Re: Wretchard’s #3
“Consider it possible that all men, including small businessmen, plumbers, rubes from Alaska, cleaning women who say their prayers at mealtimes…”

Yes; Wretchard correctly notes the sniffy condescension of the left/Obama movement towards common folk; of course, we saw this in the campaign with Obama’s remark about bitter, clinging small town people. A couple days after his encounter with Joe the Plumber Obama leaned on a podium and yelled to a crowd, “What kind of plumber makes 200 thousand a year?”

I remember thinking, ‘what kind of politician thinks he can get away with putting down the nation’s plumbers? Who is this guy – who has never run a cash register, swept a shop floor, packed a container, bucked hay, worked in a mill or harvested fruit under the sun – who is this guy to take a shot at working men & women?’

There is something weirdly fragile about Obama. He has been ‘handled’ his whole life; He has never had to really do anything for himself. Therefore he has evolved a psychology that allows him to make casual nasty swipes about groups of people (so far, white people, surgeons, bitter clingers, Special Olympics, plumbers, cops, etc).

But the people are pushing back. How will this very fragile man handle it?