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It would funny, or sad, if it were not so pathetic.
Obama uses the word, "bitter" to describe areas of the country that have been systematically trashed by the likes of the Clintons and their Republican co-conspirators using NAFTA, the World Bank, the IMF and the Federal Reserve.
No, Obama understated his case as usual.
The people of the "Rust Belt" and other victims of outsourcing and NAFTA aren't the least bit bitter...they are ENRAGED. The line in the sand has been drawn and Hillary is trying to be on the side she will never be on.
Who called the Canadian embassy and stated that the anti-NAFTA rhetoric in the primary campaign was just "talk?" That was Hillary's campaign, folks. And she promptly lied and attempted to pin the whole incident on Obama.
Obama, the child of a single mother who grew up to work with the poor people of Chicago's south side, is an elitist who is out of touch with the people of Pennsylvania?
The people of Pennsylvania work their butts off and always have; so has Barak Obama. His great "sin" in this case is that he is listening to what EVERYONE in the "Rust Belt" is saying. And some people are not doing well no matter how hard they try. Some are doing better than others. Obama wants to listen to working people, wants to advantage them over the lazy corporate thieves who foolishly ship jobs overseas.
Hillary Clinton? She supported NAFTA until Obama pointed out the utter stupidity of that position. The Iraq War? Hillary supported it until Obama pointed out the utter stupidity of that position.
On every major issue, Obama got it right the FIRST time. No politician who has been in a position to be considered as a frontrunner for the President of the United States has gotten any of these issues right the first time. Not since since Eisenhower, and even he screwed the pooch on a few issues.
Being RIGHT doesn't make you an elitist, it makes you competent to represent the people of Pennsylvania as the President of the United States.
If Pennsylvania doesn't know what it's like to have someone in the Whitehouse who is actually working for and with them, as opposed to conspiring against them, imagine our shock.
None of us really knows what having an actual President of the People looks like. But we've had thirty years of glimpses of what is possible. For the first time, we have a near complete model of an ideal person for the job.
Get it wrong, Pennsylvania, and life will get a whole lot more challenging than even your parents and grandparents can recall for you. It will be you and your children who will be hiding money in strange places throughout your house; it will be you and your children who will be boiling shoe leather just to quell hunger pains. It will be you and your children who will know what it means to stand in line for hours just to eat stale biscuits and watery gravy.
Make us proud as you did in Gettysburg and at Valley Forge. And, again, in Philadelphia.
