This controversy may have legs yet. You can read the original post here. Below you’ll find the original elitist statements, more reaction from around the blogosphere, and some new t-shirt designs. (If the t-shirts with Obama’s face disappear over the weekend, it’s just Cafepress’ overly aggressive automated copyright protection policy at work. The Obama image is legal and they will be restored soon, so please check back if you want to buy a shirt or bumper sticker)

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

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

Round and round we go, where the controversy stops, only the MSM knows…

JustOneMinute: “A Typical Sort Of Political Flare-Up”

Gateway Pundit: Obama’s Bible-Thumpin Gun-Humpin Comments Not Just Rude But Wrong

Hot Air » Obama tries again: You know, I probably could have said it better

Instapundit.com – Compounding the Problem?

‘Out of Touch’ Obama Doesn’t Get Small Town America | Redstate

lgf: Obama: ‘I Didn’t Say It As Well As I Should Have’

Obama IS The Problem With Democrats | Redstate

Decision ‘08 » Obama – “Hey, Hayseed! Vote For Me!”

Hicks nix clique’s shticks – The Corner on National Review Online

http://www.qando.net/ – Obama’s PA quote

Big Lizards:Blog:Entry “Barack Obama – “Liberal Fascist” on Parade”

The McGovernization of Obama – The Corner on National Review Online

Barack Obama: What’s the matter with Pennsylvania?

SnOb-ama on Small Town Voters: Bitter, Xenophobic, Religious, Anti-Immigration, Gun Lovin… – Right Wing News

Power Line: Is Obama’s Campaign Over?

FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Barack Obama Watch: The Small Town “Bitter” Flap

Lonewacko – Barack Obama misleads, smears Middle America

Photoshop of the week: Typical liberal snob; Update: New Obama spin – “I didn’t say it as well as I could have”

Hot Air – Hillary Clinton, Defender of the Common Man

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