Conservatives Now Claiming Obama Hates Small-Town America

At an April 6 San Francisco fundraiser, he said this:

“You go into some of 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 gonna 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.”

And just where is he wrong? Pointing out why people may be bitter or frustrated, that there is xenophobia,  that people sometimes cling to religion or feel paranoid about the government and embrace guns doesn’t mean you hate or disdain a portion of the population.  Huffington Post has the audio.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.