Obama has a week to go in Pa. to repair his “bitterness” damage, which has hurt him badly there. But it will take more than waiting for Hillary to be her usual off-putting self:

If voters are going to forgive and forget they won’t do it because Hillary is being Hillary. Obama’s got to make nice with them. But he seems unwilling to do that because, at bottom, he really doesn’t think he did anything wrong. This is becoming standard operating procedure for Obama. (Associate with a racist; lecture the country on racial unity. Insult a state; lecture us about the mindset of rural Americans.) Lots of lectures and changing the subject; never a full-throated apology.

Look, if you’re smarter than everyone else, there’s no use hiding it. I said he was cocky.

Later: Good point here by Pat Hickey, as in Chi Daily Observer, in re: small-towns business:

Barack Obama was not only speaking to ‘small-town’ America, but the small towns that exist in Big Cities as well – we call them neighborhoods: Obama was talking to Dorchester, Queens, Staten Island, Pilsen, Canaryville, Brighton Park, Edison Park, Norwood Park, Evergreen Park, Morgan Park – hell every Park. Well, maybe not Hyde Park.

He has some of those big-city neighborhoods wrong, however. two of those Parks don’t belong, being separate municipalities. We call them suburbs.

Yet later: Oops, only one is a ‘burb, my South Sider wife’s home town of Evergreen Park.