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COMMENTARY: Obama Leaves No Aftertaste In Rural America With ‘Bitter’ Remarks

By Douglas Burns 4/21/08

Rural Americans, of both the bitter and optimistic variety, really don’t have much of a problem with Barack Obama’s closed-door (but open-mike) characterizations of many of us.

We are exhausted with two weeks of effete urban commentators, caffeinated with $4 lattes and speaking through studio-makeup-shined faces, telling us what we think about what Obama said.

And, yes, [...]

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