"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 nothings 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 to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Barack Obama Speech in San Francisco April 6th.
McCain’s campaign criticized the comment Friday. "It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking. It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans."
Hillary Clinton also jumped on this Obama speech in a more subdued but like manner.
Even with liberal blogs and the main stream media blatantly behind Good Person Barak Obama and against Bad Person Hillary Clinton [Newsweek this week even ran side by side photos of a scowling Richard Nixon next to Hillary to compare their similarities for chrissake.]
Everyone, well almost everyone, is saying Hillary is a loser, a spoiler, a bad person and living in a fantasy world because she stays in the race even though the math makes it impossible for her to win. No, Hillary is staying in because there may be more missteps and revelations about Obama that could change everything. And woe be to this country if they come out after the convention!
This is a serious political misstep by Obama which followed last months major negative revelation concerning Rev. Wright.
What a convoluted issue for me. I am behind Hillary because I believe this country is far more racist than we like to admit and a Black man cannot win in a general election. I know it in my bones. I do not want another 4 years of George Bushism.
On the other hand…
Obama in his own small way with his speech Sunday night addressed this issue that I have been screeching about here for 12 years to no avail.
To put it lightly…
The ascendancy of the Right – and the pain it has caused as the cows come home these days – over this past generation has been because the GOP so successfully played upon the inherent religious intolerance, bigoty, racism, nationalism and gun madness of the small brains and bitter hearts of Dirtball Americans.
We are where we are because these nitwits blame all their troubles on Blacks on welfare, immigrants stealing their jobs, queers doing whatever it is they do and those damn fereners up to no good all over the world!
Red State America refuses to put the blame where it belongs and they vote for the very people that are causing them their real heartaches by moving their jobs offshore and skimming off all our economic successes into their own back pockets. But Republicans are white, wear tiny flag lapel pins and say they love Jesus which is all that matters to these mindless boobs.
I guess I can’t run for office with that as my stump speech hey?