Probably just about everyone has heard about Barack Obama's comments about "bitter" working-class Pennsylvanians who "cling to guns and religion." I think I'm going to have to side with Hillary Clinton and the other Obama detractors on this one. Clinton said that people support the Second Amendment because they "believe it's a matter of constitutional right" and that people are religious because they "believe it's a matter of personal faith." I completely agree with her. People don't support gun-ownership rights and believe in God because they feel threatened and blindly stick to what is familiar. They believe what they believe because they think it's the right thing to do. Obama shouldn't dismiss people who disagree with him by saying that they are just "bitter" and need "a way to explain their frustrations." Here is the excerpt in question from Obama's speech: "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 going to 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."
Source: CNN
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