MORE ON OBAMA’S SMALL-TOWN SCREWUP, from Tom Maguire.
Plus this: “Obama To Rural Pennsylvanians: Vote For Me, You Corncob-Smokin’, Banjo-Strokin’ Chicken-Chokin’ Cousin-Pokin’ Inbred Hillbilly Racist Morons.” That’ll sell. Can’t anybody play this game?
UPDATE: Still more:
Barack Obama has done what Democratic candidates for president invariably do — he has revealed the profound sense of unearned superiority that is the sad and persistent hallmark of contemporary liberalism. Obama’s statement today that small-town folk “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†may be the most distilled example of this train of thought I’ve ever seen.
I still think that knocking the anti-trade stuff is pretty hypocritical given Barack’s own position. And wasn’t it just the other day he was telling us he’s the pro-gun candidate?
I once saw Alan Dershowitz argue an appeal back when I was a law clerk. He made clear from the beginning that he thought he was the smartest guy in the room — which, as one of the other clerks remarked later, proved that he wasn’t. He lost. Must be a Harvard Law thing . . . .
MORE STILL: Heh: Obama Reaches Out to Bitter Religious Pennsylvanians.
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. …
And follow the link for Michael Lind’s comment: “Hunting is part of working-class American culture. Does Obama really think that working-class whites in Pennsylvania were gun control liberals until their industries were downsized?” How would he know otherwise?
Plus, “Let’s have a national dialogue about egghead condescension!” It’s got to work better for Obama than the dialogue about race has . . . .