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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Did He Just Call Us Bitter Clingers? Again?

This clip struck me as – oh, I don’t know – maybe a bit arrogant. Dismissive. Even derisive.

Judge for yourself.

 

 

“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 gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Barack Obama comments at San Francisco fundraiser, April 6, 2008