Abu Wabu

Now Obama is calling Pennsylvanians and other flyover-staters a bunch of bitter, bigoted religious gunfreaks. Attaboy!

But the 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. So it’s not surprising then that 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 express their frustrations.

What a f'n snob. Yeah, fer sure that whole "religion is the opiate" thing that Marx loved so much. Of course. People only find faith out of bitterness and frustration; and why would Obama think otherwise, after twenty years of listening to Jeremiah Wright, whose whole message is bitterness and rage and hate and blame?

Captain Ed:

What makes this so breathtaking is the mindless, casual way in which Obama reveals his snobbishness and elitism. We saw hints of this from Michelle Obama, in her assertions about never being proud of her country until her husband ran for President. (Soren Dayton has more on this.) We had not seen it from Obama himself in such a blatant and unmistakable manner. The matter-of-fact style in which he spoke this shows the unthinking contempt he has for people he has never engaged — an acceptance of stereotypes without questioning them that shows his own bigotry, not to mention foolishness and poor judgment.

The adventure continues.