The Obama "mistake": Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America »
Posted By sandyenglish 7 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsOver the past five days, media commentary on the US presidential election campaign has focused on the supposedly disastrous "gaffe" made by Democrat Barack Obama in his comments earlier this month at a San Francisco fundraiser, where he remarked on the mood of anger and bitterness in small-town and rural America, and how this was expresse
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rimbaud7 months, 2 weeks ago
What Obama was explaining is the inexplicable pattern of poor voters voting Republican, against their best self-interest: is it that they are rich wannabes, that they like to be armed and hang-tough against illegal immigrants?
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