Let us parse Senator Obama’s comments which have caused such a firestorm over the last four days, fueled so artfully by Hillary Clinton and John McCain. When discussing his own difficulties in winning over working class voters, Obama reflected on their frustrations with current economic conditions: “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.” Continue reading →

Hillary Clinton has found her constituency, and it’s good ole boys with guns. In the latest example of the Clinton machine adopting Republican tactics against Obama — for the good of the Democratic party, of course — Clinton has turned up the volume in the echo chamber Continue reading →