George Awsumb, rapidly approaching retirement but still full of opinions, rational or otherwise, blogs about current events, trends, films, pop culture and whatever else bugs him.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Tell it like it is and LOSE.

The latest flak in the Clinton-Obama race to defeat comes with Obama's unjudged remarks about Pennsylvania voters (and in extension, all working class voters). He suggested this weekend that these blue collar voters are "bitter" because jobs are gone, factories closed, and times are hard. In that bitterness they have retreated to religion, guns, and anti-immigration. Of course, he forgot to mention gay marriage, among other working class fears. Now, have I dropped enough verbal land mines for you? When you use terms like "elite," "working class," and "blue collar," you don't stand a chance. Some will damn you for "elitism." Some will charge you with insensitivity to those who should be equal. Here's the corker, gang. Barack Obama has said what happens to be true in many cases. No one can speak for everyone in a group, but what Obama says has so much truth that it hurts. And it hurts his political chances. We know that some people entrench themselves in religion, the past, their right to wave guns, and their fear of anything different. Obama has suggested that with his comments. But his political correctness could be his undoing in the long run.

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