I Can't Believe I'm Not Bitter

Steve Smith, who singlehandedly made us buy tickets for Satyagraha, linked to Robert Reich's take on Bittergate, which is a hoot, because it steps into the same sinkhole Obama did.

It is all well and good for a liberal egghead to dig into the numbers, and Reich is very good at that, but what he and Obama fail to dispell in their protestations is the sense that they simply cannot grasp that people have a genuine attachment to guns, God and ethnic bias.

Liberals have an execrable instinct to explain away these attachments as some kind of dysfunction, induced by stimuli which their candidacy is meant to erase. To them, cultural conservatism is a disease to be cured.

Who cares if Reich takes the bait? Someone has to.

But Obama can't afford to go near this ever again. Just swallow the fact that you don't get Middle America, dude, and go back to sloganeering.

The more you try to sip a beer, bowl or talk your way out of this one, the more you look like a hapless member of the liberal elite.

That is pure, red meat to the GOP: