Bill Clinton warns Democrats not to look down their noses at gun owners. Then, of course, Bill Clinton looks down his nose at gun owners. From the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web column:
Politico reports:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323485704578257942971371234.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_hClinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans.
"Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them," Clinton said.
"A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things," Clinton said. "I know because I come from this world." . . .
He said that he understands the culture that permeates a state like Arkansas--where guns are a longstanding part of local culture.
"A lot of these people . . . all they've got is their hunting and their fishing," he told the Democratic financiers. "Or they're living in a place where they don't have much police presence. Or they've been listening to this stuff for so long that they believe it all."
Oh, these people, these poor misguided hicks! All they've got is their hunting and their fishing! Clinton isn't doing a very good job of following his own advice not to "look down your nose at them," is he?
It's strikingly reminiscent of Barack Obama's notorious 2008 musings on "some of these small towns in Pennsylvania and . . . the Midwest": "It's not surprising . . . that 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."
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