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P.K. McBurroughs @ 2:

Heh.

Yeah, well, I think folks are barking up the wrong tree if they think THIS is what's going to bring Obama down.

You'd have to be blind, stupid, delusional, OR insanely Republican to believe that there ISN'T an awful lot of bitterness out there.

Please, FOX---keep talking about this "issue." Then we WILL find out who's "out of touch" with blue collar Americans.

PLEEEEASE!

DITTO!

in 1991, bill clinton said the following

You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

is this much different than what obama said??? and no matter how hillary, the repugs or mcfeeble try to spin it, the wingnuts have used god, guns and gays in order to keep this part of the population controlled....use fear...it works every time

this will not destroy obama's campaign

he will be the next president of these united states

As I said in an earlier post, I'm from "small town PA". I grew up outside of Harrisburg. Obama was 100% correct. It's the people of the talking head class on Fox "News" and the other members of the pundit class who are the elites and are out of touch with us.

Ahh...now it has come full circle. The liberal media and the right-wing media are all working together to get the same person elected.

listening to the "Compassion Forum" on CNN earlier... the pennsyvania election coverage after... hillary isn't the only one who wants to keep beating this dead horse... as campbell brown said "it's not going away"... to which i replied to the tv "because YOU're not gonna let it"...

barack made the point that to imply that he, who worked with the inner city poor, was elitist was ridiculous...

i wish he would point out that the reason hillary wanted to talk about this is to DISTRACT away from bill's latest columbia deal, and other choice stories...
she had to shut him up about the bosnia trip, again, but brought him out to play attack dog, again...

So Hillary and Her NEW Screech are reaching FOX ( who is working for WHO?)....and yeah , I just blogged on this too, because People ARE Bitter- and why can't we be Bitter ? it's NOT Patriotic to be Bitter ? we have lost alot these past 7.5 years....Fine that have been sent to Iraq, people that have lost jobs...50 Million people that don't have Health Insurance ? Millions that have lost jobs thanks to the Clinton's NAFTA debacle....ALL those people hurt or harmed or hurting have every Right to Be Bitter...whether Hillary likes it or not.

finding blue collar workers who don't like and don't trust career politicians is like shooting fish in a barrel. I really don't see what the big deal is about here. Obama called 'em out, Hillary and McCain. I really don't see how an accredited journalist can get so "shocked" over his simple comment.

WHO? WHO? WHO? Was the (I presume) Fox News interviewer in the first clip with the 30-year PA resident in sunglasses? (Pardon me for shouting::: WHO WAS SHE?)

And why couldn't she take YES for an answer?

J.C. @ 15:

Just once, I'd love for one of the elite, out of touch pundits who live in the isolated world of D.C. politics admit that they have NO idea how people in small town America think and feel. Just once! They make me crazy with their arrogance and stupidity and how they get away with, day after day, being completely wrong about how "common" people are going to react to something and NEVER get called on it. And it sure as hell doesn't hurt their careers one bit. In fact, it seems the dumber and more wrongheaded you are, the better it is for your career. In what other career are you rewarded for being bad at your job? What a racket! I wish I was I had an IQ low enough to get one of those jobs.

The thing is, they do know what small town Americans are feeling, and they don't give a f**k. I just watched most of "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" and was so "bitter" I couldn't finish. To anyone buying into this bullshit story I want to say Thanks for letting the media pick your next pResident. They are counting on the stupidity of their viewers to buy into it. They sold the war didn't they? Are they reporting on bush and his admitted war crimes? No they aren't. Why would you want to believe them now? They have NO credibility left for thinking people. THEY keep saying how he is being attacked for this. What they aren't saying is that it is mostly them doing the attacking. This is deliberate.

it's not "funny" nicole. it's true. people are bitter.

Geno in Ptwon @ 14:

Fox News: News for old men over 60

I'm serious, if people think that Fox News is "real" news, you have to be pretty stupid. Unfortunately, the rest of the news media is not that good.

Only a handful like Olbermann, Seymour Hersh, Charlie Rose, and Bill Moyers are actually real reporters.

Huh? I'm over 60 and I don't even consider them a news channel. The other talking heads aren't much better except for K.O. and maybe Abrams.

