Keep talking Obama and let the voters get to know you better.

Meanwhile, Clinton leads again on crime.

I wouldn't recommend that Clinton try to minimize people's disillusionment with the way things work nowadays in Washington.

I hope she keeps pushing this, it'll blow up in their faces so fast, they won't know what hit them.

She wasn't able to see the hunger for change in this country, and was caught by surprise by Obama's rise.

Where does she think that hunger came from?

So Hillary, who was raised in the elite suburbs of Chicago, is calling Obama elitist for basically stating the premise of What's the Matter with Kansas? when Obama actually spent much of his childhood growing up in hardscrabble Kansas?

This is clearly a Rovian tactic of hitting your opponent on his strength and your weakness. Like AWOL Bush and Draft Dodger Cheney going after Kerry's military experience.

Please Pennsylvania, put an end to Rovian politics and send Hillary home.

Remind me... what was it Senator Clinton said about Mississippi while campaigning in Iowa?

Let's face the facts, much of what troubles many of these small communities did slip through the Clinton administration as well as the various republican administrations. Living in rural America I would prefer a president that can see policies of the recent past have not been all that beneficial to the economies of these communities. It is like small state voters don't count etc. There seems to be nothing in Senator Obama's statement that indicates he is "looking down on them." It seemed to me he expressed concern that those claiming to support these low-income communities (often at the expense of 100 million dollar incomes) often do nothing for these communities.

Having said that Senator Obama could have chosen a better word than bitter – Although Webster’s definition of bitter is not so far from the mark:
2: marked by intensity or severity: a: accompanied by severe pain or suffering b: being relentlessly determined : vehement c: exhibiting intense animosity d (1): harshly reproachful (2): marked by cynicism and rancor e: intensely unpleasant especially in coldness or rawness

this story has generated such amazing, misguided reactions from hundreds over at politico. i'm sure the same will happen here. bring on the comments of elitism, the comments of racism, the comments of arrogance. obama's words had nothing of that in them. he was explaining, in too broad of strokes to be sure, his feelings as to why people who have been failed by the system would find solace in the things that are dear, i.e independence (guns) and relgion; or frustration/outrage with the propped up reasons behind such social/economic failures, i.e. immigrant or overseas labor.

all you narrowminded bastards loving this moment for its pounce-potential...i embrace my executive right to pre-emptive strike and say, relax...and apply some intellectual honesty for a change.

And what Obama said was untrue, or demeaning to the people pf Pennsylvania how?

But dutifully stenographed Greg, as always, with enough practice you might become a fax machine.

Well isn't that an interesting soundbite from Obama. Laying low and hoping no one heard those remarks is a political loser for him. But if he ups the ante and turns it into an opportunity for debate, we might finally have a discussion on our hands. For years Republicans have used nonsense issues (guns and religion) to buttress their pro-aristocracy agenda. Giving the topic some daylight would be an excellent way to confront the stupid identity-based reasons on which people cast their votes.

If Obama's gonna light the fire cracker, he'd better be ready for the explosion. Seize the opportunity Barack.

I had lunch today with a half dozen other women at work. One in her fifties like me, one about 40 and 4 in their twenties. We happen to all support Obama. The young ones are very downhearted. They are convinced that McCain is going to win now because of Hillary's tactics. One just kept repeating over and over how worthless the Democrats are and how stupid to defeat themselves.

Count me bitter at the willingness of the Clintons to destroy the future of the Democratic Party with their tactics. We have the first chance in decades to really pull new voters into the party and we're losing it.

I love it. We all know what Obama said to be true. C'mon, you Hillary people know it too. Yet Democratic pols have regurgitated patronizing pablum so as to not offend voters who are motivated solely by bullshit issues, like, guns and religion. If Obama's going to make comments like this, I hope he has the cajones to start a real discussion. Bring. It. On.

Well, he can kiss Penn goodbye.

The media is running this between the non stop coverage on President Clinton. It showed who will be in charge. Yes Mam.

I am reading the media bias is backfiring finally. The American people are sick of it like I am.

This will get the ball rolling on more Obama stories.

Actually, Obama didn't grow up in Kansas. He grew up in Hawaii and, for several years, Indonesia.

It was his mom who spent a fair bit of her time growing up in Kansas, though they really moved around a lot.

Not that this is particularly relevant to the story, but facts is facts :)

Obama needs to cut and run to the beach again.

Too much pressure.

