Obama Responds

He didn’t really address the part of his comments in which he said these “bitter” small-town folks were grabbing their guns and religion and antipathies.
Glad you noticed that, Jake!

I think he DID address his comments clearly. Did you READ what he said?
I honestly don’t see how you could read his statement, and then end with your last paragraph. What is it you wanted? What is it you want?

OMG, Jake…Are you kidding? He didn’t address that??? What in the world is wrong with you?
“And so people end up; they don’t vote on economic issues because they don’t expect anybody’s going to help them. So people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on. But they don’t believe they can count on Washington.”
Good God, Jake. Seriously. It’s plain as day. There is the context. There is the substance. Come on!

“Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain — ”
LOOK AT JOHN MCCAIN! LOOK AT JOHN MCCAIN! LOOK AT JOHN MCCAIN! LOOK AT JOHN MCCAIN!
It seems desperate!

Another sidestep of the issue by Obama. Thank God somebody bothered to record the audio of that statement so we can enjoy it for days and months to come. Interesting that small town Pennsylvanians cling to religion among other things out of the bitterness they feel. And yet Obama spent almost half of his life mesmerized by his bigot pastor because the alleged reverend was otherwise a brilliant man? Leave it to Obama to elevate his reasons for participating in religion while denigrating everybody else.

I sure wish we still had Edwards.He understood and was not pathietic like Hillary and Bill. I have doubts about McCain too, I don’t want Bush III. Obama needs to do more than this. I may end up voting for Nader.

@michael
Did Joe Biden ever become President?
and this barely came out TODAY. lol.
Where is your comparison?

@ Rolfolff
“He never said they were grabbing their guns, did he? ”
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You’re right.
OBAMA SAID “CLINGING” TO THEIR GUNS.

I dont know if he really addressed the comments, but I don’t think it will satisfy anyone who is upset by this.
Personally, I think he has no way to get out of this. It is after all what he thinks.

@ TK
You forgot the CRUCIAL part where he looked down on middle class and lower class Pennsylvanians.

Notice he doesn’t talk about why he said they “cling” to religion. As if their faith was not based on sincere belief, but on bitterness.

Jake: “he said these “bitter” small-town folks were grabbing their guns”
Excuse me? Jake, what happened to you? He never said that! Please reread the original conmments.
Grabbing their guns? It was about gun rights as an issue, Jake.
BTW, Obama supports gun rights, as a staunch advocate of the American Constitution. Which doesn’t mean (I’m glad to say) that he doesn’t believe in some form of gun control as part of our fight against crime.

Hillary needs to hit him with, if Obama is not rich how can he afford a 1.6 million dollar house.

This feels like a Macacca moment, but then again, I thought the Wright thing would sink him.. so what do I know? The press will probably forgive him and the liberals in the DNC will cram him down are throats. But a little voice in my head is telling me Hillary is our only hope.

You’ve got to give it to Barack. Whatever you think of this guy, he is a skilled spin-master. I really believe at the end of the day, this might help this dude. Imagine that. Obama is for the little guy. Clinton and McCain and worth hundreds of millions. The truth is that poor folks are not optimistic like Clinton claimed. They are angry and pissed off.

Clinton, McCain ———–RICH??
Obama RAKES IN 55 MILLIOn in FEBRUARY!
THEN HE RAKES IN 40 MILLION in MARCH.
HELLO……….MARS to OBOMBMA
Obomba is the one BITTER…. BITTER cause this isn’t over(and with all this money he still hasn’t closed the nomination), BITTER cause his momma left him during his Teenage years, BITTER —- during his early years when he found himself in Rev. Wright’s church….Bitter and hateful to Typical White Folks….
When folks themselves are angry or hateful— they think the rest of the world is awful and full of blight…..when they are happy— they think the whole world is a happy place and they want to SHARE THE JOY AND LOVE—- OBOMBA wants to SHARE how he feels……BITTER…RACIST….SUPERFICIAL….. and his wife isn’t too far behind him on this belief….

Jake, I wish you would elaborate on your opinion.
I think he DID really address the part of his comments in which he said these “bitter” small-town folks were grabbing their guns and religion and antipathies.
Right here:
“So people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on. But they don’t believe they can count on Washington.”

Nothing will change when any one of these three candidates get into the office.
Congress will continue to be the way it is now….etc etc
The Elected President and their family will be the only ones with– a– LIFE CHANGED…… money and power….thats what these candidates want.
BUT —- We have the POWER FIRST—- Power to choose who we think DESERVES this COVETED POSITION…..
OBOMBA and WIFE needs to go back to where they came from….Chicago — back into the house that REZKO BUILT…lol

Andrea
If he is arrogant for calling Clinton rich, is she arrogant for calling him elitist and out of touch? I mean, this argument swings both ways my dear. It does. As an Obama supporter, my problem with him is that this “new politics” BS has made him look weak. Clinton slaps him around everyday and he says nothing. I want to see him fight for this nomination. She insults him everyday, saying that he is not ready, only she is ready. Isn’t that arrogant? Andrea, you sound like a smart lady, but please, let’s be fair here. All these politicians are arrogant. McCain is arrogant, Clinton is arrogant, and Obama is arrogant. It takes a certain amount of arrogance to think you are the only person best qualified to be President.

