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[Kuros]

[stillnotking]

This was a very bad remark, and the argument over whether it's true or not is irrelevant. You don't open a dialogue with someone by telling them what's wrong with them. That just provokes defensiveness. Also, it's an inappropriate generalization; people have different reasons for their beliefs, and obviously not every xenophobic reactionary is motivated by bitterness. (What's Rush Limbaugh's excuse?)

The idea that this is going to kill Obama's campaign is just laughable, though. You'll recall that the people now saying that were the same ones saying it about Jeremiah Wright. Obama's going to misstep, misspeak, and screw up. Everyone does that sometimes, and I don't think any of us would come out looking like angels if we had half the nation's reporters and bloggers analyzing our every word and gesture. Americans are smart enough to understand that.

[Kuros]

[jkelly80]

If McCain can get away with his g**k comment and Hillary with her fabrications on Bosnia, this will prove to be small potatoes.

[Milwaukiedave]

[VanIslander]

"Bitter? We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore!"

[Milwaukiedave]

[agentX]

[R. S. Refugee]

In Muncie, Indiana Saturday morning, Obama was counterpunching, as he should be� explaining and expanding on his remarks:

"The problem is our politics doesn�t let the American people get heard. People know that it�s not easy solving some of these problems but they want to feel like at least someone is fighting for them.

It�s interesting. Lately there has been a little typical sort of political flare up because I said something that everybody knows is true which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois who are bitter.

They are angry.

They feel like they have been left behind. They feel like nobody is paying attention to what they�re going through.

So I said well you know when you�re bitter you turn to what you can count on. So people they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community.

And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country or they get frustrated about how things are changing.

That�s a natural response.

And now I didn�t say it as well as I should have because you know the truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation those are important. That�s what sustains us

But what is absolutely true is that people don�t feel like they are being listened to. And so they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families. You know this in your own lives. What we need is a government that is actually paying attention. A government that is fighting for working people day in and day out making sure that we are trying to allow them to live out the American dream. And that�s what this campaign is about. "


http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/14/8284/

[R. S. Refugee]

At a time when 81% of the country thinks we�re heading in the wrong direction (aren�t these people bitter?)

[Milwaukiedave]

RS,

Thanks, I happened to find it at a Kool-aid party I went to while chanting Hillary hating slogans.

*sarcasm*

Actually I found it while reading one of political message forums.

[R. S. Refugee]

[R. S. Refugee]

The ARG polls can be unreliable and another survey, by Temple University in Philadelphia, gave Mrs Clinton a nine-point lead.

.......

Most steelworkers questioned by The Times said that the furore was an irrelevant distraction. Indeed, in a part of Pennsylvania that should favour Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama�s speech was far more warmly received.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3745785.ece

[Pligganease]

[jkelly80]