Posted on 04/12/2008 3:25:14 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
The possibility of a Clinton comeback was looking far-fetched. But operatives in both parties were buzzing about that possibility Saturday following the revelation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told wealthy San Franciscans that small-town Pennsylvanians and Midwesterners “cling to guns or religion” because they are “bitter” about their economic status.
Obama at first dug in on that contention Friday after audio of the private fundraiser was posted by The Huffington Post. Altering course, on Saturday in Muncie, Ind., he conceded that he “didn’t say it as well as I should have.” And he told the Winston-Salem, N.C., Journal that “obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that. ... The underlying truth of what I said remains, which is simply that people who have seen their way of life upended because of economic distress are frustrated and rightfully so."
Here is what he said April 6, referring to people living in areas hit by job losses: “[I]t’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.”
The Obama campaign contends that coverage of the San Francisco remarks is overheated and distorted. One aide said that “any logical analysis” would make it obvious that the brouhaha will not “change the pledged delegate count” — the key to the Democratic presidential nomination.
In fact, this is a potential turning point for Obama’s campaign — an episode that could be even more damaging than the attention to remarks by his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, since this time the controversial words came out of his own mouth.
Here are a dozen reasons why:
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The author of this article is advised to Dream On. Obama understands his base. The Dems don’t care about this stuff. He has the nomination in the bag and will become the winner of the 2008 McGovern Award. McPain will laugh himself all the way to victory in November.
Good point. HRC agrees with Obama in private, but in public she acts “shocked” like “there’s something rotten in Denmark.” And the American people, to borrow that old line from Admiral Stockdale in 1992, are “like observers at a ping-pong match”: clueless!
Unless McPain does not let “feeling your pain” for the “little guy” mantra transcend being elected.
Don’t quite a few of those small-town Midwesterners also supply the margin of victory for liberal candidates in district and statewide elections?
So his attendance at a church is just a con. He's really just an atheist con man.
I’ve had Missouri wine that wasn’t too bad. It seens to be of a higher viscosity than California...
I had just walked into a bar in Boston (on vacation in Beantown) when the Bruins scored in OT and the Sox are winning, so everything’s coming up good tonight.
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