owning NASCAR fans, the type of folks who would typically vote for McCain, but in their plight with open anger expressed for Bush's "failures", they were going to vote for "hope and change". I can hear the producers now filling a template: "Let's find some hicks, real trailer trash who look like Ku Kluxers to show the other rednecks Obama doesn't bite. The gun rack type, who don't know Bush isn't running. Yeah, right off of a Springer episode." The wayward couple was exploited by the New York press to show other poor, downtrodden whites that they needed to set aside their innate racism and vote for their savior. What a load of b.s. These same brand of people are being shown now, happy as clams in their new digs, that they were only able to purchase because Obama has given them $8000 in first time home buyer's tax credit. They are portrayed now in brand new cars that they were only able to drive off in because of Obama's generosity with $3500 to $4500 they received in "Cash for Clunkers." What are these poor people, whose future vote loyalty to Democrats has now been purchased not by Obama as he has no cash to give, but with our money confiscated from us by way of taxes, to do when six months from now they can not make their mortgage payment? When a year from now, they have their car repossessed as jobs continue to diminish as they must as Obama shoves the nation deeper into the pit of socialism-will they still blame Bush as Obama and his media are contriving for them or will they wake up that "hope and change" meant hype and suffering?