Barack was speaking with some San Francisco lefties the other day, and thought he could get away with insulting rural people in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately for him, his words have gotten around. Now Mr. Incredible is pathetically trying to dislodge his foot from where it is wedged deeply down his throat:
MUNCIE, Ind. - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending."I didn't say it as well as I should have," he said.
As Obama tried to quell the furor, presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton hit him with one of her lengthiest and most pointed criticisms to date.
"Senator Obama's remarks were elitist and out of touch," she said, campaigning about an hour away in Indianapolis. "They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans."
Barack can try to explain and deny all he wants. But the problem that both he and the PIAPS have is that leftist ideology, and hence the politics of most Democrats, is condescending by its very nature. They believe that a few government officials in Washington know how to run the lives of 300 million people better than those people themselves do. That is why no Democrat running for president has carried a majority of the popular vote since 1976.
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