Posted on 04/11/2008 5:17:16 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
McCain camp hammers Obama on small town comments
The McCain campaign, finding a gift in its lap, tees off on the eye-opening comments by Barack Obama from a fundraiser last week in San Francisco (of all places).
Asked to respond, McCain adviser Steve Schmidt called it a "remarkable statement and extremely revealing."
"It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking," Schmidt said. "It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans."
Said Obama, as recorded by a HuffPost writer in attendance:
"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 nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. 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."
The Republicans are itching to play the elitism card against Obama, and these comments just made that task a whole lot easier.
UPDATE: Obama's camp, not confirming or even mentioning their candidate's comments, issues a statement from spokesman Tommy Vietor:
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Boy, this story is spreading like wildfire! :-)
How many articles is this now?
Ubama’s really stepped in it this time. Ha!! :-)
May Obama continue to utter his foolishness profusely.
Funny that he threw in Free Trade, that seems odd with his BS in Ohio about NAFTA...”odd” as in he is a BS artist.
This also dovetails into the Wright stuff, Che is one angry and conceited POS.
nobama..you can take your rich $$ and stuff it where the light never shines.
Let the Clintoons do the dirty work on this one.
Hilly will be appearing at several UAW organized factories here in Indiana tomorrow - we’ll see what she tells those folks.
Obama camp response:
“Senator Obama has said many times in this campaign that Americans are understandably upset with their leaders in Washington for saying anything to win elections while failing to stand up to the special interests and fight for an economic agenda that will bring jobs and opportunity back to struggling communities. And if John McCain wants a debate about who’s out of touch with the American people, we can start by talking about the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans that he once said offended his conscience but now wants to make permanent,”
Boy, that sure puts this whole thing to rest. If McCain hadn’t advanced tax cuts for the rich, Obama wouldn’t have called middle American stupid!
Did Obama say that he hated all small town folk, or just the white ones.
He needs a telepromter to order lunch without screwing up.
Reminds me of when Kerry said that if you don’t do well in high school you end up in the armed services. Obama’s handlers will have to do more coaching. We’ll see if Obamamania can overcome this. Maybe this is the break Hillary has been looking for.
They're grinning in the War Room, that's certain.
Carville must be licking his ugly chops.
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen.
Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
LAZARUS LONG
Obama is acting like the most liberal senator. His MSM bodyguards will try to spin this as out of context.
“Did Obama say that he hated all small town folk, or just the white ones.”
He probably hates them all, but he double-triple hates the white ones.
Actually, I think he hates anyone that doesn’t hate whites, even Black folks that don’t hate Whites.
Landslide!
Obama and his shrew of a wife are as bad as the Clintons...only they are more spoiled by their affirmative action success.
Typically just the White ones.
If the elitists had their way only billionaires and the government would own property. And no! I'm not apologizing for wanting illegals deported. How will letting millions of third world aliens into the USA improve our quality of life? It won't!
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