Obama Explains ‘Bitter’ Comments, but Rivals Pile On

Obama is a caring and compassionate man. He speaks in an extremely HONEST manner. These words can sometimes be jarring to those not disposed or used to hearing the truth from politicians. But there is no doubt that some have exploited wedge issues such as guns, etc to get votes even as the economy is in the tank. Obama basically said that, but inartfully. And he’s right that he could have said it better.

Obama said that rust belt people are bible totin gun lovin racists, with antipathy toward people different from themselves. he said what he meant!

I find it funny, that Clinton thinks with a straight face that americans will believe she is going to “fight” hard for them when her husband gets money from columbia trade deal and her chief strategist was also making money from the pending trade deal and of course the lies. No to mention the poor leadership trait “do as I say, not as I do”. Obama is truly speaking to the real hurt of americans who been victims of such poor leadership from washington and no amount of spin or excerps will stop him from giving the country real change in Nov.

This man is so stuck on himself
I think this race has gone to his head.
Dear Barrack, take a long vacation.
“I didn’t say it was well as I could have,” Obama confessed today during a town hall in Muncie, Ind., in response to the controversy he described as a “political flare-up because I said something that everyone knows is true.”

Only problem is that Obama was talking to his billionair friends to get money from them. What he did not tell you – you morons do not understand what he really means and requires third supplemental explanation- is that he is comparing his rich friends with you poor Pennsylvanian bitter citizens.
Occasionally you got to see his true color. Then, he fools you by accusing you’re less intelligent than he is, not knowing what he means.

THIS IS WHAT HE SAID DOES IT SOUND LIKE WHAT HE SAyS HE SAID
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years. … 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.”

So since Obama now knows that small town folk get bitter because illegal immigrants are coming to this country to take their jobs, is he still in favor of giving them drivers licenses?
Seems to me when he was running in TX, he had a different story he did not seems to feel illegals were a problem them, or that anyone in America was worried about it, but I guess his attitudes changes from state to sate.

Comments like ‘Bitter’ will sink you Mr. Obama. So what you are telling me Mr.Obama is that i am bitter because i lost my Job, i am bitter that i can’t pay my bills on time, i am bitter that my children are not getting the food and healthcare they need, that i am bitter and am turning to the almighty GOD for help. WOW MR.OBAMA WOW. people like you make me SICK.

He’s trying to make it about Bitterness but that is trying to deflect from the real issue.
I think the error of these few words, just words, from Obama are not about bitterness. He and Michelle are the bitter ones and bitter people tend to think others are too.
I think he will pay for linking the bitterness to religion. I am not a religious person but my family and friends down in NC are. Their religion is a focal point of their social life and it is the exact opposite of bitter. It is a joyous, sharing and caring social life that was in fact there long before the jobs left.

The Messiah has explained himself again,enough said.

So what Obama is right…The only thing he forgot to mention was Nascar and Red White and Blue beer.

I guess to say what I realy mean is… sounds better than what I said was true but I don’t want to say I am lying to you now. Confused as I am? You bitter voters need to go to Harvard so you can have enough intelligence as Obama to understand what he means.

How many times is Obama going to call white people bigots and get away with it?
He is projecting his own hatred for other races.
“they cling to … antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment”
He says typical white people have no sympathy for people who are not like them… Why is it okay for him to talk like this?
Hillary is the only person who can unify this country.

Stop explaining yourself. I’m tired of your excuses and explanations. If a presidential candidate has to explain that yes they are patriotic and yes they do love America they are not going to be elected. Period. Be it a democrat or a Republican. Pride in America should eminate from a candidate naturally, no questions about it. It should not have to be packaged and sold to the voters. We can get plastic idols in Hollywood. Hillary or McCain for POTUS.

Obama, you always try to defend yourself even if you said something wrong. Give me a break. You think you can fool the rest of the Americans, not me.

Obama is just trying to make an excuse for another 10 point loss headed his way in another swing state. Saying the people of Pennsylvania are dumb and bitter. If that is true, wouldn’t they be flocking to his campaign? The so called “outsider” and “Change man”. Maybe the people of Pennsylvania recognize this man as a unaccomplished career political charlatan!

It still sounds like he is looking down on small towns lie they’re backwards hicks because they believe in prayer as a comfort. He doesn’t have a clue

Obama has committed another “bone-headed” mistake which once again shows his arrogance and contempt for the Americans he wants to lead. If people don’t buy his message, (Ohio, PA)there’s something wrong with them. That’s what Samantha Power said, that’s what he’s saying. It’s just about time for another major address, a dazzling blast of puffery from Obama on “The Bitterness of Middle America”. Chris Matthews will get the tingling feeling down his leg again, and we’ll all be healed.

Being at one time a young, gay student at a small college in Elkins, WVA, I did not hide on campus. This was the early seventies and black students at the school[mostly from the D.C area] were involved in this new religious theology that had no need for urban or rural whites. I didn’t isolate like the blacks, but went and got a job at the local A&P. It was a wonderful experience and removed any notion that the “locals” were bitter, angry, gun-totting, bible preaching, racists as Obama has explained them. The store in Parsons catered to locals, miners{about every two weeks when they were in town, their families, and the mountain people. They were dirt poor yet we all enjoyed the day God gave us and enjoyed a good story or the latest talk. Proud and feeling like we were almost in Heaven like the song said. Today Obama does not get it just like the black students and never really got to know the people I learned to love. So please BO don’t try to change your words because myself and many others know how you really think. YOU JUST DON’T GET IT!

Obama Supporters, think for a second.
If Hillary had made these insensitive statements, she would have been raked over the coals immediately! Tee shirts would have been printed slamming her….she would have been asked to step down….more Tanya Harding type pictures would have surfaced. You all hold him to a totally different standard. How could this man make such a “bonehead” comment at this point in the game?! And you all want him as president? I agree….I see now that he doesn’t even qualify to be a senator. He is just a good talker with rich connections. I used to drink the Obama koolaid….not any more!
Sign me…..Recovered Obama addict

Clinton, her campaign and her supporters have to find some reason to criticize and condemn Obama. Why is this? They have nothing of any importance to say.

Ruthie,
That’s right. You’re right. Obama is right. Those small town hicks are just bitter, and if Bill Clinton or George Bush had brought them a job they would not need guns and they would not need religion.
As I think about it, we could be just like the People’s Republic. Everybody is happy in that country (well, except maybe not people from Tibet).
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Elect Obama!
He can make us as happy as China!
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Barack Obama is anything but a typical politician.
At this point in the campaign, Hillary is sucking up to blue collar voters with money and compliments. Politics as usual. It’s been going on for 30 years as our industrial bases erodes further and jobs do not return.
Obama is displaying enormous courage to state the truth without hesitation.
If you were in Pennsylvania, working for a fraction of your father’s wages, and you heard Mother Hillary making the same old political promises, you would be bitter, too.
Barack is different. He’s the guy we’ve been waiting for.

Now Obama’s true colors are coming out! Every time he opens his mouth he puts a foot in it! He’s finished!

I am pretty bitter about America’s direction and the greed that our politicians have that has screwed up this wonderful place.
I agree with Obama and think both McCain and Hillary can let the voters speak for themselves rather than tell them what they are or are not offended by. Obama is the only true patriotic American running…the others have sold us all out for the power.
An American Veteran and true patriot

This is were Ed Rendell needs to come out and defend the people of his great state Pennsylvania! Go GET HIM ED!

I don’t like the idea that Obama basically put down people and their Christian values in their times of troubles, i.e., unemployment. Many churches will gather around families to help them through these times. Thats why we have faith. I don’t think Obama understands this concept. He has really struck a nerve with small town people, not only in Pennsylvania, but across America. I think this will be BIGGER than the Wright episode, because, the candidate, Obama, said this himself. No matter how he tries to justify it, he said it, thats it, he can’t lie his way out of this one. This will hurt his campaign very, very much. Small town values are what America is built on….I would venture to say that the Super Delegates will start recanting their support of him. He has just made himself “unelectable” in America. Welcome as the Democratic nominee, Mrs. Clinton….Obama just voted for you!

Yet again Obama or his handlers comes out and says he meant this but not what he actually said. This has become ridiculous. At some point you have to be responsible for your statements!

Seems to me time and again he has said something negative towards white people and some how he continues to get away with it.

Some of the people posting here appear to be basing their comments on a snippet of a few words, and completely ignore the question Obama was responding to.
Obama was asked why more people were not supporting him in Pennsylvania (despite the fact that Hillary was only 4% ahead in a recent poll).
His reply was that many people in rural Pennsylvania had been hurt by economic change, and were frustrated that politicians had come and promised help many times but never delivered, and it was hard for them to believe someone who they don’t know.
Don’t believe me? Read or listen to the whole question and answer yourself.
When you do, you will see that this man was expressing his empathy and support for the people in rural Pennsylvania, not trashing them.
The GDP of the United States is twice what it was in 1980. Have the wages of the middle class doubled since then? This is because the Republicans have been systematically changing the rules to benefit the wealthiest 1% of Americans, at the expense of the rest of us.
Growth in the economy is necessary, but not sufficient. We need to write the rules to direct some of that growth to the middle class, for a change.

Wow, you guys are truly stupid. When times are hard ie, gas prices are rising, food prices are rising, you have to cut back on your own spending, and you actually have to see how many days you can actually drive on a tank of gas, you do get bitter. That is the truth. You guys are funny, you are looking for something to take out of context with Obama. “I know that Black Bastard is going to screw up eventually, when he does, I’m gonna jump all over it.” And for those that still think the media is out to get Hillary, hey now you finally got an article about Obama. Thank god he finally messed up. If anybody is out of touch with reality, it Hillary. Her little response to what Obama said. “Oh no, that’s not what I see here in Pennsylvania, I don’t see bitterness.” Oh no people don’t get bitter, when their money doesn’t stretch the way it used to. The get all happy and say hey its ok, it’ll get better. STUPID…LOL

How is Obama correct? If Americans people feel bitter and “cling” to those things rather than try to advance themselves then there wouldn’t be America. Now, when he talked to those rich Californians, he referred to you small town as “they”, which mean he includes himself as “we” with them. How can you think of a guy sticks his nose up in the air all time is not arrogance?? some of you think McCain and Clinton are millionaires but not Obama? it’s just that he makes less than them that doesn’t mean he’s not rich. You can be bittered about the economy but I hope that you try to advance yourself and not just “cling” to something (anti-immigrant?? aren’t we all immigrant??). Cannot believe some of you don’t think this is an insult. by the way, I thought he stood firm with his statement yesterday. Why is there a change of heart to explain it today?

Not only do people “like they’re being listened to” – they actually aren’t being listened to. And they won’t until they organize en mass.
The only possibility for social progress and pro-people, government policy is to develop strategies to hold those in power accountable. Corporations use money. Those without money have to use people power which means organizing.

I hate it when people say how caring and compassionate Obama is. So…are they saying the other candidates are not as equally so? How do they know anyway what these people are REALLY like?
I will vote for Obama because he is the candidate for change! I agree with his values! He practices a different kind of politics!
How can people say that?? It is the same as years ago when Bush voters said they voted for him because he was the kind of man that I can hang out with and drink a beer. What is that?!
What are Obama’s values? Oh…wait..he wants to bring the country together. And the other candidates don’t? I remember when the Clinton’s were loved by the Black community. The Clinton’s were very active LONG ago with the Civil Rights Movement. Of course people seem to have forgotten that.
It angers me when people vote for a candidate based on race, based on the promises they make to benefit YOU, based on religion, based on gender, based on likability, based on looks, based on age and so on.
Voters are so uninformed about the candidates….it is sad. You need to open your eyes to the good and bad, the ISSUES, how much will it cost to put their “promised” ides into place and so on.

It is sad when truth becomes a dirty word.
Senator Obama is right on the money and he has my vote.
Just call me angry, frustrated and bitter in Texas.
Deward B
White, 48, Male, Professional, Business Owner.

Maybe it’s true that what he says is the truth except that it reflects more to the Blacks who lives in South side of chicago. It seems like it. They are bitter so they cling onto religion to listen to the spewing hate of white to help them cool their bitterness.

Although I do not plan on voting for Obama, I am dismayed at the reaction of those who would take his comments so out of context. Whatever your political persuasion; whatever your educational level; whatever your ethnicity; whether you live in the country, a small town or a big city; allow yourself to take a deep breath to consider what the man is saying. Can any of us refute our own tendency to do what Obama has said; when we feel powerless, we tend to take solace in those things we feel we can control. Is that controversial?As an adult, I respect anyone who speaks to me about the hard issues, even if I may not always be as informed about the things being addresses. The last thing I will ever respect is someone who things they have use emotion, distraction, and division to get my attention. It is sad that in America, so many of us are unable to appreciate the efforts of someone who has the courage to take on difficult issues by validating our ability to “get it”. Anyone who things Obama was being disrespectful is probably projecting his own belief that others really are inferior.American history is replete with examples of politicians who would resort to te kind of emotional distractions that Hillary Clinton is resorting to. Sadly, many of these posts reveal that many of us are still prone to “take the bait”.

