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Based on your headline, I thought your article was going to be about something more than parsing Obama's "bitter" statements, but whatevs. Joan you continue to show that nothing Obama says or does will ever be enough for you, even when you admit that the criticisms leveled against him amount to little of nothing.
What I thought your headline alluded to, was the idea espoused by pundits and politicians that Americans who live in San Francisco, New York, DC, or other coastal cities, somehow are less American, less "salt of the earth", or less moral than people who live in the middle of nowhere. Because I am African-American, attended a prestigious university, make more than the median household income, single, care about public transportation and fuel efficiency in cars, live in an urban area, interact with people who look different than I do, and occasionally drink lattes, how am I somehow considered a negative demographic? Why are my votes considered less desirable than NASCAR watching, suburban or rural living, wife and kids having, SUV driving, cable-instead-of-Internet news gathering, white skin having Midwesterners? Not that there is anything wrong with that, but how did I get to be chopped liver?
