Marc Ambinder tries to put some “perspective” on the latest of Barack Obama’s gaffes.

“We’re dealing tonight with a classic Kinsleyian “gaffe,” where a candidate says what he means and then is forced to account for it. Let’s separate, for the moment, the politics of Obama’s words from the argument he is making.”

We can stop there. In liberalism they are forever “separating” the politics from the argument except of course when it applies at a conservative. Then it’s all one big happy gaffe that they are all too happy to collectively pounce on.

There is really no defense of Obama’s words, and it’s not just because I said it, but because that is what Obama has said all along, that words means something, they are the measure of a man, “Words Matter”.

Obama has shown that whenever he is caught in one of his gaffes he applies the “Clinton Principle” of defense. When caught it’s then not what he said, but that we didn’t get what he said, that we are not *smart* enough to absorb the meaning behind his words.

His words….

“But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of 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.”

Words which are quite frankly very clear indeed and have a very clear message. A very condescending and insulting message, especially to “typical white people” like me who have faith in God and own a gun and want to the things which uphold the law of the land and make us stronger not weaker. We got the message Barack, the question is “Do you actually know the words that are coming out of your mouth?”, or is it just a matter of mouth in motion before brain in gear?

The need the left feels to help their man out isn’t surprising but if we played their game then it only means two things about Obama.

Either his words mean nothing as the meaning is “somewhere else” in a hyperbole, or he is the naived, inexperienced and therefore unqualified for President man many of us think he is.