Clinton and McCain are the elitists. Google all three candidates and find out for yourself (I’m assuming you’re capable). Obama will be president. Get used to it.

At least he didn’t go running and saying that he misspoke. He stood very firm on what he said, and If you listen to what the audio tape says, and what he said today, they are the exact same. The truth is people are bitter. The truth is when times get hard what do many people do, they go to pray in hopes that GOD will make them better. As far as the guns thing, I don’t know so much. It is plain as day that there is an Anti-immigrant hatred especially there in Pennsylvania. Was it or was it not a PA judge that ordered those to men to learn english or go to jail. Honestly I thought it was a weird sentence, but really good.

Somebody has to explain to Clinton and McCain that people are frustrated and bitter when the economy is in recession and many are losing their homes? Wow! what great presidents they’d make.
Yeah, people are frustrated and bitter and with good reasons.

I think the following is a true statement and that Obama should not run from it as we are getting close to the true porblems in America “So it’s not surprising then that 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,” If someone was to say the following about NON- white working class/underprivileged folks, although equally true, they would be run out on a rail: “So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to entitlements and handouts or claims of racism or the wright to break laws without consequence or their right to high union wages and free health care as a way to explain their frustrations,”

It is one thing to say that people are bitter and angry. It is another to say that they ignorantly blame their problems on immigration or stupidly go to church. Someone who has attended Harvard Law School should have to constantly backtrack and explain his words because he let the cat out of the bag letting his true feelings be known. Anyone who votes for this clown is a fool.

As I read the comments defending Obama, I wondered how many were paid Obama trolls going from website to website trying to defend the indefensible. I’m tired of the W.O.R.M. (What Obama Really Means) method. Get over it! Obama has no qualifications and should never have gotten this far in an election for President of the United States.

Once again Obama hit the nail right on the head. Of course many people are bitter. Who shouldn´t be bitter when the economy is in the toilet, we´ve had a war mongering president the last 8 years who has trashed the US´s reputation throughout the world, personal privacy and the Constitution? Sheesh.. some people can´t handle the truth.

Mark my words…THIS will HELP him!…folks ARE ANGRY! And, yes, bitter…we want change.

Every democrat strategist on CNN last night rated this a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad this comment was. One even said it was an 11. They all said this could be what the superdelegates need to vote for Hillary. Yowser!

Once again, Obama says it like it is. It’s about time.

Carl, as I said before you Obamabots are missing the point.
It’s not saying they are “bitter” that is the worst part — it’s saying they turn to religion and guns and bigotry because of it!
That’s an INSULT to the nth degree. And your blindness to it won’t diminish it’s impact.

He’s not going to win. Deomocrats need to accept this and start looking for a qualified 2012 candidate that has a realistic chance to win. The whitehouse might as well order the McCain stationery.

If some of you are as worried about the economy and war as you say you are, you would be voting for Clinton, as she is a proven fighter who gets the job done. You are taking a huge risk with Obama.

What is going on here? Wake up, people. Obama clings to his church, won’t let go and attributes the feelings to working class whites. Stop trying to explain him and take it for what it is: his real world view, his own bitterness, and his own negative feelings about whites.

Tell me how he slammed people. He was speaking the truth. And many of you people in here are attempting to disect the truth, and spin it. He didn’t lie and he didn’t run from his words. Like Hillary had to run with her head down to a vehicle, because she had to dodge those invisible sniper rounds. Let me tell you something about a combat zone. I don’t care were it is, you don’t forget being shot at. When you are being shot at, there is a fear that goes through your body, that will never let you “misspeak” about it. Somebody needs to speak the truth, because some people cannot.

Good Lord, is this the best that Hillary and McCain can come up with? Everybody and their mama knows what Obama said…meant to say….and that it is 100% true what he said…PEOPLE ARE VERY ANGRY AND VERY UPSET WITH THE STATUS QUO; AND, THE USUAL POLITICS IS TO DISTRACT THEM WITH SIDE ISSUES. Look, during the peak of the Iraq debacle, Bush won re-election by shifting the focus onto gay marriages, which caused 11 states to ammend their state constitutions over something that affects a very, very small percentage of the population and had nothing to do with the war. Once again, rather than stay focused on the things that matter, such as THE ECONOMY,Hillary and McCain want to pounce on Barack and falsely portray him to be an elitist….when everyone knows that the elitist is McCain with his $100 million dollar wife who was born with a silver spoon stuck in her mouth.

Somebody said “WHETHER WHAT ABOUT SAID WAS TRUE OR NOT” That was all that needed to be said. It was the truth. No matter how you feel about how he said it, IT WAS THE TRUTH. If you wanna go on about your Anti Obama speech. You should not have included that. You lost all validity with those words.

Apparently Hillary is turning away from the bitter reality of many folks and families in small town America.
Why then would we vote for her?
And no wonder, that a multi-millionaire who’s husband is earning millions as a free trade lobbyist, couldn’t care less about us.
Thank you, Senator Obama, for finally putting us on the map of American politics. My family is grateful to you, we honor your courage and sincerity, and we will all vote for you here in PA and in the GE. I’m a student now, but my father lost two jobs that went overseas, and he always says: it is Bill Clinton who put me out of work (I will not quote his exact phrase, he HATES the Clintons).

So let me get this straight. According to Obama the churches of America are filled with white bitter people. Everyone who has a gun to protect their family is just bitter and angry.
Oh yes, and if they had good jobs, they’d vacate the church as fast as they could, and no longer hunt for sport or protect their home.
LOLOLOL. You’ve got to be freakin kidding me!!!
Stick a fork in this clown – he’s done.

Ahhhhh, Obama, the UNITER!
No, Obama is the candidate of race and class strife. The irony is incredible!

Raleigh – i totally agree. The clinton have done more than any other presidents for the Blacks. But now here comes a black candidate and they ditched the clinton like garbage. 90% of blacks vote for obama?? I watched Bill Maher show and there’s this one educated (professor of some sort) black woman say she doesn’t think AMerica deserves Obama. Another prominent black man compares Wright to Matin L King. Give me a break. so it’s okay to be racist by white but not toward blacks?? oh, i forgot that they have NAACP to fight anyone who say something that they consider racist

Two words, George Soros! It is very hypocritical but Mr. Soros, a billionaire socialist and major Obama supporter is trying to destroy the American system that made him. Obama is the front man for a movement to eliminate the US middle class and create a socialist/communist society controlled by an elitist minority. Do the math! Obama has already hinted as such with his proposed tax plan. It would essentially have two brackets, the rich whid would include the current middle class and the poor. His recent statements, and those of George Soros indicate their intention to destroy the middle class. If you think I am Chicken Little think again. Obama is the most scary candidate for president in my lifetime.

Why all the reporting on only “Bitter”
What did he mean in the other remarks? Who is “They” Who is “We’ll”
Give me in your own words what he was trying to say with these statements
1. white working-class don’t wanna work
2. What they wanna hear is — so,
we’ll give you talking points
3. “They” get bitter
4. “They” cling to guns
5. “They” cling to Religion
6. “They” cling to antipathy to people who aren’t like them
7. “They” cling to anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
8. it’s sort of a race thing.
What did he mean on all 8 not just bitter?

Wow, you Hillary supporters are sure convincing. I’m going to switch my support from Obama to Hillary. Finally, I have folks I can talk to about Roswell.

I’d be curious as to why he was saying this to his rich supporters in California? What point was he exactly trying to make to them by talking about the small towns in Pennsylvania in this way? What does the rich in California care about the small towns in PA? Unfortunately, I can’t think of a scenario where it would not be looking down upon the people in the small towns.

I have family in rural Michigan and live in the Bay Area, so both sides of the story are eerily familiar. In wealthy California is see a lot of philosophical caring for those less fortunate…and an unfortunately common and dull touch of arrogance. In them I also see battle fatigue with the bigots exemplified north of Grand Rapids: scant curiosity, a bizarre lack of will to take a community college class to better themselves, drugs, stupid machismo, loud ignorant opinions, emotional problems, terrible religious bigotry, etc.
But, like folk anywhere, both sides are deeply humanly flawed and full of crap when they pretend to get it right all the time.
My instinct and the data I have about Obama’s life tell me he is striving to get the country in touch with reality, rather than serve us some perky mornings “news” show about making a better quiche. He stumbled into the wrong words, but the meltdown of rural America is no invention. Norman Rockwell’s world is wrecked, and those people are in frightfully big trouble educationally, economically, and morally with such widespread ignorance and hatred of those not just like themselves.
But, they also now know that Cheney-Bush (yes, in that order) are selling our lives and our nation to the super-rich and twisted corporate interests. Obama is clearly willing to challenge those corrupt interests. Hillary and McCain ARE those interests.

Way to go Barry! (as Obama is to be ashamed known in Kansas)
Always good to know what a candidate is REALLY thinking.
Goes along with the old saying;
“Better to be “thought” a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”.
Let’s see;
You go to church, (racist church, but nonetheless, church )but you’re hammering down those who rely on prayer as though they are primitive, hopeless and bitter. Hmmmm.
Gun toters are bitter mindless zombies who can’t think of any better way to change things. Got it!
Just keep up the great job of alienating the voting populous, dude!!!

GPM – Excellent comments. I could have given Obama credit had he looked small town America in the eye and told them to their face. I could respect a man like that. True or not. But I cannot respect a man who stands in front of HIS big shot donors in San Fran and runs down small town values never thinking someone in that room was recording ever word. Had no one recorded his word does anyone think Obama would be offering so many different versions of those words today?

This is the talk in Pa today and here is his problem we also have another big problem in this state we all know each other really well we are in and out of each others houses most of us have been here all of are lives when we go on vaction we hurry back to make sure not a damm thing has changed we live in homes in the same towns are grandparents lived in Our kids go to the same schools we went to we go to football games and watch kids play who’ parents whent to schoool with us.What we don’t likeis some one coming in here and judging us many of us move away for a short time only to come home again we love this state.And we don’t hate Rendell we just like to blame our pol. for everything it is how it is . Obama is arrogant and so are his Supporters IMO

Roger – Well, he only said 5 of those 8 things, and he said the opposite of the other 3, so you may need more explanation than we can give you.

I’m reading the comments above from the Obama supporters and they are a hateful group. Not only are they trying to defend his comment but they are blaming others for it! Now that is deflecting. But it’s not going to work this time. Obama and his supporters are not going to take away our First Amendment and Second Amendment rights. We “small town” folks aren’t angry but we are determined now that Obama is not going to get elected to the White House.

People ARE bitter… People ARE fed up. And the backbone of this nation is being broken to maintain the wealth of the few. In the words of Napolean Bonaparte – “Religion is what keeps the poor from rising up to kill the rich.” Nothing has changed. Clinton is saying to us “little people”… I’m with you. But she is the very type of person who has kept pushing people down. NAFTA? $800,000 in her joint account with Bill? Wake up!!! She doesn’t care about us one bit… once you give her your vote, She will have gotten what she needs and will forget about Scranton, Shippensburg, York, Chichester, and all of the rest of the small Pennsylvania towns. The Clinton’s are the opitomy of Elitist. Don’t let the attention go to your heads… it is only gonna last 10 more days. And then, we will be left with the reality that is our life here in “small town” USA.

I used to think Obama was an empty suit. I now KNOW that suit is just full of crap.

Obama is RIGHT – these small towns ARE bitter. Just look at all the bile that comes out of them. Maybe if they stopped voting for Republican fools who rob them blind and exploit them, they wouldn’t be so angry and confused.

Senator Obama has not known to run a campaign that is based on putting down opponents or Americans; so there should only political opportunists and his avowed political enemies are going to misrepresent his position as one of attacking fellow Americans.
The logic is simple: Many working class Americans who are seeing their future slipping away are anxious, angry, and yes, bitter!
It is also a well known fact that those who are anxious, angry and bitter WILL at times take out their frustrations on others, even take them out on family members.
A lot of the polarization of Americans around issues like abortion, religion, gun control IS being fed by the reality that many Americans ARE economically unfulfilled and with diminishing prospects for the future.
McCain and Clinton are being petty, and are ‘playing politics as usual’; because they know that some Americans who are less sophisticated in their thinking may not grasp the meaning and TRUTH of Obama’s statement..

aaron-, what does China have to do with NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)? China is not in North America.
Even if what Obama is saying has an element of truth, the audience to which he made the statement (N. California) wasn’t out of compassion for those in small towns, but rather in a negative light.

aaron – I think you are exactly right. Have you read Thomas Frank’s “What’s the matter with Kansas?” His main theme is exactly that; why struggling folks in small towns are led to vote against their own self-interest. I think that is part of what Obama was refering to. But people are going to use it against him for the very same reason — to convince people to vote against their own self interest.