Akadad, the question though is will Obama turn this issue around at the expense of the small town Pennsylvanians – whose support he needs in the next 10 days.

s. valenti
For all it faults, Obama’s church is legendary in Chicago for their community outreach program. You hear me? Legendary. Do your research.

Are all you Obama bashers suggesting that some folks are not bitter? Are you all suggesting that some people haven’t been left behind? Are you all suggesting that the guys that rip off this country with conflicts of interest like the $15 million dollar a year earners like the Clintons or Chaney with his $6 million or Bush with his $1 million a year haven’t sold ordinary people down the river? What are you all smoking?
Ans you get taken in by the garbage that reporters like Jake Tapper spew out to get you distracted from your real interests.
Keep it up all of you Neros fiddling while you are putting the torch to this great country.
Keep it up. That’s the politics of rational thinking we all need and wantg. More. More. More. Goad people on. Make them hear everything that gets said that’s serious in a totally distorted way. You are utterly irresponsible, Mr. Tapper and a good thing that Obama is smart enough to call you and the braying hounds on the garbage and the political swill you peddle.

Kevin, you are caught in the spin cycle. It’s not about him describing bitterness, frustration or anger but rather him asserting that the CAUSE of folks belief in God, Gun rights, Economic policies, etc. is the RESULT of bitterness. He is saying if you weren’t poor and bitter you’d not have these beliefs.

Obama also did not pass any legislation in Chicago since he was never a member of city council. The fact is that when he was a member of the state senate, which was after his supposed stint as a community organizer, he did not pass any legislation until his very last year when the entire state congress was controlled by democrats. Before that, he spent a few years in the state senate where he was not instrumental in passing anything. He then was taken under the wing of Emil Jones, the president of the state senate, who decided to promote him and gave him “softball” types of legislation to sponsor in an all-democratic state senate. There was no crossing the aisle or even exhibiting any type of negotiating skills.

Somehow Kevin I don’t think that Obama’s efforts to revamp the criminal justice system are going to resonate with Philadelphia voters very concerned about the uptick in crime.
I daresay that Obama’s work on behalf of offenders won’t resonate either in North Carolina – where citizens were repulsed by the senseless, brutal murders of two college students by two low life, repeat offenders.

s. valenti
Only children actually believe that spin and BS that Obama is a different kind of politician. He might be a different kind of person, but politics has rules and the winner is the one that plays the best within those rules. All these politicians have advisors and consultants and image specialists being paid millions of dolars to tell them what to do and say and how to smile and behave and not one single detail is left untouched. If any politician, even if he or her were clean as Jesus, campaigned as who they really are, that person will not win a single state. Wake up kids. This is politics and it will never change until maybe the next coming of Christ.

Right back at you, Kevin. Next time do your research before you start just making stuff up about your messiah.

Fellow Pennsylvania peeps, down with Obama before it’s too late. Vote Hillary

JB,
Oh, right, if we don’t buy Barack’s pure b.s. we’re haters, or rascists. It can’t be that we recognize an elitist bonehead from Harvard, that trips over his tounge, and then tries to tickle our ears to make us forget it.
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Barack the magic dragon, trips on his tounge! Then gives us his tounglieness to make us feel free!
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If the Obama critics don’t believe people are bitter and upset then you are out of touch.
I’m bitter that when I opposed invading Iraq I had my patriotism questioned. I’m bitter that there’s a war criminal running this country. I’m bitter that people didn’t listen to us Liberals who’ve been correct on so many issues.

Kevin and JB,
‘and it is not surprising that they cling to guns and religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant or anti-trade as a way to explain their frustration.’
That’s the pertinent part. You’re getting caught up in the length of his statement so let’s shorten it a bit: “It’s not surprising they cling to religion.”
There is simply no other way to interpret what he’s saying that doesn’t use rose-colored glasses. He made a VALUE statement and it is clear that he feels that folks cling to these values that he disagrees with BECAUSE as he says, they are bitter. It’s insulting to say that ANYONE derives their values or beliefs because they are simply ignorant or poor.

I think many people in Florida and Michigan do angry because Obama doesn’t want their voices be heard even a revote.

I think many people in Florida and Michigan do angry because Obama doesn’t want their voices be heard even a revote. Obama should change himself and his Church before talking about changing Washington.

Kevin, is your house worth 1.6 million. Clinton, Mccain and Obama are all rich. Obama wants us to think he is different.

