YARD SIGN IN SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA: “NOT BITTER”; OTHERS THINK HIM “THE ANTICHRIST”

“The Devil will see you now, Mr. Obama”

[The Australian]

According to Geoff Elliott, who is poking around the Keystone State for the Australian press, Cindy Sowers, 48, is so mad at Barack Obama that she decided to make a sign.

Elliot writes:

“She took out a white board and with black tape spelled out NOT BITTER. Then she stuck the sign in her front yard.”

Southern Pennsylvania is almost all white and a place of guns, God and hard economic times. “Obama will be lucky to win more than a handful of votes here,” Elliot writes.

This is the political market that Obama so offended when his private comments to a wealthy fundraising gathering in San Francisco were splashed across cable TV last week.

"We are a bunch of rednecks?" Sowers asks on the porch of her house. "I think there are a lot of people who are angry about that."

Sowers, retired from the military, where she held an administrative position, is an avowed Hillary Clinton supporter. “And she's certainly no redneck, Elliot writes noting that Sowers's son, who dates a young woman of mixed race, is supporting Obama.

To Sowers, Obama cannot be trusted because of his long-term association with a "wacko" preacher: his pastor in south Chicago, Jeremiah Wright, who is known for occasionally incendiary sermons that Obama's critics say are anti-American.

THE ANTICHRIST

Elliot further discovered in his trek through southern Pennsylvania that “while Sowers's anger at Obama's comments is understandable, other attitudes in these parts are far more disturbing.”

"He was a jerk for saying that," comments Sowers's neighbor Kym Dayley, standing outside her home by her pick-up truck, chatting to her 14-year-old son, Jeffrey, and a friend, Kim Reed, 41.

"The way he comes across TV, I think he is really cocky," she adds. But the conversation soon turns to the fears among poorer whites that Obama was alluding to in his comments, the kind of fears that are likely to be played on even more in a general election. "I'm not picking on where he is from, but it just doesn't seem right to me."

Why, Elliot asks with increasing alarm. Dayley has no qualms about explaining:

"I just know from a lot of reading and things that have come to pass that I think he is the Antichrist." In Dayley's view, the US is being duped by a charismatic messenger of Satan.

Wow!

We knew as soon as we read the first reports of Obama’s San Francisco remarks about Pennsylvanians “cling[ing] to guns…religion…” out of “bitterness” and “frustration” that some rural Pennsylvanians were sure to be mightily offended, but “the Antichrist”?

Things my be worse for Obama in the Keystone State than even we previously predicted...stay tuned!