Obama Stereotypes Midwestern Folk

April 12, 2008, 2:26 am
  





By Andrew L. Jaffee

Yeah, all us dumb, racist Midwestern (white?) folk — according to Barack Obama:

… “You go into some of 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, an Illinois senator, said.

“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,” he said. …

Talk about painting with a broad stroke. Does Harvard-educated Obama even know the folk he is stereotyping? Ad this to my long list of concerns about Obama, like his “spiritual” advisers



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