"Bitter" replaces "Elitist"

Bitter Gate

Hillary may have been right to stick around.  Following the comments he made earlier (see below), If Barack Obama gets really bloodied this week Senator Clinton can make the case, at the Democratic Convention, that the Senator from Illinois is unelectable by the  American public--many of whom go to church, cling to their weapons and expect to chose someone from the people. 

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.

The press is currently using the term "bitter" to describe Obama's comments, but the bigger problem may be Obama's "I think you're all trash, but I want to be your president anyway" attitude.

In a sign of solidarity, several talking heads in the news are interpreting "cling", the verb Obama used, "hold on" to hold.

Senator Obama has changed "anti-immigrant sentiment" to mad about illegal immigrants, in a later speech he made in front of a gun, religious-clinging Pennsylvania crowd.

Political Season Pass

Could these comments make Senator Hillary Clinton president?  Skeptics will point to Obama's appeal and the ability to rise in the polls even after the radical comments of his spiritual guide, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, but that rise for Obama reveals more about Hillary's lack of appeal than it shows support for the senator from Illinois.

The success of Barrack Obama is largely due to the senator's ability to validate voter self-absorption.   "How does Obama make me feel?" "What will Obama do for me?", has been the prevailing appeal of the Obama candidacy.

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[Brian H]

What's that rattling sound coming from the closet, Ma?