You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they’ve gone 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. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
I don't have much more to say on this because everyone else on the right has pretty much said it for me. So I'm just going to provide the links to the best of this weekend.
-- Zombie has a photo essay on his visit to the San Francisco Billionaires Row to make the now infamous speech. Including an additional photo essay on seven things he didn't know about Obama before that day.
-- Michelle Malkin has a good roundup of stories, including a very fitting photoshop for Obama's campaign.
-- As usual, Hot Air has a good roundup.
-- Ace also has a decent set of stories from Ace to the usual group of Moronosphere bloggers and beyond who sub for him.
-- DPUD thinks Obama did more than just burn his bridges with the average Pennsylvanian.
-- The Anchoress discusses other smug leftists other than Obama.
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