In the wake of Senator Barack Obama's comments in San Francisco that economic bitterness causes working class Americans to "cling" to guns and religion, George Will says "Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism." Why? Is it because Obama says he can heal the racial divisions in this country? Is it because Obama claims he can overcome the partisan divide as President, even though he has never sponsored any significant bipartisan legislation? Is it because Obama represents, as he says, "change" we can "believe" in?
No. It is because, as every liberal Presidential candidate since Adlai Stevenson has done, Obama has sought to portray himself in one way to the public, but has maintained an attitude "of condescension toward [working] people and the supposedly coarse and vulgar country that pleases them."
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