PA Bitter Voter5:29PMApr 15th 2008

This makes me proud to be an American. It describes me and my friends exactly. You got our vote!

"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."

Miss Babs5:43PMApr 15th 2008

With Obama, we'll end up with another President who says "tah" instead of "to"!

Informed Voter5:45PMApr 15th 2008

I believe that a candidate is elected by the majority of the voters nationwide. How could the superdelegates select Hillary when Obama is 10 points ahead in the national polls? The "bitter" small town Pennsylvanians are getting tired of Hillary talking more about Obama than the important issues. I guess we aren't surprised by this because Bill Clinton promised us everything and delivered nothing in the 90's.

Logan5:57PMApr 15th 2008

Hmmm, he said the folks are bitter, and it gets news. Well I think these folks have been saying it for quite some time, but hey, they are just voters. Many PA voters were not bothered because now you clowns are listening to them. They have been griping for years and the current administration has been ignoring them. Now Obama says it too, and oh my, controversy. I watched FOX news a few days back, and the reporter asked an older resident if he was bothered by the comment and he said no because he was bitter. Bitter at the current state of his state. He was bitter because all these folks come through his state making promises to the people of PA for heir vote and they don't follow through. He said wasn't voting for Obama but he most assuredly was in full agreement with Obama. Lastly, clinging to religion. Correct me if I'm wrong but does not the Bible say that you should cling to your faith in God in times of Tribulation. Pray to God in your time need. Yep, you schmucks are trying too hard to crush this man, makes me wonder. He's still not getting my vote, at least not now, but my dad would say, you can tell a lot about a guy by his enemies. Hmmmm, folks who want to move jobs over seas and take them from Americans don't like him. Oil companies don't like him. Drug companies don't like him. The rich don't like him. Hmmm, a lot of people who enjoy stepping on and standing on the backs of middle and poor Americans don't like Obama. Food for thought.
More words from good ole Logan

Hako5:59PMApr 15th 2008

Silly season must last all year now. Every time Obama sticks his foot in his mouth it's Silly Season. There are two reasons why voters continue to support Obama: stupidity and blind-loyalty. Despite his close relationship to Pastor Wright , his friendship with Bill Ayers (the Pentagon bomber) his thin resume and his arrogant, preachy, elitist attitudes, his followers smile. These voters seem no more likely to change course when they are making a mistake than George Bush is. There are some people that will go off a cliff first before admitting they were mistaken about something. There are others that are so blindly loyal they would stay with Bush or Obama if either one were caught eating a live baby. I AM capable of changing my mind, like most logical people, and already have this election year as I learned more. Obama's supporters seem obsessed with him becoming President, and NOTHING he does or says will make them reconsider their decision.

JOHN6:09PMApr 15th 2008

During a Michelle Obama appearance at Carnegie Mellon University, the school paper The Tartan reported the attention-getting phrase:
The Tartan's correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, "Get me more white people, we need more white people." To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though."

"I didn't know they would say, 'We need a white person here,' " said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. "I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn't know it would be so outright."

Katherine6:26PMApr 15th 2008

Nah, he said people in small towns like in PA and in the mid-west don't like anyone who is not like them and they do not immigrants and they cling to guns and religion because they are bitter.
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I'm going to say something nasty:

Are people too dumb to realize that they are being made fun of? Or too desperate to defend Obama that they will compromise their American ethics?

You all are cool with him making fun of poor working class people in front of a lot of millionaires on billionaires row in Pacific Heights CA where there were no cameras at a private fundraiser?

You do not see how NASTY and condescending that is. It is EFFING elitist.

C'mon now. G Forbid McCain said that about poor blacks.

Have you people lost it?

Ya'll didn't read the transcript.

It was Barack Obama's response to "Why do you think you are having trouble getting the working class vote?"

At first he joked that he was a black guy called Barack Obama.

(Millionaires laughed.)

He was INSINUATING that they were racist xenophobes. THEN he said what he said.

Here. Look at the people he was trying to STROKE:

http://www.zombietime.com/obama_visits_billionaires_row/

Greg Jones6:28PMApr 15th 2008

From: BLACKS4BARACK.org

Hillary/Media's 'bitter' tactic against Obama desperately PITIFUL !

Here we go again ! When the campaign started in 2007 Obama was said to have not been 'black enough' as per the media as they touted Hillary's 82% support from Black Americans. The Clinton camp scrounged and dug as deeply as they could to find some kind....ANY kind of smut they could use against Obama, even searching as far back as his kindergarten writings. Couldn't find a thing. Then as Americans of all races learned more about the real Clintons, while learning more about the great qualities and capabilities of Obama, the inevitable was no more. So the Clintons (and the media) decided if they couldn't find anything negative on Obama, why not search through video tapes of Obama's preacher. Yea ! That's the ticket. So they scrounged and searched through years and years of video taped sermons and found a few somewhat harsh statements from the preacher....looped them all together....played them on the news 1 or 2 million times, in hopes that they could paint Obama as this anti-American-black militant type person....exactly what he is not (maybe they forgot he's also half white). But, polls showed their masterminded plot to be ineffective. Now what ? Ahhhhh. Obama makes a statement discussing how many Americans are fed up with government failures and are 'bitter'. The Clintons....McCain....the media....ALL decide....here's something we can jump on top of.....Obama called Americans 'bitter' ! So he's an elitist out of touch with real America!




This is the weakest attempt so far. How in the world can they try to claim that a little black boy who's father left at age 2....raised by a single white mother...so broke at times that she was on food stamps....a boy who grew up and went to college through grants and scholarships....riding to school daily in a ragedy jalopy.....just recently paying off his student loans thanks to proceeds from a book he wrote....(entitled 'The Audacity of HOPE') who's entire life has been devoted to helping the disadvantaged....the poor....sick....the struggling....THIS IS AN ELITIST ?




