I can already hear the Republican 527 commercials now, panning scenes of wheat fields and factory workers with cleaned-up audio of the Messiah, Barack Obama, extolling Middle-American virtues:
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.
The search for a voice-over guy who can do a perfect Obama imitation is probably already underway.
How can such a slick politician manage to insult so many people in a single sentence??
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns
I've known gun owners all my life, been one for four decades, and have never known a single person who "clings" to their guns because they are bitter over economics. Who in Hell is he talking about??
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to religion
For somebody who wants to be President of a country as professedly religious as the United States, who claims piously to be a devout Christian himself, that's very possibly the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard any politician say; dumber than "Is our children learning". Dumber even than "putting food on their family".
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to antipathy to people who aren’t like them
Why didn't he just call everybody in the "big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania" redneck racists and get it over with??
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Obama might as well have gone bird hunting with Deadeye Dick Cheney. The Swiftboaters already had Jeremiah Wright clips to run with, now Obama has upgraded them from little patrol boats to a destroyer.
Of course, I'm just a "typical white person", so my opinion matters little.