Barack Obama,  President 2008

Barack Obama Watch: 54 Per Cent Disagree With “BITTER” Comment

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Barack addresses the United Steelworkers Union in Steelton, Pennsylvania, April 13, 2008

Barack Obama Quote:

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. So it’s not surprising then that 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.

56% Disagree with Obama’s Comments on Small Town America

Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide disagree with Barack Obama’s statement that people in small towns “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.” A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 25% agree with the Democratic frontrunner while 19% are not sure.

And, look at this polling question result:

Do Obama’s Comments Reflect an Elitist View of Small-Town America?

  • YES – 45%
  • NO – 37%
  • Not sure – 18%

In the meantime, Hillary is pummeling Obama:

“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.”

This flap is achieving a life of its own.

Obama should have just apologized and moved on but he hasn’t. He is using a lame excuse that he did not choose his words wisely.

And, then goes on the attack against Hillary:

You know, there’s been a lot of talk in this campaign lately about who’s “in touch” with the workers of Pennsylvania. Senator Clinton and Senator McCain are singing from the same hymn book, saying that I’m “out of touch” – an “elitist” – because I said a lot of folks are bitter about their economic circumstances.

Now it may be that I chose my words badly. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last. But when I hear my opponents, both of whom have spent decades in Washington, saying I’m out of touch, it’s time to cut through their rhetoric and look at the reality.

After all, you’ve heard this kind of rhetoric before. Around election time, the candidates can’t do enough for you. 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.

Obama is NOT helping himself here. Some humility and contriteness MIGHT work.

Stay tuned as the “BITTER BATTLE” continues.

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