He just lost Penn.

What's nothing short of breathtaking is the Clintonian (Rovian) penchant for parsing one or two words or a short phrase out of context and still being condescending and elitist enough to think that anyone listening doesn't have the intelligence to see through the ruse.

"...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".

Then again, one can understand their wimpering response, after all they're part of that problem too.

BTW - gotalife - "Clinton leads again on crime." Absolutely priceless.

When telling the goddamn truth is a "gaffe" then this country is fucked.

"As I travel around Pennsylvania, I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic, who are positive, who are rolling up their sleeves. They are working hard everyday for a better future, for themselves and their children."

Sorry and you can ban me for this, but this sound Bush-esque to me.

The whole idea of "Gosh, I just lost my job and my house is about to be foreclosed on, but at least we have each other" perception is so off the mark.

Kudos to Obama for coming out and saying that people pissed.

I'm sorry, but I just dont see what there is to these comments that is getting people so riled up. It just seems like an observation.

So Clinton sees a state of people without work, and finds them to be like elves--hard-working and happy.

Give me a break. People's jobs are sent overseas and they're bitter, and they should be. Hillary is being pretty condescending to the people she's attempting to defend here.

Oh, and thank you Greg, for posting the quote in context.

Is Hillary now running for Panderer in Chief? What a joke!

"What . . . my opponent said that you all have become bitter from years of being ignored and allowed to fall through the cracks? Well no sir, not me . . . I love you all like my family; YOU are MY KIND OF PEOPLE!!

Oh . . . and next time some major piece of legislation dealing with your ability to get a fresh start in life (read: Bankruptcy Bill) comes up for a vote, I'll really try to make the vote then . . . I swear."

I for one am becoming more and more annoyed by what appear to be almost daily promises from the Clinton campaign about all the programs she proposes. She's become like the charicature of the sleazy policitian promising this program or that simply to satisfy the particular crowd she happens to be surrounded by at the time.

And Greg . . . this "story" deserves to be smothered. It is, as usual, another non-story pushed by the Clinton campaign to sway or convince the "low information voter." Enough already.

Again, why she lost my respect and my vote. She is just lower than life these days.

From her lies about Tuzla, to her 20 years of lies about Bill, to her lies about Mark Penn being gone from her campaign, Hillary can wave bye bye to winning Pennsylvania in a big way.

Even Rendell was calling on her to fire Penn for real. The unions are way pissed and those little towns used have union workers in them, I imagine.

LOVE the standard sangry picture of Obama that is run...yet again from this site, for this piece.

Obama mad!

Obama smash!

yet also Obamambi worried :(
Obamambi might cwy :*(

I guess it's now the Obama Avatar Of Badness.

Good job! I really need to see my stories reduced to an easily related system where I can judge it's content based on the picture I see with it. I give it 4 Hello Kitty's of goodness.

Content? Oh that. I'm sure the Friday night black hole will smother that as well.

Christ, she's really grasping at straws now, isn't she? It's somehow "elitist" to empathize with people and understand why they might feel some bitterness?

You folks who think this is going to actually win votes for her...what the hell are you smoking/snorting? You think PA Joe Sixpack is going to vote Hillary just because Obama stated a few facts about life in his neck of the woods and made some accurate inferences about how he feels about it?

If you're that far off the page, you might as well vote for McCain. I hear he's got a nice war in Iran he'll sell ya...

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 are most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre...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. They feel so betrayed by government that 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, then that adds another layer of skepticism.

But -- so the questions you're most likely to get about me, 'Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What is the concrete thing?' What they wanna hear is -- so, we'll give you talking points about what we're proposing -- to close tax loopholes, you know, roll back 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.

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. 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.

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.

Pennsylvanians don't need a president who looks down on them...

The irony of this is that, in pitching this line of hooey, Sen Clinton is looking down on her fellow Americans, far, far more cynically than is her opponent. We all know that what Sen Obama said is true, but she is trying to gin up a bunch of faux-outrage over the remark, urging her audience to respond to his words as if they were children; that is a species of looking down on her audience. Sen Obama is paying his listeners the compliment of assuming that they prefer honesty to posturing and bull$#!*; this is the precise opposite of looking down on his listeners.

More Obama-bashing media memes

They SCOUR every word, utterance.

In this case, that Mayhill Fowler's rather positive article is SCOURED for some sort of weapon.