Trent,
when those good people in Indiana realize the subtext of Obama’s remarks, they’ll be furious with Obama -who tried to bamboozle them.

Correction. Obama did not call Sen. Clinton rich. Tapper left out a period between “rich” and “Senator Clinton.”
I know because I just watched the video of his making these comments to a mostly white,working class audience in Indiana. Same comments essentially as in San Franciso, with the critique of McCain and Clinton thrown in.
When he responds that he knows what is going on in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, he gets a standing ovation.
Obama said people were bitter. It is some in the press and these posts who implied he said people were dumb. Based on the reaction in Indiana, Obama was right. They are bitter, not dumb.

Jake, he didn’t address the part about grabbing their guns because never said that. He was talking about their voting choices. Not that people just go and pick up a gun or run to religion. An example of this is the 2004 election. People knew damned well George Bush was no good, but they voted for him anyway because he scared the hell out of them. Never mind what Kerry was offering because, in there mind, he wouldn’t deliver anyway. So they went with the guy who said he could protect them. He was the safer choice. Look at us now!!! People are skeptical of Obama because he is offering something different than what people are used to. This is what he was explaining to the group. That people are skeptical and he really has to work hard at getting the working class vote.
Unbelieveable that grown folks can’t read and hear what the man actually said.

Kevin –
I wouldn’t dream of trying to change your position and I certainly would never call anybody, even you, a fool since name-calling generally is the last resort of someone who cannot counter facts. I object, however, to the fact that you are putting forth untruths. Citing Obama’s website establishes nothing other than the fact that you have wholly bought into his propaganda in the face of compelling facts to the contrary, which is certainly your prerogative. But it does nothing to further your unsupported allegations about Obama’s supposed credentials.

New Yorker,
That’s another lie of Obama’s – calling himself a “professor of law”. he was a lecturer.
He also called his father the “Finance Minister of Kenya” back in 1990 in a New York Times interview. His father was a bureaucrat.
Then, there are his lies about his legislative record. It goes on and on.

Mary
I also pointed you to google. I didn’t know Obama also owned google. Why don’t you google it and prove me wrong, instead of just “claiming” that i am wrong? Mary, i give you facts. Your hate for Obama doesn’t entitle you to your own facts. Check the names of the Acts i mentioned in google and report back to me.

Is Obama running as a independent?? I have to ask when I hear him saying for 25, 30 years Democrats and Republicans have come before them and said we’re going to make your community better. We’re going to make it right and nothing ever happens.
So what is he really saying that even if a Democrat was president in the past 30years they were a total waste of time?
Is he now slamming his own party and all the democrat presidents that went before him?
Or is Obama under the illusion that its only him as president that will do right for America and all Americans, its only he that has all the answers to fix everything.
He represents the democrat party, but yet in 30 years he feels no democrat president ever performed, amazing it sure does not show his party in a good light.

it is finally good to see a lot of people seeing obama as he truly is……an eloquent liar and facade. i cannot believe he defends his statements about people in the small towns……i live and work in one. i take great offense to his statements.
first it was rattso, then the canadian trade lies, then the endorsement by the nbpp, then the rev. wright…..what the hell else do we as americans need to see and/hear before we wake up, open our eyes, and see that hillary is the one most qualified to lead our country back to prosperity?

sj,
Excellent point. I guess all the democrats in the last 25-30 years have been dismal failures.
Now is that adacity? Is that arrogance? You bet it is. Just clicking around on the web and noticed that the transcripts of the legislative sessions during Obama’s tenure in IL are online. You would not believe how quiet he was. He barely ever spoke!! It is all dated and I guess you can check on the date Larry Sinclair alleges x,y,z. I have only checked on part of one year.
The guy was a wall flower on the floor anyway.
Here is the link:
http://www.ilga.gov/previousga.asp?GA=90

Obama must not be very bright because if he is going to ridicule his own party he better hope that no strong independent candidate enters this race because he just gave them enough ammunition to fill a cannon.

@ Sj,
Ya, Obama is the Change Himself, We Barack, the King of..
Obama opts out to accept public funds as he had big success raising a lot of monies through moveon.org and …
“I would like to see a system preserved, and I intend, if I am the nominee, to have conversations with Senator McCain about how to move forward in a way that doesn’t allow third parties to overwhelm the system.” (barack Obama)
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I do believe the “rich Clinton” line is really going off now, I don’t think anyone in America ever felt that the Clintons were not well off or at least above the standard of the average family.
In the same fashion just as Edwards,Romeny, Bush, Kennedy and hosts of others that ever ran in this race.
To keep stressing that the Clintons are rich does sound rather bitter on his part, as he himself with the help of Rezko wanted to live in a 1.6 million dollar house.
I am sure he does not classify his self as middle class or poor, Obama needs to take a deep look at his lifestyle before he starts throwing stones at others.

