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"Jonathan Ball" <jonball@whitehouse.not> wrote in message
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> Bud wrote:
>
> > Jonathan Ball <jonball@whitehouse.not> wrote in message
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> >
> >>Bud wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>bnichols@texas.usa (Bill Nichols) wrote in message
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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.
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>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.
>

Gee, I work in a prison and I read The Atlantic.

Ken