Yesterday Fox was going after him because they were arranging people for a photo shoot and wanted more white people in it. Standard stuff. But a "reporter overheard this" and then > Politico > FoxNews > RushLimbaugh .....

Obama must be PERFECT or he is hammered. McCain/Hillary just have to not lie all that much, must limit the racial smears to an acceptable level.

eg. Someone introducing McCain this week called Obama "Tiger woods" and McCain gave him a big hug! Politico, FoxNews, ABC, CNN everyone ignored it.

Greg DeLassus - you're so right. That's just how the Bush Republicans have treated us all these years. O, what's that - HIllary is agreeing with McCain again?

Uh huh - I have decided that it's true: McCain-Clinton '08.

I don't want another Republican president thank you and Hillary is acting just like the Republicans.

To hell with that. I want a Democrat.

obama sticks his foot in his mouth and the reaction of the fascists here, yes, i mean that assidiously...is that hillary sucks.

so because they are bitter these people turn to religion and guns? i think they have turned to religion and guns during good times and bad

a rookie error, an unforced error by obama that will not resonate well with those church going gun owning hillbillies rubes

obama reeks of arrogance, most of his supporters here ooze arrogance and haughty dismissals of anything not laudatory to the senator from illinois

give it a break, when obama falls on a banana peel you all want to look away when anyone else does it you want to examine it in frame by frame evaluation

obama just blew penn, he did insult people, he lumped religion in with hating of immigrants

but, i guess given his church, its only natural that hate comes to his mind

You know, I realize I may have to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Fall, and so I try to frame some good opinions of her, and sometimes I have been able to. But then she'll pull me back with something like this. It's just so low-down.

Is it customary for wingnuts to troll TPM on Friday evenings?

Here are a few remarks I culled from politico.com by folks who live in Central PA. I did not find any folks from that area who dissed Obama for saying what he did. However, in the main the remarks were pretty negative against Obama, many quite vicious.

Since I am from a small town in PA, I can say that Barack is right on target. It is hard to comprehend the level of desperation in some of these communities. People turn on each other as a way to get ahead. Poverty and an absence of hope can create a lot of bitterness and anger toward anyone who "appears" to be getting a "free ride" due to race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Absolutely, but coming from a small Western PA town, I can tell you that a lot of those sentiments are already engrained. And they come out of the woodwork much more so when jobs and the overall community fabric unravels.

As someone who grew up in small town PA, I can tell you that he's telling the truth and that he's being much too polite. My mom told me that if Obama wins, a black person will take my job. A guy from Johnstown went on the record with the NYT calling Obama a "terrorist." I can assure you that off the record it doesn't get any prettier. This is Pennsyltucky at its finest.

Ben (and fellow readers): I live in small town PA and although these comments are definitely a broad generalization, they are unfortunately representative of a significant minority of PA residents who have been marginalized - economically, politically and socially - by the broader global trends of the past few decades. Obama was just highlighting this to a group of wealthy Californians who might not understand the underlying bitterness and resentment that many people in this part of the country feel, but don't often have a legitimate outlet to voice it.

I guess in Hillary's twisted mind, folks are happy about getting fucked in the azz by trade deals like NAFTA. In fact her crew has another trade deal they're just itching to pass -- Columbia.

Damn right folks are bitter, dumb motherfucka!

I was at that event last Sunday in SF. Like others I talked to, I thought he gave a great talk, and was at the very top of his very considerable game. Turns out it made all sorts of news was made -- Obama's point that he doesn't think he needs to bend over backwards to pick a "foreign policy" veep; the "revelation" that he'd visited Pakistan while in college; and now this. Partly this is that Mayhill reporter person from Huffington post was there and characterized his talk in breathless terms; don't know if the recording was with candidate's permission or not. But it was a good, thoughtful talk. And its dissention

Our bullshit 24/7 acontextual snippet-ry punishes candidates for departing from the blandest of bromides.

Since when did it become Taboo to talk about the Guns, God & Gays crowd? Oh. When a black dude is doing it.

Could these words hurt Obama politically - maybe.

Are they true? absolutely.

I was born and raised in Western PA - everything Obama said is on the money and I doubt if PA residents would disagree. They would say it themselves.

They DO say it themselves, whenever I go home. Maybe they'll think Obama's incredibly insightful and distrust Hillary because it's so obvious that she's pandering to them.

After all, just because they're bitter, doesn't mean they're stupid.

Well, I was born in Western PA also.

