McCain Makes Obamarific Gaffe
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has found himself in hot water due to remarks he made today at a Midwestern Militia and Bible Study Group conference. The remarks, which the campaign notes were “private remarks at a fund raiser” have been characterized by his political rivals as “a true statement of [McCain's] sentiments about obscenely wealthy Americans.”
Speaking to the conference, McCain said:
You go into these large towns in California and, like a lot of large towns on the Left Coast, the liberal guilt has been building for 25 years and nothing’s placated them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna get higher taxes to assuage their guilt, but they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to unions or global warming or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or pro-abortion sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
The McCain campaign at first acknowledged the remarks as “something everybody knows to be true.” When the firestorm grew, with several liberal fat-cats like George Soros and Barbara Streisand demanding an apology, McCain conceded that he could have chosen his words better, so as not to offend the “ignorant masses with my big words.”