Quote from Yannis:
What A McCarthy is not mentioning is the latest Obama gaffe, or, maybe, our latest glimpse into his psyche, the comment he made at a liberal millionnaires' fundraising get-together in California yesterday, about Pennsylvanians. It went something like this:
"You go 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 nothingâs replaced them... And itâs not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who arenât like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations, etc etc"
This will probably stick with him for a while, it's fraught with disdain for blue color folks and reeks of elitism that barely covers underlying racially based distinctions, a la Rev Wright.