I can tell you with certainty that people were very religious (and some loved their guns) long before there were job losses. How dare he say they've turned to religion because times have been tough. Insulting.

I'm sure the voters in PA there will be lining up for him after knowing they have been psychoanalyzed by a Harvard educated latte sipper, especially in front of San Fran billionaires.

That's one of the most honest thing I heard from a politician in a long long time, though blunt I must admit.

In fact it speaks a lot less about small towns and lot more about the government

But again, as I just saw on the feature from David Brancaccio on PBS- small town low income Americans (less informed voters) are now used vote against their own self-interest.

Republicans have been using the same one liner horse race B.S. for years now.

Hillary is becoming a serious predatory politician.

Obama made these remarks in Indiana today:

"When I go around and I talk to people there is frustration and there
is anger and there is bitterness. And what's worse is when people are
expressing their anger then politicians try to say what are you angry
about? This just happened - I want to make a point here today.

"I was in San Francisco talking to a group at a fundraiser and somebody
asked how're you going to get votes in Pennsylvania? What's going on
there? We hear that's its hard for some working class people to get
behind you're campaign. I said, "Well look, they're frustrated and for
good reason. Because for the last 25 years they've seen jobs shipped
overseas. They've seen their economies collapse. They have lost their
jobs. They have lost their pensions. They have lost their healthcare.

"And for 25, 30 years Democrats and Republicans have come before them and said we're going to make your community better. We're going to make it right and nothing ever happens. And of course they're bitter. Of course they're frustrated. You would be too. In fact many of you are. Because the same thing has happened here in Indiana. The same thing happened across the border in Decatur. The same thing has happened all across the country. Nobody is looking out for you. Nobody is thinking about you. And so people end up- they don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody's going to help them. So people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on. But they don't believe they can count on Washington. So I made this statement-- so, here's what rich. Senator Clinton says 'No, I don't think that people are bitter in Pennsylvania. You know, I think Barack's being condescending.' John McCain says, 'Oh, how could he say that? How could he say people are bitter? You know, he's obviously out of touch with people.'

"Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain--it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he's saying I'm out of touch? Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt after taking money from the financial services companies, and she says I'm out of touch? No, I'm in touch. I know exactly what's going on. I know what's going on in Pennsylvania. I know what's going on in Indiana. I know what's going on in Illinois. People are fed-up. They're angry and they're frustrated and they're bitter. And they want to see a change in Washington and that's why I'm running for President of the United States of America."

You just can't "un-say" what has been said. No amount of explanation can help him out of this.

As Molly Ivins used to say - Know the first rule of holes----"when in one, stop digging."

What's so wrong with what Obama said--it's the goddamn truth! A very wise man wrote a rather famous song 26 years ago which opens with the lines:

"Born down in a dead man's town
First kick I took was when I hit the ground
Been like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up."

That was 26 years ago and what's changed since then?

Once again, Obama is exactly right about something. Can we as Americans not handle the truth anymore? God help us!

Jimmylutherking:

You say: "You're a liar. If you spent any time at all in Western PA, you would understand that he's right on."

I spent 21 years in Western PA. I grew up there. I know western PA way better than you do. So don't call me a liar. You just don't like what I say.

There is an element of truth in saying the people there are bitter. There have been job losses. They don't trust government in some ways. Most people are religious there, and love their hunting.

On the other hand, saying that people turn to religion and gun loving as a crutch because times have been hard, is stupid and insulting. They hold these thing dear in good times and bad.

It really shows that Obama has no understanding of them at all.

Not smart Senator Obama. Gotta watch out for the BITTER ordinary whitefolks. God Bless Revered Wright while I'm at it and Louie FaraCAN. For the sake of it add Mrs. Obama who is now proud to be American. Of course Senator you forgot your vacation in Pakistan in the 80's in 2 books. Of course you are so honest it must just slipped your mind, I mean three weeks in Pakistan...

Another Obama F-up:

"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 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.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Obama the Empty Suit.

Americans don't need a president who can't open her mouth without running whatever she says through 12 different focus groups. Americans don't need a president who desperately grabs at anything she can in an attempt to keep her campaign alive, and who resorts to the politics of fear and division to do so.

The ONLY reason I'll vote for her if she's the nominee is the Supreme Court. And I guarantee you that she'll be death to the party on the Congressional level. We won't pick up as many seats this fall and we'll lose a ton in '10. She can't even run her campaign--how the hell could she run the country?

