//Obama's Divisive, Derisive Small Mind Small Town Talk
:"Obama Draws Fire for Comments on Small-Town America" from Fox News reports on remarks made by Senator Barack Obama to wealthy San Francisco donors about small town Pennsylvania voters, displaying arrogance, elitism and condescension beyond the pale.
UPDATE:
Rasmussen: 56% disagree with remarks, 45% find them elitist
"Obama's mask slips" by William Kristol
The Huffington Post originally quoted Obama as saying: “Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. 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 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 going to 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.”
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