Hell, I'm Bitter too!

Barack Obama commented that people in small towns are mad, frustrated and bitter that government (politicos they elected) have done nothing about the loss of jobs, and instead fed them excuses like "Hey, those illegals are the reason jobs haven't returned." Despite the fact that Gays, Guns, and Religion had nothing to do with the losses, they are the "red meat" issues politians have given the populous to chew on. Obama has said this before in 2004, but the differences are 1) he was more eloquent the first time, 2) he was new to the Senate (won the election but not sworn in), 3) wasn't running for President, and 4) didn't have Clinton, McCain and a bored Media at his back.

Now people are not so much arguing against his point that things are going well for some of us, they are upset by the characterization via the word bitter. McCain and Clinton have called Obama out of touch and Elitist for speaking the truth. This latest controversy is like the others aimed at Obama- much about nothing. Even the people are starting to catch on and not buy the BS. While I don't have a link to CNN's Jack Cafferty, his comment was something to the effect of "even someone like me, who barely graduated high school , can see that Obama was not attacking small town Americans." Facts be damned, Hillary forges ahead with criticism of Obama's comments. Clinton and McCain are proving to be the Elitists here. McCain's plan for dealing with the Mortgage mess was to blame everyone equally and let people sink or swim on their own. Two weeks later, he ran from the plan. Hillary's plan was fair, but she did not anticipate this crisis, and in turn, criticized Obama's plan as timid, despite the fact that he was
requesting action from Bush a year ago.

Hale Stewart has a good blog explaining bitter. If you don't get it, bitter has been around a while. In previous election cycles "Angry White Males", "Reagan Democrats", and other groups could easily have been characterized as bitter. Bill Clinton called them insecure. The word bitter does describe some people- people who see the price of Food, Energy, Transportation, Housing and everything else rising much faster than their salaries- that's 99.999% of us by the way.