Zombie: Audio of Obama's Elitist Remarks

Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:43:12 am PDT

Zombie has a decent quality audio file of Barack Obama’s “gun-toting Bible-thumping hicks” statement: Obama’s “bitter small-town Americans” speech at Getty fundraiser: good, clear audio file now available here!

It isn’t getting a lot of attention, but also note that Obama was putting down small-town Americans in front of an audience of upper crust “progressive” wealthy people. He was preaching to the choir in the language he thought they would understand.

Zombie’s accurate transcription:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they’ve gone through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and 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.