> Pointing to working class bitterness over losing their jobs is
> left.
>
> No doubt you are purposely ignoring the guns and religion aspect of the
> comment ,which was what was emphasized in the media, not the anti-trade
> sentiment, which was just a misstatement by O.
>
> The reference to religion is almost straight Marx. Even the
> rightwingers got that correct. Crystal and others literally called O a
> "Marxist" on television. The rightwingers didn't say "oh that's the
> same thing we think". They said "O" is an"elitist and a Marxist ".
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The Clinton campaign has been centrally attacking Obama from the right,
appropriating Republican racist, "patriotic" and militarist themes which
have been traditionally used against the Democrats. The Wright controversy
was a great gift to the Clintons, in that it enabled them to bring the race
question out of the closet and to declare Obama guilty by association in
much the same way that McCarthy and others condemned liberals who had some
association with members of the CPUSA during the cold war. The
media-manufacturerd sneers about his alleged "elitism" are part of the
pattern, having less to do with the genuine economic distress of rust belt
Americans than with the anti-intellectual strand in the American popular
consciousness, which demagogic politicians like the Clintons have so
successfully been able to exploit.