Deanna's Daydreamer
04-12-2008, 07:19 AM
Obama says some voters are angry, bitter By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
Sat Apr 12, 3:53 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_el_pr/obama_bitter_voters&printer=1;_ylt=AinKihDfoM6pzlTJ4gl6ii1h24cA
In the midst of an assault from his rivals, a defensive Barack Obama said Friday that many working-class Americans are angry and bitter over economic inequalities and have lost faith in Washington — and, as a result, vote on the basis of other issues such as gun protections or gay marriage.
The Illinois senator's analysis of what motivates working-class voters came after chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton accused him of looking down on such voters. Clinton rebuked Obama on Friday for similar remarks he made privately last Sunday to a group of donors in San Francisco.
"People don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody is going to help them," Obama told a crowd at a Terre Haute, Ind., high school Friday evening. "So people end up voting on issues like guns and 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 family, and the things they can count on. But they don't believe they can count on Washington."
The Huffington Post Web site reported Friday that Obama, speaking of some Pennsylvanians' economic anxieties, told supporters at the San Francisco fundraiser: "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 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."
In Terre Haute, Obama said he did describe some voters as bitter when a donor asked why working-class voters in Pennsylvania were not getting behind his campaign.
"Well, that's not my experience," Clinton told a Drexel University crowd, describing the state's residents as resilient, optimistic and hardworking.
"Pennsylvanians don't need a president who looks down on them," she said. "They need a president who stands up for them."
Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for Republican candidate John McCain, described Obama's comments as "condescending" and "out of touch."
In Terre Haute, Obama chided McCain for not responding promptly to the home mortgage crisis and criticized Clinton for voting for a bankruptcy bill supported by credit card companies.
"No, I'm IN touch," he said. "I know exactly what's going on. People are fed up, they are angry, they're frustrated and they're bitter. And they want to see a change in Washington."
Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said Friday night, "Instead of apologizing for offending small-town America, Senator Obama chose to repeat and embrace the comments he made earlier this week."
Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for McCain, said Friday: "Only an elitist would say that people vote their values only out of frustration. ... You can't be more out of touch than that."
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I have one word for you, leftists: DISASTER.
This guy will step on his d*ck... so badly...
at some point in his debates with John McCain... that the great sucking sound you hear will be 40 million votes going to the right. He's your latest DUKAKIS. Your newest MONDALE, who actually left the country for an 'extended vacation' after the 1984 elections, folks. The guy won his home state and the TOWN... of Washington, DC. Lost every other state.
Obama would never... NEVER... have happened to the RIGHT. Remember when I told you? I told you that the right would send you a candidate that was 'well thought out' and well qualified? John McCain has been a United States Senator... for like 24 years! He will mop up the floor with Obama in a debate, leftists! HE WILL. He will make the guy look silly. But Hillary is smarter than the both of them, and NOW...
RIGHT NOW... is... THE TIME...for leftists in Pennsylvania.... to stop the disaster.
VOTE HILLARY, PENNSYLVANIA!
Have you ever thought about THIS one, Leftists? If... YOU lose this one? "McCain's an old war bird-- a fossil of Vietnam" says one of you; have you thought that he might lead us right into war with IRAN AS WELL? Then you've got war in IRAQ, Afghanistan... AND Iran... and you may as well go ahead and throw Pakistan on the bonfire, leftists! What do you have then? I got news for ya, baby;-- you could have... you COULD HAVE...
(are ya ready?)
a recipe... for WORLD WAR THREE.
This might be.... THE TIME... for FEMININE INTUITION... to save the nation.
The world's OIL... is running OUT. We've got the largest generation... in modern American history... getting ready to retire; they will need medicare and social security. More than ONE THIRD of the federal budget... is going to the national DEBT, and it is RISING! That is just to pay the INTEREST on it! Soon the foreign bankers that have American debt as part of their portfolios will begin to reJECT us.
I got news for ya:
that's a three torpedo hit, mamma... to the MIDLINE HULL... of AMERICA!
We are in serious shit, and the bozos of the left
want to run a 46 year old, one term black male senator from Illinois?
