You know how Barack Obama said that working-class voters cling to guns, religion, and anti-immigrant sentiment when they lose their jobs? Pennsylvanians react:
Shawn Erfman: "It's fucking true. Everybody's bitter for one reason or another. So they're crucifying him because he spoke the truth? Cause he's not saying something that's going to suck up to people and kiss ass? Because, what, he slipped and accidentally spoke the truth, instead of kissing butt?"
Iona White: "It's a bad time in the world. People are bitter."
The ultimate irony: People who do "'cling' to wedge issues involving God and guns because they've lost faith in our political culture's ability to solve problems" have to watch a debate that focuses more on trivialities (like not wearing a flag lapel-pin, associating with people who have said bad things, saying something that's true but somewhat inarticulate, and embellishing a trip to war-torn Bosnia) than the real issues.
P.S. Hillary is going negative in PA. Perhaps she's bitter that she's losing to Obama.
Update: MoveOn.org has a petition admonisihing ABC News for the debate's obsession with "trivial questions about gaffes and 'gotchas' that only political insiders care about." You can sign it here.
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