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Obama is being attacked by Hillary and McCain for speaking the truth. I have news for Hillary and McCain, neither of whom has lived outside of Washington DC since the Reagan/Bush era. People in states like Pennsylvania are bitter. They have lost their jobs, their livelihoods, their health insurance, and their chance to send their kids to college. Their local economies have collapsed, while insular politicians like McCain and Hillary have been touting the wonders of the "free market" and "free trade". What is insulting is the suggestion that Obama, the son of a single mother and a goat herder, is the elitist. And yet, McCain (the son and grandson of two admirals) and Hillary (who earned $110 million over the last 7 years) are the average Joes. But this has proven why Obama is going to be the next president. McCain and Hillary say that voters are "optimistic" despite losing their jobs and livelihoods. Voters have been seeing through this poll-tested faux reality for 20 years. It is McCain and Hillary, not Obama, who are out of touch.
See my update below. It looks like we know about this because of a Hillary supporter who tried to pull a 'macaca'.
In response to Obama's statement of the obvious, Hillary adopted her focus group-tested tone of "humanity" and "compassion" (which was as insincere and fake as were her claims to have taken sniper fire). She said that after losing their livelihoods, Pennsylvania voters were "resilient, optimistic and hardworking" rather than bitter. She also said that they "don't need a president who looks down on them". I am sure McCain will use footage of that in his own attack ads in the fall. McCain's campaign called Obama's comments "condescending" and "out of touch".
Hillary and McCain are running a classic optimism (regardless of any reality) campaign. Of course, they have both had stable jobs for the last 30 years. Therefore, they have no problem believing their insular pollsters, who tell them how "optimistic" and "forward looking" the American voters are.
According to some reports on MSNBC, Hillary's campaign has been absolutely furious about the fact that Obama got through the Rev. Wright scandal unharmed. They believed that Obama's nuance about the issue of race (imagine that) shouldn't have stopped a 10 second sound bite that was repeated over and over. Of course, they also thought that saying that she "misspoke" about her Bosnia comments would end the scandal that her comments created. Instead, her campaign is now blaming her declining support in Pennsylvania on her inability to stop the Bosnia scandal. The fact that they are oblivious to how different the two scandals were demonstrates one reason why she has already lost the nomination.
So she believes that white voters can't comprehend a logical reason why some blacks are angry. And yet, she believes that she can lawyer her way out of a pretty obvious lie. Hell, her husband did that over and over when he was president.
It all plays to a pattern. Both McCain and Hillary think voters are stupid. They think that feeding voters poll-tested crap is going to win them elections. And what is the result? Hillary has already lost the nomination. And polls show that McCain only gets within the margin of error against Obama when 30% of Obama's base defects.
Obama has actually gotten voters to understand nuanced explanations about complex issues like race. The nuance of the Clintons amounts to crap like "the definition of 'is'" or "I forgot that I wasn't under sniper fire". McCain's nuance, on the other hand is, "if it calls itself Al Qaeda in Iraq, then it is Al Qaeda".
Hillary is a smart and talented politician, make no mistake. She has the skills to have gotten where she has gotten, even without Bill. But let’s be real here. If it weren't for Bill, she would not be where she is. Bill himself said that she never had any aspirations for political office until the end of his 2nd term as president. And if it weren't for the infatuated media, McCain wouldn't be where he is. Obama defeated the most powerful democratic machine ever assembled, and he did it just 3 years out of the Illinois state senate.
Obama seems to be turning this "scandal" around, even though it broke only a couple of hours ago. He is doing it the same way he turned the Wright scandal around, and the attacks about his statements on Al Qaeda in Iraq. He has done all of this simply by repeating what he said the first time, thus illustrating the obviousness of what he said, and the insanity of his attackers. On the other hand, not only did the Bosnia "misstatement" cost Hillary much of her lead in Pennsylvania, but Bill was reckless enough to give the scandal new life.
So tell me again, who is more electable?