Obama Says He Deeply Regrets Offending People

Obama knew what he was saying. He was, after all, pandering to the rich in California and was unaware that he was being taped. Now, he’s trying to convince people that he merely used a poor choice of words.
But his words were clear enough. And not his apologists come out and try to convince us about what he really meant. There really is a sucker born every minute.

Bishop
Good observation. Unfortunately, Obama is rich with rhetoric and poor with real solutions.

Sure he regrets it. He regrets it because he was caught, and made to look arrogant and condescending –coincidentally, things he actually is.

So true. But, hey, aren’t we all in the mood for another spectacular SPEECH by Obama wherein the lectures all of us idiots on why he thinks he’s so great and how we should learn to be like him?
Come on, here he is talking to the white wine crowd calling voters a bunch of white trash. And he and his supporters are not apologizing. They all think he’s right.

West Coast Mess:
Is that the best you can do today? Hungover?
At least Bill’s staying quiet about Bosnia today — so far!!!
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

Obama – Words? Are they just words?

Jackt51 — Vietnam Vet and Proud Liberal
Does Obama have a plan for getting our troops out of Bosnia?

We don’t want anybody commiserating about their childhood. You have to be made into an elitist – Harvard -2008-

He spent yesterday and most of today defending what he said then once he realized people started to question him, he switch to an apology. For some one who says “words matter” you think he would watch what he says. He is lousy when he speaks for himself, he should stick to the material his speech writers give him.

Bajanluv You might like Obama. I don’t he is divisive, self centered and I do not think he cares for all Americans. He really believes that all his fool lowers are “highly educated” and that the rest of the people don’t think for themeselves. I hope is not too late for Americans to realize that Obama is all about resentment,hate and elitism. Obama does not have a chance in November. If he becomes the nominee we will have four more years of Republican disaster. No to Obama the “sophisticated” politician.

Sure people are bitter and angry. No ones arguing with that part of what he said. It’s the rest of it. And that his supporters can’t see that means McCain wins the election.

I was born and raised in Scranton PA. What Obama said is absolutely true. From bitterness to guns to God. Don’t shoot the messenger. The politicians want to make him out to be some kind of bad guy, simply because he exposes the truth. The would rather let small town America be forgotten as soon as the votes are counted and go back to being cynical and frustrated until the next election. No changes, no real future. The Hillary supporters here prove what Obama just said. They are all bitter.

disgusted, before you defend Obama read what he said, why he said it and to whom. an you should be disgusted with Barack

It’s not the bitterness, everyone, it’s the clinging to guns and religion that insults people. The NBC guys are on the news right now trying to spin it and help save their favorite baby, BO, and blame it all on Hillary.

OBAMA FLIP FLOPS AGAIN, FIRST HE DEFEND HIS WORDS THEN HE APOLOGIZE. OBAMA PACK YOUR BAGS AND TAKE YOUR CALL OF EMPTY HOPE AND CHANGE WITH YOU.

Obama knew exactly what he was saying about blue-collar voters in PA. He believes he’s better than they are because he hasn’t lost his job, yet. Nevertheless, Obama does know a thing or two about bitterness, his wife is one and Rev. Wright is the other.

bob, Hillary does not say I regret or apolozise for looking at us in the fecase telling the sniper story from Bosnia or for voting for the wrong war in Irak. That is the difference between Obama and Hillary the Bosnian General, saying I am sorry if I offended people. That is the leadership style Obama is demonstrating. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

What’s really regrettable is that Obama, the touted wordsmith, can’t discern which of his words will offend, and which will inspire. He obviously hasn’t got the sensibility or sensitivity enough to know the difference.

How can anyone say that this well educated person who brags about writing his own speeches, not know exactly what he was saying and what audience he was going to use it on. I am so tired of all the passes that Barack gets, and all the positive spin he gets from the media, and how other instances of his misrepresenting his record or how he’s going to get our troops home, pay for all the programs he’s proposing,,the list goes on and on…can you really believe in this Santa Claus????? Think not!!!

Obama only regrets his words and actions when he’s called out on the carpet about it. He never imagined that someone from his fundraiser would blab (and she waited until the weekend to release the story to decrease media exposure).
These are the many faces of Obama: Inspirational, when he wants your political support.
Initiator of change, when he wants your financial contribution.
Racially divisive, condescending, and arrogant when he doesn’t know you’re listening.
HILLARY ‘08

Emily,
Great post! I was thinking the same thing!

The main thing these blogs show us is the education gap between Hillary and Obama voters.
As the Gallup Poll of two days ago has shown us, that gap is huge. ‘High school or less’ is the only education category in which Hillary is a winner.
But Harriet! How arrogant and elitist to focus on the facts!
LOL

Harriet,
Going to college and being book smart doesn’t mean a whole lot if you are the village idiot. People with high school or less are sometimes alot more educated in life and have more common sense than people with umpteen degrees.

