America touts itself as the Land of the Free and the ACLU considers the Freedom of Speech to be one of our most treasured rights, however this liberty has been curtailed by the 24 hour news cycle ravenously devouring anyone guilty of saying what they mean by sound-biting the truth to shreds. Senator Obama seemingly suffered from more loose lips by stating at a private gathering.
"You go to these small towns and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest the jobs have gone now for 25 years and nothing has replaced them and it's not surprising then they get bitter and cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigration sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
True or false?
The media pigpile on his statement would suggest that Obama is wrong wrong wrong, but only because like most people around the world small towners from the fly-over have heard too many lies by politicians and the media to hear the truth.
The jobs are gone.
The guns are there.
"From my cold dead hands."
Everyone cheered Charlton Heston for that statement at the NRA convention, but small towners don't like being portrayed as hicks, because they're not dumb, just too exhausted from the daily struggle to care about anything more waking up in the morning and putting on their work shoes.
But if Obama isn't one thing, he ain't country.
So he mea culpa-ed on the TV and backwatered on his words, instead of saying I said what I said, which would have opened up another debate about the roots of what makes America the way it is.
Let's talk about anything else but that.
"Hummah, hummah, I meant to say."
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