Exactly I have never seen any Republican candidate slam their party or slam other Republicans as I have seen Obama doing.
It really leaves me to wonder how much of a democrat he really is or if he feels he is running under his own agenda and the democrat party is just a stepping stone to make this possible.
It’s just disgraceful he has the endorsement of so many democrats and yet he is spitting on his own party and what ever they have tried to do for the past 30 years, I really hope some of them call him to question on that.

Hillary jumped on this. She is an oppurtunist. Obama has not jumped on her Bosnla and NAFTA issue. She has made it a habit. same old politics. I am bitter..

What do you mean, “he didn’t address his comments on guns and religion”…He certainly did in his followup comments after the right wing and mainstream (starting to wonder if there is a difference) press screamed bloody murder. What he didn’t do was address it to your satisfaction, as this is your lynchpin angle of blowing another soundbite out of proportion. Once again, Jake Tapper’s agenda is showing. It’s hard enough running against both McCain and Clinton, but also against a rabid group of “journalists” hungry for an “aha, gotcha!” moment.

it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to the people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” (Barack Obama about PA voters at the fund raiser in San Francisco)
IT SOUND LIKE rev. JEREMIAH WRIGHT AUDACITY OF HOPE SPEECH. In other words, HUssein Osama think that’s OK these rednecks cling to guns or religion or antipathy to the people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations
WHAT KIND OF PRESIDENT TO SUGGEST THAT?

Its about time we have someone like Obama to tell it like it is. I don’t need or want a apology from Obama for telling the truth. He’s not running on behalf of old politics. He running on behalf on “NEW” politics. I am bitter that jobs are being shipped away, gas prices are skyrocking food is expensive….Come on everyone the media is and i repeat “IS” going to blow this out of context. Trust your gut instincts and vote for CHANGE.
OBAMA ’08…steve

What is wrong with someone saying we are bitter that our jobs are shipped abroad. It is the truth. How many of us get our paycheck and can’t afford our mortgages…We are bitter. I am bitter

I’m glad this happened. It shows just how in touch Obama is with average folks and what’s really going on.

Hello Out There…..
Did you know that the Clintons were the poorest people to occupy the White House in the last century?
Did you know that Bill Clinton generated a period of economic growth and stability unknown in the last half century? That he took the US Treasury from a tremendous deficit and turned it around so that for the first time in eons, we actually had a surplus?
Did you know that until B O came along, he was loved and revered by millions?
Did you know that Bill Clinton was considered more than just a friend of the African Americans; he was considered the “First Black President” until Teflon Man came along?
Did you know that Bill and Hillary have never NOT shown up at a memorial service for Martin Luther King…. although though Obama was unable to make it because he was too busy campaigning?
Did you know that Barack Obama won his senate seat in Illinois and his U S Senate seat by excising his competition from the from the electoral ledger by deleterious, dirty means.
(You can check this out at the Chicago Tribune if you’d like…)
Did you know that Obama permitted Rezko to rent unheated apartments in his broken down tenements to poor Black families under his watch? And did you know that Rezko claimed he didn’t have money to heat the buildings…. but he had enough to give to Obama?
Do you really think he is a friend of all African Americans? or is he just using you to access the White House?
Do you really truly feel that Obama’s first love… after G-d and family… is this United States of America?
Do you truly trust his patriotism?
Are you sure that Barack Obama, if he ever won this race, wouldn’t sell out his country to the highest bidder?
Be careful WHO you vote for, and WHY.
Be very very careful

Obama is unelectable. This one came right out of the horses mouth. Its on tape and he cant tap dance around it.
He is so AAROGANT that he will make MORE idiot comments like this. All of them tie into his anti american racist church.
He is TOAST. Whether the liberal media and the Democratic insiders FORCE him down our throats anyways, he is a DEAD LOSS in the general election.

To me this is unfair to obama. these days you can send people’ sons and daughtesr to their death for no reason, lies openly to them, support Nafta and have in you team one that is presently working against the interest of the american people but you can still get away with it because of you are. But when someone tell the truth he are accused of elitist. Who wouldn’t feel bitter when he is told that his job is given to a chinese or an illegal immigrant? Those who deny that feeling are the very elitist and far away from the daily life of regular americans.

It’s so much fun to see all hell break loose when liberals reveal their true elitest, snobby selves!

why would Obama want to be president of the place that he hates? The very argument is a stupid one. These conspiracy theorist should be ignored. The make believe patriots that equate flag pins and immigrant fear with American values will leave the spot light with GWB in January09. Hill wants to get the dumb vote and for that I will not vote for her or McCain in November if these are my choices.