This is exactly the same thing they were whining about when Reverend Wright's comments became public. Someone made a comment along the lines of "America isn't as good as it should be, and we should work together to improve our country," and the media starts labeling Obama with -isms.

Phil @ 17:

I think Hillary is looking bad over this. I was okay with either candidate before, but now she is raping the Democrat's general election chances to score points over Obama... She would have risen in my estimation if she had backed her fellow Democrat over this BS.

Agreed, and I think it's a gross miscalculation by her. Not only does she know he's right, and WE all know he's right, but she has to know that the only parts of her speeches that she's going to get heard on the evening news and the pundit shows are the parts where she attacks Obama. That gets fatiguing very quickly. Poorly played and not a winning hand for her or the party.

I'm hoping that Hillary's very transparent and disingenuous politicking backfires. Senator Obama spoke the truth. Why mince words and try to sugarcoat what Americans are feeling. People in this country ARE bitter, and with good reason.

BIGBONEDED @ 25:

Typical ignorant Fox interviewer laughs at the black mans families names and doesn't and never will get that what Obama said was true and not condescending in any sense of the word . Fox is really losing it and I for one , of many am really enjoying watching their long over due implosion they are fooling fewer and fewer people all the time and I love it..

I wondered if I was the only person who caught that giggle. Who is really out of touch here? Surely that is Fox News.

Embittered American named Janet @ 21:

J.C. @ 15:

Just once, I'd love for one of the elite, out of touch pundits who live in the isolated world of D.C. politics admit that they have NO idea how people in small town America think and feel. Just once! They make me crazy with their arrogance and stupidity and how they get away with, day after day, being completely wrong about how "common" people are going to react to something and NEVER get called on it. And it sure as hell doesn't hurt their careers one bit. In fact, it seems the dumber and more wrongheaded you are, the better it is for your career. In what other career are you rewarded for being bad at your job? What a racket! I wish I was I had an IQ low enough to get one of those jobs.

The thing is, they do know what small town Americans are feeling, and they don't give a f**k. I just watched most of "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" and was so "bitter" I couldn't finish. To anyone buying into this bullshit story I want to say Thanks for letting the media pick your next pResident. They are counting on the stupidity of their viewers to buy into it. They sold the war didn't they? Are they reporting on bush and his admitted war crimes? No they aren't. Why would you want to believe them now? They have NO credibility left for thinking people. THEY keep saying how he is being attacked for this. What they aren't saying is that it is mostly them doing the attacking. This is deliberate.

I get angry whenever I hear the phrase "Critics are saying..." or "People are saying..." That's so dishonest and deceiving. If they had a shred of honesty and integrity, they would say "Pundits are saying..." or "Republicans are saying..." or better yet "Republican pundits are saying..."

J.C. @ 28:

Phil @ 17:

I think Hillary is looking bad over this. I was okay with either candidate before, but now she is raping the Democrat's general election chances to score points over Obama... She would have risen in my estimation if she had backed her fellow Democrat over this BS.

Agreed, and I think it's a gross miscalculation by her. Not only does she know he's right, and WE all know he's right, but she has to know that the only parts of her speeches that she's going to get heard on the evening news and the pundit shows are the parts where she attacks Obama. That gets fatiguing very quickly. Poorly played and not a winning hand for her or the party.

It seems to me that she can't defeat him in the primary without destroying his future prospects as a politician. They don't have much difference between them on a lot of issues, so her only argument is that he would make a bad President. If he loses the primary and runs again in 2012 or 2016, he still won't have the executive experience she says is so crucial(which should get no media play at all after we elected W), but he will be saddled with every Republican attack Hillary used against him in the 2008 primaries.

When the gentleman explained why he moved from NY/NJ to PA and mentioned the names did you hear that snicker from the off camera interviewer ?

What was so funny about his partner and their kid's names ?

Hey Bigboneded I didn't see your comment at first. What is wrong with these faux news bubbleheads?

