barack obama bitter comment
How can Hillary claim Obama is “Elitist” while her husband is a paid Lobbyist for Colombia “Free Trade”?
First- the comment:
“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 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” – Barack Obama
(an intuitive observation that was similar to the thesis of why Republican voters vote the way they do, against their own economic interests, presented in Thomas Frank’s book What’s the Matter with Kansas?)
Next – the OPINION:
“I don’t think he really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you” – Hillary Clinton
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/25/america/LA-GEN-Colombia-Clinton.php
McCain owns like 8 house. Frankly, I don’t see how any of them can call anyone ‘elitist’ with a straight face.
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