Obama Proves He’s Out of Touch

Yes, Obama’s “bitter” comment just had a whole weekend to simmer and loop endlessly on cable news hundreds of times, but I’m such a big fan of hearing him make ultra-liberal freudian slips that I’m going to reproduce the remark here:

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.

The significance of this sentence can’t be stressed enough. It means Obama will not only lose Pennsylvania to Hillary next week, but he’s also created a great chance for McCain to take PA in the general election.

And what’s more, Hillary attacked Obama for being “elitest and out of touch,” and his response was just as revealing as the original comment:

I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter. They are angry. They feel like they have been left behind. They feel like nobody is paying attention to what they’re going through. 

He went on to clarify what he really meant by saying bitter people like guns and religion, calling these things traditions people fall back on when they’re ignored by government.

The truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important. That’s what sustains us. But what is absolutely true is that people don’t feel like they are being listened to.

I’m from a small town in Pennsylvania. I grew up there and my family still lives there. The people I know are not bitter. They are far from being bitter and that’s because they have religion and faith to sustain them–because they have loaded guns in their houses so they can take care of themselves.

My family and friends in Pennsylvania don’t feel like they’re being left behind, Mr. Obama. They feel like they’re being left alone. That’s why they live where they do. Small town and rural life is the last bastion of rugged individualism in America, and these people feel freer being away from big cities and big government. They’re not worried that you aren’t listening to them, they’re worried that you might come bother them. And more and more they’re realizing that’s certainly what you’d do were they foolish enough to elect you.