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Bud wrote:

> Jonathan Ball <jonball@whitehouse.not> wrote in message news:<JR5Zb.256$yZ1.216@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
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>>Bud wrote:
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>>>bnichols@texas.usa (Bill Nichols) wrote in message news:<3275e89e36fa0df28687947dbe8d35ec@news.meganetnews.com>...
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>>>>These Bushniks are really Massachusetts liberals pretending
>>>>they're conservative.... "The truth is that this big spending,
>>>>war mongering, deficit building, job exporting, illegal alien
>>>>importing, government expanding, bill of rights shrinking,
>>>>minority pandering, nation destroying group of preppies are just
>>>>as liberal as John Kerry who they have the balls to disparage as
>>>>a Massachusetts liberal.
>>>>
>>>>		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>		
>>>>PRESIDENT PUKE AND THE LIARS OF THE PURPLE RAGE
>>>>by H. Millard 
>>>>
>>>>Despite present polls, I figure that President George W. Bush may have
>>>>some trouble getting reelected.
>>>>
>>>>I base this opinion on common sense, my political instincts, and
>>>>various things I'm hearing on the streets. Here's an example of just
>>>>one conversation I had recently with a blue collar worker who said he
>>>>was a life long Republican conservative who had voted for Bush in the
>>>>last election.
>>
>>[...]
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>>I went to the original page where this was published 
>>and read it.  It's an interesting take on Bush and the 
>>electoral prospects, but the page is a phony.  No "blue 
>>collar" guy who "isn't an elite or intellectual or 
>>establishment type" talks as the writer depicts.
> 
> 
> I think you would be pleasently surprised by just how articulate and
> well-read "blue collar" workers can be.

Undoubtedly some small number of them are.  They're a 
distinct minority, as the intellectual tone of beer, 
pick-em-up truck and various other blue-collar-oriented 
advertising makes clear.

I don't think the particular "blue collar worker" 
referenced in that page existed at all.  He's wholly a 
creation of the writer's imagination.

> The folks who operate today's
> machine tools, for instance, have to be well above average just to do
> their job.

Ballocks.  There's numerical control software for most 
of it, and the operators don't write the software.  I'm 
not suggesting they don't have to know something, and 
they undoubtedly have better vocational training than 
there predecessors of a few decades ago.  Being able to 
read a technical manual, and being a little bit more 
numerate, don't mean they read The Atlantic or The 
Economist.