[NYTIMES] President Obama said in a radio interview airing on Monday that Donald J. Trump, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, is exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working-class men to boost his campaign. Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House.
Demographic changes and economic stresses, including “flat-lining” wages and incomes, have meant that “particularly blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy, where they are no longer getting the same bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support their families on a single paycheck,” Mr. Obama said in the interview with National Public Radio.
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Was he complaining that Donnie was taking a page from his play book?
#2
Blue collar folks despise a man that never held a real job, never worked with his hands, is an abject failure affirmative action know nothing screwing up our insurance and economy. My kids are stuck with working thirty hour work weeks and existing on my insurance thanks to this failure.
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exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working-class men to boost his campaign
Isn't that the point of the campaign, to hear the pain of the people? BO is grumbling because he/they never listened to real problems of the workers.
#4
Remind me again who killed the full time job in order to shove people onto the Obamacare plantation? And even with all that careful planning it really didn't work? Everything he touches turns to $hit.
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“That’s not to suggest that everybody who objects to my policies may not have perfectly good reasons for it,” the president added. He noted, as an example, that voters living in coal-dependent areas may blame him for the loss of their jobs.
I'm not sure if the NYT was going for subtlety, or was unintentionally ironic.
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[NYTIMES] President Obama said in a radio interview airing on Monday that Donald J. Trump, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, is exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working-class men to boost his campaign. Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House.