People in small towns ARE bitter – and their anger and bitterness and backwardness are holding the rest of the country hostage. Why should underpopulated Red States have the same kind of voting representation as progressive States that actually contribute to the economy and contain huge populations? Why are States like NJ and California denied full representation when thrid world states like Mississippi and North Dakota get the same representation? I hate small town America – small towns = small minds. Just the most useless people in the country!

Obama said that not having a job leads to owning guns, being religious, not liking people who are different from you, being ant-immigration, and anti-trade. This is about as stupid a statement that one can make. Obama just got caught.

O’bama is now trying to crawl out from under what he said. He is being disingenuous to say the least. His statement about Pennsyvanians clinging to “guns and religion” was a Freduian slip. Again I say, WAKE UP PEOPLE because O’bama is a Black nationalist and agrees with the vision statement of his Church of 20 years that was founded upon the writings of Dr. James Cone. Dr. Cone felt (and perhaps still feels) that Black Christian should not follow the “White church” because the White church did not help Blacks during the civil rights movement. This theme runs throughout Dr. Cone’s works. Dr. Cone’s theology was greatly influenced by people like by Malcolm X and others in the Black Power movement. In O’bama’s Freudian slip he was putting down, among other things, the religion (by, for example, relating it to guns) of White Pennsyvanians who it appears will give Clinton a win in that State. Cone wrote, “Black Theology is the theological arm of Black Power, and Black Power is the political arm of Black Theology.” Finally, Cone wrote, “The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. Either God is identified with the oppressed to the point that their experience becomes God’s experience, or God is a God of racism… The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God’s own condition. This is the essence of the Biblical revelation.” In contrast, Martin Luther King, Jr. had this to say: “Beneath all the satisfaction of a gratifying slogan, Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can’t win. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment . . . In the final analysis, the weakness of Black power is its failure to see that the Black man needs the White man and the White man needs the Black man.” If he were still living, Martin Luther King, Jr. would not be sitting in a pew next to Barack O’bama.

You don’t need to explain yourself, Mr. Obama. We know what you mean. Those of us whove visited small PA (and other) towns know you are right. The ones who don’t know what you are talking about are the ones who were duped in to supporting Pres. Bush. They’ll be duped into voting for McCain, too.

To the Kochinator:
You actually think that the cites run things and we in small town blue collar jobs are not part of the big picture???
As a blue collar worker in the construction industry, I probably use use more calculus in my everyday job that you have used since college. God help you if this economy ever collapses for real.
Most people in office jobs can’t even change their own oil… let alone build anything that would actually stand. Talk about Elitist… What an ignorant person.

Kochinator – So where does your grocer get food from in the city? Where do you get your energy you use in the city? Products to make all the vehicles? I could go on and on but you get the point.

To California Lover..You just proved my point..Californians believe their are superior to all Americans. Obama pandered to the wine sipping tree huggers that can donate $$$.

The problem with the blacks is that they won’t work for anything and want white people to give them everything for free. Blacks are just a bunch of parasites and agitators who have never integrated into mainstream America – by their own choice. Blacks consistently choose poverty and self-segregation because they know that they can’t compete with superior races like whites and asians and jews. That’s why so many blacks are criminals and gangsters and thugs and why so many race hustlers and poverty pimps like Obama and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton exploit the criminal classes.

Anybody who doesnt grasp the importance of the right to bear arms is a fool. Obama is apparently a racist fool.

seems if you dont have money you just get dragged along for the ride the rich chose to take you on!!people in my penn state are bitter and they are mad they find joy in hunting and fishing and in the deep love of god! i know i married one!

Small town Americans like me don’t object to the bitter comments although I personally am mad at my government not bitter. What I don’t like, is being called an ignorant Redneck by anyone and that includes Obama. He can try to say he misspoke, but I beleive he was speaking what he really thinks.

It’s a sad commentary on our ability to use our own heads about our situations if we are willing to listen to Clinton or McCain tell us that bitterness is not part of the landscape in America right now. Barack Obama should not have tried to explain what he meant. It is the truth, and all those who are struggling to pay the mortage and the rent know it. It has nothing to do with elitism, but reality! Are people being foreclosed on? Yes! Are people losing their jobs? Yes! Are their people making choices between buying food and medicine? Yes! Is there inequality in America? Yes! Are the rich getting richer? Yes! Are the poor getting poorer? Yes! Are we mired in a seemingly endless and catastrophically expensive war? Yes! Can/does all of the above spell bitterness and dispair? Your call!

The fact that he thought “what” he said about PA voters to CA voters was perfectly ok is evidenced by the fact that he did not attempt to clarify “what” he said until Mayhill called him on it. I guess that really indicates how “in touch” he is with PA voters. IMO, Obama displayed a certain condescending comtempt towards PA voters. The only thing he didn’t do was call them “typical white voters.” So, he had to go all the way to San Francisco to show “empathy” for Pennsylvania voters? … and you Obama supporters cannot see the hypocrisy in that? Red warning flags are erupting everywhere around this man …

Hillary and McCain have one common enemy right now and that’s Obama! Obama is the real deal and everyone knows it! They both see he’s the clear shot winner and they will prance on any opportunity to try and bring the man down – even by trying to twist, distort or magnify something he mentioned. Honestly, i can understand McCain pulling something like this – he’s on the other side! BUT for the life of me, why is Hillary trying to destroy her very own party?! She will stop at nothing to win even if it means dragging down her own party along with her. She manipulative, selfish and patronising and this is the very reason i will not vote for her. She needs to work on her character, she is not painting a picture of someone who I can trust – she is painting the picture of desperation!

President of Disneyland? No thanks.
Hillary and McCain are playing Pollyanna politics.
You can mince his words to your pleasure, but Obama is telling it like it is.
Americans are bitter when their customer service phone calls are answered by someone with an Indian accent.
Americans are bitter about policies that favor job outsourcing.

I am a 31 year old white female Obama Supporter from PA. He is absolutly right! People are bitter here. I see it especially now that I moved from a major city to the country. He just speaks the truth. People do not like the hear the truth.

Antonn – then you proved my point, didn’t you? Congratulations.

McCain in a debate with Obama, “I’m older than dirt. I knew dirt. Dirt was a friend of mine. Senator Obama, you’re no dirt.”
In a debate between McCain and Obama, McCain will make more major gaffs. It’s all over for McCain then.
The American people will not elect a man with Alhemizer……….
Just wait until the 527 ads come out this Fall., showing McCain suffering memeory loss and alzheimer’s
I swear if McNuts wins we might as well drop the bomb on ourselves. How is it that anybody would vote for this lump of political poo. He has shown that he is dumber than Bush time and time again.

This is what is often wrong with people who think they are superior, they tend to put down others to raise themselves up.

Obama is a US Senator He choose to do nothing for us when he could. He voted present, which is saying I am here and I do not care.
He is Part of the government he chooses to condemn.
He was in a perfect place to make or press some of these changes and chose not to.
So He needs to be President to work on anything, BULL How guilible are you.
He is not going to do any more for you as President as he did as a Senator.
Hopefully some of you brainwashed souls will wake up before you screw yourselves. If not you are not allowed to squak about it because you deserve it and asked for it.
Just like those who voted for bush.
Obama will make Bush look all the angels and saints.

Hillary and McCain have one common enemy right now and that’s Obama! Obama is the real deal and everyone knows it! They both see he’s the clear shot winner and they will prance on any opportunity to try and bring the man down – even by trying to twist, distort or magnify something he mentioned. Honestly, i can understand McCain pulling something like this – he’s on the other side! BUT for the life of me, why is Hillary trying to destroy her very own party?! She will stop at nothing to win even if it means dragging down her own party along with her. She manipulative, selfish and patronising and this is the very reason i will not vote for her. She needs to work on her character, she is not painting a picture of someone who I can trust – she is painting the picture of desperation!

California Lover—Got many friends?

Melissa – people already do!

California Lover – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Marie – Take out an ad in your local newspaper and publish your comments so others in PA can get to know how you and the Obama campaign think. Get local friends together and make a television ad to spread the word. Please.

Obama is right. I live in a small town in PA and I AM bitter – we’ve been lied to and screwed six ways from Sunday. So what’s the big deal? He’s got MY vote. And California Lover can shove it up his arse!

Bitter, angry, frustrated, worried…any of these words describe what, possibly the majority of, Americans are feeling…both in small towns and big cities. It’s ridiculous to focus so much on this story, when the REAL IMPORTANT news this week has been that our President and his top officials received detailed briefings on “enhanced interrogation” (i.e., torture) methods and officially approved and encouraged these methods. To heck with the Constitution, that we as Americans revere so much. To heck with international laws, that we would normally be seen as a leader in endorsing and preserving. The other big news is that Canada has placed the US on its list of countries that use torture. This is what we should be outraged about and demand accountability. But no, we keep getting stuck on stupid. If Hillary and McCain have not come across angry Americans on the campaign trails, then I question how they gathered their audiences. Maybe they were pre-screened, like Bush did during his campaigning.

the fact is that i believe you decribed hillary kerouak… people that worked with her in the white house have even said she has no soul, she will win HER fight anyway possible and she clearly has no truth to her… now you think about all she has done and tell me she hasnt proved it time and time again..

Obama made a subliminal slip about how he really feels about small town white Americans. It sounds like listening to Jeramiah Wright’s radical Afrocentric sermons for the last 20 years has created a racial stereotype of small town white Americans (i.e., bitter poor white Americans who cling to God, guns, and xenophobia) in Obama’s subconscious mind.

California Lover— Yep, and they are all probably as obnoxious and shallow as you present yourself to be!

White Americans will be commiting racial sucide by voting for Obama. He will destroy America with his arrogance and race-pandering.

changewhat — mere speculation. Facts would be helpful!

Enough will some one please tell the Dems. they are only hurting themselves with all this bickering.God the thought of 4 years with McCain as the president for me is much too consider.I don’t think this country can stand 4 more years of this war.I am old enough to remember Veit Nam War ,and how it torn this country apart.I also think older people(Republicans) my age should be tell admit to their children; that most them demostrated against the war when they where younger. Now that they’re older they have seem have lost their memory

USMarine – where did Obama ever use the word “white”? He was talking about small towns – don’t black people live in small towns, too? Seems to me like you Obama-haters are all just covert racists looking to grasp at any straw to bring him down. If this is the best you’ve got, get ready for 8 years of President Obama. LOL

Changewhat as oppose to Mccain? Are you that delusional? Mccain wanted to ignore the housing crisis, then when he found in wouldnt be politically expedient tried a lame attempt to revise his policy. He was against taxes cuts before he was for them…doesnt that ring a bell? Gas prices oh you mean those things spiraling out of control becaue of say…IRAQ. Mccain actually has to have surrogate speak on the economy because he isnt informedenough on it…hmm isnt that a similiar trait of a certain someone that got us into Iraq. Rezko? Oh you mean like Mr. No Lobbyist and yet has a campaign full of them. Mr. SHia, oops I mean Sunni, oops I mean Shia oops I mean ah hell LIeberman help me out here. Mr. 100 years. Mr Iraq is just like Korea. Mr. John Hagee is cool. Mr. Ed Worsley is cool too. Mr. let me honor MLK ina Presidential year instead of when it had no political gain and instead was just the right thing to do. Mr. I voted to reduce VA benefits four times in last 6 years. Mr. no Education extra benefits for our troops (Jim Webb bill). Mr. No our troops cannot stay home for 12 months after doing 12 months in the hell hole called Iraq. Mr. I cook good ribs so the MSM kisses my a** any chance it gets. Mr. I really wasnt involved with Rick under FBI investigation Renzi. Mr. I was against torture now I wont vote against it because..well it is not politically expedient. All of these things listed I dare ya refute one of them.

Laura – God d*mn America makes a lot of sense now, doesn’t it? Now, why do you suppose Obama wanted to keep the press from listening to his San Fran large donor speech?

nichols,
have you lost your mind?
who is the one that sold out the dems? thats right hilary vote for mccain bull.. think twice when you point a finger and who you point it at!!

I know that Obama will do well in PA. I live in PA. Do I think he will win PA? Probably not. There are so many old school close minded people in PA. Well, at least there are here in the Danville/Bloomsburg/Scranton area. It is tough and frustrating for an Obama supporter like myself to see. There are tons of people here not voting for him because of his middle name and tyey believe he is a terrorist. That is all they write about in the local paper. It is sad.

