Rubes (Part 92365)

clipped from justoneminute.typepad.com As the "Hey Rubes, Back Barack" tour swung through Indiana Obama was in another town meeting defending himself again from his small town disaster [More at the Times and WaPo]. The candidate was insightful - "I didn’t say it as well as I should have" - and displayed his keen sense of Presidential campaigns, calling the current firestorm "a typical sort of political flare-up”. Hmm, how typical is it for a candidate to characterize a huge swath of his target voters as bigoted, gun waving religious fanatics?  I'll bet that in Dem strategy sessions run by law school alums, it's pretty typical! I'm getting a mental image of Obama during other "typical" flare-ups; sort of a "But sweetie, those jeans do make you look fat" thing, or maybe "Honsestly, officer, you need to understand that some people have a very high tolerance for alcohol". I can't believe that in all those Harvard classes they never emphasize that you can't tell the rubes what you really think of them.