John Dickerson offers what is by far the best analysis of Barack Obama's "bitter" comment that I've seen thus far, parsing out what he probably meant, and why that won't at all matter to the types of voters he's offended. There are two very important points. One, which he notes as a mere parenthetical, is that all of these justifications for the comments would get Obama and his defenders laughed out of a bar in rural Pennsylvania, and are only digging him a deeper hole.
