Angry White Man.

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While I can't relate to all of it, I'm sure I will, unfortunately, be able to eventually.

http://www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324

 Aspen Times wrote:

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.

Edited by WGP guy2 - 14 February 2008 at 6:51pm