Obama Explains Why Some Small Town Pennsylvanians are "Bitter" [and cling to guns and religion!]

ABC News ^ | 4/11/07 | Jake Tapper

[freespirited]

The Huffington Post's Mayhill Fowler reports that, at that same San Francisco fundraiser where Obama revealed his previously unknown college sojourn to Pakistan, the junior senator from Illinois seemed to try to get inside the mind of small towners in Pennsylvania, with a dose of sociology and a dollop of dime-store psychology.

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

It seems to me that this comment could be interpreted fairly easily as dismissing people who hold views on guns, or religion, or immigration, or trade because they believe in those views -- and not because they're "bitter" or lashing back at a system that has discarded them.

[MHGinTN]

He wasn’t reading from his ever present telepromter ... empty suit.

[MHGinTN]

! ... and the Saul Alinsky handbook from which the Rodham rodent took her schoolinng, also!

[longtermmemmory]

no, mccain has given him courage to insult the conservatives. It is safe to ridicule and be dismissive of conservatives and the red counties.

Even Governor Arnold has come out of the closet saying he will fight a DOMA in California.

This is the result of RINOs on the run.

[Intolerant in NJ]

This is your brain on too much bordeaux and brie...excellent.......

[Intolerant in NJ]

Sophomore in High Skool, that is. Any college Sophomore who would say something like this in the Student Union would be ostracized by (almost) everyone...oh, I don't know about that - IIRC the meaning of "sophomore" is something like "He who thinks he knows much more than he actually does" - fits Obama to a "T" as far as I'm concerned.........

[karnage]

As Johnny Carson used to say: “I did not know that!” Thanks for telling me. We’ll see if it makes an impression.

[tcrlaf]

DEMOCRATS...

Bringing the joys of Democrat-Run Detroit to all of us...

[1035rep]

bttt

[Miss Didi]

This is an early Christmas present to Clinton Inc.

[chiller]

Big LOL