Obama Explains It All

I can only assume that Barack Obama's condescending, offensive, and repugnant comments about small-town Pennsylvania are beliefs that he's held for as long as we've all been barefoot and jobless in the Keystone State. Reported originally by the Huffington Post, and then passed along by Politico and Drudge, Barack Obama marginalized almost the entire state of Pennsylvania (and much of rural America) in a speech he made to some San Friscos last Sunday.

In the speech, 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..." Obviously, he's talking about the steel jobs that left the area in the '80s (not counting USSteel, and the other specialty steel factories still in business here). Let's set aside the fact that PA has become a leader in a number of other areas, like healthcare, and focus on the issue at hand: we should thank Barack Obama for the free therapeutic advice.

Continuing in his speech, Obama says, "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Ah yes! That explains it! The occasional bout of frustration or angst I feel is brought on by steel jobs that left my area three years before my birth! Barack Obama has created an astute and wise observation that explains why we aren't all like him and his pseudo-intellectual liberal colleagues. I would have wasted countless hours and dollars on therapy trying to figure that out, and here he is just giving it away!

We here in Pennsylvania take great pride in our religious convictions and our Second Amendment rights, but I've never been sure as to why. I always chalked it up to the fact that we are socially conservative, working-class people that are rooted in the traditions of our founding fathers. Little did I know that it's because we're all bitter, frustrated people too xenophobic to go outside of our homes (huzzah!). Thank you Barack for that explanation.

It's not often that PA becomes a deciding Primary Election State, and yet here we are with the burden of trying to sort out the mess of the Democratic Party (okay, some of us are, not necessarily I). Between Hillary Clinton becoming an honorary Steeler and Barack Obama devaluing our religious beliefs... it's shaping up to be a tough call for a lot of voters.