I think Obama is right on the mark…He has uncovered the sleeping giant in the our anger, our bitterness…I take no offense in his comments because they are true…His comments were taken out of context….this is small compared to a presidential candidate whose own husband made $800,000 trumping up a trade deal that his own wife is against…
Obama’s comments did not intend the imply that somehow blue collar workers in PA, are just turning to guns and religion because they are somehow “less than”…it means that there is so little left of the American Dream…HE was affirming-Thank God we have our religion our faith, thank God we can hold onto whatever shred of the Second Amendment that is left…(by the way he still believes in the Second Admendment!) Whatever shred of dignity, I the American Worker has, when they can ship my factory overseas without batting an eye….
When jobs are shipped overseas, as a result of NAFTA, A DEAL THAT CLINTON WAS IN SUPPORT OF BEFORE SHE RAN FOR PRESIDENT !!!! , just what shred of dignity do ordinary workers have?
My God, folks…Don’t you see…
Obama is for you…he hears you…he is not running because the presidency is somehow owed to him…he is running for you…he hears you…..
The Steelworker, the millworker…the worker that wants his/her human dignity back…yes we are bitter …yes we are angry….but we can have HOPE…
GO OBAMA 08

In my experience, black people aren’t very smart or trustworthy and don’t make very good leaders. Blacks are naturally inferior to whites in terms of moral character and reasoning skills.

melissa – Obama caring? Yes, you are correct. Obama cares about Reverend Wright, Farrakhan, Ayers . . . Wow. Did you hear about Obama’s small town America remarks?

This is a tempest in a teapot, but a good example of “spin.” The really telling aspect, however, is that Clinton is on the same page as McCain’s people on this.

Marie—You been in the service?

I am an observer from London who has followed the election process from day one. It really surprises me how the media and some American people still have a deep seated racism and bias in 21st century. I have noticed Obama has been treated unfairly and there is a clear double standard in the media. He simply said what is true. I am bittered by both the media and the Clinton campaign who says anything to get elected. Do you guys think that Hillary and maccain both of whom earned at least earned 100 million in their previous lives know more about how the middle class feels. Obama was from a black man from Africa and a white woman from Kansas who raised him without a father. Who started his life at 14,000 a year when he graduated from university. Who was a community organizer and someone who got here from nothing. Please have some respect, admiration and fairness to his candidacy. Believe it or not so many people here in London and Europe are happily waiting for his presidency in the us to restore the hatred about the US.
Ohh sorry, I have to say what my race is! As it is America – I am white male

BikernAz…i do not think he screwed hmself out of PA at all. The intelligent people in PA know it is true. People are not going to change their mind because of this. Trust me…I live in PA

B…..that was a wonderful post!!! Thank you for bringing in reason and truth!

Melissa— You Ain’t helping things.

Chris Matthews said it again last night, “If Obama loses by less than 8 points in PA, that’s a win”. According to Chris Matthews, when Obama loses, he wins. When Hillary loses, she loses big, it’s campaign ending time, it’s time to get out of the race, she’ll never get the nomination. If Obama lose PA, he wins? Does that mean when Obama loses PA in the general election, he wins? Love that liberal media thinking….

What Bill Clinton said in SC was true too.Jackson and Obama won because of the African American votes there.That was a big deal even though it was true.So even though Obama think he is telling the truth every small town people(mostly white)who think he is wrong have the right to protest and be angry at him and therefore vote to someone else.

Let Show him the power of the people.
Vote his butt out of the running!

I AM SORRY IF I OFFENDED SOMEONE EVEN THO I DO BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAID WAS MEAN !

I am not from small town America. I am from the city where the jobs are going overseas. And I am more than bitter and angry. I am down right MAD! Hilary and McCain are the ones who seem way out of touch, if you ask me.

USmarine0031
I should think that all Americans at this crucial stage in our nation’s history would forget about liberal, far left, right wing labels and vote for the person who speaks to what is actually happening to us, with an aim toward fixing the problem. I trust you didn’t vote for George W. Bush, who was supposedly a “compassionate conservative,” but who voted with the far right wing arm of the Republican Party on every issue that matters most to Americans, with an aim toward making the rich richer, and the rest — well, who cares!

I have been physically challenged by the last two terms of the Bush administration. We have been told lie after lie. We have been treated like we don’t matter. Bush has made me bitter and angry. The republican senators who have prevented anything good from happening for the country because they were too partisan and too Bush loving. We need change and we need a smart leader to take over after Bush has practically destroyed the government with his incompetent crony appointments. Obama is the hope for a new and better day for America. Don’t let the republicans get away with destroying this fine man who is going to lead us back to a finer day.

melissa – You wrote this is the first time a black ran.
Have you forgotten Jessie Jackson’s run for the dems? He won eleven states back then.
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WHEN WAS THAT? WELL IM NOT THAT OLD AND I HAVENT FOLLOWED POLITICS FOR THAT LONG. BUT THANK YOU FOR BEING NICE WHEN YOU CORRECTED ME :)

Who in their rite mind be wantin an old woman for president. Supposing their really be a 3am call and Hillary be having a PMS fit or some other femine stuff, then what. It won’t work! She married and her husband he old too. Supposing he be needing something and she aint around. Maybe he want her to run an errand or fetch something for him. Then what, he have to get the stuff fore hisself?

at least obama admits when he makes a blunder, unlike hillary, who blames the media and her opponents for manipulating everyone, sleep deprivation, global warming, and the boogey man, and then goes on tv and makes a bigger idiot out of herself by trying to play the fool and make hackneyed jokes about the lies she tells.
she’s like a piece of fish that’s been sitting on a dock in the summer sun for a couple of days.

Do all you people REALLY think that if Obama is elected the country will magicly change and he will create millions of jobs, the rest of the world will love us and all Americans will suddenly hold hands & sing Kum By Ya?
Get real. No president can accomplish these things. He is just saying what he has to so he can get elected and then it will be business as usual (and then he will blame it all on everyone else.

BikernAz
I’ve been getting by.
We just had another plant close here in Ohio.
The recession is in full force here!!
All you see is For Sale signs and Obama/Hillary signs in yards.
I know your a Hillary supporter, but he’s damn right people are bitter!!

Iraq_Vet,
And I suppose you are aligned with those those unfortunate few who think George W. Bush has done all he can to help America’s standing at home and abroad! What a laugh. The way forward would have to be up, as we can’t get more disgraced as a nation than we have become under the so-called leadership of George W. Bush and the GOP. We can’t become more hated by extremists around the world than we are now. Our word means nothing right now. We need a bridge-builder and that would be Obama! If you would claim that what we have now is worth taking a risk on John McCain, who has admitted his ignorance on the economy — so how will he help us? McCain has a very terrible temper, only hidden by that fake whisper he speaks in. McCain wants to make permanent Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy. Further, he was all for helping Bear Stearns, but not the people in foreclosure — until someone told him how out of touch was his stance on the matter. In short, McCain is promising us that he will take up permanent residence in Iraq, and continue Bush’s failed policies, and you will trust that instead of giving someone fresh and new a chance? If Americans should decide to vote for John McCain, despite the quagmire the GOP has plunged this country, then we deserve what we have now, and whatever we get in the future!

melissa – Jackson ran in 1984.

Keep talking Obama–the more you talk, the deeper the hole. Voted ‘The Most Liberal Senator’ in 2007 you are living up to your billing. Anti-gun, anti-white, anti-small town,anti-America. You are on Judicial Watch’s Ten Most Corrupt Politicians list. Who write your speeches–Jackson, Sharpton, or Farrakhan?

Is it just me or are these posts getting more and more insane the closer Obama gets to the nomination??
The truth is a gaffe??
He’s not confusing Sunni and Shite.
He’s not ducking sniper fire.
Yet I’m reading some pretty sick posts.
This is America?

Fact: Obama has clearly stated he will raise taxes. Some people think that their taxes will not go up. However, the dirty little secret is that Obama considers anyone who earns more than 75,000 a year, rich. That’s a lot of people. Not to mention the taxes that will go up due to higher taxes on energy which could cost each family up to 3,000 a year more. So in Obama’s Utopian view of the world, Obama will sit on high and decide who is worthy to get how much of the money he has confiscated from the so called rich. That is after all the State workers, who will grow in size to staff all the new Obama government programs, corrupt politicians and Rezco types get their share of the cut. There may not be much left over after all the aforementioned get their cut of the people’s money. Oh well as the saying goes “there is a sucker born every day”.

LOL,
Go ahead and vote for McCain. As you can see the GOP is only for the RICH — and all white people are not rich any more than all of any of the other races. The GOP has shown what it cares for the people of this nation — ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. They will say “The American people want us to stay in Iraq. The American people want us to win in Iraq” — despite polls that speak contrary to this. Go ahead, continue to vote based on race; vote for those who got us where we are now, and suffer for it! Just remember, for all your death wish, you’ll be taking the rest of us with you. Remember “It rains on the bad AND the just.” If we collectively make the wrong decision, the payment for that decision is also collective!

“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” it the TRUTH. People are bitter against the government and the big corp. and rightfully so. When there jobs are ship overseas…I know i was when I got laid off from job. So i felt back to what I know my religion and prayed for strength and direction…

Obama is in touch with blue collar democrats all right! After graduating college the Obama’s claimed on their taxes they made $200,000, they sent their kids to a summer camp that cost $20,000. I wish this democrat had $200,000 of money struggles! I hop Hillary beats him in PA by double digits!

Many Democrats simply do not want the party to make the same mistake twice by nominating another Kerry-like shallow, arrogant, platitude-spouting, gas-bag – who is so mentally deficient from extensive drug use he even has to plagiarize his hollow platitudes!.
Thanks to “uncle” jeremiah, the true nature of hussein has finally been revealed. For nearly twenty years hussein has been the disciple and avid follower and supporter of this racial bigot. hussein has publicly praised wright on numerous occasions. wright’s vile, bigoted harangues against America, in general, and white Americans, in particular, illustrate the true foundation of hussein and the “church” of which he is a devout member. The foundation of hussein is racial division and strife – not unity. If it were not for the thin veneer of whitewash slapped on him by his handlers, I would expect him to adopt wright’s “God Da’mn America” as his theme song. hussein is clearly an outrageously unacceptable candidate for any elected office or position of responsibility in America.

tuma – Obama seems to be doing well in the mess up department himself. How many “explanations” has Obama given since San Fran? Perhaps you could even “explain” why Obama did NOT want any press covering his San Fran speech to big donors?

John in Cape May ,
NONE OF THE PEOPLE RUNNING ARE POOR OR HAD A PROBLEM WITH GOOD EDUCATION! HILARY LEAST OF ALL WHO HAS TONS OF MONEY! WHAT IS YOUR POINT?

Don’t worry, by Sunday morning, the news shows will be twisting his words around to make Obama look like a wonderful guy again. Chris Matthews has been running a virtual Obama infomercial every week disguised as a news show. Obama is the only candidate in recent memory to make a bigoted statement on a monthly basis and yet be hightly praised by the MSM. Howard Dean yelled at a rally and they drove him out of the race. What a difference.

Each time, I saw Obama`s face, I felt the anger and sadness, it scared me.

I’m bitter that for the last 7 and a half years we’ve had the most inept president in history. I’m bitter about the war and loss of jobs and the loss of civil liberties and the destruction of the environment. I’m bitter that the government gets nothing done and I’m bitter that McCain and Clinton are speaking as if they were the same person. These two are multimillionaires and they have the flipping audacity to claim that someone else is out of touch because he says that people are fed up, frustrated and bitter. Well he forgot angry. We are sick and tired of this politics as usual and that is why I’m voting for Obama. So if you all want to parse that and that word and ignore that fact that people are bitter than vote as you choose, but if you want someone who actually speaks the truth and knows that people are bitter and angry then vote for Obama.

He thinks that we cling to God , God is our faith,it is what keeps us from being bitter, our guns or our pass time, we like to hunt, But he is right about not liking illegal immigrants I know he approves of them, and he thinks that our borders should be open, we don’t they take our jobs, our homes, our children future, they need to stay in their own country,And he is damn right about being anti-trade , we have watched it destroy our homes our country, Now I also know he is in favor of the trade agreements, with other nations, he has not problem seeing them take our jobs, I am not bitter, I am how ever tried of his lies and your lies, I am tried of the back stroke, the explaining what I meant but what you thought I was saying double talk, shuck and jive,,,,,
Obamaisacon: Based on your posts, I believe the person Obama was talking about was you. You are upset about where this country is going, and how it affects our state. Do you feel empowered to change that right now, or are you angry because you feel like you have to scream to be heard? I watched this country’s policies towards workers break down my father, and over time that kind of thing changes a person in ways they don’t realize. It makes you reactionary, it makes you lash out, it makes you stand on whatever line in the dust hasn’t been rubbed out yet, and that’s called being bitter and mad. And being bitter and mad doesn’t mean you are weak, it means you are strong. It’s what happens when proud people who don’t want to quit look for something vital to hang on to. My dad really against illigal immigration because it hurts American workers. Unfortunately, it has also made him a bit racist. He has a weakness, but he isn’t weak. Weak people give up and quit, strong people stand up and find a way to be heard about something that is important to them. Strong people turn to God when they are down. Weak people walk away from God. We just have to be careful that when we focus on the things that are most important to use we do it the right way.

