http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/cling/default.aspxTags: clingenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/04/15/of-bitterness-and-boilermakers.aspxTue, 15 Apr 2008 17:44:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:2523Emily Bazelon0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/2523.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2523A guest post from Barbara Ehrenreich : I spent an hour yesterday trying to persuade Tom Frank, author of What's the Mater with Kansas? and the apparent intellectual source of Obama's remark on white working class "bitterness," to weigh in with an op-ed...(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/04/15/of-bitterness-and-boilermakers.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2523" width="1" height="1">Barack Obama'08 electionclinghttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/04/15/more-on-ecstatic-cling.aspxTue, 15 Apr 2008 17:31:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:2522Dahlia Lithwick0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/2522.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2522Rachael , I wholly agree with 50 percent of what you say. Obama’s message about our tendency to hunker down behind extreme identity differences (religious, ideological, racial) would have been better delivered directly to the group he was addressing....(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/04/15/more-on-ecstatic-cling.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2522" width="1" height="1">08 electionObamacling