WASHINGTON — How big a problem does Senator Barack Obama really have among white working-class voters? And what —if anything — can he do about it as he heads into the general election?
Those were the questions that emerged from his defeat by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the West Virginia Democratic primary on Tuesday, an electoral shellacking where more than half of the overwhelming white Democratic electorate said they would be unhappy if Mr. Obama was their presidential candidate this fall.
Mr. Obama took a step toward dealing with the challenge on Wednesday, as he headed out to campaign in front of working-class audiences in Macomb County, Mich., a Detroit suburb that has been identified for more than a decade with Reagan Democrats, the classic swing voter. (First stop: A Chrysler plant in Sterling Heights).
He has taken to wearing an American flag pin on his lapel and sprinkling his speeches with references to God and country, gestures to reassure Democratic voters about his values.
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So after months of equating a flag pin with "false patriotism" and recently running down the values that a lot of people hold to be important as something only scared bitter people cling too Obama has now seen the light. He is wearing a flag pin to show that he is connected to the little guy, and he is embracing those values of God and Country that only poor bitter white trash cling too.
Well bullshit on that.
I think everyone knows that Obama is one of those post modern urban liberals who really believes that loyalty to a state like the USA is outmoded political thought. In his heart of hearts I am sure he hums The Internationale and dreams of the day there are no boundaries just correct political thought. Every once in a while that side of him really shows thru, like with his bitter voter comments. Trying to pretend otherwise by occasionally wearing a flag pin and talking about how God, Guns and Guts made America free is just pandering coming from this guy.
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