Caucus 83…Obama’s view on patriotism,,,from Anderson Cooper interview….”patriotism is hyperble”
Like most things it went unnoticed in the MSM….but I did see Anderson Cooper raise his eyebrows…
I think that Obama believes exactly what he said…”hyperbole” is exaggeration…some people actually do feel a strong and emotional love for their country and it is not exaggerated at all.

caucus 83
1.to have power over your enemy
2.to keep your enemy close
3.to be able to hand over your country
to your enemy.
pick one.
or not….

People are bitter — give me a break — it’s just the truth. Also, Obama didn’t say “Here’s what rich Hillary Clinton said…”
He actually said, “Here’s what’s rich — Hillary Clinton said…”
Watch the video. These are two very different things, and for it to be written the first way just is stirring the pot instead of sharing the truth.

Boy, you can sure tell the Hillary campaign’s people are online to blog everything tonight.

I know , I know Obama lovers who post on the internet. Its ALL taken out of context.
Doesnt matter what he says. Doesnt matter what he does. Doesnt matter who he knows. Doesnt matter if he has any experience in the slightest.
Just listen to the RHETORIC in his prepared speeches and vote for the guy.
Thats what we Obama lovers do.

The truth is that I am tired of the media and their snippets. Just like this blog. It make sme bitter. But I also known that what this election has revealed is that the conventional media are going out of bussiness due to technology explosion. Who would have thought of realclearpolitics, politico, tnr and so many. There are so many source of information these days. good or bad. By the next election analyst on Lou Dobbs and O’Reilly would be out of jobs. Maybe They will get bitter

Hillary did not even acknowledge that people are bitter about the situation. She said they are resilient. Sure they are. We are optimistic that regardless of Hillary or Obama, we hope that either of them get their and hopefully change our bitterness. She decided to use it as an attack without reading the full content of the transcript. Another error in judgments on her part

Carla Sue
You are wrong on may fronts. …and you obviously don’t realize that many of those towns that are frustrated have a direct correlation between their factory closing and NAFTA.
There are many “questionable” decisions and relationships that Sen Clinton has had or made…enough that puts almost any other politician out there. That is the problem…because her last name is Clinton and she lived in the White House for 8 years…you all don’t realize if you compare her to other Senators and candidates for that matter…her legislative, personal choices, and like ability history is not good enough to be where she is. …seriously compared to so many other candidates…but because her name is Clinton and she lived in the White House…you all suddenly are blind to all her weaknesses…and her list of weaknesses is exponential of almost anyone else on the national stage.
…and you say we are blind sheep… I think just is years of hope in the dark and fighting for her that makes you so myopic.
…and Obama is going to come out better from all this stuff with Pennsylvania small towns…he unlike the other two addressed what it truly means when a factory closes and the economy turns down…
cause let me tell you it is about to get much worse here…and if Hillary and John don’t see the statistics prove that racism, violent crime, angry ethnocentrism go up dramatically when the economy goes down (which has been proven over and over in MANY studies)…then heaven help us if they are the next President. Life in America is going to get much worse if we have a President that attacks another candidate for stating that.

I really think this is being blown out of all proportion by the Clinton Campaign, and the media. Obama made the point that small town america doesn’t feel it is represented well in Washington, and that makes them worry more about social issues, rather than economic areas, and small town america tends to be socially conservative. Maybe the word ‘bitter’ was a bit insenstive, but other than that, how does this become an issue?

dl, i will state loud and clear. i am a woman, i am white, and i am physically disabled. i have been disabled since age 16, but fight the good fight every day. now what do you have to say about me

Well .. well .. there he goes again …
He says something …. and then he comes back and says he is clearly something else ..
He said PA Small Town voters are racist, are anti-immigrant, pro gun, pro religion, anti-trade because they are bitter due to jobs loss. That’s why they are voting for Hillary.
Now, he says, they are bitter because they cannot count on Washington. Of course, they can count on Washington for religion, guns, trade etc.,
Give me a break. Either Obama thinks people are stupid or hopes at least the main stream media pundits will wink wink and repeat what he says.
Of course, we all know the pundits are in the tank for Obama. It is not a perception but reality.
Of course, let us see how MSNBC spins this one.

I think he has listened to Rev. Wrights sermons too much. Add to that a more than healthy does of Liberal Elitism and get comments that are completely insulting and out of touch with middle America.
He actually believes what he said was ok, not out of the ordinary. he doesn’t even get how denegatratinghis comments were/are.
He cannot win the white house in Nov. he’s totally unelectable. His candidacy has no real basis. One snear could lose him the white house far less words like these as well as all of his other liabilitites.
This is why you dont nominate a young first term junior senator to be you nominee for President. He’s unelectable against the Republicans.

