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Obama and The Bitterness in America

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The Clintons are all over Barack Obama because of his quip about small town people often displaying dismaying bitterness about their economic (and social) plight. Obama had the kernel of an idea that he should have taken back to his brain trust to smooth out the wrinkles and develop into a strong theme, for clearly he has struck a nerve and his opponents, the Clintons, are trying to push him around to the wrong side of it. Obama no more disparages the small town people than he disparages big town people or any people, he just noticed the symptoms displayed by people who are not riding confidently into the future or even hesitantly. They are "left behind" in a way that Republicans and desperate Clintons could never understand.

Obama should take this one by the horns and show Americans that their hopes and fears, their bitterness and their hunkering down are the result of careless and heedless Republican social-darwinist social policy ... that, indeed, these people have been left to fend for themselves.

JB

 

James R. Brett, Ph.D. taught Russian History before becoming an academic administrator in faculty research administration. His academic interests are the modern period of Russian History since Peter the Great, Chinese History, the history of (more...)
 

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OBAMA DID NOT APOLOGIZE by Antonio on Sunday, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:17:16 PM
No surprises by John R Moffett on Sunday, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:52:50 PM
The Truth Stings! by Roger on Monday, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:56:21 AM
Guns & God by Bia Winter on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:41:00 AM
Bitterness by James Brett on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:07:04 AM

 

 

 

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