This man is an epitom of lies and deceit Americans run away far far far away from him before he tears America into pieces .YOu will now see the Useless media ot this country runing to embelish his remarks. Americans stand up stand against this tyranny of Obama and the so called useless American press
A vote for McCain to me is a lot more and far better than a vote for Obama . I know this man has one agenda against AAmerica and he will only save the rich and leve the poor to themselves. VOTE AGAINST OBAMA AND LIBERATE AMERICA.He has misspoken now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or what ?????????

Clinton rewrites history again. Hillary forgot to mention that her father was a successful businessman and her mother did not work outside of the home. Hillary never knew poverty or even struggling middle class. Obama saw poverty up-close during his childhood. Obama lived a lower middle class life style in Hawaii. I would guess that Hillary’s father paid for her college.
There are many bitter and angry Americans in all states that have suffered at the hands of political decisions made by many in power, including Hillary Clinton that has a long history of unethical business deals that have made her rich.
CBS Poll: Views On Economy At All-Time Low, Apr 4, 2008
81% in Poll Say Nation Is Headed on Wrong Track http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/us/04poll.html?em&ex=1207627200&en=824e89eaa8c1414a&ei=5070
Hillary’s father, Hugh E. Rodham, attended college on a football scholarship. He was a “very successful career in the textile supply industry. … In 1950, they moved to the more affluent Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ellsworth_Rodham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ellsworth_Rodham

D….It sounds to me like you are just what Obama was trying to say…You are Bitter, the way you are down grading Obama! It sounds to me like you have a problem with his success. I don’t like Hillary but I don’t say she shoud not be a Senator. You are very BITTER!

The Clinton campaign’s attempt at twisting Sen Obama’s use of the term “bitter” is as obvious as Pres Clinton’s attempt at twisting what the mean of “is” is!

Don’t respond to LOL. He just wants to see how many people he can offend. He’s a waste of good oxygen.

THIS HAS TURN INTO A I HATE YOU AND WHAT AMERICANS CAN I TALK CRAP ABOUT SO IM LEAVING…

Ever since the gun lobby and the Christian evangelicals in Colorado Springs discovered eachother, it has been taboo to credit loose enforcement of gun ownership and/or the severance of Church and State.
Obama breached that taboo . . . all hell broke loose . . . despite the fact that a gun carrying evangelical shot and killed four people in Colorado. Clearly, this merits discussion.
Gun ownership and the separation of Church and State are not taboo topics. They are topics worthy of discussion. I appreciate the honesty of Obama. To claim that we in this country don’t have a problem with gun violence and the wrongs of “religious” institutions belies the truth.
Look at Columbine, West Virginia Tech, Texas polygists and the marital bed where underage women are raped by old men.
Let’s talk about the dark underbelly.

This man is an epitom of lies and deceit Americans run away far far far away from him before he wants to tear America into pieces .You will now see the Useless media in this country runing to embelish his remarks again and or will give one useless speech to twist his words . STOP YOUR DECEIT OBAMA. Americans stand up stand against this tyranny of Obama and the so called useless American press
A vote for McCain to me is a lot more sensible and far better than a vote for Obama . I know this man have one agenda against America and he will only save the rich and leave the poor to themselves. VOTE AGAINST OBAMA AND LIBERATE AMERICA.He has misspoken now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or what ?????????

Even though Obama told the truth, he will at least recognize others feelings immediately, and try to honor them. I wish Hill had done this one time, even though she never even connects with the people period. Her campaign is always so canned and her speeches look like speeches, her actions seem acted, and always self interest. Here in Texas I was Rep..for years because of religion and the high road political route it paved. This election I voted for Obama in the primaries and will in the election as well. Obama won Texas the press will never admit it though. The caucus vote was 59/41 Obama

It is refeshing to hear some good honest truth aout ourselves..Some people object to what Obama was saying but know it is true…We need to be frank with ourselves…I was voting for McCain but Obamas comments have chnged my mind. I will vote for him…It will be pleasent to have a president that will tell us like it is and not lie and do things behind our backs…Go mR Obama!

LOL…..I am a black women and I LOVE YOU!

Hillary is so right about Obama’s being out-of-touch with most Americans. This also shows Obama’s poor judgment. He doesn’t think before he speaks and doesn’t think before he acts. Also,Obama won’t wear a US flag lapel pin; he won’t put his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance to our flag; his wife has never been proud of the US till now, he associates with anti-White, anti-US, anti-Jewish Rev. Wright, etc., etc., yet Obama lies and says Obama is patriotic.

Obama needs to hire a full time person to make amends after every speech with a “What he really meant was…..”
LOL.

Marie, I can’t believe in 2008 there are churches out there like Obama’s. Sad to see after all the great things happening for African Americans in this country.

I’m with Hillary 100%!!!!!!

The good news about all of this is that when Obama loses big in November, no one can blame it on racism. Everyone will know it’s arrogant comments like these and his special friendship with Rev. Wright.
Obama brought himself down, nothing else.

Thank goodness that Hillary is just preaching to the choir in her campaign stops. Nothing but firmly decided Hillary supporters. The undecided voters are not really undecided, just insecure Hillary supporters afraid to commit, or just voters enjoying the silly attention that comes from friends that try to convince you which way to vote. You can just put almost all of them down for Hillary right now. She will win by around 10 points in Pennsylvania, but it won’t matter. Reminds me of the old SNL comedy skits about “undecided” voters trying to get maximum mileage and leverage from their “undecided” vote. On to North Carolina and Indiana.

Kate,
You may think you are great, but you have a fan base of one.
To say: “Also, for someone to say he was never a muslim when both his father were muslims and live in a muslim country for 5, 6 years. it is you that’s an idiot to not see through it. Blind and Deaf people will vote for obama.”
You are a bigoted idiot. Redundant.
Clearly, you’ve never expanded your horizons beyond the clothes line out back. In the real world, it’s possible to visit a Chinese country and enjoy the culture without becoming a communist, to visit a slum without being a slum lord, to have gay friends without being either gay or have contracted AIDS.
You are an idiot. Obama is not Muslim. He is not Osama. My heavens, a child, you totally got left behind.

I am bitter because of high gas prices. I am bitter because of our economic crisis. I am bitter because we are spending billions of my taxes to repair Iraq while they get rich and keep there money in the banks and gain interest. I bitter because all the factories jobs are outsource overseas…hell who wouldn’t be bitter… I don’t think he is looking down us. I think he is respecting our feelings and emphasizing with us. This surely tells me Hillary and McCain are out of touch with the average American citizen

“both a father” !? do you suggest that Obama is not only the anti-christ, but also a chemistry experiment? . . . perhaps in your world-view, all those madrassa seeking presidential candidates are the spawn of not one, but two fathers . . .
for the likes of you, even a madrassa education would have been better than none at all.
How the heck did you ever get your hands on a computer and learn the a,b, c’s?

I would like people like Ginny and other O’bama supporters to respond to this. An individual’s pastor/church has a profound and often unrecognized (that is, unconscious) influence. This type of influence is similar to a doctor-patient or lawyer-client relationship. A person would be ignorant to reject this. Now, a quote from O’bama’s website: “The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology.” Dr. James Cone has stated: “There is, then, a desperate need for a black theology, a theology whose sole purpose is to apply the freeing power of the gospel to black people under white oppression. . . The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. . . We should not conclude that the Bible is an infallible witness. . . Black Theology is the theological arm of Black Power, and Black Power is the political arm of Black Theology. . . Whiteness [symbolizes] the ethnocentric activity of madmen sick with their own self-concept. . . The ‘raceless’ American Christ has a light skin, wavy brown hair, and sometimes – wonder of wonders – blue eyes. For whites to find him with big lips and kinky hair is as offensive as it was for the Pharisees to find him partying with tax-collectors. But whether whites want to hear it or not, Christ is black, baby, with all of the features which are so detestable to white society.” Thus, it does not surprise me that the Trumpet Newsmagazine, whose CEO and founder is Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., awarded Luis Farrakhan the “Lifetime Achievement Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpeter Award.” The same Luis Farrakhan who is a well-know racist. Now Ginny, and others who so staunchly support O’bama, tell me that Martin Luther King, Jr. would have go to O’bama’s Church given that their vision statement comes from Dr. James Cone. Martin Luther King, Jr. has said: Beneath all the satisfaction of a gratifying slogan, Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can’t win. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment . . . In the final analysis, the weakness of Black power is its failure to see that the Black man needs the White man and the White man needs the Black man.” Ginny, replace these quotes and replace the word Black with White and tell me how you would feel. Also, tell me how you would feel if a White candidate had attended a Church for 20 years and took their vision statement from a man who would say about Blacks what Dr. Cone and Jeremiah Wright has said about Whites. Let me repeat: An individual’s pastor/church has a profound and often unrecognized (that is, unconscious) influence. This type of influence is similar to a doctor-patient or lawyer-client relationship. A person would be ignorant to reject this.

Obama is as American as America GETS. Most Americans seem to have forgotten what America is and means which is New World. America is not racism, riches, rot. America is freedom not to hurt each other because of our differences but to celebrate our differences in unity. Whether we differ in race, religion or politics America stood for the pure, the uncorrupt, the right way. Our current epithat seems to be the lying, theiving, bs,and cheating is the way to the American people. I never thought I would see the day so much hate because a black man is winning this Dem primary.

hey I live in a small town,and I am not larry the cable guy,obama,flush your head down the toilet…

Iraq_Vet : D’ont you know that white americans come from different part of the world?

To “Rodeo Joe” who at 3:03:22 pm said “sure you are dude, sure you are”.
I understand that it’s hard for someone to believe that an African American can think for themselves and maybe possible vote for a party other than the Democrats. I understand that as an African American, people like you think that my voting choices should for some reason ONLY be limited to democrat candidates. Well, I’ll make you happy…maybe I’m a sell-out, or maybe I’m an Uncle Tom right, right? Or maybe, I just gave everyone a fair chance, listen to all the views and positions out their…and avoid taking too seriously those I come across that have too much of a political agenda, except with a grain-of-salt.
Nicolas, we all love this country…Democrats, Republicans, Independents, & Libertarians. We may differ on how we go about achieving certain goals etc. But we all love this country, dude.
By the way…I am Black, originally from Trinidad & Tobago, and I am a citizen here in the US…and love this country very much. But I am not, and never will be behoven to any one political party…sorry.

kaialoha,
NICE . . . we’ll really be looking to you for political insite . . . a not so subtle reference to lynching.
Even Hillary and Bill will disavow any affiliation with you.
You said:
“Another knot in the noose for Obama. Keep dividing America there Obama, great work.
Hillary 08!!”
Oh yeah. You make us all proud to be Americans.

It must make those far left liberal democrats and Obama very angry. Obama outspends Hillary 5 to 1 in PA and he still can’t win. But, the liberal media says, he will win PA in the general! Really? Because small town people are sooo stupid?

OBAMA LIES AGAIN Hillary Clinton never voted for the Brankruptcy Bill of 2005. Hillary Clinton was the sole Senator not voting on the bill, due to the fact that Bill Clinton had heart surgery that day. From Senator Clinton’s official statement on the bill:This bankruptcy bill fundamentally fails to accord with the traditional purposes of bankruptcy, which recognize that we are all better off when hard-working people who have suffered financial catastrophe get a “fresh start” and a second chance to become productive and contributing members of society. With the passage of this legislation, which makes obtaining this fresh start more expensive and more difficult, we are ensuring that many responsible Americans will continue to be buried under mountains of debt, and unable to take back control and responsibility for their lives.In the days before S.256 was finally brought to the floor Senator Clinton voted for every amendment which would have added consumer protections to the bankruptcy bill. Amendments which were repeatedly rejected by both the Republican majority and far too many Democrats. She even voted against cloture in an attempt to keep the final bill from coming to a vote at all.Several commentors correctly noted that Hillary Clinton supported the earlier bill (although she voted for amendments adding consumer protections in that bill as well). She wasn’t the only Democrat to change her position (voting for the 2001 bill and against the 2005 bill) and I’m not qualified to compare the differences between them.However, several articles have discussed her change of position, including this recent article in the NYTimes.For what it’s worth, Democratic Senators Akaka, Cantwell, Dorgan, Feinstein, Leahy, Levin, Lieberman, Mikulski, Murray, Nelson (Fl), Schumer and Wyden switched in the same direction as Clinton. John Edwards, who also voted for the 2001 bill, suggested he would have switched his vote as well.