Let’s just think for a second about why Americans voted for George W Bush, especially last time.
For all the things he is and all the criticisms that can be levelled at GWB HE IS NOT ARROGANT.
He’s the goofy boy next door you invite to your cabin for a hunting trip.
Americans hated John Kerry’s condescending arrogance. Obama pretends to be one of the people by putting on a fke accent when in the south and using words like ain’t and talking about fried chicken to crowds. (why they dont find that condescending I dont know)
But when the press aren’t around and he thinks he’s speaking to Liberal whites all that condescending elitist ego comes out.
Interesting that the press weren’t suppoed to get ahold of this little tidbit don’t you think.
He is unelectable.

“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.” Obama
What a fancy way of stereotyping people.
He might as well have come right out and said that they are gun slinging, racial churchgoers, afraid of people not like them such as black, gays, white, Mexicans,etc.
He was right that people are bitter..but wrong to add the other comment.
Obama is still standing by his comments. He has no idea that some find this offensive.

What do you expect from a member of the Harvard Boys Club? And his wife is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School? Obama was right in his element in San Francisco, mingling with rich left wing liberals. Obama is a creation of the media, and if Americans don’t open their eyes and ears, we will have a change in Washington – Bush to the far left named Obama – and the elite liberals in Washington won’t be thinking about the little people in small town America. Obama is bamboozling those rich liberals, look at his “real friends and mentors” Rezko, Wright, Farrakhan, Ayeres, Khalidi, Said – wake up and smell the coffee Obamanations. Check out the story in the Washington Post yesterday. Obama has 5 BIllionaires (not including Oprah) bundling money for him. Politics of Change, ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!!!

He said NOTHING about what he would do. NOTHING at all.
He’s an empty suit. What more would you expect?

This is a typical case of a man and his own self-reflection. A bitter and hatred person will spend the rest of his manhood to manifest his own self toward the object(s)in front of him.

Him and his left wingnuts he trashes middle america and then our party and he didn’t really say bitter gun toting bible thumping fear of strangers people.He just said people need jobs and he can understand what we are going thru and so can his wine drinking and latte drink friends. how arrogant.

Obama needs to shut up about guns, religion, and immigration. He is just digging himself a deeper hole. He has characterized people who are pro-gun, pro-religion, and anti-immigration as bitter and frustrated. In his attempt to explain himself is says that because of bitterness and frustration “people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on.”
He does not seem to believe that people can support pro-gun or pro-religion causes without first being bitter and frustrated. This is just wrong. Lots of people are single issue voters. They are not political junkies who weigh all of the issues before them. This is not wrong, and it does not mean people focus on one issue out of bitterness and frustration.
Obama needs to stop digging this hole. He needs to shut up and stop trying to explain his first remark. He needs to say he was misquoted, drunk, sleep deprived, or whatever.

Since much of the Republican party is characterized as pro-gun, pro-religion, and anti-immigration, is Obama really saying that the Republican party is bitter and frustrated? Is he saying that Republicans and conservative Democrats are sick? Is he saying that if they were not bitter and frustrated the skies would open up, light would shine down on them, and they would throw away their guns, stop going to church, and welcome immigrants with open arms? Is that what he believes?
When Obama wrongly says that people turn to religion out of bitterness and frustration we hear echoes of an earlier political theorist, Karl Marx, who said “Religion is the opiate of the people.”

Obama insulted, belittle put down and abuse the Backbone of this country.

Hillary supporters:
Your candidate will loose to the liberal left. Here are your GE choices:
*Vote for McCain
*Vote for Nader
*Write in Hillary’s name
*Dont’ vote
You have been betrayed!!!!

He DID explain what he meant by the ‘cling to guns and religion’- he meant that since they don’t vote for economic things anymore (since previous politicians have shown them nothing changes about that), they make their votes based on things like guns and religion. Does anyone really think Obama- who has been more upfront about his faith than anyone in this election season besides Huckabee- was mocking people for turning to religion? Not bloody likely. Look- if you don’t support the guy, fine- but don’t try to turn what he said into something else as a justification for it. If Clinton or McCain were actually looking out for the ‘little man’, they wouldn’t be in the bag for lobbyists.

if you listen to the video of him in Indiana, he didn’t say “Here’s what rich Senator Clinton says…” as though he was addressing her 110 million dollars- he said “Here’s what’s rich (pause)- Senator Clinton says…”

