Regarding Barack Obama's condescending remarks about "bitter" rural Pennsylvanians who "cling" to religion, to the 2nd Amendment, and to nativist prejudices, the New York Times asks:In Pennsylvania, as well as coming primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, did Mr. Obama provide another excuse for white voters to voice qualms about his candidacy without acknowledging that it is his race that troubles them?
Obama's record (brief though it is) reveals him as the Senate's most liberal member, a fellow who is an extremist on abortion and other social issues, and a person frighteningly naive about America's enemies. Yet apparently the New York Times believes that there is no reason whatsoever a person could vote against Obama except racial animus.
This is liberal myopia at its very worst.