Yeah....good luck with that business model.
Sat Apr 12, 3:53 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_el_pr/obama_bitter_voters&printer=1;_ylt=AinKihDfoM6pzlTJ4gl6ii1h24cA
In the midst of an assault from his rivals, a defensive Barack Obama said Friday that many working-class Americans are angry and bitter over economic inequalities and have lost faith in Washington — and, as a result, vote on the basis of other issues such as gun protections or gay marriage.
The Illinois senator's analysis of what motivates working-class voters came after chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton accused him of looking down on such voters. Clinton rebuked Obama on Friday for similar remarks he made privately last Sunday to a group of donors in San Francisco.
"People don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody is going to help them," Obama told a crowd at a Terre Haute, Ind., high school Friday evening. "So people end up voting on issues like guns and 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 family, and the things they can count on. But they don't believe they can count on Washington."
The Huffington Post Web site reported Friday that Obama, speaking of some Pennsylvanians' economic anxieties, told supporters at the San Francisco fundraiser: "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 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."
In Terre Haute, Obama said he did describe some voters as bitter when a donor asked why working-class voters in Pennsylvania were not getting behind his campaign.
"Well, that's not my experience," Clinton told a Drexel University crowd, describing the state's residents as resilient, optimistic and hardworking.
"Pennsylvanians don't need a president who looks down on them," she said. "They need a president who stands up for them."
Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for Republican candidate John McCain, described Obama's comments as "condescending" and "out of touch."
In Terre Haute, Obama chided McCain for not responding promptly to the home mortgage crisis and criticized Clinton for voting for a bankruptcy bill supported by credit card companies.
"No, I'm IN touch," he said. "I know exactly what's going on. People are fed up, they are angry, they're frustrated and they're bitter. And they want to see a change in Washington."
Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said Friday night, "Instead of apologizing for offending small-town America, Senator Obama chose to repeat and embrace the comments he made earlier this week."
Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for McCain, said Friday: "Only an elitist would say that people vote their values only out of frustration. ... You can't be more out of touch than that."
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I have one word for you, leftists: DISASTER.
This guy will step on his d*ck... so badly...
at some point in his debates with John McCain... that the great sucking sound you hear will be 40 million votes going to the right. He's your latest DUKAKIS. Your newest MONDALE, who actually left the country for an 'extended vacation' after the 1984 elections, folks. The guy won his home state and the TOWN... of Washington, DC. Lost every other state.
Obama would never... NEVER... have happened to the RIGHT. Remember when I told you? I told you that the right would send you a candidate that was 'well thought out' and well qualified? John McCain has been a United States Senator... for like 24 years! He will mop up the floor with Obama in a debate, leftists! HE WILL. He will make the guy look silly. But Hillary is smarter than the both of them, and NOW...
RIGHT NOW... is... THE TIME...for leftists in Pennsylvania.... to stop the disaster.
VOTE HILLARY, PENNSYLVANIA!
Have you ever thought about THIS one, Leftists? If... YOU lose this one? "McCain's an old war bird-- a fossil of Vietnam" says one of you; have you thought that he might lead us right into war with IRAN AS WELL? Then you've got war in IRAQ, Afghanistan... AND Iran... and you may as well go ahead and throw Pakistan on the bonfire, leftists! What do you have then? I got news for ya, baby;-- you could have... you COULD HAVE...
(are ya ready?)
a recipe... for WORLD WAR THREE.
This might be.... THE TIME... for FEMININE INTUITION... to save the nation.
The world's OIL... is running OUT. We've got the largest generation... in modern American history... getting ready to retire; they will need medicare and social security. More than ONE THIRD of the federal budget... is going to the national DEBT, and it is RISING! That is just to pay the INTEREST on it! Soon the foreign bankers that have American debt as part of their portfolios will begin to reJECT us.
I got news for ya:
that's a three torpedo hit, mamma... to the MIDLINE HULL... of AMERICA!
We are in serious shit, and the bozos of the left
want to run a 46 year old, one term black male senator from Illinois?
Yeah....good luck with that business model.