The man is so eloquent his meaning is lost in a reading by a person with an agenda. There are a lot of folks with agendas on this comment line. All he is saying is that “we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more”. He says clearly people have lost jobs and government support and don’t trust any more so they seek comfort elsewhere; in their communities and their faith. McCain doesn’t know the Shites from the Sunnis and wants a 100 year war in 6 month increments. Where is the money coming from?? China and Germany own us. Wake up people, this country is failing. Iraq has billions of oil dollars set aside and we the US taxpayers are financing the rebuilding of their infrastructure. The Bushs have been in bed with Saudia Arabia royalty for generations. Guess what, they’re in the oil business. Ms Clinton is a politically ambitious liar. She is the same old, same old Washington folk. She is devisive unwiling to compromise. All this and you people are picking apart comments of transparent honesty and calling him an empty suit. My god, no one has spoken the truth in this campaign like Obama has. Are we so afraid of the truth that we will stone those who speak it. We are then no better than the crazies in the Middle East who make their women drape themselves in shrouds, perform female circumcisions and honor kill their daughters and wives. By the way, how many of you who are so willing to pick these comments apart read the Clinton supporters statement this is a response to? And how many of you have lost a job to down sizing or overseas withdrawal of companies. I live in NC and we are for Obama here. Look it up in the polls. We have lost millions of jobs to mills and industry moving out of the country. Clinton lied when she said she didn’t support Nafta. Look it up. Fact check is a great source. How come you aren’t picking apart McCain’s speeches when he refers to Iran as a Sunni nation? It is Shia. Saudias are Sunni. He doesn’t know one from the other. How come you all aren’t picking apart Hillary when she lies about Nafta and the 1996 trip to Bosnia. Lots of lies there. She wasn’t the first first lady to go into a war zone and she didn’t run from sniper fire. She and McCain are pulling wool over your eyes. God help us!! We will need those guns and our own faith to make it out of this mess which apparently you all want to continue.

Lori 11:08.
Forgive me for piggybacking on your comment. I’m (unfortunately?) white. I’m a rightward-leaning independent who, without knowing much of Obama, initially considered his candidacy.
No way after Jeremiah Wright. I just don’t get Obama. He’s absurdly unqualified. Quite honestly, if he doesn’t win the election, his career is over. I grew up in Illinois, and I doubt he wants to return there for a re-election campaign in 2010. I bet he’ll be working at appointed positions or in educational positions the rest of his life.
As intelligent as he is, he’s actually a trainwreck when he’s not working from carefully scripted remarks on a teleprompter. He’s really no better than a news broadcaster. How many of these gaffes is the mainstream media going to allow him? These aren’t instances of being momentarily tongue-tied.
In the end, consider where he was delivering the speak. In this case, context supports the obvious reading of the words. As I heard and later read his remarks, I was reminded of the famous Al Campanis interview with Ted Koppel on “Nightline” in 1987. I saw that live and couldn’t believe Campanis said the things that he said. He was pilloried for those remarks. So should Obama. I’m looking forward to the Democrats trying to look united while backing this loser.

Having been born in the segregated South, I have come to understand racism. Sometimes it is overt; more often nowadays it is covert. It is my belief that Obama is a racist: he continues to resent his mother’s race (his words from his book). Such a man or woman is not fit to be president, period.
Obama is a fraud. He is a slick corrupt politician from Chicago. He is an elitist, a racist and a socialist.
His followers cling to ‘hope’ and ‘change’ as actual reasons to vote for him, while continuing to convince themselves that the fantasy of who they want Obama to be still exists.
The problem is: Obama is the ‘dream’ of the politically correct crowd and they will just ignore anything that gets in the way of the fairy tale.
Obama could butcher a kitten on the White House lawn and the media would make it sound like a good thing!
NO OBAMA IN 2008! HE HAS TOLD TOO MANY LIES!

I do not trust Obama. I do not trust his loyalty or committment to the United States of America. The fact of Reverand Wright, Anti-American Ayers, wife’s “never proud of my country” speech and now the Pennsylvania “gun-toting, religious, bitter losers” of PA. It all adds up to a very angry, passive-aggresive attitude. I think he follows those who speak his thoughts….

Even Obama now claims that what he said was wrong. Still, the lemmings are convinced that what he said are right. Why the disconnect?

I am from a small town-approx. 1600 people live here.For the first time somebody has actually put into words the grief and anger that I have felt for years. Our family is average. My husband and I didn’t go to college, not because we weren’t intelligent enough but because life and kids happened. We have two small boys. I work in healthcare and battle the moral conflict, but I am there every day so that my family survives. My husband works construction more than two and half hours away Monday through Friday. We only see him on the weekends. There aren’t jobs that he can work here close to home that would allow us to survive in this economy. I kiss him goodbye every week and have grown used to raising my kids alone until he is able to come home. This year will be a struggle- we are afraid with the cost of gas that we may have to limit the amount he can come home to twice a month. That is a decision we have to make in order to pay our mortgage and other monthly bills and still provide for our family. We roll up our sleeves everyday, we work hard and don’t complain.. we take comfort in the small things that bring us joy: but we are not content with just getting by, we are not content knowing that our children may fall into this generational poverty because we spend every dime we have to fill our heating oil tank up and the kids have no college fund. Writing this I am crying- out of some sadness yes, also out of frustration towards the very government that is sworn to protect us. I was taught as a child that if you worked hard in life you could earn what you deserve. It doesn’t work that way anymore- the rich get richer off of our sweat and tears and we the “lower middle class” have been ignored and told that we should be happy with what we have, as they spoonfeed us our rights and freedoms. I want to thank Senator Obama for speaking on behalf of those of us who have no voice- for those of us who crave change and hope that the American Dream may once again be possible.