The facts? The media says all Obama supporters are more educated and intelligent because THEY support him and are talking about themselves. Obama groupies are so in love with themselves (we are the change we have been waiting for) that the media pundits call Clinton supporters “ethnic whites.” What is that but a code for white trash? It’s not even subtle.
Time will show that Obama supporters are not too bright since they are dividing the democratic party and throwing the election away on an arrogant snob who cannot win. If you are supporting Obama, you will be responsible for the democratic loss in November.

THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THIS LATEST CONCENTRATION OF THE PRESS AND EVERYONE ELSE ON BARACK OBAMA WAS STARTED BY HILLARY POINTING HER FINGER. She always does the same thing, every time she is faced with a problem in her own camp, she jumps to accuse Obama, and everyone follows like Clintonite has gotten to them. I AM SURE SHE DOES WANT THE PRESS AND EVERYONE ELSE TO LOOK OVER TO OBAMA AND NOT HER SINCE THE REVIEW OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON RECENT RECORDS RELEASED IS IN & ON THE NEWS

I’m a Hillary supporter and hold a BA and an MA in literature. I also agree that her vote on Iraq was completely understandable considering the information and situation at the time. Let’s be honest, Obama just copied all of her policies and positions. He has a few 23-year-olds from Dartmouth writing his speeches for him. As we can see, when he goes off script, he really shows his true colors.

The difference here is- when Hillary misspoke about Bosnia, she didn’t do it with the INTENTION of putting people down. That’s exactly what Barak did, while he was kissing up to the rich Californians.
During that speech in California, he named some of the small towns he visited in middle America in order to give the rich, big-city donors a good laugh—which he got.
Obama made these condescending remarks, acting like America really needs him to come save us. But the truth is, this arrogant junior senator has done NOTHING to earn the honor of being our President.

Obama, did you steal the wrong speech?

I deeply regret that I have to listen to your hollow words and empty promises until Hillary is the nominee for the democratic party.

J Robinson,
The fact is Gore and Kerry were elitists and LOST.
Bill Clinton certainly was not viewed as elitist – quite the opposite. This was the president who was once called the first black president of the US. (Of course, this isn’t to say he isn’t really elitist – just that he never let it slip out)

Let’s keep it simple.
1. In the following sentence, replace Obama’s name with Clinton of McCain.
2. Replace the “Small-town” with “Black,” or “Jewish,” or “Female.”
According to [Obama (1)], [Small-town (2)] Americans 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.”
So, in Obama’s beliefs, an entire group of people are bitter, and this bitterness among the group automatically leads each of them, to Guns, Religion, Hatred, Fear. Their emotion combined with their lack of critical thinking skills dictates they adhere to these opiates of the masses. Now we can understand those who cling to their religion, and hand in hand, their bigotry, and hand in hand, their guns.
Why else have religion or own a gun?
I get it now. Thank you, Mr. Obama, for the enlightenment.

These boards are obviously infiltrated by paid Clinton staffers trying to spin this “bitter” issue into something of significance.
Of course, we are all bitter after the repeated betrayals of the last 8 years.
Why apologize?

Sick of it All in Ohio
Obama thinks you are not just bitter…apparently small town america is filled with gun loving religious fanatic racists…Somehow i don’t believe that the people in Ohio and PA are that kind of bitter.
Not to worry Obama’s fundraiser was not about empathy…he was explaining why he needed to spend 6 times more than Clinton to win over the bitter masses in small town America.
Clinton exaggerated Boxnia…but Obama is pretending he said something else…Please read his exact comments before you decide to give him a pass on this one.

Rev. Wright’s sermon’s, were they “bitter” and did you give a big “amen” at the end of the sermon?

Obama groups religion along with bigotry and ant–immigrant sentiment.
I don’t believe his secular and elitist audience of rich San Franciscans even batted an eyelash when he said it. It’s probably how they feel too.
Too bad (for Obama) that the majority of Americans are appalled by the comparison.
Obama’s attempt to “unsay” what he said and most certainly meant is laughable.
Obama may “cling” to the belief that he can talk his way out of it, but I think he is toast.

As a white woman the only one I find offensive and evasive is hillary clinton. She is the “elitist” who has her own agenda and fails to listen to the plight of many who have lost out to NAFTA. There is no way as a Democrat, I could ever vote for her!

wow

I do worry about the Obama-haters out there who deny
the truth of what he is saying about the bitterness
in Small Town America. They must not actually reside
in the small town or they would see the decline on
Main Street. Not just the empty store fronts which
were once proud small retailers now obsolete in
competition with Wal Mart, but the loss of jobs
and decline in the dollar, the rise of the costs of
gas & oil, healthcare, and so on. I think some of
these folks may realize that the Republicans just
plain don”t care. Some voters may need a little time
to get over the race issue with Barack Obama but
in the end many will realize that he is in fact the best candidate for the nomination and presidency.
What I would worry about is how in Europe in the 1930”s during the rise of Nazism particularly in Germany, which was in an economic depression, how the Germans who were bitter over their defeat in WWI sought to “scape-goat”
their troubles and embraced fascism. Yes, I think
there is not only a danger of fascism in American
but a reality of extreme right-wing thought that
seeks to agitate the people of rural and small town
America. You can hear it in certain radio shows
such as Rush Limbaugh, you can see it on Fox News TV
and smell the sewer gas in some of the gutter attacks by right-wing bloggers and commentators, even on this one maintained by CBS. Some of them should be
monitored by the FBI for the poisonous agitprop.

