The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110367 Message #2316953
Posted By: heric
16-Apr-08 - 12:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Are You Bitter???
Subject: RE: BS: Are You Bitter???
No, Jack, your explanation was far more cogent than Maddow or Obama's. I have been trying so hard to understand how Obama could have caused himself so much harm with this. Nothing makes sense except one possibility I see from your statement only. The way I can give him a pass for what seems to be an extraordinarily (1) STUPID, (2) nonsensical, and (3) condescending sentence is as follows:
He WANTS to say, but CAN NOT say: "In answer to the question as to why I am not getting much traction with Pennsylvania voters: I am the candidate for progressive taxation, wealth redistribution and enhanced safety nets. But after decades of campaign rhetoric and false promises, less affluent people, people whom I hope to help most, have only seen wealth disparity increase steadily and significantly, so they have predictably and rationally tuned out on that subject. That leaves them with narrower voting subject matter, which Republicans offer more reliably, or at least more frequently, such as Second Amendment protections and abortion limitations (which may be more in line with their religious viewpoints.)"
He couldn't say that, but he was in a setting where he could come closer to it, and feeling comfortable, he took it on the fly, but stumbled -flopped - deteriorating all the way down to "religion" and xenophobia. (He is awfully young to be campaigning on the national stage.)
I'm hoping, and maybe I'm way off base, that he didn't reveal his hidden disdain for crackers- he almost resurrected, to soon, taxes versus no-new-taxes (that old standard), and the flare-ups of class division.