When I first heard Barak Obama’s ‘bitter’ statement I new he had made a mistake.  If he had only used ‘angry’ instead he would have denied the foaming opposition a soundbite.  But he didn’t.  He didn’t say exactly what he meant, that Americans are fed up with the way the Average American is ignored as our arrogant rulers do what they intend to do. 

      

‘Anger’ would have been the correct choice.  It has a positive valence, as in ‘righteous anger’ or ‘justified anger’.  ‘Bitter’ implies frustrated impotence and resignation.  That is not what the Average American feels, and that is not what Barak meant.  He meant a welling up of disgust and a furious intent to do something about these anointed rulers who discount you and me, these arrogant unaccountable flatulencies of the wealthy special interest that dictate rather than govern by the consent of the governed. 

     

Now John McCain has whiffed another one, and it is so obvious that I feel compelled to throw open the window wide to let it dissipate.  And he didn’t even blanch, or ask us to pull his finger!!   

       

McCain mangles Obama's 'bitter' quote  <link] 

“John McCain, bragging that he'll win the key battleground of Pennsylvania in November, declared that he will go to the small towns whose residents he said Barack Obama disparaged.

   

“But the presumptive Republican nominee seemed to mangle the controversial quote from Obama, who told a private fund-raiser in San Francisco in April that he was having trouble reaching ‘bitter’ small-town voters who ‘cling to guns or religion.’ 

   

“McCain said Obama, who later conceded he chose his words poorly, belittled small-town residents who cling to religion or ‘the Constitution’.

   

"’We’re going to go to the small towns in Pennsylvania and I’m gonna to tell them I don’t agree with Senator Obama that they cling to their religion and the Constitution because they’re bitter,’ said McCain, who might have been referring to the Second Amendment right to bear arms. ‘I'm gonna tell them they have faith and they have trust and support the Constitution of the United States because they have optimism and hope... That's what America's all about.’” 

  

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Pheeeew!! Clear the air please.

 

I prefer to believe that John McCain had a McBrain fart, and did not purposely spin what Obama really said.  It is strange however that he was able to get the word ‘bitter’ straight but forgot guns and replaced it with our hallowed Constitution.  

    

On second thought, maybe that was an attempt to increase the mega-tonnage of Barak’s unfortunate choice of words by plug-replacing that word with a faaaar more potent one.  If that is the case sir it really ~stinks~.   I hope you are not that kind of a ~stinker~ Senator McCain.   

   

Senator McCain, either you had an old brain fart or you are insulting the Average American by trying to be too devious by half. 

   

Either way, you are only reinforcing my contention that you will be an easy turkey for Obama’s thanksgiving in the upcoming general turkey shoot.