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It's pretty clear that Clinton is distorting Obama's positions on several issues.  I can't imagine where she came up with Obama saying anything close to that the majority of American people have been better off under Bush than they were under Clinton.  Do you know where she is getting anything about Obama saying something about "bitterness," because she uses that meme several times?

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem
by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 03:56:56 PM EST
[ Parent ]
In remarks first reported on the Huffington Post Web site, Obama 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 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 going to regenerate and they have not," he went on. "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."

link

by BooMan on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 04:02:32 PM EST
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Thanks, I found more context as well.  His response sounds like more of what I would expect from Obama than that of the spokesperson cited in your diary:

before a raucous crowd in Terre Haute, Ind., Friday night, Obama not only repeated many of the same lines, he expanded on them.

"When I go around and 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, and politicians try to say, 'What are you angry about?' "

"Of course they're bitter. Of course they're frustrated. You would be, too -- in fact, many of you are," Obama said.

He also addressed the same social hot-button issues that Clinton and McCain pointed to as evidence of elitism. "And so people don't vote on economic issues, because they don't expect anybody's going to help them. People are voting on issues like guns, are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. They take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and the things they can count on. But they don't believe they can count on Washington."

Obama also returned fire on both his critics. "Here's what's rich: Senator Clinton says, 'I don't think people are bitter in Pennsylvania. I think Barack's being condescending.' John McCain says, 'He's obviously out of touch with people.' Out of touch? John McCain, it took him three tries to figure out 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. . . . People are fed up. They're angry and they're frustrated and they're bitter, and they want to see a change in Washington."



A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem
by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 04:27:35 PM EST
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But will the media show this?  So far as I've seen they've only been talking about his apologizing for using the words "cling to."  In fact, I heard on NPR's All Things Considered the host dubbing this "Bittergate"!
It's up to us. We need to flood -- and I mean of Johnstown and Katrina proportions combined -- the newspapers, ombudspersons, radio stations, national AND local, to showcase this response.
Do it soon. And do it often.


"Listen, nowadays you have to think like a hero -- just to behave like a merely decent human being"
by jhngwa on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 12:54:36 AM EST
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we're not done with Hillary. There's this little matter of her trustworthiness: on Colombia and Bosnia, her $109 million haul over 8 years so she needs to change the subject.

2008 Rural PA and guns: First Read, MSNBC

Hillary is saying 2nd Amendment a matter of Constitutional rights

"I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Senator Obama made about people in small town America.  Senator Obama's remarks are elitist and they are out of touch," Clinton told the factory workers. "They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know -- not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York. You know, Americans who believe in the 2nd Amendment believe it's a matter of Constitutional rights."

Apparently Hillary misspoke

Flaskback:

1999: NYT -Hillary Clinton Appeals For Gun Control Lobbying

"Stepping up the Clinton Administration's campaign against gun violence, Hillary Rodham Clinton used an emotional White House ceremony today to call on Americans to press Congress to ''buck the gun lobby'' and pass several gun control measures."

(emphasis added)

Damm. Archives Hillary girl. Which is it?

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 04:34:43 PM EST
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