Barack Obama's "Bitter-gate" comments haven't really seemed to upset voters as much as people who make their living from manufacturing controversies and arguing about them on the tele. But I hope the media keep on doing it because it's giving Jon Stewart and The Onion fodder for such great material.
But I think that Barack Obama comments do raise a serious question. Is there a disconnect between the politics and political conversation in the US and the issues facing a lot of rural and small-town America? Who speaks for the working men and women in the US, whether they be in rural or small-town America or in the Rust Belt? The Democrats? The Republicans?
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