Barack Says Small Town America Is Bitter, Xenophobic, Religious

Barack Obama says on April 12, 2008 concerning small towns: "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." Barack Obama thinks that people only cling to religion because they are bitter? That is offensive. He thinks that people support the second amendment because they are bitter? That is ignorant. He thinks people don't support illegal immigration because they are anti-immigrant and bitter? That is stupid. I continue to be blown away by the fact that this man is a serious candidate for the presidency.

Newt Gingrich put it this way: "If you go to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then move on to Columbia University and Harvard Law School, you may not understand normal Americans. Their beliefs are so alien to your leftwing viewpoint that you have to seek some psychological explanation for what seem to be weird ideas.
They can’t really believe in the right to bear arms.
They can’t really believe in traditional marriage.
They can’t really believe in their faith in God.
They can’t really want to enforce the law on immigration.
Therefore, they must be 'bitter' and 'frustrated.'”
This is the closest Senator Obama has come to openly sharing his wife’s view that 'America is a mean country.' Not since Governor Dukakis have we seen anyone so out of touch with normal Americans. It makes perfect sense that it was in a fundraiser in San Francisco that he would have shared the views he has so carefully kept hidden for the entire campaign." Tweet