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In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008
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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| boy.....alotta those guys voted for obama.......... |
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Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:36 pm |
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twotap
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Not those guys they belong to a different club. Another one of lifes little mysterys.   |
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"If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!!
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:41 am |
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Tegan
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| wow... you just pretty much described my husband... give or take a few things.. |
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:46 am |
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the only difference between angry white men and angry black men
is skin color. too many write and think there are large differences
between the races. how wonderful this planet could be if everyone regarded
everyone else as a simple human being. 
it's all about ignorance.....woe is the earth.. |
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:27 pm |
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twotap
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| The difference is there are few Politicans who will even acknowledge the existence of the Whiteguys or pander to them. Females, Blacks ,hispanics, gays lesbians, oh ya promise them something but dont align yourself with those ignorant whiteguys. |
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:36 pm |
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thats not true. i have many, many good white friends and the proportion
of things we feel the same way on is the same as the black friends i
have. some people create walls where there needn't be. |
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:46 pm |
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I have had the same experience. I consider you a friend (even though most of your posts are incorrect)  but the original post concerned politicans and who they pander to. |
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Dave Starr
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| I worked with people that wouldn't come to my house because I live in a black area. It's sad; they don't know what they're missing. |
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I used to care, but I take a pill for that now.
Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
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O.K. 2tap, you are hereby invited to a barbeque at my "crib"
this summer...
we'll use my 55 gal. drum pit!
we'll have plenty of "foties"
lester, ray ray an nem will be there!!
ribs, hog maws, and chittlin's will be served!!
coming??  |
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| When where and how do I get there. Ill probably pass on the chittlins though. |
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:29 pm |
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Dave Starr
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quote:
twotap schreef:
When where and how do I get there. Ill probably pass on the chittlins though.
It's an acquired taste.
LT, no greens? |
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I used to care, but I take a pill for that now.
Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:37 pm |
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twotap
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| Shouldnt chittlins start with an S? |
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"If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!!
Barack Hussein Obama--- multiple times. |
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quote:
Dave Starr schreef:
I worked with people that wouldn't come to my house because I live in a black area. It's sad; they don't know what they're missing.
I have a same sex couple that lives across the street that are my best friends and when people come over they stare at the house like they are modern day elephant men.....yes, they live the same as we do.....oy. I have an oriental family that has chickens tethered together, they stare at them like they have never seen chickens before. I have a Russian couple that live across the street, some of the neighbors act like they have the plague...not one commented on their beautiful roses, she just moved here and had the dream of moving to America where she could have six rosebushes.....she's living her dream....I am surrounded by interesting people yet, others don't want to get to know them....I quit talking about my neighbors when I have friends visit....oy. It's just not race, it's anything out of a sociological norm that scares the hell out of people....it's getting old. Sorry, had a couple of margaritas tonight and my patience always wears thin for bigotry..... |
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