"Obama says he 'mangled' Pa. remark," and there's an accompanying exclusive video interview with Inquirer reporters which ought to supply a fix to even the most strung-out, hard-core political junkies.
No matter what you think, don't miss it.
In the interview, Obama explains how he "mangled" two separate points that got "conflated." (Hmmm....)
Despite watching it repeatedly, I was unable to discern any clear explanation of what he meant by the the clinging to guns part. Instead, he now substitutes anti-gay and anti-immmigrant "sentiments."
What's that about? Is bigotry now supposed to be interchangeable with guns?
The more I think about this, the more I think he's only made it worse.
First of all, he's not giving people credit for thinking what they think -- something Mickey Kaus touched on yesterday:
Superiority of this sort--not crediting the authenticity and standing of your subject's views--is a violation of social equality, which is a more important value for Americans than money equality. Liiberals tend to lose elections when they forget that.(Via Glenn Reynolds.)According to Obama, firearms ownership thus becomes not an individual choice, but something other people have planted in the minds of the "gun-clingers." Their clinging to guns becomes not an individual act, but something demagogic leaders drive people to as part of their exploitation of wedge issues. ("Condescending" is almost too kind a word to use for this ruling class-style denial of the fact that gun owners -- and I am one of them -- actually think what they think.)
And today, the guns have disappeared. They have been magically replaced by other "wedge issues."
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