Unbelievable!

The whole flap over what Obama said in Pennsylvania is so ridiculous. The worst part is seeing Hillary yapping like a Wingnut over the supposed "meaning" of what Obama said. Here's the quote given a little context (Via truthout.org):

"Here's how it is. In a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, they feel so betrayed by government that when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn't buy it.

"... Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then 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."

I see nothing demeaning in these words. In fact, the demeaning thing is Clinton and McCain trying to say that this is not true. That there is nothing wrong here, that these people haven't been exploited and discarded by the establishment. That they aren't pissed off. As Bob Shurm said in the Huffington Post:

"Ironically, Obama's the one raised by a single mother. He's the one who only recently finished paying off his student loans. He doesn't know what it's like to have $100 million. The opponents who are attacking him are the ones who inhabit that financial neighborhood."

Clinton or McCain calling Obama elitist is the pot calling the kettle a pot. Come on, this is so transparent as to be laughable. Clinton just keeps declining in my estimation, while Obama keeps rising.