I agree with Bill Clinton--I'll vote for the candidate who makes me hope and think, who's honest and inspiring. That candidate is sure not Hillary Clinton. And pathetic attacks like the one she launched today make me feel that more strongly than ever before. Obama's right--SHE and McCain are the ones out of touch.

True that HRC quoted Republicans in her press release about this? Typical, unfortunately.

jweb271....this is not about me.

After reading through all the comments I feel better, except I do not know what to think about the small handful who wrote nasty, petty remarks about Obama. It seems to me that anything Obama does will never be good enough for you.

Obama has faults, Clinton has faults and McCain has faults. But Clinton's supporters seem unwilling to look at her faults. And frankly I find that too reminiscent of the first few years of Bush in the WH. Once his became evident it was too late, he was already in office. Voters believed Bush -- although I cannot imagine why.

If we blind ourselves from the truth or stay in denial our problems will never be solved. No one is perfect! If we refuse to see a candidate's faults, if we refuse to look at the problems in this country, if we refuse to admit our own faults, then we are stuck in a never-ending loop.

If Hillary does not win -- even though there is not much difference in her's and Obama's policies -- many threaten to vote for McCain. That is regrettable. You will regret a McCain presidency. He is not a moderate. I do not know if you believe that is showing loyalty to Clinton or what, but i personally feel McCain will be just like Bush on steroids!

Hillary & Bill demand loyalty. Bush and Cheney demand loyalty. Blind loyalty is ruining our country. Have you forgotten that loyalty is to our Constitution not to an individual!

Having said that Iam not equating Clinton with Bush. What Iam saying is that look at HRC for who she is and what she is doing -- if you approve, fine support her. But at least know what to expect.

Know that criticism and hatred are completely different.

Criticizing Barack Obama is one thing, demeaning his character is quite another.

Ooops. Meant to reply to first (same) sangry Obama about losing his lead to McCain article.

Can I blame the gamma rays? that combined with black lipstick just threw my posting all off.

Okay, even if I can't, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Just like I hope that Obama rightly (not Wrightly) sticks to his very correct assesment that some people in America are pretty ticked off and yes, bitter by this point. I know I am. 8 years of Reagan, 4 of Poppy, and 8 of Dubya have made me pretty darn bitter.

Gee, more than 80% of Americans think America is on the wrong track. The median wage has actually decreased the last five years, and that's not even corrected for inflation. And income disparity is at it's worst level since the Great Depression. Not to mention skyrocketing foreclosures, falling dollar, record energy and food costs, increasing employment

But obviously Obama is way off base calling people "bitter", which obviously means that they're a bunch of Al Qaeda terrrrrrrrrists that sell "the weed" to little kids. It couldn't have anything to do any of that other stuff. He's just an effete snob that regular Americans (and we all know what I mean when I say "regular") that love the bowling.

I mean, how much could he possibly have in common with normal folks given the amount of money he and his spouse have made these last seven years. Am I right?

Oops! That wasn't a very smart thing for Obama to say. He also brought in gun control and gay rights, both of which issues are more than a little ticklish for him. Not a good move. And then to get angry over it and refuse to apologize to the people he put down. Well, I guess it's time to give another thirty-seven minute speech. Maybe he can bring it down to our level so all of us unenlightened working folks can understand what he was really getting at. Carl Rove was right. Arrogance may be his Achilles heel.

Why is everyone on here focusing on the "bitter" thing? People are upset that he said that they cling to guns, religion, bigotry, and anti-trade sentiments because they lost their jobs. I mean, even a quick glance at any right-wing place makes that pretty clear. Does noone here really see how we could get upset at that part?

I see the video from Indiana and I think Obama hit a triple if not a home run. I think he spoke the truth in California, the only problem was his choice of words and phrasing. But he has clarified his remarks and added some new spice to it.

Here is what I see. In his talk in California, he lay the fault for the failure of the past 25 years directly at the feet of the two Bushes and Clinton, and of course they are fuming...hence the strong response from both camps. This is a boon for Obama because now the working class Democrats can see Clinton as aligned with the Republicans on economic issues, and that is exactly what Clinton does not need to win PA and IN.

Maybe I'm wearing rose colored glasses, but I see Obama gaining some leverage out of this dustup.

After listening to Obama's response, my husband and I cheered. You are damn right people have a right to be bitter. Hey, Senator Clinton -- take a short hop across the Susquehanna to say to those of us in the Soutehrn Tier who haven't seen you in months. Remember us? The people you have been promising to help for the last six years. Please.

