Obama the Bitter

Obama stubbed his toe again this past week, remarking (or psycho-analyzing) at a recent fundraiser that manyvoters in the middle class tend to "cling" to God and guns whenever they're bitter about their life. Presumably he means when they're having a hard time economically, or feel some slight to their rights. And by this, we can assume he means that they feel this way when the government isn't doing enough to make sure they don't feel that way....or because they're just too dumbto know what's really in their best interest.

George Will weighs in with his column today:

Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism. Explaining why many working class voters are "bitter," he said they "cling" to guns, religion and "antipathy to people who aren't like them" because of "frustrations." His implication was that their primitivism, superstition and bigotry are balm for resentments they feel because of America's grinding injustice.

By so speaking, Obama does fulfill liberalism's transformation since Franklin Roosevelt. What had been under FDR a celebration of America and the values of its working people has become a doctrine of condescension toward those people and the supposedly coarse and vulgar country that pleases them. ...

Maybe it's Barack that's bitter. Bitter that many working class Americans happen to be conservatives...and happen to vote like conservatives.