As Senator Obama continues to try to dig his way out of his “bitter” hole, I wonder if he might just tell the truth—that he was trying to explain America to rich liberals in terms they can understand:

“You go into these left-wing fundraisers on the coasts and their political clout has been gone now for 40 years and nothing’s replaced it. And they’ve felt through the Carter administration and the Clinton administration that each successive Democratic administration has said that somehow their political relevance is going to regenerate and it has not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to elitism or stereotypes about small-town America or antipathy to people who own guns and go to church as a way to explain their frustrations.

“So what we have to do is reach out to these people and lead them back into the American coalition. But we have to lead them slowly, because these traditions of condescension and patronization that they pass on from generation to generation are important to them. That’s what sustains them.”    

Just a thought.