April 13, 2008
Barack shock: slams small town
folks:
"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,"
Obama said. "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."
clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia
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