Who says the culture wars are over?

This is probably the dumbest thing Barack Obama has said all year.

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

That Obama was speaking at a  fundraiser in San Francisco, of all places, makes it worse. Just watch the Clinton and McCain campaigns spin this as the “real Obama”, just another Ivy League liberal who thinks he’s better than the Average Joe.