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Bitter? Who's Bitter?

By Bekki

Obama's been criticized for saying that small town Americans are bitter and angry. McCain and Clinton have jumped on these statements, claiming that they show how out of touch Obama is.

I guess maybe I fall into the category of an "elitist", as I'm here at Boalt getting a top tier legal education. But, as someone who comes from a small town, someone who's parents struggled to make the mortgage payment and the car payment and the daycare payment, I think he's right. We are bitter.

We're bitter and angry that our insurance companies have decided to stop paying for life saving drugs rather than negotiate with big pharma or take a profit cut. (See Patrick's post below.)

We're bitter because the price of food is going up while Congress continues to
subsidize corn for biofuel production.

We're bitter because we're losing our homes due to foreclosures while the Fed bails out the companies that got us into this mortgage mess in the first place.

Question to the N&B community at large:

Did he get it right?

Or is this just another failed attempt by intellectuals to explain small town America?

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).