I'm going to talk about other things now, but I did want to add my opinions on the weekend's candidate happenings. The biggest news obviously was Barrack's gaffe in San Francisco. At a fund-raiser there he said, "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And 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." Not surpisingly, the Clinton campaign seized on the comments and began painting him as an elitist who's out of touch with the middle-class. She's definitely right that he comes off as elitist sometimes and his comments were extremely condescending, but there's probably some truth to them as well. People without jobs are bitter. The middle and lower classes tend to be more interested in hunting and religion than the rich and many of them are racist. All of those things are true. If someone else had said them, Marilyn Manson perhaps (he of the God, Guns and Government World Tour), they might have even been seen as inciteful. Problem is, they're not something you can say as president. Obama can sit around with his friends smoking cigarettes and talking about how uneducated and racist the poor are all he wants, but he can't make speeches doing the same. True or not, there are some things you're just not allowed to say.
On a side note, I'm not sure which clip I saw today was more disturbing: Hillary talking about the Holy Spirit or Hillary taking shots of crown royal.
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