To Krissy at 3:35:02pm…sure I am “what”? Fair minded? Balanced? Open to different ideas and opinions?
Please, enlightnen me…sure I am, “what”? Let me know so that I can work on it, and maybe help improve myself. I’m eagerly waiting your advice…

I am extremely offended by Obama’s comments and especially by his “spin” focusing on the “bitter” line to cover his comment that small-town America clings to guns, religion and their prejudices out of frustration over their pitiful economic status. He does this in such a way you would think he was describing someone turning to drugs or alchohol to escape their miserable lives.

MDB – I tend to call people elitist when I’m bitter, too.

………why does he feel that people in small towns are bitter… is he thinking of himself perhaps……

I’m insulted by o’s comments. Read my name !!!!

I once thought Obama hated all whites,but now it looks like he only hates the one that cannot afford to give him big bucks,such as middle class,hard working ones.
Rich people keep giving him money not knowing he is laughing behind their stupid backs.

The reason why so many folks are expressing their racist views here is because of a false since of cyber security….
Please be advised that God sees every key stroke; and He knows what’s in your heart…..Those hateful words are defiling you; your gutter language is causing you to become more bitter…..angry and sad….
So, you must guard your speech and watch your words….and realize that you do not have the security behind your monitor that you think you do….

And all of these stupid people who do not want Obama for president make no sense. Because Old white guys have done a horrible job as president.

All who are NOT bitter about billion of American tax paying dollars paying for the reconstruction Iraq and gas prices not to mention our jobs being outsource over seas..rise there hand in here….oh i see No rises their hands in here.. So we are bitter after all.point made

Am Canadian ,,,,,,,,,,,,,and have been following the U.S politics for sometime now ,and I think the citizen have to know the truth at all time, many politicians have been lying to there citizen a lot and it time for change. If the Clintons and the republicans think Americans are not “bitter” then they should think again, you guys have lot jobs for this year alone almost, or over 100,000 jobs and you think people are not bitter. Men you guys should rethink. I think obama is just say the truth. Wake up America.

A lot of people on this forum are demonstrating VERY CLEARLY that what Obama said is not only accurate, but also pervasive in our culture well beyond the scope of Pennsylvania workers. Many of you are very upset at the way things are in the country, and are clearly very passionate that things need to change. However, you are afraid of the reality of what we have to deal with to change things because they require you to grow ideologically and go beyond your comfort zone. It’s much easier to complain than it is to try to change things, and whenever we feel insecure or scared we can always fall back race, guns, and God to find a reason to ignore the truly hard tasks, and give long-winded speeches at the dinner table for people who agree with us. A lot of you don’t like Obama because he is black, or you think he elitist, or because of his pastor, or whatever else serves as an excuse of the moment to remove yourselves from the responsibility of having to participate in the difficult process of change. His message threatens you because it is a message which asks you to give up on your racism, let go of petty, manipulative policits, and step willingly and confidently over the failings of our barbarous ancestors so we can try to more perfectly complete our union and improve the lives of all Americans. That is truly terrifying, because it forces us to look inside ourselves and objectively confront our fluffiest and most comforting ideological blankets.
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
- JFK
It’s time to step up, America

Obama told the truth it is hard to bear but I had been so misled in voting for years. I voted for Bush on his faith stance, I am sure most of his supporters did. I also voted for him because of the right to bear arms, etc. POLITICIANS USE THE ISSUES OF GUNS, RELIGION, OR ANYTHING THEY CAN TO GET US AWAY FROM THE REAL ISSUES. I think it was great for a change the politician EXPOSED THE GAME TO US. INSTEAD OF GETTING SMART WE GOT SENSITIVE.

Ohhhhh please!!!! Hillary and McCain have one common enemy right now and that’s Obama! Obama is the real deal and everyone knows it! They both see he’s the clear shot winner and they will prance on any opportunity to try and bring the man down – even by trying to twist, distort or magnify something he mentioned. Honestly, i can understand McCain pulling something like this – he’s on the other side! BUT for the life of me, why is Hillary trying to destroy her very own party?! She will stop at nothing to win even if it means dragging down her own party along with her. She manipulative, selfish and patronising and this is the very reason i will not vote for her. She needs to work on her character, she is not painting a picture of someone who I can trust ? she is painting the picture of desperation!

Hillary is amazing. Of course she thinks there is no bitterness in small town America – she and hubby made what? $109 million in the last 8 years. And the people she talks to love her. I’ve lived in small towns (including rural PA) and believe me, there is plenty of anger against Washington for the mess we’re in today. Wake up, Hillary! You’re just not used to someone telling the truth.

ABC NEWS: Hey I was asked to enter a code to post the blog and was told that you are doing that to prevent “automatic robots” to enter comments. I think that is very good idea. However, you also need to develop a system that identifies which ones of the Obama bloggers are real and which ones are part of the 3,000 paid by him. Just a suggestion to keep the blogs untainted and showing the “real” feelings of Obama-paid Americans.

Look we may be bitter about our lost jobs, and that is not offensive.. What is offensive however is the suggestion that our bitterness is why we pray, why we support our constitutional rights, and why we worry about border security.
Obama has proven he will be a dreadful general election candidate, we can only pray that the super delegates give us Hillary.

Obama will not win. Don’t stress out.

dont you get it? he was with wealthy potential donors when he uttered this things, cutting deals in san fran. he is a total sham. he is doing business as usual, hanging with the rich, taking their money, while demeaning ordinary people. wake up!

Here we go again, msm has decided that if Democrats lose the general election, it is not because Democrats have voted for the biggest snob on earth who peddles his messages depending on his audience, beginning by the way with his speech against the war in Iraq, a snob who underestimates our intelligence and believes that when he goes out and throws the dirt back at Senator Clinton, this will solve all his problems, and when msm rushes to his defense all is well again, no, no no, it is Senator Clinton’s fault that he has misspoken (yes, really)!!!! Well, voters have something Obama seems unaware that they possess, brains, we listen and understand, and if people are still unaware of who he really is God help us all if he is ever elected as the coming U.S. President.

B. Your postings are very “utopic” if you are trying to prove Obama’s real intentions. Do not try to change the subject, we are not talking about the many things that Americans are angry about, we are talking about Obama pandering to donors blaming ignorance of voters in smalltown to justify to those donors why he is not getting the votes there.

Marie, thanks for making my point. You indicate you had Catholic stuff shoved down your throat for many years. You then, however, state you are NO LONGER Catholic. If O’bama is NO LONGER a member of Trinity come election time I might vote for him.

dew5050 (Sent Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:49 PM) on MSNBC said and I agree:
Why I am bitter:
1)I am bitter because of the state of our economy
2)I am bitter because our jobs are being shipped overseas
3)I am bitter because we are fighting a war we shouldn’t have waged.
4)I am bitter because we are spending $10b every month in iraq, money that we need seriously here.
5)I am bitter that Iraq has about $50b of its money lodged in foreign account, while we are using tax payer’s money to rebuild the country.
6)I am bitter that we are losing the effort to catch osama bin laden.
7)I am bitter that our great country has lost its respect in the international forum.
8)I am bitter that our dollars has become a laughing stock of the world. That right here in the states, some businesses no longer accept the dollar as a legal tender.
9)I am bitter because hardworking folks are being laid off their jobs and have lost all their savings.
10)I am bitter that honest and hard working folks are facing foreclosures.
11)I am bitter because the solution to the foreclosure problem from our law makers is to reward the mortgage banks and people who created the problem in the first place, while providing nothing for the people at the risk of losing their homes.
12)I am bitter because we keep borrowing from china and other countries, thereby leaving debts upon debts for the future generation.
13)I am bitter because there are so many other reasons why I should be bitter and our government is doing nothing to fix it.
14)Finaly, I am bitter because the only person amongst our presidential candidates who recognizes that I’m bitter and that I have a genuine reason to be, is being crucified for saying the truth.

Gillis
You’re missing the point!

Cling to their guns? Anti Trade?
Obama loving media is conveniently ignoring some of the things he said.
First of all the media is trying to make his gun comment into having something to do with “HUNTING?” That is total BS. He was clearly saying that people are “BITTER” and they take their guns and commit crimes such as MURDER and ROBBERY. He is demeaning all these people by saying that since they are “BITTER” they have become a bunch of CRIMINALS! Hunting? Give me a break.
Second he was saying that all these “BITTER” people are anti-TRADE because they are “BITTER.” What is he implying here? He is IMPLYING that these trade deals such as NAFTA are GOOD and that the only reason people are against it is because they are “BITTER.” Again contradictory statements. Go in front of blue collar PA folks and say he is against trade deals. Then go in front of MULTI-MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES and say he is for it.

Obama’s words are mind-blowing.
First, Obama revealed that he knows very little about religion. People do not “cling” to religion because they are bitter with the government. Religion, as the word indicates, is about union with God — our Creator. Religion is about beliefs, liturgy, morality, and prayer. It is about union with God and union with neighbor. I doubt Obama would tell Jesus he was religious because he was bitter or didn’t have a job. This is such a ridiculous perspective on religion, which I think is a reflection of the congregation he has attended the last 20 years.
Second, there are many people who have jobs yet vote on issues such as the right to own guns, the need to secure our country’s borders, and the need for fair trade policies. These are important issues that people don’t “cling” to out of bitterness with government. These are constitutional and national security issues.
Obama’s words are very difficult to comprehend. I can’t believe people think like this.

Realist: It is Obama who has devided us up into those who are enlighted and those who are not! He says that he is a uniter and not a divider (where have I heard that before?) yet he demeans a whole segment of society who does not have to share his values! How does saying what he said bring us together!

If Clinton can lie about being under sniper fire and McCain can’t differentiate between Al Qaeda and Shiites then Obama can make a mistake regarding his chose of words. But he is correct Americans all across America are upset, angry and yes bitter at Washington. If that were not true than George Bush’s approval rating would not be 27% and 82% of American would not think our country is on the wrong track. Now if that is not anger, frustration, bitterness than I don’t know what is. Also it is a known fact that republicans use social issues to persuade voters to vote republican because they can’t win on issues like: the economy, the war in Iraq, and their overall indifference to the American people. There is a negative connotation associate with the word “bitter” but the fact still remains Americans are not happy. If Obama wins or not I am proud that he was brave enough to speak hard truths to the American people. But the sad fact is Americans can’t handle the truth that is why politicians’ lie to us. If Obama loses because he spoke the truth than we can aspect politicians to continue lying to us.

To Eric Banhart @ 3:55:48.
I respect your opinion, and I hope you can respect mine. I am not tied to any one agenda, poitical party, nor candidate. I am well versed in politics, though.
I will also admit something that many of you may not share…I do not think that G W. Bush is a failed president. He has been one of the most activist presidents since JFK. Note the word, “activist”. JFK in two years of office invaded Cuba, Vietnam, and almost started a nuclear war with the Soviet Union in international waters off the coast of Florida. I greatly admire JFK though. Bush has been dealt a bad hand from day one in office, and made decisions that most people agreed with at the time, until it became unpopular in the polls.
Eric, I want a president in office who is willing to sacrifice what is most important to all presidents of the United States of America…their legacy. I would seriously consider any one foe that office, if they are willing to make a decision, for the good of the country, even if that decision would tarnish their legacy. Agree with me or not, President Bush has done that. That’s what my tax dollars pay for to put it bluntly. I did not elect the president of Iran or North Korea. I’m voting to elect the person who will serve my own self interest, and the self interest of the nation.
Anyway, I am independent, and right now I am leaning towards McCain…although a McCain/Rice would seal it for me. That does not mean that my mind cannot be changed again though…I’m quite open.

SSSSorry I missed the point eh? Now I am really bitter at you for saying that.
That is the point. Did you get it?

For a little more insight into Senator Obama, read a story posted on N-B-C’s website yesterday regarding his billionaire fundraisers.
A timely, must read for PA voters.

I’m tired of all of it. I’m tired of these so called professional politicians who can’t keep from “mis-speaking.” Is it too much to ask that they just say what they mean and DON’T try to backtrack. He said exactly what he meant to say. Just as Clinton said exactly what she wanted to say about her Bosnia trip. When will Americans quit BEING LED AROUND by their noses? These people LIVE to misspeak and lie. It is their JOB for goodness sake. I have no more respect for him than I do for Clinton and her lack of memory. They say what they think…then realize it wasn’t politically correct. Give me a break. Why can’t we see beyond their ploys and just say enough is enough????

Obama knows what he’s talking about. Hillary Clinton and John McCain belong to the “don’t worry, go shopping” school of politics, and the Karl Rove line on “elitists” isn’t going to work this year…

Assigning Intend and Meaning to Sound Bites — Again
Obama was attempting to explain the reasons some people in Pennsylvania would have difficulty voting for him. They have been burnt by the government for years, why should they believe a black man with a different name. Politicians had been making unfulfilled promised for years, why should they believe Obama was any different.
What Obama said about not knowing who to believe is an issue for many Americans, not just people in Pennsylvania. While working in Europe, I used similar wording to answer questions about why people would have elected President Bush.
It is also a fact that people turn to religion more during difficult times. Complete speech:
OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre…I think they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today – kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.
Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).
But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is — so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll go down a series of talking points.
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that 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.
Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you’ll find is, is that people of every background — there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I’d be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you’re doing what you’re doing.

Hey Marie, come to my church and support us and do not reject and/or denounce either our church or our pastor. We have a 20 year member who is running for governor of your State. Will you vote for him, please? By the way, here is our mission statement that your gubernatorial candidate does not either denounce and/or reject: “We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the White Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an European people, and remain true to Europe, our mother continent…. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a White worship service and ministries which address the White Community.

Everybody in here who is NOT bitter about billions of our American tax paying dollars going to pay for the Iraq reconstruction and the increase gas prices not to mention our jobs being outsource over seas, Rise your hand in here or type X…… So we are bitter after all. Point made

To Eric Banhart @ 3:55:48.
I respect your opinion, and I hope you can respect mine. I am not tied to any one agenda, poitical party, nor candidate. I am well versed in politics, though.
I will also admit something that many of you may not share…I do not think that G W. Bush is a failed president. He has been one of the most activist presidents since JFK. Note the word, “activist”. JFK in two years of office invaded Cuba, Vietnam, and almost started a nuclear war with the Soviet Union in international waters off the coast of Florida. I greatly admire JFK though. Bush has been dealt a bad hand from day one in office, and made decisions that most people agreed with at the time, until it became unpopular in the polls.
Eric, I want a president in office who is willing to sacrifice what is most important to all presidents of the United States of America…their legacy. I would seriously consider any one for that office, if they are willing to make a decision, for the good of the country, even if that decision would tarnish their legacy. Agree with me or not, President Bush has done that. That’s what my tax dollars pay for to put it bluntly.
I did not elect the president of Iran or North Korea. I’m voting to elect the person who will serve my own self interest, and the self interest of the nation.
Anyway, I am independent, and right now I am leaning towards McCain…although a McCain/Rice would seal it for me. That does not mean that my mind cannot be changed again though…I’m quite open.

Obama is right about the bitter part. There are an increasing number of people who are bitter because decisions by the current administration is resulting in a loss of brave lives by the dozens every week and millions of dollars every day. As a non violent person, I don’t believe in guns and my religion does not comfort those who cannot help themselves and so I am only bitter and I hope that will change with a person in the white house who can change the situation in Iraq and ward off a recession and I mean a real change not from one passionate supporter of the Iraq war to another who does not value precious American lives. Bring the troops home safe and let the UN and a mid east force keep the peace.

Hillary and McClain didn’t do their homework on rural America and it is now showing in the political classroom, they were too busy sleeping in the back of the room with full stomachs (millionnaires).

I think obama has already ruined his chance of becoming president although i don’t think hillary could be president; maybe condi rice could.

Russell – That’s my point. I am writing this from a meduim-sized house in a small town in Penn. If you told my family we like to hunt only because we are bitter, I’d tell you that you are an idiot. We would do those things anyway, “in spite of” anything going on around us. We love to do it. However, the issue is that people in my town are easily manipulated to FOCUS and VOTE on gun control by politicians as an isolated issue in elections because we don’t have much else to go on here. It steers people away from real, honest to goodness talk of change. People listen to us when we talk about guns, but not when it comes to unemployment. Unemployment and poverty are a problem here, but it’s hard to convince someone in my town that it can be changed because the government institutes legislation which allows our jobs to be outsourced.
B. Working class people are not falling back on religion, and guns! Thats what Obama thinks but it is not true! It is a sterotype of working class people, just like saying that all black people are good dancers! Working class people hunt and fish and go to church not out of bitterness but in spite of it! Their love of God,country,and guns is rooted in culture not a paycheck. It seems that we are quick to dimiss and condemn that which we don’t know! I invite you and others to come to rural america and we will share our culture with you and then maybe you will see what me mean!

I wonder… has anyone writing these comments ever made a mistake and said a true thing sloppily? I’m tired of the dynamic where people in office are expected to be superhuman.
I’m white and female– a mom. My family is a mix of working class and fairly elitist upper middle class attitudes. I work full time for sustainability causes and make less that $20,000/year. How am I categorized?
I’m voting for Obama because he has the guts to speak to the real humanity in America, and folks, we are a messy bunch. I’m not bitter, but it’s because I work hard at not being bitter. But I understand the temptation of bitterness, and I also understand that everyone I know has their version of “comfort food” that we, yes, cling to when things are tough. For some it is religion, for some it is being self-righteous. For some it is family, friends, guns, whatever. I don’t think the content is that important. What is important is that he speaks about the process of how humans work.
In that way, Obama is FINALLY a politician with whom I feel seen. And you know what, he also challenges me. I’ve spent more time thinking about my own last vestiges of racism, my own yucky moments of elitist bullshit… all that stuff because this man is gutsy enough to challenge me and still ask for my vote.
And I’m giving it to him.

fron chicago business, may 2007:
The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama resigned Tuesday from the board of a food supplier for retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a target of criticism by the Illinois senator.
Michelle Obama cited the increased demands of his campaign for leaving the board of Westchester, Ill.-based TreeHouse Foods Inc. Her position had raised questions because Obama has praised a union-led effort to change working conditions at Wal-Mart.
TreeHouse Foods said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that her resignation from the position she has held since 2005 was not due to any disagreement with the company. Last year she earned $51,200 in fees from the company, according to the couple’s 2006 tax returns.
“As my campaign commitments continue to ramp up, it is becoming more difficult for me to provide the type of focus I would like on my professional responsibilities,” Michelle Obama said in a written statement.

To the hard working folks in Pennsylvania, I would be OUTRAGED at this unfair and crude representation of who you are. You are Americans and you deserve better than name calling and labeling. I have never turned to a gun in my life out of “bitterness.” But after Obama’s comments, a dart might be fair game.

For those of you who didn’t see earlier posting, Michelle Obama served on corporate board of Treehouse Foods, Inc., a major supplier to Walmart.
She received about $50K a year for doing so.
She resigned as obama decided to run.
You guys have been SO had!!!!!

I love when a truthful statement gets blown right out of proportion for political gain and votes, who is better at that than Hillary who gets the same treatment for her lies. But as one blogs puts it: “Bitter…yes WE ARE! Obama claims folks in rural areas are tired of being lied to and cheated by our government and he’s dead on. Our tax dollars build mass transit in cities we don’t use. Our tax money builds roads in Iraq while our own roads are virtually impassible. Gas prices have been allowed to double at the same time we have to drive further to find work. Our family farms have been swallowed up by huge producers who only pollute our air and water. Our land is bought up by city folk for their ‘summer homes’ and strip malls that at best create more minimum wage jobs. To try and save what we have we’ve had to take on preditory debt. Do we cling to our guns-you bet we do. Not only for safety and protection, we have to eat! We cling to our religion, praying every day to be allowed to keep our meager belongings. We work hard every day, sun up to sunset and still can’t pay our bills.We fix our own old trucks, patch our own roofs and blue jeans and if anything is left after taxes and bills, we donate to the food pantries. If a neighbor is sick or hurt we plow their fields and pick their crops.The only thing we can count on from our government is they’ll come down here with their hand out and take way more than their share. The Bushes and Clintons have left us cold, hungry, broken and yes, BITTER! Our kids and relatives are dying in Iraq in unproportionate numbers.Many ‘tricked’ into service by the promise of serving two weekends a month and two weeks a year. The military offered the only chance to make a buck…We are bitter, but not STUPID. We are never heard from or spoken for by our elected officials.We aren’t counted in the polls. Finally Barack brings our plight to the mainstream’s attention and he gets chastised for it.McCain’s ENTIRE life has been spent on the taxpayers dime. Every check he’s ever cashed came from our taxes, yet he calls Obama an elitest. The Clintons screw us at every turn, breaking all ten commandments and most of our laws.GO OBAMA 08!
Posted by:
2oldfarmers 7:21 AM”

WHO CARES!!!
Would you rather be lied to?

To Ma’ikwe Ludwig:
I totally respect your opinion while passionately disagreeing with it. A politician, any politican, who chooses to run for office leaves himself/herslef wide open to more criticism than the normal person could probably stomach. While I applaud your own soul searching for your “elitis BS and racist feelings” I wonder if the same could be said deep down for Obama? The race issue IS his issue. He runs on being the first black president….and that alone is HIS issue. I am not impressed with his comments. I am worried. I am worried because just what does HE really think? It is moments like his recent “misspeaking” that give me pause. That is what he truly believes. I am not convinced of his “messiah” like popularity. I need much more honesty and less politically correct backtracking to prove that he is something willing to actually change…and not just this country…but himself. He still has his own racist demons to deal with I fear.

Regret, maybe. But I think it is just regret that he got caught expressing his true feelings. The public Obama and the private Obama once again prove to be different people.

Matthews: Bill Clinton’s campaign speech “so un-American”
Summary: On Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough said to Chris Matthews: “Bill Clinton says, though, Chris, that we’re naïve for believing that politicians can work together, that we’re naïve for believing that Barack Obama.” Scarborough added: “But it seems to me it’s cynicism versus hope.” Matthews said: “Any politician who runs in America on the campaign message of ‘don’t get your hopes up’ deserves to be doomed. What an amazing — that is so un-American, because Americans believe that the way things are is not the way they have to be.”

First I’d like to say Obama is right. Here is why, read the book “The world is flat” by Thomas Friedman. From reading about half the book (still reading it), it seems like Bush and Clinton are doing doublespeak.
and why? It’s simple:
1.They support global trade as a way to promote democracy and stability. Breaking down walls to promote trade between companies makes companies circumvent unions by choosing outside labor, but as the book indicates gives those lower class workers cheaper products, it evens itself out.
2.They blame the very same forces that they promote for causing the problems, and of course the solution which they point at “sustainable development and alternative sources of energy” is the big answer, how can you built trade, immigration walls or other walls and promote peace, you can’t.
The solution people of Pennsylvania is simple (unions included), is that people need to be better educated to compete. As many success books indicate (Tony Robbins CANI for example) you have to keep learning to keep ahead and always improve yourself. Television is the devil, it lowers overall productivity and dumbs us down, people need to learn basic money management.
And overall we have to understand we live in a multi-dimensional world where there is no 1 solution/bill gets our troops out or gives everyone a job.
Barack Obama is the answer, the Clintons are taking him and his intelligent pastor way out of context because they know attack ads work (read a book on election politics which I have), Hilary is just Bill Clinton with a little more attitude. I’m tired of old politics, lets have someone new, and for all those women who want a female president how about a female VP who becomes president in like 8 years who is a little more inspiring than Hilary.

Obama is a modern day Malcolm X. If we must have an African American in office, we need someone more like MLK.

The truth hurts – but is sometimes needed.
That angry, bitter people sometimes vent their frustrations indirectly is well documented. That excessive concern about supposed 2nd ammendment changes, anti abortionists who actually kill adults, fear of outsiders, domestic disputes are all manifestations of the lack of positive chances in rural America is definitely true.
I live in a mid-sized city – surrounded by charming little one-factory towns and villages that have been hit hard in the last years – in 15 years I had to move ahead of closures and outsourcing to 4 jobs and in the end did get downsized just prior to retirement. It would have been worse living in one of those small towns – at least from my residence I have a circular commuting area to choose from – out in the boonies, the nearest city can be too far away to reach.
Obama is so very correct in his analysis that is will most definitely flush out a lot of negative sentiment – but when the first flash cools down, perhaps many of you will see that the persons “pandering” to your supposed wishes are the wrong people to lead – McCain and Clinton are the ones who are out of touch out of fear of just the reaction taking place right now. And they will most likely never make any significant moves to improve the lives of the small town folks who are now so upset.

These silly “gotcha” moments will have any impact on he final vote. Most who are bothered by this, were already bothered by Obama and would not have voted for him anyway. Few would turn to Hillary Obama based on these “ill-advised” comments. Once people get on the Obama train few get off.

mr. obama is a fraud. his words reveal his true self. he is self-involved, an elitist and thinks he knows it all.

Mike- Wow! You sound really bitter. There might be classes you can take for that.

Look at the Obama people — blaming Clinton and McCain for what Obama said! If you believe Obama, you’re as elitist as he is. You, too, believe the good people of Pennsylvania are ignorant, gun-toting Christians.

It seems that the same people that believe that Wright’s sermons were accurate are the same people that are praising Obama’s latest comments. Unfortunately, those people are out of touch with most Americans.

ShelbyBob35051
Do you have a point?

To: Che Fidel @ 4:28pm
Well said. Well said.

This guy’s a joke… He surrounds himself with racists, he puts down the American middle class. What does he have to do before his supporters see he is not the person they thought he was. Please don’t put this guy in the White House!

He speaks the truth and yet he is being crucified for it. Of course when things are bad, people cling and yes cling to things they can readily identify with. In my country, we clung to sports like football, religion and other things that are aligned with our culture. Guns are not allowed in my country but that does not mean that I never believed in God before that. Am sorry when things are really bad thats when we remember God the most,. Deny it if you can? And yet no matter our color, race or religion, our God has always been forgiving and merciful. Wake up Americans to the truth. It may be bitter but swallow it, it shall surely set you free.

Whoa! We dems are going to lose this election if we nominate this guy! No doubt. What an arrogant, condescending jerk.
The only way to unite the country is a McCain/Clinton or Clinton/McCain ticket. Come on, team up!

All 3 of the candidates are Senators. You can’t get more “elite” than that.
Let the voters decide.

Whether people want to believe it or not….some folks are bitter and feel like the government is not looking out for their best interests. I feel like Obama spoke the truth…unfortunately, a lot of people on hear can’t handle the truth. Seriously, I’m not trying to put down Clinton supporters but it’s obvious they don’t know the truth when they hear it. She lied about Bosnia and some how it’s spun into “mis speaking”. Obama brings up a good point about some being bitter and it’s spun into being an elitist? What’s wrong with this picture? I am tired of all this. Why can we not have an honest dicussion about the people in this country who really are suffering HARD TIMES!!! How are you being an elistist if you bring that subject up to the American people? Ugghhh….I don’t understand this. Why are Clinton and McCain trying to spin this to their favor. Do you really think they care about the little people? If so, why not agree with Obama….if they are soooo in touch. How can they NOT see that people are bitter and frustrated and actually turn to their religion to get by???? Give me a break.

In my opinon, when Obama was talking to his rich friends in San Francisco, he was not talking down about the white folks who are having hard times in Pennsylvania. He was explaining why in the past they did not vote for the Democratic Party, because they do not trust the politicians themselves, so they vote on issues like guns, religion(abortion gay rights), immigration. Instead of casting their vote to the party which would do more good for their wellfare. But due to the lack of trust, which is justified, by job loses, rising prices, home foreclosures, healthcare costs, etc. they choose to embrace platforms not on jobs, taxes or healthcare, but religion and guns. Taking it one step further, when they see someone who doesn’t even look like them, when all their trust is gone, it is even more difficult for him to win his their trust. He was saying he feels the pain, the pain of Pennsylvania people, understands how they feel, why they are bitter and angry, and explaining what makes them tick. This is not talking down to anyone. It was if anything telling California to HELP…stop this ONE SIDED GOVERNMENT, where the rich get richer and middle class is erroding and poor is getting poorer. Obama was not insulting anyone, he feels the pain, he is in it for us.

Why do Obama supporters want to blame Hillary Clinton because Obama stuck his foot in his mouth again. America wanted to know what he was about and everytime he does something like this, America gets to know him a little better. Obama supporters can make excuses, the media can try to cover for him, but it’s not going to change the fact that people don’t like what they are seeing.

remember clintons LYING TONGUE ABOUT BOSNIA AND SHE “MISPOKE”, AND SHE IS FORGIVEN FOR LYING ON NATIONAL TV, MORE THAN ONCE.
OBAMA TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE FEELING AND YOU IGNORANT PEOPLE ARE MAKING ANY EXCUSE TO BASH HIM.
COMPARE WHAT OBAMA SAID TO WHAT HILARY SAID. HILARY LIED, OBAMA SAID WHAT HE REALLY BELIEVES IS TRUE, AN HONEST OPINION SAID TO HELP PEOPLE UNITE BEHIND HIM TO BRING CHANGE IN WASHINTON.
WHY DONT YOU FOCUS ON HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN INSTEAD OF POLITICAL SPIN.
HILARY IS SO DESPERATE, AND SO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT HER!!!
SHAME ON YOU,YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING YOU GET FROM YOUR WASHINGTON POLITICIANS!!

lee from Treasure Island Fl – Of course you are right, but many American’s have no interest in sociological complexities. This is all about “gotcha” politics. It only matters how many “questionable” things you can hang around someone’s neck. This is how we select people for the most important job in the country, if not the world: as if it was for a high school prom king or queen.

Barack spoke the truth and shouldn’t back down from it! People will infer from it what they want regardless of what was meant–that’s just people and there’s nothing he can do about that.
Americans are bitter about losing their jobs to Nafta (passed by Bill Clinton and lobbied by Hillary Clinton)! They are bitter about having elected officials not listening to them in Washington! They are bitter about having to support a family on minimum wage (if they can find a job)! This country is definitely going in the wrong direction for the middle class and it needs to be righted! Neither Hillary Clinton with her $109 million income since leaving the White House nor John McCain with his beer fortune heiress understands middle America or poor people! Barack worked as an organizer for 3 years with and for poor people! He is not an elitist–if anyone is an elitist it is Hillary Clinton and John McCain! Wake up America, you know what he meant by his statements and you know that those statements are true! Don’t let Hillary Clinton, John McCain or the Republican party try and insult your intelligence! Think for yourselves and make an informed decision when you decide to vote–whomever you decide to vote for!

No, he didn’t have to the media takes great joy in doing his dirty work for him. Big difference between we ducked our heads and hurried to our vehicles and the remarks of Barrak Obama about the PA people. But Obama supporters and the media are always trying to deflect from the story to protect Sen. Obama.

“Politicians (McCain/Clinton) sugar coat everything… why not tell it how it is?”
i.e. so things can ACTUALLY get done rather than live in a dillusional world where the actual issues aren’t discussed!

People have faith because they love god and enjoy being part of that community.
People have guns, not only for protection, but as something was passed down to them as tradition, like hunting, or craftsmanship.
The idea that people in small towns are bitter and go cling to god, guns, and are racist against immigrants is just sickening.
I am shocked he said this, especially shocked that he wouldn’t say this in front of a crowd in pennsylvania, but behind their backs to a bunch of elitists in sanfrancisco fundraiser. Thats low class and disrespectful

Chris — you don’t seem able to actually defend your candidate except by attacking others. Discontinuous thinking?

Some people should admit that they aren’t intelligent enough to really understand Barack Obama.
Unfortunately a lot of Americans aren’t very well educated,don’t understand politics very well, and are easily manipulated. It’s not a happy thing to admit, but it is the truth.
There are legitimate reasons to disagree with mr Obama, but claiming he’s elitist or unqualified is just repeating clever propaganda.

Name one accomplishment of Obama other than great speaking abilities including the ability to con people into paying higher taxes. In return, since he has so much experience in spending other peoples money, he will bring “change” and “hope” to America. Problem is all of the peoples money will have disappeared down the dark hole of the State never to be seen again.

Jeffrey — I assume you’re one of the select few who have the intelligence to understand Obama. Nothing like having an inflated ego. I guess.

I am very very disappointed that some people that post their ad here don’t reason and they go out of touch with the reality. Obama told us the truth and it is the truth and remains the truth. If you like turn , be left behind

What truth, give me all your money so since I can spend it better than you. Obama’s only experience in spending money is the deal he made with his buddy, Rezco, (on trial for corruption) where Obama and his wife got a super good deal on their million dollar home.

What is this ridiculousness you Barak-heads are talking about Obama speaking the truth… what are you even talking about. Explain what you mean because it sounds like you are following a cult leader.
At least Clinton and McCain supporters have a leg to stand on because their candidate has actually done things to improve this nation. What has Obama done? He is running on the ability to unify and he is not able to do that… look at all the posts here are these people unified?

Sue – why does that offend you so much? It’s not like he said that as an insult? You Obama-haters are waay too oversensitive. Don’t be so touchy!

Griffin – do yo always put words in other people’s mouths? You Obama-haters sure are reading alot into his statement that wasn’t there. I guess Obama really hit a nerve, eh? That’s what happens when somebody has the courage to tell the TRUTH!

I don’t see how this will help him transcend today’s typical politics. He’s basically saying that he’s a blue state guy and doesn’t get the red state area with all of those hicks! This guy has a glass jaw…good luck Dems if he’s your boy.

Well I live in a small town and have a small job that pays enough for my family, but I promise you we do not carry guns nor are we racist. I’m sorry, but Obama’s remarks were out of line. Deeply dissapointed. It seems Obama doesn’t understand or know the middle class. Pity. We are not bitter. We live in reality, trying to get a better life for ourselves and our children and we do NOT use religion as a pacifier. We go to church because we BELIEVE, thank you very much! Maybe if we had a racist preacher he would understand us better. Obama, you lost my vote.

find it somewhat ironic that Barack would criticize rural America for having “antipathy to people who aren’t like them” by using antipathy to describe people who aren’t like him.
I find it somewhat ironic that Barack would criticize rural America for their anti-trade sentiment when he claims to be NAFTA’s strongest opponent.
I find it somewhat ironic that Barack would criticize rural America for clinging to their religion during troubled times while he clings to his pastor “What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice,” Obama said. “He’s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics.”
I find it somewhat ironic that Barack would criticize rural America for clinging to their legal guns used for hunting and family protection while assuring them that he is the guy that is pro-gun and will keep their guns flowing.
I find it down right sad that Barack would claim that rural America is “anti-immigrant” when he knows full well that they’re actually anti-Illegal immigrant and want secure borders just like Barack does.

A communicator does not need to explain frequently, well, Obama is constanstly explaining what he said and , in the process, insulting our intelligence by telling us that only HE understands. Sen, you are the one who should resign.

He feels your pain. His father was a goat herder, his mentor is a well respected racist in the community, and his friend blew up buildings for crying out loud!

The “bitter” isn’t the part that gets me. It’s the “cling to” in describing small-town beliefs in religion and the desire to have guns. It’s like small-towners have no rational reason to believe in religion or to hunt–they only believe in these things BECAUSE the government has NOT CREATED JOBS.
That is an unbelievably out-of-touch comment. There’s always reasons for bitterness, even for those who live what most of us consider to be priveleged lives–but there’s NEVER a reason to tie in a belief in religion to the government’s performance. Unless, of course, you want to attack the first amendment while you’re busy trampling on the second.

I believe Hilliary will make the best President. I believe that Obama does not have a chance to beat McCain in the general election. If we get 4 more years of Bush ethics, I think our country may never recover. Obama does not come across as understanding what our poor and middle class people are going through. His Rev. Wright associations and remarks about “small town America” just lost my vote.

Well when I am in touble I pray harder. >When I see no hope I cling to God even more.It may be good or bad. God is my last resort. I cling to Him. So when leaders do not help. Globalization is beyond my control. My employer leaves town. Where should I go? Who should i turn to? My family and my God.
That is what Obama said. If we are looking to not vote for him or to put him in negative light, you can interpret anyway you like. But hopelessness and bitterness of last 7 years will not go away. We also tend to scapegoat others for our problems beyond our control. That is human nature. These are human emotions and normal unless you are a robot or saint.

I’ll never vote for an elitist racist like Obama. His supporters are brainwashed lunatics.
NOBAMA08

in watching McCain right now, he is a distguished leader as well as a speaker.
Obama on the other hand is a babbling fool, who can only make a prepared speech.
what a difference.

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!

Obama is right that people are bitter. But what do guns and religion have to do with bitterness? He really stepped in it here, he has really shown how out of touch he is. I’m not religious but I will absolutely defend people’s right to practice religion.

Susan:
He doesn’t say that rural America “love(s) their churches and their guns”. He said that the people in the Midwest “cling to guns and religion” BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT’S FAILURES of the last 25 years. Read the whole original quote, and put it in context of the question that supposedly precipitated it (something along the lines of “why doesn’t small-town America support you, Sen Obama”). He tries to explain middle-America’s lack of belief in him as a product of MIDDLE-AMERICA’s closed-mindedness rather than as a well-thought out disagreement with his policies.
That’s snobbish elitism. . .at best.

well said Pastor, well said!

Bravo, to U.S new presdent. hopefully. god saves you forever. be the the salt and the light in the world. Thanks