I HIGHLY doubt that any of the Obama supporters or anyone that is leaning toward Obama is not going to swing toward Clinton for anything that Clinton wants to grasp onto that she can use to try and bring Obama down. The Clinton supporters are going to make a Mountain out of a mole hill. They will and have as you see in the responses on this page also grab onto this and call Obama a false, fake person. In actuality he is an amazing man and will do more for this than Bill or George have. We all have errors and make mistakes, but what you must look at is the overall message of the candidates. Clinton is running her campaign that is really doing the Democratic party injustice. Obama is bringing everyone together.

Everything Obama said is true…Except he should have added Nascar, Red White and Blue Beer and doing your wash on the front porch.

I clearly understood what Mr. Obama meant when he saud that people were “bitter” ABOUT the Economy, the war, Mortgage foreclosures, and a Demoracy, still, ruled by a few. The majority (the American People) cease to
rule.Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton has fallen below the belt with her childish comments to enhance the meaning of the word.Althuogh a Democrat…John McCain, “Here I COME !

When Obama gave his infamous speeches that he plagarized, his quote was WORDS MATTER. He has denounced and rejected his own WORDS. His words, TYPICAL WHITE GRANDMOTHER ((transcended into racist old woman)))clinging to guns , clinging to religion, clinging to immigration, and refering to hard working people as LUNCH BOX FOLKS, Apparently there is a difference between SF fundraiser values and Midwest values. The bottom line in his explanation to the fundraisers why he hasn’t done a slam dunk of the nomination is to throw the slipping middle class voters under the bus.

Oh, by the way…..I am so sick of the word “liberal” being said as if it were a “dirty” or “not moral” word. Just for the record, I probably live much more of a conservative life then most people on this blog, yet, I would say that I am a liberal. The definition of what liberal means to me is freedom – freedom for people to be able to make their own choices, even if it is different from my own personal choices. With that meaning in mind, I am proud to say that I am a liberal.

THIS JUST IN: “WE NEED MORE DUMB PEOPLE”
Obama is forming the backdrop for his November aspirations: 5 yellow people, 4 brown people, 20 white people, 1 black person, 4 green people, 20 purple people and 55 “million” dumb people required.
The Obama committee will move people around from where they were sitting to have more “dumb” people in the front row, sitting directly behind Obama, to cheer him on.
Obama, Michelle, Pelosi, Dean, Reid and Jeremiah Wright are stuck on stupid!
DON’T YOU JUST LOVE IT!
HILLARY 2008!

The average individual donation of Obama’s millions and millions he’s raised is under a hundred dollars. Elitist?
Meanwhile, Hillary has a $3200/head fundraiser in LA with scores of the Hollywood A-List in attendance. So that’s being for the “common folk?” Oh yes, and she is trumpets that she has been endorsed by Elton John — a WELTHY ROCK STAR — not to mention a BRITISH SUBJECT the last time I checked. Very working class.
Obama speaks the truth — whether he should have said “bitter” or “angry” is just semantics. Middle-Class America is in fact going down the toilet, if it hasn’t done so already, and they — we — are as mad as hell. A lot of folks can’t seem to handle a politician who tells it like it is — they’re too used to devious manipulations, selective memory, and out-of-context quotes. You know, politicians who fantasize about past experiences about landing in a war zone under enemy fire, running across the tarmac with heads ducked down, and…shall I go on?
One last thing — ask the working class of upstate New York about how Clinton delivered those new jobs once she became a senator. Oh right, I forgot — it was contingent on Al Gore winning the election — a fact I’m SURE she told her constituents as she was making her empty promises (that’s beside it being the incredibly laughable response I’ve heard in this whole primary race). . Ah, but of course she is forgiven because she is NOT elitist.

What ever happened to the Christian principle, do unto others as you would have them do unto you? If Sen. Clinton is such a true Christian she would truly understand the plight of so many people who have suffered with the changing working conditions in our country. No longer can a person count on working in a job for a lifetime as in times LONG past. The average career changes in a life time is now 9, not to mention the number of job changes they may have to go through. However, that is if one even has a job.
And yes people may not “cling to” but at least “hold on to” the strength and comfort they draw from their religion as well as the hobbies they may be able to afford, such as hunting and fishing. These may be the few possible means which may sustain them through hard times!