Hi TJA,

Actually, I thought Munich did a great job of describing the problem of what do you do to get rid of all the condescension once its been disseminated. How are working class voters, rural voters, union voters, and voters who only have a high school diploma supposed to react when all the noise out of the Obama camp is that they're so stupid and easily manipulated that they have unwittingly fallen prey to Clinton's devious racist message.

Calling the blue-collar voters yokels, idiots, every insulting name you could think of. But whatever words they use, the message is the same: "the common citizen doesn't understand things like I do, and he doesn't know what's good for him. He needs me to tell him." - Munich

It's the same old story about how do you put toothpaste back in the tube. You don't. Despite the view of some Democrats, these people aren't idiots. They know when their being disparaged even if they aren't here reading all the posts.

These people were unmoved by Obama's critique. They aren't looking for transformational change. They're looking for someone who speaks to them about the issues that matter to them. To be perfectly honest, I don't believe they care about Obama becoming the first black president. It is not their aspiration. That is the aspiration of people who don't have to deal with the things that worry them. They've got car payments to make, families to feed, rent to pay. They feel that they are sinking. Obama hasn't spoken to these people.

I'm not sure he knows how to.

When you suggest that these people are subject to an "irrational mob impulse," whether you know it or not, you're making fun of them, and nobody likes that.