This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Bitter as hell in Pennsylvania

Folks agree with Barack Obama in at least one Pennsylvania trailer park. But will angry voters help or hurt Democrats in swing states this fall?

Read other letters about this article

  • Tuesday, April 15, 2008 07:58 PM

    Just Bitter or Outright Biggots?

    You're missing the central point. Obama made his comments in the context of "why can't you get those (under-educated, ignorant, white) blue collar voters to vote for you" and his answer was because they don't like "people that don't look like them".

    In other words, if you don't vote for me, you're a bigot.

    Couldn't possible me any other reason, could there?

    It's not the first time this has been implied or outright stated in this campaign. Kondracke on Fox: "I don't see any other reason Democratic voters wouldn't vote for Obama.", and the NYT Magazine article that in nice, polite, academic terms complete with compound circular graphs said that the reason white people in some geographic regions voted agasint Obama was that he was black and the proof was that they didn't vote for him! Perfect circular logic!

    It's the obverse of Catch 22.

Most Active Letters Threads

405

I'm thankful I'm not President Obama

Backers deride Katrina-style negligence, haters hate him more each day. Can this presidency be saved? Of course
320

Greg Craig and Obama's worsening civil liberties record

A new Time account of the fall of Obama's White House counsel sheds much light on rule of law issues.
315

Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed

As usual, right-wing pseudo-warriors are drowning in extreme cowardice.
153

Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee policy post

Many of the "War on Terror" policies he spent years condemning were ones expressly embraced by Obama.
85

The wrong response to ClimateGate

Whining about malicious invasions of privacy won't cut it in the war over global warming science

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon