Clinton continues to attack Obama’s “bitter” remarks
Hillary Clinton, during an appearance before the Alliance For American Manufacturing Forum in Pittsburgh, PA, today, kept up her attacks on Barack Obama and his remark that small-town Pennsylvania voters had become “bitter.”
“He said that they cling to religion and guns and dislike people who are different from them,” Clinton said. “Well, I don’t believe that. I believe that people don’t cling to religion, they value their faith. You don’t cling to guns, you enjoy hunting or collecting or sport shooting.
“I don’t think he really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you.”
Obama, meanwhile, tried to focus attention on what he see’s as Hillary Clinton’s inconsistent positions on free-trade. He also mocked her weekend visit to an Indiana bar as pandering to the working class.
“Around election time, the candidates can’t do enough for you,” Obama said, according to an Associated Press account. “They’ll promise you anything, give you a long list of proposals and even come around, with TV crews in tow, to throw back a shot and a beer.
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Clinton is now trying to make Obama look like he is
not in touch with average pa voters…that may help
her chances in that state..but the state that will
determine the nomination is Indiana…I assume
Hilllary will win pa…and obama north carolina
but…if obama wins Indiana..he is the nominee
Obama is a scary guy, as people are slowly finding out. He has been getting mostly a free ride till now.
But he has a lot of “issues,” as they say. Like Jeremiah Wright, like the ex-Weatherman bomber Ayers, who is not sorry, and like other comments made by Obama’s wife. Obama is very far Left and IS an elitist, as Clinton is saying.
What Obama said in San Fran is what he really believes. The rest of his limited record shows it is. If McCain said it, he’d be tarred and feathered. But most of the media is enamored of Obama for reasons not worth listing here.
If Obama is nominated he’ll go down in flames in November. So will Clinton, who has a ton of her own (and Bill’s) baggage she won’t overcome.
The day of September 11, 30 minutes after viewing the destruction of the tower on the morning TV news, I was in a nearby church, not even my own church, sitting in an isolated area, my head bent down, I was crying in silence for all those who died in that terrorist act. I visited the same church three times that day, the same position and reflecting on what has just happened.
In my opinion Obama is not an elitist. What he said about religion, gun and migrants sounds just about what people think in my part of this United States.
Those who are upset with Obama just want an excuse to tarnish the image of this great American.
While the main stream media has primarily characterized the sting of Obama’s game changing remarks as simply referencing the “bitterness” that small town Midwesterners allegedly feel as a result of economic hardship, the full text reveals something more remarkable about the candidate’s unguarded opinion about core Midwestern values—which is at the very least dismissive.
Rather than acknowledge that Pennsylvanians’ core religious beliefs and other values are the principled result of philosophical reflection, Obama dismisses them outright as notions that Midwesterners presumably “cling to” as an expression of something else entirely: Frustration about their poor economic circumstances.
The Ivy League educated, Harvard Law Review editor’s choice of language here can hardly be passed of as candidate misspeak since words are Obama s stock-in-trade. Moreover, his word choices clearly evince an opinion by Obama that Midwestern religious and political values are not “values” at all, but rather a desperate reaction to external forces through which these poor unfortunates express their frustration and bitterness at their lot in life.
It is my view that these very revealing remarks, uttered by Obama in an unguarded moment in the guarded sanctity of his most elite, liberal, and moneyed San Francisco financial backers, once they are understood by the national electorate are game changing. In one moment, Obama has alienated the heartland of America by revealing that he does not respect their core values on religion, guns, fair trade, or immigration by attributing those values to a knee jerk reaction to outside events.
I am are sure that Midwesterners view their own religious and other values as very bit as sincerely held and legitimate as, for example those of Barack Obama’s personal mentor and close family friend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
While the candidate has since maintained he “could have said it better”, Obama has not bothered to repudiate his remarks or to explain precisely what he meant.
Nor can the candidate’s patronizing views of the core beliefs held by millions of Americans in several key swing states be explained away.
This is huge, a game changer. And if the Democratic Party fails to realize it before it chooses between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as the party’s nominee, the DNC will be virtually conceding the White House to John McCain in 2008.
It is noteworthy that the only PA tracking poll to be released following Obama’s revealing SF comments now (as of April 14) has Clinton leading Obama in the Keystone State by 20 points, 57-37. (Note that the same poll, by the American Research Group, pegged the PA race last week at a dead heat.)
Obama’s argument has always been that Clinton starts out in a given state way ahead, and that once the voters “get to know him”, he overtakes her.
I am afraid that the voters in PA-
and elsewhere-HAVE NOW GOTTEN TO KNOW OBAMA A LITTLE ‘TOO WELL”.the word is that the clinton insiders are making the
following arguments to the superdelegates:
Obama cannot win white working class democrats in
states like ohio.
Obama has a huge problem with older jewish democrats
in states like florida
Obama will have major difficulty with hispanic americans
in states like new mexico..
so the clinton campaign is arguing that to nominate
obama would guarantee defeat in november….
because he would be unable to assemble the kind of
democratic coaltion necessary to win a majority of
electoral votes….giving up florida, ohio, maybe nj
and pa..and new mexico..I have to say the argument makes
perfect sense…but the superdelegates may once again
by not using their option relegate the democrats to
defeat..by nominating the most liberal senator in
the senate..someone who is untested, unvetted, and
unqualified to be president
Quick quiz- Who came out with these ‘elitist’ remarks?
“I was in a town in Iowa, and twenty years ago there were no Hispanics in the town. Then a meatpacking facility was opened up. Now twenty per cent of their population is Hispanic. There were senior citizens there who were—’concerned’ is not the word. They see this as an assault on their culture, what they view as an impact on what have been their traditions in Iowa, in the small towns in Iowa. So you get questions like ‘Why do I have to punch 1 for English?’ ‘Why can’t they speak English?’ It’s become larger than just the fact that we need to enforce our borders.”
Obama? Nope. Try John McCain. The guy who calls Obama “elitist” while he owns 8 houses.
hey hillary and bill made 109 million since they
left the white house…and she is criticizing
obama for being elitist..doesn’t wash
Hillary and Billy Boy have as many faces as dollars. Now she’s a duck huntin’ and shootin’ Pennsylania gal. That makes about five states she claims as “home.” She was drinking a shot and a beer too. What a phony.
“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”
Karl Marx and Barack Obama. That’s no coincidence.
I have all the Marx brothers’ movies, and the Stones albums – Fred and Wilma.
HARPO CHICO GROUCHO…AND DOES ANY ONE KNOW THE FOURTH
MARX BROTHER?
Zeppo
The fifth was Gummo
Groucho, on once being advised that Jews weren’t allowed to play a certain golf club – “I’m only half-Jewish; can I play nine holes?”
say the secret word and the duck will come down///