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...Karen Tumulty's caricature of Obama's bitter-voters observation as a "dismissal of small-town voters as narrow-minded, churchgoing gun nuts" who are "irrational and bigoted" represents political spin rather than a fair reading of his words. He was explaining why some voters focus on social issues rather than on their economic interests. Tumulty's article does little to help us understand Obama's "mangled" meaning and instead carelessly perpetuates his opponents' spin. Brian C. Jones, Waverly, Iowa...
Karen Tumulty's caricature of Obama's bitter-voters observation as a "dismissal of small-town voters as narrow-minded, churchgoing gun nuts" who are "irrational and bigoted" represents political spin rather than a fair reading of his words. He was explaining why some voters focus on social issues rather than on their economic interests. Tumulty's article does little to help us understand Obama's "mangled" meaning and instead carelessly perpetuates his opponents' spin. Brian C. Jones, WAVERLY, IOWA...
...setbacks for Obama's seemingly charmed presidential campaign have come one on top of the other lately. There was his admittedly clumsy comments in a private fund raiser about "bitter" small-town voters who "cling" to religion and guns, questions about his association with a 1960s-era terrorist and nitpicking in a recent debate over why he doesn't wear an American flag pin on his lapel...
...McCain himself didn't seem so sure about that. He did say that he believed Obama had "disparaged" small-town America, that he didn't think a love of God or weaponry had anything to do with economic despair. But when asked directly by Chris Matthews if élitism would be an issue in the general election, McCain said no. This may well be strategy: the candidate takes the high road while Schmidt lands the body blows. But McCain has laid down some pretty clear markers that he sees this election in much the same way that Obama (and Hillary...
...funny, because the intended point of Obama's ill-advised comments about small-town voters was that they "cling" to wedge issues involving God and guns because they've lost faith in our political culture's ability to solve problems. It's an arguable point. But last night suggests that there's little denying that our political culture has lost its ability to illuminate any issue more complicated than the appropriate condiments for a red-blooded American...