When “egghead” Adlai Stevenson was running for president, one of his supporters gushed; “Sir, every thinking person in America will be voting for you!” Stevenson replied; “Thank you, maam, but it won’t be enough. We need a majority.”
There’s an urban legend that Dwight Eisenhower was shocked to learn that fully half of US school children are of below-average intelligence. He wanted immediate action to correct the situation.
So it’s suddenly a big deal if Barack Obama says;
“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,” he said.
“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,” he added.
FOX News about had a giant spontaneous newsgasm over that one. They spent the whole afternoon (and will probably spend the next several days) calling Obama an elitist. John ‘flip-flopper’ McCain said that Obama was “out of touch with average Americans.” (Excuse me, isn’t ‘average’ pretty much an analogue of ‘typical’ as in “typical American?” Just asking.)
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