Question: Who’s the biggest fool in America?
Answer: The next superdelegate to endorse Obama.

HoosierSue writes:
“Of course he never dreamed that one of them would betray him by making his remarks about “them” public.”
Pretty dumb if he thought that. Could the whistle-blower be the formerly-unrich Michelle Obama?

If you don’t think there is an issue with what he said.
Then just replace small town PA with South Central Los Angeles, Compton, Watts, etc….and then have a white politician spew it.

I grew up in one of the small Pennsylvania towns Senator Obama was talking about–and he is right. Since Bill Clinton’s policies shipped jobs overseas, small towns have fallen on hard times–because there are no jobs. While politicians like Hillary and George W. Bush (her true soulmate) distract the American public with nonsense issues like this–they make millions of dollars while the middle class struggles. Hillary pretends she is from my part of the state–northeastern PA–but she isn’t–her father left Scranton and moved to wealthy Park Ridge, Illinois where Hillary grew up–she did not grow up in Scranton–but she condescendingly pretends to be a working class Scranton girl because it works for her politically. Sadly, half of the American people fall for the head games politicans play with them–and believe in people like Bush/Cheney and Clinton/Clinton who care only for their own ambitions. Hillary like to divide people because that makes them weak–and she is such a weak, petty person, she feels stong only when others are weak. So she appeals to our fears and prejudices, just like Bush and Rove. Obama comes from a modest background and he has earned everything he has. He is not an elitist–he speaks for ordinary Americans of all economic classes, all races, all ethic groups, both genders. That’s what frightens people who prefer to hold on to their predjuices–they don’t understand that we will achieve more together than we will if we are divided. Hillary appeals to the smallness in people–she thrives on division and rancor. It is tragic that working class Americans who vote for Hillary will vote against their own best interests. She doesn’t care about working people–she just wants to be the first woman president–the American people are just a tool she must operate to reach her goal. I just hope there are enough of us to keep her out of the White House.

Mr. Obama is starting to show his fundamental color. He wants to be different things to different people. In SF, he condescends (essentially belittles) the mid-western small town people and claims that he works for them.
This is not unlike Mr. Bush during 2000. And we were punished for electing him. One wonders what agenda Mr. Obama has for this country.
Cling on to religion: Mr. Obama was clinging on to an separatist church for 20 years to escape what?
Cling on to anti-trade: Did he not say that he was anti-NAFTA in Ohio to win votes?
Cling on to guns: Did he not say that Second Amendment applies to individual’s right to own guns?
This man is a scam artist.

What exactly has Obama done for Illinois and their job creation that makes you think he can do it for PA? He already said jobs aren’t coming back.
Pointing out the ill without any plan and a globalization insult to small town PA points out he is for NAFTA, like we always knew he was.
Any politician worth their salt knows not to mess with the big money of NAFTA.
This ruse that Obama is going to fix what those other politicians help to break might fly if he fixed Illinois and their economic outlook.
11% state tax, doesn’t look like anything was fixed except how much the little guy has to pay for EVERYTHING!!!
Wake up! It’s easy to say something is broke….but he doesn’t have a plan to fix it. A five hundred dollar tax break for middle class and poor families is an insult….just like Bush insulted them with his three hundred version.
Geez….apply logic with every politician not just the ones you dislike. And please explain to me what you like about an 11% tax on the basics?

@ To all the people here who did not understand the essence of his remarks:
Obama did not insult or look down on small town folks in anyway in his remarks. He did not even generalize small town folks in his remarks, he said “some”. To be frank, If you are sincere to yourself, you will recognize that what he talked about is 100% true. The problem people have with it is that it is 100% true and nobody can deny that. He has shown courage as a politican. He is the only one who has come clean with voters up till now. I would rather be fouces on the issues than minor distractions like this.
How does it add up to you that HRC is agianst NAFTA/CAFTA but laughs when ask about the $800,000 her husband recieved in their bank accounts from the Columbian government.
Disclaimer: I am not an Obama supporter but rather an independent

I am surprised with the amount of replies to this issue, I with the knowledge that if I vote for McCain I will be voting for Bush ideologies and philosophies, a vote for Hillary will to me mean the end of morality in politics, I do not want to see a woman who was so humilated by her husband stand with him. If Hillary can forgive Bill after such a humilation and attack on character what will she look over next? Employment, Healthcare, Taxes, Interest Rates, Social Security?
The only intelligent vote is for Obama we as the leader of the free world need to demonstrate that we are capable of intelligent rational thoughts and actions.