Small Town
The latest ruckus in the blogosphere is the recent comments of Barack Obama dismissing small town Pennsylvania voters as overly-religious, gun-nut, anti-immigrant bigots. Obama's exceedingly bigoted comments may very well big the big stumble that Hillary Clinton needed to hang in the race.
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. 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 toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
That's a pretty broad list of things to explain with job loss.
Obama just shot himself in the foot with small town people all across the US and especially in Pennsylvania. A totally self-inflicted, unforced error. Unwittingly, he showed exactly how out of touch a leftwing Chicago "liberal" really is with the "little people" he claims to champion. And how bigoted he really is toward those same people. McCain is already on the offensive on this – and he should be.
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By martian, April 12, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Once again, this is just a hiccough that will get little play, if any, in the MSM. No one outside the conservative blogs will even hear about it – including the very people that have been switching over to supporting the Obamessiah over the Hildebeast to narrow her lead in PA to the low single digits. I am getting more and more frustrated at the way the MSM is doing everything they can to slant everything in Barrie’s favor. As far as the MSM is concerned, the Obamessiah is already president and the election will just be a rubber stamp.
By Quilly Mammoth, April 12, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
The MSM has picked up on this. This is going to leave a mark.
By Larry, April 12, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
I’m still trying to work it out. Did he say Pennsylvania was in the Midwest?