BARACK Obama says:
“You got 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 to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
And the bloggers say:
Bitter Pills
For Clinton, the odds are the incident is too late to save her candidacy. But more Bittergates would increase her chancesā¦
The Underside of Hope
Will the Democrats nominate yet another out-of-touch elitist?
Dissecting āBittergateā
The Democrats are doing a fine job of helping McCain get to the White House.
In Darkest Pennsylvania
It was said behind closed doors to the chablis-and-brie set of San Francisco, in response to a question as to why he was not doing better in that benighted and barbarous land they call Pennsylvania.
Woe Is He
Barack Obamaās going to be the bitter one at the end of this.
The Rubes and the Elites
By calling small-town Americans ābitter,ā Obama has deepened a long-standing rift in the Democratic base. The partyās success in November depends on healing it.
Obama Nation
Is Barack Obamaās small-town America really a land of bitter gun-toting, Bible-thumping racists? Or are they just God-fearing American patriots? Maybe we should ask his ātypical whiteā grandmother.
Obamaās Projections of Bitterness
Democratsāall but committed to this fresh, charismatic figureāare forced to deny or downplay the almost daily revelations about Obama that would have derailed less promising candidates already.
Off Limits
What’s a lot more interesting is the question of how Obama’s “bitter” comments made it into theĀ public domainĀ in the first place. As you may know, theĀ Huffington Post blogger who broke the story was a paying guest at the $1,000-a-head fundraiser. Most conventional journalists would have treated the remarks as off-the-record and thus off-limitsBig Snob or Little Snob?
There are so many problems with Barack Obamaās comments about small-town America, itās hard to know where to begin.
Some Perspective on āBitterā
Barack Obama should be advised to meet as often as possible with skeptical, and even hostile, working people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Deep Inside āBittergateā
The secret story of how Obamaās gaffe made its way to the Huffington Post, of all places, and how it might affect campaign coverage from now on.
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