You gotta love campaign season. In no other time will we collectively dissect every word uttered by a presidential candidate. We will scrutinize every gesture, evaluate each expression. We may even judge the music their children listen to.
Note to Chelsea: Glenn Miller good. Nine Inch Nails bad.
And note to Obama: It's always bad news to say those down on their luck tend to get "bitter and 'cling to guns or religion' to express their feelings," as news services are reporting it.
Obama said this about a week ago to a private gathering, and Hillary's gone on the attack, knocking on Pennsylvania doors herself and knocking back beers to show she's just like us and not like the elitist Obama.
The Illinois senator has since apologized for his utterance, saying he should have chosen better words.
Ya think?
In a world where the country wants to know how you like your toast, you better make sure you don't say anything that can ever be interpreted as inappropriate, even while you sleep. I don't think this poor phrasing will become Obama's Dean Scream, and it certainly won't reach the levels of the Rev. Wright episode, but it is another arrow in Hillary's quiver.
And it's just one more talking point that could extend the nomination process even longer, if Pennsylvania voters take it to heart.
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