Reply #72: not what he said [View All]

[Two Americas]

He didn't say that the Republicans use wedge issues, and he didn't say that the Democrats have failed to connect with people. Those two statements focus blame where it belongs, and are true. That may be what he meant to say, hard to tell. But he focused on some "them" as the problem and then characterized "them."

Some Obama supporters are defending his remarks the way you are - that he meant to say that the Republicans use wedge issues, and that the Democrats have failed to connect with people. Some Obama supporters are defending the exact opposite interpretation - that those people are the problem and that this is the "truth."

When even Obama supporters are tacitly and perhaps inadvertently admitting that he meant to say that the problem is with "those people" - many have even said "the hell with them! We don't need them!" - is it any wonder that many Democrats have a problem with his remarks, let alone that the general public might, as well?