Pastor Byrd proves Obama right
The sign:
The quote:
"His name is so close to Osama I have a feeling he might be Islamic therefore he doesn't recognize Christ," Pastor Byrd said.
The commentary:
* Pastor Byrd is a dunce.* Median household income in Jonesville fell 17% between 2000 and 2005, from $22,227 to $18,500. That's well below the median for South Carolina ($39,316) and for the US ($44,389). In other words, the economics being pushed by Bush, McCain, and the rest of the Republican Party has absolutely devastated this community.
* Many members of the Jonesville Church of God will vote for McCain because they are prejudiced against either blacks, Muslims, or both. The people who will do this are morons.
* This just confirms what Barack Obama has said about voters in places like Jonesville.
I have nothing to add.
FYI, this is what Obama said two weeks ago:
"...our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Byrd has indeed proven him right.