I’m talking of course about the tempest in the teapot over Obama’s “bitter” statement.
If he had said the same thing about people in Africa or the Middle East, embracing guns and faith when feeling threatened, the consensus would probably have been about his wisdom. But he said it about Americans and that wasn’t smart.
It’s funny as my grandma once described funny to me. Funny peculiar and not funny ha-ha, the difference between wisdom and not smart.
The Dems have had enough limousine liberals that the radio blowhards were just waiting for an opportunity like this. I certainly know lots of people who fit Obama’s description perfectly. There are many who do not also. The important point here is that it is necessary to make the Dem candidate an elitist who can’t understand everyday Americans.
Of course McCain, when he was short on campaign money just borrowed his wife’s jet, same as most average Americans would do. Romney, Bush, Cheney, Giuliani are all true blue-bloods or wealthy.
Obama is clearly an intellectual elite. He went to Harvard. Ok, some of the Republican candidates went to Ivy League schools, but at east they didn’t get good grades. Americans seem to have a real aversion to people who arent able to dumb down. The think tanks take advantage of this to avoid policy discussions. Bah, maybe I will just vote for the tallest candidate every year to prove I’m a real American.
Steve
At least Obama is familiar with hard times. Even Sen. Clinton wasn’t very well-off in Arkansas. McCain, OTOH, is something like 3rd-generation Navy brass.
But can I ask y’all a question? Mr. Wired thinks Obama’s “bitter” remark was specifically about WHITE working-class voters. What do you think?
I think it’s likely Obama was speaking predominantly but not by any means exclusively about white working-class voters, because plenty of God-fearing gun-owning Rust Belt black factory workers lost their jobs right alongside their white brethren, and there are plenty of black roofers and painters and drywall hangers who lost their jobs specifically to lower paid Hispanic immigrants, legal and illegal. Mr. Wired simply speaks to the transparency of the black experience relative to the white.