Many years ago, I hitchhiked across the U.S. and found that it was middle class and poor folks that would give me rides, often even invite me into their homes for a meal and give me a place to sleep. They knew what it means to have little, and yet they were willing to give and share what little they had. Not once did a wealthy person stop for me.
These folks from Pennsylvania remind me of them. They have more decency in their hearts than most, if not all, of the overpaid pundits and pols who are busy playing politics with their lives. You can be damn sure they understood what Obama said and they're not buying the interpretation Hillary is selling.

Obama should not worry about the screamers on TV. Just tell the truth.

no longer a proud american @ 33:

OPEN NOTE TO HILLARY: IN YOUR QUEST FOR THE DEM nomination, you're pulling out all stops on questioning what obama is saying and the meaning of what he is saying. you are using whatever you can to your advantage, but hillary look at your bedfellows. that's fox news sitting beside you. if you're going to win then do so without losing your integrity. if you're going to lose, then do so with dignity. Hillary, when you do things like this, you are reminiscent of your friend joe lieberman. LOSE WITH DIGNITY and don't take down the democratic party's hopes of winning this election with you. Think about it and do the right thing. then step down with dignity. you're fighting a losing battle and you're allowing mcaca to escape unscathed while the in-fighting between you and obama is everything the right wing pundits could have ever hoped for. is rush your buddy as well? or savage or hannity and combs.

If I may add that she also sat in Mellon-Scaithe's office and ranted about Obama as well as sending her hubby out to lie on Obama as well.

WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM!!!

As a Canadian, I view this new "Controversy" for Barack Obama the same way that I see the Wright controversy: factually accurate, but politically absurd. Like the Wright controversy, I have a big feeling of disgust for those thinking that this reflects on Obama badly. The comments made by Wright, while over-the-top, were in no way factually wrong. The only problems I had with the statements were that linking 9-11 to Hiroshima was quite a stretch, and that as an Atheist, I did not like the inclusion of religion. The first problem is negligible simply because it was simply to make a point, and the second is irrelevant, because Wright was going after a moral truth, and it was not his faith that I view as influencing the speech, but rather his emotion and life experience.

A way to end all this Obama is an elitist bs... Talking heads for Obama should equate "elitist" with "uppity." Then sharply condemn Hillary and McCain for suggesting he's uppity.

I'm from PA and I am bitter.

BTW- Allentown and Philly are not rural nor "small town". Can't Fox tell the truth about anything?

Peter G @ 32:

BIGBONEDED @ 25:

Typical ignorant Fox interviewer laughs at the black mans families names and doesn't and never will get that what Obama said was true and not condescending in any sense of the word . Fox is really losing it and I for one , of many am really enjoying watching their long over due implosion they are fooling fewer and fewer people all the time and I love it..

I wondered if I was the only person who caught that giggle. Who is really out of touch here? Surely that is Fox News.

I caught the laugh too. In the context of what the man was talking about, I really do not see how we can interpret the laugh as anything but a reaction to the names mentioned in the interview. Now...maybe if it was a laugh combined with a "Wow, congratulations," I might be able to view it as just her saying something like "Awww, heh" but that is not what happened.

But I guess it is my job to be offended by Obama because Fox News has decreed what I am to think.

The only thing that bothers me about Obama is that he says things that are absloutely right on, then backs down as soon as the media starts to spin them. Of course people are bitter, and ignorance may lead them to vote based on religion or gun control or hate. They did that when they were not bitter too, so what's the big deal. He doesn't need to back down. Tell it the way it is for a change!

Speaking of being elitist, didn't Hillary say a few months ago that she doesn't listen to voters? Didn't she dismiss all the "little states"? Didn't Bill Clinton once talked about "insecure white men"? Will Hillary repudiate her husband's comments as elitist?

Obama has started a petition in response to the BS. Follow this link and sign the letter to stop the swiftboating of Obama
http://pa.barackobama.com/page/s/paletter>

I agree with the poster who noticed that CNN spent little time interviewing members of the actual audience after the event to get their reaction to what they heard. My guess is they did, and decided that what they heard is not what they wanted to report.

Allentown (106,000) is hardly a "small Penn. town". But be that as it may, you can find two people to say "up is down" if you look long and hard enough.

Look, bottom line...it's not whether the "people" think its "elitist". The MSMN will make sure they hear that meme 100 times a day.

It was an incredibly stupid thing to say and it just shows that Obama ain't ready to do November.

