Obama has managed to upset quite a few people in the past several days, including a blogger who broke this story initially. Accused of being condescending toward a large group of voters recently, the elitist and effete Mr. Obama may wish to consider a manly hunting trip a la John Kerry. Lord knows another bowling alley embarrassment won't do.Let's turn to the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times for the 411:
From the Trib today:
Sen. Barack Obama, who concedes he could have chosen his words better when he spoke about a bitterness among working class voters last week in a closed-door setting, is paying for those words with a weekend of public complaints from the Clinton campaign about his “condescending’’ attitude toward small-town America.
Huh? This uniter, this Everyman of the People was condescending? Well, yes, indisputably. Barack, of course, is busy backtracking and backpedalling and spinning like mad, at once denying and explaining while only reinforcing the impression that he was, after all, condescending. He sounded downright elitist. But that's how elitists usually sound. The Tribune continues:
Speaking Sunday at a closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama had said he understands why some working-class voters become frustrated and vote on single issues. “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," he had said, in an address revealed in bits and pieces this week by The Huffington Post online, delivering the controversial words on Friday
The Sun-Times has some gems, too:
As he tried to quell the furor, presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton hit Obama with one of her lengthiest and most pointed criticisms to date.
That's what we like about Hillary. She's pointed and critical. (Of course, Hillary's having her own trouble with stupid remarks.)
''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.''
No, they're not. But neither is Obama. For that matter, neither is Hillary. But let us not digress. The Sun-Times had a second item of interest, too:
[Obama] was put on defense in Pennsylvania, after his remarks were posted Friday on the Huffington Post Web site by blogger Mayhill Fowler, who also provided an audiotape of the remarks. Fowler told CNN she was at the closed fund-raiser because she donated $2,300 to Obama's campaign. On Sunday, she had written a shorter column revealing Obama's speculating about possible vice-presidential running-mates but did not say anything about the controversial comments on small-town Pennsylvania residents.
See what trouble bloggers are? Doing pesky things, like exposing the truth.
"Frankly, I didn't want to bring down the campaign," Fowler told CNN. "Then I thought about it . . . the remarks bothered me enough that I wanted to write them up."
And so she did, and now thousands of other bloggers and the mainstream press are, too. How inconvenient.
