Obama on Sunday:
You go into 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.
Query for Barry: Are you, perhaps, referring the the Great Unwashed? Like me? To what should I cling, if not to guns and God? To you?
And a comment: Unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled manufacturing jobs have been disappearing for far longer than 25 years. In our parts, they disappeared 50-80 years ago. Barry has a short time-frame. New England is filled with old mill towns and old empty factories with broken windows. Things change, and I thought you were in favor of change. Anyway, I know the economic facts don't matter: it's just routine pandering, because those old jobs are never coming back and people have to learn how to do things for which there is a labor market.