When he goes around and talks, the MSM kisses his whatever, except for FOX which actually reports news and has the rating to show for it unlike the "offical Obama Cable Network: MSNBC," home to Tweety and Olbertwit.

The empty suit Senator Obama, sees dem white folks as bitter religious gun loving. OK, I'm for that. I am a bitter, wealthy, whitefolk from PA. PA Results: Clinton 61% Obama 37%.

Obama and his proud to be an American wife need to return to Pakistan or wherever he vacationed for 3 weeks without mentioning it in his two books and take the crazy uncle Reverend Wright and his buddy Louie Farrakhan with him. Hopefully, he's run for PM there.

Aryan Nation Racist Scumbags:

Such as Matthew Weaver, Gotalife, Marginal Player, Jodyphile, and their ilk, rush to help Hillary Rambo Clinton, The Heroine of Tuzla, in her hour of need.

Hillary has become so desperate that she has stopped pandering to the party base, and is now pandering to the basest racist vermin in the nation.

Just when you think Hillary can sink no lower, she proves you wrong once again, by limboing (or should I say Limbaughing) under the belly of a snake.

Joan Walsh of Salon is not exactly what you would call an Obamabot, and if anything she leans Clinton. But she has an article up about the "bitter" kerfuffle. Thinks Obama made a mistake in his original remarks but his comeback is "awesome."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/

It's incredible to me that you see Obama gaining leverage on this "dustup".

What have the Republicans used in the last two Presidential elections to win the economically depressed rural and small town votes. They have used God, Guns, and Gays, That is how they conned a lot of those voters into voting against their own economic self interests. So while they were duped into being afraid of Gays, and that someone would take away their hunting rifles, all bullshit, the Republican Robber Barons were free to steal them blind, ship their jobs out to near slave labor nations, and bleed the nation and the middle class to death.

Senator Obama speaks the truth. If the voters who have been conned into letting the the Republican Robber Barons, and NAFTA and Columbia Trade enabling Clintons, do not accept the truth of what has put them in their current desperate plight, then so be it, but at least they will not be in a position to complain that had not been told the truth by Senator Obama.

If they can not handle the truth, then Hillary and McCain will tell them all the lies that they can swallow, while they fall further and further into a great economic depression.

God, Guns, and Gays, will not make Their Grapes of Wrath taste sweet.See how the Racists scream when they get exposed. What a bunch of gutless cowards those Aryan Nation types really are. All they cling to is the color of their skin. They have such low self esteem, that they elevate their pigmentation level to some thing that make them feel superior.

Deep down inside, they know that is not the case, but if they accepted that truth then they would have to also accept that they are chronic losers, and might have to actually do something about it, instead of scapegoating other races, religions, and ethnicities. They had nothing to do with how they were born, but they keep blustering about it, like they believe that they actually created their selves.

They truly are just a Confederacy of Howling Dunces.

Hillary is toast. Just ignore her from now on. Focus on exposing McCain for the Bush third term candidate that he truly is.

If you like all of George W.Bush's domestic and foreign policies, then you will absolutely love John McCain. He wants to continue all of Bush's agenda.

How has that worked out for you, Middle Class Americans?

Barry Obama = empty suit with a website.

Also:

Barry Obama = empty suit with a website = black hole where your donations went

Don't vote for Barry Obama because you don't like him. Don't vote for Barry Obama because BARRY OBAMA DOESN'T LIKE YOU.

Nah nah nah nah
Barry Obama
Hey hey
GOODBYE!

Okay, it's starting to look like "liam" had his morning nap. He's sounding almost reasonable.

If you guys want to beat McCain you have got to develop a grown-up message. That whole race-baiting thing may work in some circles, but 92% of African Americans is still only maybe 24% of the electorate. The faux victim thing just won't cut it.

You need ideas, not blah-blah-blah. Right now all you've got is an empty suit chanting "Change... Change... Change..." while you sit glassy-eyed in front of your TV screens and computer monitors going, "Ooooooooo...."

