Hillary needs better opposition research.  And by her “opposition,” I mean her husband.

Barack Obama, Sunday, April 6, 2008 in San Francisco:

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Bill Clinton, in “My Life,” his 2004 alleged “memoir,” sounding eerily similar:

If [Republicans] could cut funding for Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment, middle-class Americans would see fewer benefits from their tax dollars, feel more resentful paying taxes, and become even more receptive to their appeals for tax cuts and their strategy of waging campaigns on divisive social and cultural issues like abortion, gay rights, and guns.”

This is who they are.  There’s no mystery here.  They are liberals who believe we — the backbone of this country — are “bitter,” “resentful” people who “cling” to our “divisive social and cultural issues” because we’re so closed-minded, ignorant, and unenlightened.  We’re the huddled masses who don’t know any better, who need the crutches of church and guns and anti-everybody else bigotry.  Who therefore need the leadership of the elite vanguard.  They’re going to do us a big favor and help us out of our Dark Ages—even though they’re too good for us.

They accuse Middle Americans of being bigoted—but in reality THEY are bigoted.  Their philosophy is based on the dismissal of whole classes of people based on stereotypes and grossly warped, self-serving judgments and incredibly narrow views of other people.  Their philosophy rides on the intellectual put-down.

Once again, the liberals in this country (particularly the ones running for president) are guilty of projection: of accusing others of what they themselves are guilty of.

When the enemy tells you who they are, believe them.

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