Obama’s Comments Leave Bitter Taste

I’m surrounded by the type of small Midwestern towns Barack Obama so carelessly labeled as full of “bitter” folk. My mother is from such a town, smack in the middle of Kansas.

Obama missed the mark with his take on the residents of small, economically unstable towns. The generalizations were a little too broad, too sweeping, about changes that began decades ago. Small-town people “cling” to neither their guns nor their religion to soothe financial trauma, as Obama suggested. Nor do they disdain all immigrants.

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