Get some ideas, get over yourselves, and get ready for the real ride. If Clinton's calling out the Dear Leader gets your panties in a wad, you're going to pee great big puddles once the Republicans get going on him. Hell, Rove has all of you spouting his hatred. Do you think the Repubs haven't also learned that lesson - and learned it better, since most of them are grown-ups?

well done obama! always screwing yourself over before a primary. i assume this latest spew was as the result of trying to write his own speech or going without a teleprompter? hope and change indeed!

hahaha!!!

obama = empty suit. sorry, barry, you screwed yourself over big time. hope you like the taste of that size 13 foot.

nah - problem is barack obama is an arrogant prick. thinks the presidency will be handed to him on a silver platter? nope. glad his true colors are coming through, and now he'll lose PA with even larger margins. hope and change indeed!

Clinton said:

"I saw in the media it's being reported that my opponent said that the people of Pennsylvania who faced hard times are bitter. Well, that's not my experience.

I live in Pittsburgh, and while people here aren't exactly bitter, they know they know that when the steel industry collapsed, there were winners and losers, and the winners did nothing to help out the losers. Instead, steel workers were told that they had made bad career choices.

In reality, the picture is a lot more complicated -- the steel industry was sacrificed to steel companies that were diversifying and treated steel production as a cash cow, rather than something that needed investment; to unions that viewed steel as a source of unending wealth rather than agreeing to more flexible work rules; and a government that provided little investment help for the industry, while the governments of our competitors provided lots of subsidies.

The result is that some people had to scramble really hard to find new livelihoods. For the most part, the area has recovered from its state in the late 70s, but I don't doubt that some people are still a little bitter about the way that the steel industry was sacrificed.

So, I think Obama's a lot closer to understanding what people here think than Clinton. My prediction is that the harder she hammers on this, the more out of touch she herself looks.

More double-standard crap from Hillary and her pack of weasels. Isn't it amazing how Sen. Clinton can laugh off real lapses of memory and total twisting of the facts, yet she has the gall to call Obama an "elitist" for remarks that correctly define how small town America has been treated by the political machine for the past twenty five years - through Republican and Democratic control of the Oval Office and Congress. Obama hit the nail squarely on the head when he cited how many Americans can become bitter, losing faith in a political system that only comes to them once every election cycle for their votes and then promptly turns their back on these same people - even when they are are in need - to cozy up to powerful vested interests in Washington DC. Sen. Clinton treats small town America as nothing more than chattel, and she only listens to the well-heeled and big-time donors and special interests.

I listened to Obama's remarks about "bitterness" and watched the faces of the people in Indiana who attentively listened to his speech. As he spoke, people were nodding their heads in agreement, long before the delivery of the concluding remarks. Our nation has not had a leader who empathizes with the average American's plight. We know John McCain is incapable of being that kind of leader. Sen. Clinton's demonstrated behavior and flip-flopping and pandering is the best insight she will not be much better than McCain.

I truyly hope Hillary gets her ass kicked in the remaining two months.

I believe Obama has already won the Democratic nomination because it would take the same kind of miracle that Bush desperately/delusionally "hopes" for in Iraq for Clinton to attract the votes of superdelegates. That being said, I am a Democratic, and if Clinton gets her miracle, I will vote for her as the lesser evil. But personally speaking, it will give me great satisfaction when Obama defeats her. She has become everything I despise about politics and politicians. She doesn't deserve to win. She deserves to lose. She deserves to feel all the angst and self-recrimination that self-defeat warrants. But more importantly, she deserves a great deal of the blame if John McCain becomes president. For that, the Democratic Party should shun and condemn her. She is single-handedly destroying the Democratic Party's chances of winning the presidency. No one could have guessed she would been such a maliciously destructive loser. She should be condemned and shunned by all loyal Democrats for her betrayal of trust.

Wait a second. I just found out that Obama made these statements about small town USA not only in front of elitist rich people in Pacific Heights...

But it was a fundraiser at a multi-millionaire's mansion with many millionaires present and the media was disallowed. So, he was speaking as though no one else would find out.

The mansion is owned by multi-millionaire "Pakistan native and ardently Muslim Sohaib Abbasi (CEO of Informatica)"....

Here. Look at all the pictures of the string of millionaire and billionaire fundraisers Obama went to in San Fran:

http://savagepolitics.com/

http://www.zombietime.com/obama_visits_billionaires_row/

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He didn't just say people are bitter because they lost jobs.

He said people in small towns in PA and the mid-west cling to their guns, and their God, and they don't like anyone who is not like them, and they don't like immigrants, and they are against trade.
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He called small town USA a bunch of gun-toting bigots and xenophobes who are isolationist religious zealots and bitter people.