Gee, Sorry You’re Offended….You Hick

Some of my regular readers think Obama will skate from the damage he caused himself with his "small town" comments. I maintain that this one will leave a mark. Time will tell, of course, but I suspect that this indicates how badly Obama is miscalculating the cumulative damage he is doing to himself by refusing to back away from some things:

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Barack Obama said Saturday that if he has offended people with comments he made almost a week ago where he labeled small town Pennsylvanians "bitter" and that they "cling to guns and religion" then he regrets it.

"Obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that," Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal, according to a transcript provided by his campaign.

"The underlying truth of what I said remains, which is simply that people who have seen their way of life upended because of economic distress are frustrated and rightfully so," he told the North Carolina newspaper. "And I hear it all the time when I visit these communities."

Leftwing elitism on full display. "Gee, sorry you're offended, but I'm right, of course. You're a bunch of over-religious, gun nuts with severe xenophobia."

There are many reasons I oppose Obama. His smug self-righteousness is one of them. That is on full display here - and I think it will hurt him with a lot of people in this country. His non-apology will not defuse this, either. And the media can only do so much to hide his gaffe. Even the New York Times has reported on this. I think the damage this time is quite real.

Again, time will tell.