Picture from the Altoona Mirror showing Obama eating a hot dog at Texas Hot Dogs in Altoona, PA. Chowing on hot dogs is not elitist.
I just returned from vacation to find every news agency in an uproar over Democratic candidate Barack Obama's "bitter" comments. Finding the actual quote was hard, but here it is (from The Huffington Post):
"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and 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 fell 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. And 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."
I wanted to have that quote here because never before has someone so succinctly summed up the problems of my home town. If you are in PA, please get out there and vote. It really matters.
Picture from the Altoona Mirror showing Obama eating a hot dog at Texas Hot Dogs in Altoona, PA. Chowing on hot dogs is not elitist.
I just returned from vacation to find every news agency in an uproar over Democratic candidate Barack Obama's "bitter" comments. Finding the actual quote was hard, but here it is (from The Huffington Post):
"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and 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 fell 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. And 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."
I wanted to have that quote here because never before has someone so succinctly summed up the problems of my home town. If you are in PA, please get out there and vote. It really matters.
