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Clinton Team Lunges at Obama, Hunts for Opening Over Small-Town America Remarks
Hillary Clinton and her surrogates are lunging at Barack Obama over his controversial small-town America comments, attempting to create a flash point with working-class voters potent enough to revive her campaign, with just 10 days until the crucial Pennsylvania primary.
Clinton called Obama’s remarks “elitist,” “demeaning” and “out of touch” Saturday morning, and high-powered supporters followed up by claiming the comments would damage everything from Obama’s credibility to his electability in a general election.
“I found his remarks undercutting his message of hope … he suggests that somehow the faith of those who live in small towns is superficial,” said former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack on a Clinton conference call Saturday with several Pennsylvania mayors who said they were offended by Obama’s comments. The Illinois senator said rural Americans “cling” to issues like religion, guns and anti-immigrant beliefs out of bitterness over lost jobs.
You know what seriously annoys me about he who must not be middle named’s (HUSSEIN) remarks? I have lived in very large cities (Houston, Dallas), I have lived in medium sized cities (Hampton, VA, Milwaukee), I have lived in rural towns (Waupun), and I now live in the middle of nowhere (somewhere in TN), and without a doubt, it’s the large city folks who are the most bitter and angry. Why? Well, first off, a good chunk of them are Democrats, and evidently, don’t have faith or guns!
The more church (REAL church, not that so called organization B. attends) involved people are, the happier they are. Well, you might have one or two that has a burr up their hind ends, and NOTHING ever makes them happy. You know the type, got a complaint about whatever comes up. I’ve found that they are usually registered Dems too. Odd.
Now, I’m not saying that ALL Democrats are unhappy….I’m sure there are one or two….somewhere. It has been my experience, though, most are kind of testy.
They were prying open an image of an aloof and insulated candidate that Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer who consistently leads among wealthy and well-educated voters, has tried to fight.
I find that statement to be a tad contradictory. Well educated, at least in my mind, means well informed. Guess that doesn’t apply here though, does it. I reckon they mean someone who has a few letters behind their names….although, I haven’t found a lot of them to be all that smart. 
It’s an attack Clinton is trying to make stick, when little else will.
It does seem that no matter what comes to light about this guy, it all kind of slides off, doesn’t it. That’s one of the reason I question that “well educated” business.
And when the controversy over Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., posed what likely was the biggest threat to Obama’s campaign to date, Obama weathered the storm and bounced back in the polls. Ahead of Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary, he’s narrowed Clinton’s lead in the state to single digits.
Again…”well educated” or just drugged on the poised Kool Aid?
“The far right wing has a very good track record of using things like this relentlessly against our candidate, whether it’s Al Gore or John Kerry,” he said. “And I’m afraid this is the kind of fodder they might use to really harm him with.”
What a lame excuse! Is it our fault that the Boracle has the personality of a fruit fly, and couldn’t convince voters he wasn’t Bill Clinton? And John Kerry? It was what came from his own mouth that did him in, the right just made sure it was made very public.
Obama on Saturday morning said he chose his original words poorly. He told the Winston-Salem Journal that “I deeply regret” if anyone was offended by the remarks.
The guy reads off a teleprompter, so someone had to write the words to put on that contraption, right? Either he wrote them, or one of his lackeys did and he approved. When he speaks off the cuff, so to speak, he tends to put his foot in his mouth. He’s making his own “fodder”, just like Bore and Kerry.
About Sen. Obama being “well educated”, my dear old dad has a saying about people like him. “He (She) appears to be educated beyod his (her) intelligence”
Oh, so VERY well put! Know a few of those m’self.