The Truth Hurts
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Here’s another reason why I’m voting for Obama…he’s intelligent. This is a case of I wish I could have said that, but it’s not politically acceptable. He may be getting a beating from his political foes, but we all know that what he said is true.
Referring to “these small towns in Pennsylvania,” Obama told his wealthy audience that the views of these voters on a variety of subjects should be understood as responses to decades of economic distress. “It’s not surprising,” he said, “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.”
