"It's not surprising then they get bitter. They cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy to people who aren't like them, just like my cracker Grandma."
Posted on 04/12/2008 9:09:39 PM PDT by neverdem
Senator Barack Obama fought back Saturday against accusations from his rivals that he had displayed a profound misunderstanding of small-town values, in a flare-up that left him on the defensive before a series of primaries that could test his ability to win over white voters in economically distressed communities.
For a second day, Mr. Obama sought to explain his remarks at a recent San Francisco fund-raiser that small-town Pennsylvania voters, bitter over their economic circumstances, “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” as a way to explain their frustrations.
Acknowledging Saturday that “I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he explained his remarks by focusing on his characterization of those voters’ economic woes. He meant, he said, that voters in places that had been losing jobs for years expressed their anxiety at the polls by focusing on cultural and social issues like gun laws and immigration.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton activated her entire campaign apparatus to portray Mr. Obama’s remarks as reflective of an elitist view of faith and community. His comments, she said, were “not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans.”
Mrs. Clinton suggested that Mr. Obama saw religious commitment, hunting and concern about immigration as emotional responses to economic strain rather than as deeply embedded values.
“I grew up in a church-going family, a family that believed in the importance of living out and expressing our faith,” she said at a rally in Indianapolis. “The people of faith I know don’t ‘cling to’ religion because they’re bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich.”...
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“It could mean he’s rendered himself unelectable,” Mr. Saunders said. “This is a perfect example of why Democrats lose elections.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
His greater problem is that many more people understand his core beliefs.
According to DU, Obama is going duck hunting in PA after church with his grandmother!!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"It's not surprising then they get bitter. They cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy to people who aren't like them, just like my cracker Grandma."
You can’t unring the bell you racist idiot. You dropped your guard and let your true feelings spew out and now you have to stand in the pile of crap you laid for at your feet.
I find it so funny that politicians have to spend so much time backpeddling every time they open their pieholes. “Oh I didn’t mean it that way....” “I was misquoted....” “I used a bad choice of words, what I really wanted to say was....”
He says that he just didn’t use the right words. So, this is the product of an education from Columbia and Harvard? Not much of an endorsement for the education that one receives from those institutions.
“ ...or antipathy to people who aren’t like them”?
Come to think of it, Obama and his latte lib donors, the ones who asked for tips and pointers on how to handle us flyover Pennsylvania rednecks, aren’t much like me, hayna? Or no?
Front page on the Sunday NY Times!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.” -— (Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, 1952)
Not ill-chosen; revealing.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
KEEP Talkin’ Obama.....please....keep talkin’
It seems that he meant exactly what we thought -- and that is the problem. Social issues are not an afterthought for people who are anxious about the "real world".
Indeed. I graduated from a state university and can articulate my thoughts better than this elitist tool.
Except, being a typical white person, won’t she be scared when she sees Obama with a gun?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Dumbo really thinks that all people will abandon God and freedom for a handout. Just some of them, Barry, no way all!
Ill-chosen my tuchis. Do you think Hillary or McCain could have run off a list of stuff inner-city Philadelphia Blacks turn to because they’re “bitter” and explain their racism away by saying “those words were ill-chosen?”
Senator Obama, you are an arrogant, elitist scumbag. Get Bent.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
bump with no comment.
Obama = Racist, Marxist, Muslim, Anti-American, Black Radical....enough said....pretty straight forward...
Bullsh!t.
The typical American voter forgot this:
And this:
And this:
This country is finished.
I would suggest that he quit now, go back to IL and be a currupt State Senator, with a wife who earns big bucks.
LOL. He better duck, next it's water skiing in the everglades. Typical.
SnobObama is still spinning like a top
Some of the nuts on DU are contending this incident was a very positive thing for Obama?!?
Well said. They can't understand it because their heads are full of nonsense ala Rev. Wright, Saul Alinsky, Marx, etc. Billary's attempt to exploit this blunder is interesting.
I hope this helps to destroy the donkeys - as in blows them up to smithereens. We need a loyal opposition for a change.
LOL!
What I love is that this is from the guy who claims to “pray to Jesus every night.” Which is it OVomit, are you a proud, devout Christian like you have recently claimed, or are you something else who suggests that bitterness is what drives people to “cling” to religion?
On a positive note, I am enjoying watching him grab shovel after shovel and keep digging!
All this is coming out at the wrong time for us, as it can only help the witch, who is by far the worst outcome for all of us. I am out of breath saying “take her out now, then him later”. I’m not sure the reverse of this is possible.
The obligatory “I’m-running-for-president-duck-hunting” photo op.
What is McCain looses?
Who is the least dangerous of the two as president, Hillary, or Obama?
I say Obama is far more dangerous.
Nope, I predict he’ll die the death of a thousand cuts before our eyes on November 4th.
Not bloody likely. After all, she's a typical white person and she ain't going anywhere with a black man toting a gun. Even if he's only half black!
A liberal piece of crap paper like NY times carries this on the front page ?! Wow. That’s gonna leave a mark.
Obama has, happily, reached a point of no return , of sorts. You are going to see a “new Obama” of necessity, and it ain’t gonna be one who can even get a nomination, let alone win the Presidency. He has gotten into so much trouble with his words, his wife’s words, his Pastor’s words, that he will either have to revert back to his vacuous “change” speeches from 2-3 months ago, or hire a speechwriter. Either one will sink him, he’ll find it impossible to adapt with his own personality to something
he should already be beyond at this stage in a campaign/
He’s now facing an unnatural phase where he has to present himself in a way no one is used to, and that will make his house of cards come tumbling down.
He’s dead.
They had a poll over there “Who is Bitter?”
About 50 of them voted they were “bitter” ... only 2 voted the option that they “were happy”.
LOL
I see it just the opposite-—all this is making Hillary more moderate.
Grandma’s going to church. Obama’s going duck hunting after church with her. Michelle has planned a picnic.
Just shows you how deranged, condenscending and elitist those people are. Their elitism just ticks me off to no end. Where do they get off looking down on hard working folks in middle America ?!
In the fall we will either face Obama or a Dem party that's been bisected, with the live half pumping arterial spray all over the landscape.
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