Not. Smart.

yeah, I gotta admit if I didnt get enough sleep I might mistakenly remember that there were snipers at a meet n' greet at the airport..stuff like that is easily mistakenly claimed..in fact so tired that it was told FOUR times ..PLUS at varying times of the day and one time read from a prepared script. If you throw in being a key player in the North Ireland peace negotiations( those there ,like that pesky winner of the peace prize, must have been very tired too because he doesnt remember it that way at all..along with all others) and the family medical leave bill (courtesy of Dodd/Hatch and others)which had been vetoed by George the First, was signed by Bill Clinton SIXTEEN DAYS into his first term...whew! the tirednes can cause hallucinations ya' know.... I have never heard of someone telling stories(plural) about snipers and running, heads down, to a car on the tarmac because they were TIRED, its called lying and repeating it says even more about how stupid she must think people are..or maybe they were too tired to learn of Youtube..google it. Is she too tired to notice her and Bill's bank account growing by $800,000 courtesy of the govt. of Columbia in their lobbying money to bring more NAFTA disasta', while she says she is against it? Hillary needs to unplug that 3 am phone line and get some sleep.

Just shows how irrelevant FucksNews is to reality. Wonder how many people they went through to get someone who said what they want to put out there as anti-Obama propaganda.

What Obama said is the reality on the ground that has to be faced by the shrinking middle class of this country. He was right on, as the person in the first clip indicated. I know that I am bitter as a result of our current administration's criminality and incompetence, and what it has done to our Constitution and civil rights.

But moreso, I am bitter at the lack of courage shown by a majority of the democrats when they became the majority in both the House and Senate in 2006. Every time bush wanted them to bend over and open up so he could ream them, they complied, almost willingly. Time for a complete cleansing of the US Congress.

Shannon @ 66:

This flap wa always created by the Media, for the Republicans and against Americans.
NO ONE asked small time Americans if there was a problem with Obama's comments before reporting a problem with Obama's comments.
When the MSM heard no outcry from the quote, they rephrased the quote to sound more offensive(remember Al Gore's invention of the internet?).
This needs to be called out for what it is:
A shameless media attempt to smear Obama through selective and misquoted comments.

You are correct, Shannon! Perhaps this time, finally, at long last, the rightwing MSM has jumped the shark!

LOL - Barack responds to the criticisms again and call HRC "Annie Oakley"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIxmi3e2Vmo&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpos...

"Annie Oakley comes around the 4:15 mark

wijg @ 6:

I think we already know who's out of touch with lower and middle class Americans... And it isn't Barack Obama.

Exactly! The funny thing was she interviewed them before she turned the cameras on and she still didn't get it -- We The People are pissed!

Fuks news sucks!

BitterJohnny2Bad @ 63:

Allentown (106,000) is hardly a "small Penn. town". But be that as it may, you can find two people to say "up is down" if you look long and hard enough.

Look, bottom line...it's not whether the "people" think its "elitist". The MSMN will make sure they hear that meme 100 times a day.

It was an incredibly stupid thing to say and it just shows that Obama ain't ready to do November.

Not. Smart.

So who *is* ready to "do November"? Obama's missteps have been few and overblown by the media (and his critics who back other candidates). At this point, nothing he says will go without being criticized as "devastating," though the issues are ridiculous and being replayed ad nauseum only because so many people are interested in him.

Alright, so what of his opponents? How many times has McCain put his foot in his mouth and essentially *handed* the Democrats ready-made attack ads for November? How many Independents or former Obama supporters has Clinton won over with her divisive attacks on Obama and her obvious lies about her positions on, for example, NAFTA (against it after she was for it) and taking "sniper fire" in Bosnia? Think she's ever gonna get any Republicans to vote for her? Think she'd pull down more than 30% of the vote?

Given where the meaningful missteps are truly coming from, I'd be curious to hear who you think really is ready to be elected. Neither Clinton nor McCain offer this country anything but 4 more years of tone-deafness and decline. If we pass up this opportunity, we damn sure deserve what we get--a major recession, 4 more years of Iraq, more indebtedness, more outsourcing, AND two political parties that will never compromise for the good of their constituents. It may already be too late.

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