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...factor would have been less had Obama not been speaking in San Francisco, a regional headquarters for secular condescension, or at a private fund raiser, where the rich and powerful gather for shrimp and special access; or if Obama, a comfortably devout Christian, had not said that "bitter" small-town voters "cling" to their faith, along with their guns and their "antipathy to people who aren't like them." By any measure, it was a graceless move to characterize an entire demographic group--and vital voting bloc--as irrational and bigoted. And it came from a candidate who should know...
...some of the working-class Democrats in that state said they understood what Obama was trying to say, even if the professional political class didn't. "I think them remarks is the absolute truth," said Bill Williams, 60, a bearded disabled veteran from Waynesburg who attended an Obama town-hall meeting near Pittsburgh. "We like our faith and our guns. I went to church when things were bad, and I went out and I hunted for my family food, where I didn't know whether to put the gun in my mouth or to shoot an animal. So, yeah...
...stakes is the crucial role that white working-class voters play in just about every conceivable Democratic scenario for winning in the fall. It is no accident that McCain is also exploiting Obama's comments to go after swing voters and rev up his own embittered base. Small-town Americans "are the people that have fundamental cultural, spiritual and other values that in my view have very little to do with their economic condition," McCain said in a speech at the Associated Press annual meeting in Washington. And in case that didn't hit the spot, McCain offered a side...
...first time, I realized he is an élitist.' MAYHILL FOWLER, blogger for OffTheBus.net who first reported on Barack Obama's comment at a San Francisco fund raiser that economic frustrations have made small-town Pennsylvania voters "bitter" and driven them to "cling to guns or religion...
...quite unhappy time,†she says.Lacking funds and without even a video camera to her name, Dovey’s many film ideas did not come to fruition, and so in 2005 she channeled her creative frustration into a creative writing program at the University of Cape Town. “I turned to writing because I felt like I had failed at film,†she says. “I think it was the solitary aspect of writing that just really appealed at that point where I felt like I’d lost this...