The Absurd Report

At a recent fundraising event in San Francisco, Sen. Obama made a few unscripted remarks about small-town, working-class Americans. He said when they lose their jobs, “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.”

It was bone-chilling in its arrogance, condescension and dismissiveness of the desires and aspirations of average Americans. It was not meant for public consumption, which makes it all the more elitist – as if Sen. Obama and his wealthy, privileged supporters were lamenting the poor, misguided people in the “flyover” parts of the heartland. And it was a far cry from the soaring rhetoric that Sen. Obama employs so effectively in his public appearances. As such, it was like the thirteenth chime of a clock – not only extraordinary in and of itself, but also calling into question all which has proceeded it.

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