More fallout from Obama's remarks about rural Pennsylvania (note, in my previous post I said that these words were uttered in Pennsylvania. Nope. Obama was in San Francisco talking about Pennsylvania). Here's Mickey Kaus.
I used to think working class voters had conservative values because they were bitter about their economic circumstances--welfare and immigrants were "scapegoats," part of the false consciousness that would disappear when everyone was guaranteed a good job at good wages. Then I left college. ..
Stinging words from John Podhoretz:
Obama’s astonishing sentence offers a syllogistic string of superciliousness: Gun ownership is equated with religious fanaticism, which is said to accompany hatred of the other in the form of opposition to immigration and support for trade barriers. It drips with an attitude so important to the spiritual well-being of the American liberal — the paternalistic attitude that says, “Oh, well, people only do thing differently from me because they are ignorant and superstitious and backward” — that it has survived and thrived despite the suicidal impact it has had on the achievement of liberal political goals and aims.
But perhaps the winner for best take on this story is a commenter on Tom Maguire's site:
HALP US BROK O'BOMBA-- WE R STUCK HEAR N ALTOONA.
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