What an arrogant, elitist, out-of-touch, ignorant, closed-minded jerk.

You go into 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.

Oh, but he will. LOL. That’s not the good part, though.

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.

Shorter Obama: You’re all a bunch of ignorant, xenophobic, fundie hicks, but that’s okay, because you little people can’t help it.

I’m not a Pennsylvanian or a small-towner (well, maybe I am, compared to those in the liberal meccas of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, or NYC), but I’ve known more “small-towners” in my adult life than not. In fact, I married two–one from Pennsylvania, in fact, and the other from the southern tier of New York State (for all practical purposes, just like PA). I’ve got news for Obama and his ilk: You don’t know jack about those people. “Those people” are very representative of America as a whole, Barry. You FAIL. Your contempt for “flyover country” will not be forgotten.

This is typical liberal elitist crap that his latte liberal supporters “know” is the “truth”–at least in their sheltered, pretty little world. I’m sure his remarks didn’t strike anyone in his audience at the time as remarkable; in fact, they probably were nodding their heads in agreement. I’m sure Obama didn’t even understand how his remarks would appear to the rest of the voting public outside his little amen corner. You know, you lose your job, and you turn into a bigot who “clings” to religion and guns. It happens to everyone, at least in flyover country, right? Because that’s just how it is there, right?

What’s funny: his apparent disdain for religion. It just goes to show how his “church” and his “spiritual mentor” have nothing to do with Christianity, but instead, class warfare. And worse, limousine liberal class warfare, because they think they know what’s best for the “little people.” In fact, they have absolutely no idea–everything they stand for is old, tired, and failed. If liberals gave a damn about the “little people,” they’d support things like school choice, school vouchers, and lower, flat taxes (unlike them, I’ve done the math). They wouldn’t look at children as “punishment.” They wouldn’t be pushing the disadvantaged and minorities to abort their children at every turn, regardless of whether they believe it’s “better” for those people to have fewer children. It’s not The Elites’ decision to make.

Mayhill Fowler at the despicable Huffington Post (the first comment says: “he is right”), who reported Obama’s faux pas:

Wednesday in Levittown, Obama told his audience, “We can find areas of common ground.” But if we are going to move from divisiveness to comity, then Obama must show that he can lead us to see one another at our best and to measure one another at our highest worth.

Exactly. Obama is quickly becoming even more polarizing than Hillary Clinton, because he just can’t hide his true self forever. Common ground? Frankly, I can find more “common ground” with Shrillary than I’d ever find with Obama. “Just words” is all he has, and those words, those platitudes, are so obviously false that it makes me howl with derision.

Here’s common ground I’ve found with Billary: “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

Oh, I forgot. Criticizing Teh Obamessiah is “racist.” Go to hell, liberal race-baiting bottom-feeders.

HopeChange™. NO THANK YOU. I spit on his elitist, arrogant latte liberalism.

UPDATE: The McCain campaign responds:

“Barack Obama apparently believes that for Americans less privileged than him, religion is an economic-based and not faith-based condition,” Mark Salter, a senior campaign adviser for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tells ABC News.

“It is hardly news that Senator Obama’s ‘new’ approach to politics is based on the presumption that voters are easily fooled,” Salter continues, “but the arrogance and elitism he shows here is truly astonishing, and very revealing about how he would govern this country.”
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McCain adviser Steve Schmidt called Obama’s thoughts on small town Pennsylvanians a “remarkable statement and extremely revealing…It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking. It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans.”

Breathtaking, indeed. To put it politely.

[cross-posted at MVRWC]