(11-10-2016 01:53 PM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 12:40 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  that was you who could hear the dog whistle when nobody else could?

No, that was the one heard by the ADL, every Jewish person I know, and which made the Jewish Republican organization feel the need to issue a statement.

But this is a good example of the hypocrisy - it's OK for you to still be enraged by the "bitter clingers" comment from a previous election but we're not allowed to comment on the racism, sexism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, or other bigotry from the president-elect.

(11-10-2016 12:40 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  What Obama said was:

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations"

And it was not said publicly, but in a meeting with like-minded supporters.

Exactly the same sentiment as in Hillary's basket of deplorables comment, directed at the same groups of people - rural conservatives in "flyover' states.

I am a rural conservative in a flyover state. Why should I feel that I am, of course, naturally, excluded from the disdain?

it's not that I "want" to feel insulted. That statement itself fits right in with the disdain. Clearly, no intelligent person could feel insulted unless they "wanted" to, right? But I do feel insulted, and lots of other people do too, and I would bet they provided the margin in many states - Iowa, Wisconsin, the entire midwest. Stop treating half the electorate like they are dolts, and maybe some of them will come back to your thinking, that the rest of them are racist dolts, deplorable and ignorable.

I get why you were insulted by the original Obama quote. I don't blame you. But again, her (admittedly awkward and poorly worded) statement condemned racism, etc. as deplorable but said other supporters had legitimate concerns. If a statement doesn't fit with your persecution complex, you don't get to declare what the person actually meant to make it fit.