Posted on 04/12/2008 2:02:30 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
Facing a severe backlash for comments made in San Francisco regarding voter "bitterness" in Pennsylvania, the campaign of Senator Barack Obama(D-ILL) issued this statement in an attempt to diffuse the brewing firestorm:
"We wish to clarify remarks made a few days ago in San Francisco regarding the bitterness being experienced by voters in Pennsylvania. We assumed there would be a level of sophistication on the part of the people of Pennsylvania who we thought would understand that a black man, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii, who is Ivy League educated and never spent a day in his life living in small town America, would know what is best for them. Clinging to guns, religion and self-reliance as a way of venting their bitterness over being out of work the past 25 years, about the state of the economy and the direction of the country in general is not the way to go about implementing "change". They simply don't understand that we know what's best for them, their state and their futures." Continuing, "In the future, when addressing these individuals, we promise to use smaller words and shorter sentences so they will understand, conform and appreciate someone looking out for their best interests. In closing, we adamantly refute the terms "elitist" and “condescending”. We are not; We simply know what's best for them."
Developing..
Somehow I can see Obama’s campaign staff saying something like that and truly believing it’s OK.
LOL - loved the satire.
You would think the doofus would get tired of backpeddling and trying to explain what he “really meant” and stop making such foolish statements in the first place.
What am I saying?!!!!!! I WANT this guy to crash & burn.
Keep flapping your yap, Obie
Issued a statement.
Of course.
God forbid he actually come out and face questions about it himself!
Obama is a gaffe wrapped in a platitude wrapped in an empty suit.
OH, i see the story content is a joke.
well so is Obama!
No doubt there will be some lame statement issued soon.
‘backpeddling’
If and when the voters send him packing- he’s going to be one heckuva unicyclist—
“What I really meant to say was that it’s not surprising that ignorant rural REPUBLICANS embrace guns and God instead of big government, like the intelligent people do.”
This assclown socialist just gets better by the day. The pile of reasons why this liberal nut case should not get near our beloved White House just keep piling up -— I have lost count....do numbers go that high??
Not only his staff. The super wealthy he was speaking to believe it and pay good money for the privilege of hearing it.
Just Like Howard Dean, they are obsessed with guns and God and how to remove them.
He forgot the pickup trucks.
Please COPY if you want to circulate it, but don't LINK; it uses my bandwidth.
“..We simply know what’s best for them.”
Very chilling words. He reminds me of Lenin, Stalin, Hiler, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot. I never thought that America could produce such a misfit, but considering his background the country should not be surprised.
the article is satire, but with his attitude, it’s completely believable he or one of his minions would say something like that..it’s exactly what will sink him in flyover country..
What’s this “clarify” cr@p? Does he think we also don’t understand English either?
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "Bitter"? "Clinging to Guns"? No, "Dumb as a Box of Rocks"
I can’t remember which Freeper put it so perfectly but, to quote “You can’t unring tha bell.”
The sound waves are still echoing throughout those small towns. I can hardly wait to see how PA responds.
Barack Obama is an insecure, elitist, racist asshole, who shouldn’t come anywhere near the oval office, ever....let alone the senate.
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