cracker-barrel philosophy.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : homespun, cracker-barrel philosophy.    From Dictionary.com. 

Atticus is a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams.    From Wordnik.com.  [What 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Isn't] Reference

Puzo's often charming cracker-barrel philosophy is replaced by pompous political soliloquies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omerta] Reference

The problem is that this isn't analysis -- it's free-market cracker-barrel wisdom, interspersed with quotes and anecdotes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

He thought about this, chewing and polishing up one of those cracker-barrel witticisms which are Mississippi's gift to civiisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash For Freedom]

On the page, the sheriff is a tad too folksy, dishing out cracker-barrel wisdom to his good wife, Loretta Tess Harper, with a twinkle written into his homespun truths.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Country for Old Men] Reference

He doesn't skimp on the mediagenic Wizard of Menlo Park, beloved for catnaps and cracker-barrel philosophizing about how genius was I percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard Of Menlo Park] Reference

Silly cracker-barrel stuff, mostly, although he had a curious store of half-learned knowledge; Bunyan was a favourite, and he was well up on Napoleon and Caesar and assorted military history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

It's a low-key, philosophical musing reminiscent of the voice-over that opens THE BIG LEBOWSKI but played for real rather than as a caricature of the cracker-barrel cowboy spirit-guide vibe you get in the earlier movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Hershey's artfully maintained persona was that of a country boy, a rumpled cracker-barrel philosopher; he spoke often of his humble upbringing, by a nearly illiterate father in rural Indiana, and he liked to deliver lengthy homespun discourses that rambled from military issues to the nature of farm life and back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Sorting] Reference

That's what happened last week, when Inhofe brought forward his cracker-barrel bill that would make it difficult for people for whom English is a second language to understand critical government forms like court documents and Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) proposed his own measure that would totally neuter the English-only bill if it should pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weaselly Theater On Senate Immigration Vote] Reference

But then I never thought I'd see the day when "To Kill A Mockingbird" --- a novel that has inspired readers for half a century --- would be derided as a book about "the limitations of liberalism" (by Malcolm Gladwell, no less, in The New Yorker, of all places) and "a sugar-coated myth of Alabama's past" with a hero who's "a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams" (by Allen Barra, in the Wall Street Journal).    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Being Attacked?] Reference

He did not lead the life of a cracker-barrel philosopher in a country store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

The Matrix insists on its own intellectuality - cracker-barrel postmodernity though it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [gordsellar.com] Reference

Tea Party movement is rooted in showboating sincerity and ostentatious, cracker-barrel patriotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Political journalist Molly Ivins was a Texas liberal known for cracker-barrel commentary with biting humor reminiscent of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day In the Life] Reference

As if their deaths deserved nothing more noble than a TV freak in a pink suit spouting cracker-barrel philosophy about the worth of the mission in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

John McCain used that cracker-barrel form of address are probably still feeling hung over, if indeed they have regained consciousness, after tossing back 21 shots in 90 minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

They caught the rain in their slickers and made their coffee of it, and spent another more or less uncomfortable night coiling themselves over and around a cracker-barrel which seemed to take up the whole interior of the wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference

Those who played a drinking game that required them to down a shot every time John McCain used that cracker-barrel form of address are probably still feeling hung over, if indeed they have regained consciousness, after tossing back 21 shots in 90 minutes.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Reader's Digest style and a text of pure puerility, to which the cynic must respond that this is precisely the aesthetic and intellectual level of exegesis that Rockwell merits and that anything more perceptive would be a mismatch with the homespun, cracker-barrel, neighbourly folk to whom his work was pitched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

"I dropped them flowers in a cracker-barrel, and let the news trickle in my ears and down toward my upper left-hand shirt pocket until it got to my feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference

Still, he is a comic find with his Walter Brennan – ish cracker-barrel philosopher’s Southwestern twang, which cannot mask the soul of a true gentleman as far as women are concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Hate Freedomland? Roth's Film Honest About Race] Reference

It's a film that’s too busy waxing cracker-barrel philosophy about how in the good ol’ days were simpler and, you know, evil didn’t exist or something, as it pretends to be a message movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worst OSCARS Ever | the TV addict] Reference

The lurid but colorful ways in which he fell for his own cracker-barrel rhetoric, turned into an evil demagogue and became the role model for every crooked Southern politician for the next 70 years (including several disgraced Louisiana governors, state senators and even the character of “Boss” Finley in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth) are symbols of political corruption that plague the Delta to this day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Sean Penn Can't Save King's] Reference