Hillary, McCain and the entire media should be ashamed of themselves for this weak, pitiful attempt to literally make-up truth. They should be concentrating on REAL facts such as the 109 million the Clintons have made during the last few years...or the 300 mill McCain's wife is worth.....or what about Hillary's secret religion known as 'The Family' which CNN didn't ask a single question about in the so-called religious forum...or what about her election fraud case going on right now in California? Did we mention McCain's wife's stealing of drugs and her rehab stint ? There's so much more....it's pitiful !




The fact is.....Obama is about as elitist as Hillary ducked sniper fire in Bosnia....Stay focused people. They are all (Hillary, McCain and the media) getting more and more desperate everyday. That's a real good sign !

Greg Jones
Visit: BLACKS4BARACK.org (Official Site)

Nett6:37PMApr 15th 2008

I'm from very small town PA, and Obama gets my vote. We've been promised health care reform since JFK and it hasn't been done. I say, give the new kid on the block that knows how to fight for those of us who are truly not elite a chance to change Washington. Let's git 'er done here in PA! VOTE OBAMA!

John6:41PMApr 15th 2008

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Katherine6:44PMApr 15th 2008

STROKE EM Obama...tell them all about those small towners.

http://www.zombietime.com/obama_visits_billionaires_row/

DH7:02PMApr 15th 2008

Now Obama is trying to smooth things over saying how can he be an elitist when his single mother was on food stamps. I guess if you are a single mother, you are considered down and out?

Obama was brought up in Hawaii, educated at Punahou School, an expensive private school,a school where kids of well to do affluent families attend. Then went on to other private colleges.

I doubt if he ever did without.

ruthe7:14PMApr 15th 2008

obama is right people are bitter he tells the truth hillbilly will tell you anything you want to hear i'm tired of liars in the white house enough of the clintons and the bushes andPULEEZE LOU DOBBS YOU IDIOT STOP TEARING DOWN OBAMA BECAUSE HE'S SMARTER THEN YOU

Katherine7:28PMApr 15th 2008

ruthe:

You Obama supporters are straight up DUMB.

Read my earlier posts. Ya'll don't even know the way of the world. You don't get who Obama was talking to and why.

So sick of Obama supporter stupidity. Ya'll a bunch of RICH ASS SNOB BIGOTS TOO?

Kiss OFF.

Katherine7:30PMApr 15th 2008

Yaaaaahhh, blah blah blah...

What Obama said was TRUE....small town USA folks don't like anyone who is not like them and they don't like immigrants!!! It's true!!


WHO TF are you people? You interviewed millions of Americans?

LWeb97217:50PMApr 15th 2008

What part of not electable do the DNC, the Super Delegates, and the Obama supporters not understand? He will get killed by a landslide in November. The Republicans will destroy him by using not only what we all know about him now but things Clinton won't use against him. Anybody who believes Carl Rove isn't somewhere in the background directing traffic is way out of touch. Why would a junior senator gain as much as he did in such a short time? The Carl Rove-Rush Limbaugh effect. Republicans became Democrats for day to vote in those early primaries just so they could pick who they would face in November. They know McCain will drub Obama. They don't want any part of Clinton, and it's ironic the Clinton they are fighting against is not Hillary, it is still Bill!

vlg7:52PMApr 15th 2008

Does this sound Presidential to you?

"political silly season"

"somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on"

"that's silly talk"

"punished with a baby"

Obama's words.....what can I say?

Katherine7:56PMApr 15th 2008

I had to share this:
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Responding to the statement that 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,” here are my thoughts.

Small town America does not fear immigrants or close themselves off from people. In fact, small town America is where there are still people who don’t lock their doors.

Small town America is the nurse who cares for her neighbor with a heavy heart. It’s the farmer who plows his neighbor’s fields when he’s too ill to do it himself. It’s the teacher who goes home at night worried about the student that she can’t seem to reach.

Small town America is the father working two low-paying jobs to make up for the one he lost. It’s the mother who watches her neighbor’s children and counts on neighbors to watch out for hers. It’s the church goers who have spent generations expressing their deep rooted faith in the building that their ancestors built by hand, as a group, side by side, with the money donated from the labors of the people in the small town.

Small town America doesn’t cling to guns. They learned how to hunt to provide for their family years ago. They didn’t learn how to kill their neighbors with that gun, though.

Small town America doesn’t ask for handouts, but often extends a hand.

Small town America is the backbone of the working class.

We are not desperate. We are proud. We are not bitter. We are the values, the faith, and the foundation that built this country.


by pmckenna at 4/15/2008 10:24:21 AM

Chuck8:06PMApr 15th 2008

I would not care if Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim – he is not.
After sixteen years of scandals what this nation needs is a national cheerleader.
Congress and the senate make laws.
This nation needs someone that will lift us up and work toward national unity.
The Clintons would never be able to accomplish that.
It’s time that this nation become color blind and tolerant of all people regardless of ethnicity, religion, and political beliefs. That is why this conservative Republican is supporting Barack Hussein Obama.
Why not John McCain? Because he is more of the same…..
But if the Clinton’s pull it off I will support John McCain….

Chuck8:06PMApr 15th 2008

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I’m ready on day one because of all of my experience.
I dodged bullets in Bosnia.
I never had sex with that woman!
A poor woman died because the hospital turned her away because she did not have $100.
More Clinton lies.
She says trust me.
Bush & McCain kept looking in our eyes and saying trust me - there are weapons of mass destruction.
Over 4,000 precious lives and no weapons of mass destruction.
Should we trust another lying politician? - Not me!
My vote is for Barack Obama.
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