Is this going to be a 'prove there is no God' game?
This is too serious for games, btw.

You sound bitter, you must be a democrat. Is that an attack or a fact?

As for whether or not people are bitter, I think it's fair to assume they are given the polls that show almost half of Americans think they are worse off than 4 years ago, 2/3rds think the country is moving in the wrong direction, 2/3rds aren't confident their children will have a better life than them, almost 1/4 think it's impossible to start off poor and become rich, 1/4 are dissatisfied with their lives and so on.

By the way, I did not 'attack' Mr. Mullen. I stated that he was bitter. He, himself wrote that he believed that America was going to hell in a hand-basket – I consider that to be the statement of a bitter individual. So, calling a spade a spade is not an attack. Lets say I call you a cock-sucker. You scream that you've been attacked, yet another man's penis is in your mouth. Am I attacking you or am I stating a fact?

I don't know about people living in ivory towers, but bitterness is rampant, and not just in small towns.
How else would you describe the resentment caused when parents realize their children's lives will be more difficult than their own? How else would you describe the disappointment when upward mobility is blocked by prohibitive costs of higher education? The simply non-rich are joining the poor in shared feelings of fear, resentment, and, yes bitterness.

Talk about elitism!

My point is that Shaun Mullen is a bitter man despite all that he has. Further, small town Americans are not bitter despite all that they may not have. Shaun, like Mr. and Mrs. Obama, has incorrectly projected his bitterness onto others.

Oh. There was a point amidst the attack. Now, we wait for proof to back up his claim that there aren't bitter small town Americans.

Yes, and weakness accurately describes the condition of small town America.
Is telling the truth forbidden, a moral failing?
Is it better for politicians to accent faith in order to distract from the bitter (yes, bitter)realities of very hard lives?

You are right in saying the GOP will hammer him with this,
The question for you and me is, then: should a candidate pander to his enemies in order to win, or should he speak the truth?

The GOP has been successful at co-opting the English language and to reduce it to a code for attack.
It's high time someone stood up to them, and spoke truth instead.
Let's see if the public has been so brainwashed that they no longer see the truth behind the code. I think people are more intelligent than they are given credit for,.
but it takes leasership to educate them as to what is really going on.

If Obama loses over, this, it will signal the triumph of spin over truth.
In that case, there will be no meaning at all to politics, debate or struggling to right the wobbling ship that is America.

Or is this just a case of one of the dead enders needing to say something, but not able to put your thoughts into words?

But neither is it untrue. Thats what makes Obama so different as a leader. He will bring up and address topics that other politicians won't touch with a ten foot pole. In my opinion topics that need to be addressed and looked that otherwise society is content so pretend aren't there.

I'm not sure how you can say Americans aren't bitter. They have every reason to be bitter. What's really at issue is a certain kind of political correctness that won't allow commentators to acknowledge the word “bitter.”

Bitter
bit·ter
Pronunciation:
?bi-t?r
Function:
adjective
3: Cynical and resentful

You must have missed class the day they were teaching at Lehigh that state-sanctioned slots parlors run by people with organized crime ties will not help Uncle Leo in the long-run, only enable a few folks to get rich in the short run.

I am blogging two counties over from Bethlehem where the slots boomlet already is fading.

I am glad your world is so perfectly wonderful and apparently without even a trace of bitterness.

Obama knew he had to address the god issue…it was a forum on religion, after all.

The key point: Obama tried to shift the tone of his words.

Instead of “clinging” — and there is no way that is not a negative, pathetic sounding word — Obama makes it appear that they are resolutely relying on their faith.

These are Obama's words at the Compassion Forum.

“When economic hardship hits, they have faith, they have family, they have traditions that have been passed on from generation to generation. Those are not bad things. Those are the things that are left.”

These are fine sounding, noble words . . . BUT they are NOT the words he used in San Francisco.

“Clinging” is synonymous with weakness.

As for the guns comment, Obama has referenced it indirectly only in attacking HRC's comments.

Elrod…in the span of two sentences in San Fran…Obama linked “clinging” “god” “gun” and “racism” with small-town America. There is no way that is good.

If you think HRC is hard on him…the GOP will absolutely hammer him on these points in the Fall.

(I'm a Buddhist, grew up in the rust belt during the last recession, and am getting very sick of politicians trying to polarize, polarize, polarize.)