Oh, my - the Obamessiah proffers an opinion on why small town folk are so unhappy.
You go into some of 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. So it’s not surprising then that 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.
See, the way it works is like this. I may be a redneck. It’s OK for my friends to call me a redneck, it’s ok for my family to call be a redneck, but it’s not OK for some stranger to call me a redneck. In one instance it’s a playful rip, in the other it’s an insult that may lead to some ass kicking. It is amazing how tone deaf Obama is. One wonders if he’s ever actually hung out with small town Americans - been to a church picnic or their 4th of July celebration, whatever. I suspect not - because then he would not have so casually called small town Americans bitter, racist, isolationist, gun-toting xenophobes. Or, perhaps, that’s what he really believes, in which case he’s in a ton of trouble come November.
Obama is looking more and more like McGovern - someone who connects with a fanatic democratic base, but who has no idea how to relate to the values “average” Americans cherish.
Or, perhaps, this is the real explanation - he’s a garden variety elitist snob - a very cpmmon species on the American political landscape.
