arack Obama thought he was among friends. That was his problem. He is an urban sophisticate, and he was talking to other urban sophisticates. He was in San Francisco last week explaining at a closed-door fundraiser how the rubes of small-town America often do foolish, misguided things when the economy turns bad. ?It?s not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren?t like them or anti-immigration sentiment or anti-trade sentiment,? the golden-tongued orator from Illinois said.
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