Pennsylvanians get a Taste

We in Arkansas are used to the condescending tripe which emanates from self -professed "elitists." However, Barack Obama stirred up a hornet's nest in Pennsylvania by stating the following to an upscale, elitist group of supporters in Marin County California the other evening:

[T]he truth is, is that, 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 some of 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 to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

This is not the kind of populist rhetoric Democratic voters actually want to hear. When they do hear it, it sounds to them more like this satirical article from August, 2000.

Funny stuff!

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