12 reasons 'bitter' is bad for Obama [something that makes you sound like a clueless liberal.....]

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.

LongTimeMILurker said:

These people can’t stop because radical is what they are and who they are.

Courtesy Comment:

Nice response, I think you may have hit the nail square on the head.

These worn out old liberal sixties hippie wannabes cut their teeth on Acid, Marijuana and Boones Farm Strawberry Hill and just never got over the feeling that they could lose their troubles with a couple hits on a joint or another love affair.

Guys my age have always suffered from the preachers’ kid syndrome of never quite living up to others expectations nor the quiet sustainable accomplishments of our parents.

In the end I see the accomplishments of my father as not all the new fangled ideas coming in the last 50 years but the rock-solid 68 year marriage to my mother and the ability to feel comfortable with a house not quite big enough but yet the mortgage was paid in full.

Many looked at our forties parents and said that their outdated monotonous life isn't for me and then went out into the world ill prepared to handle life's problems.

With that said, a caveat must be recorded that it was not the current crop of liberal 60’s hippies that got us into a war the Democrats in power refused to let our military fight and win.

LongTimeMILurker said:

government workers who produce nothing act like they are
superior to the people who they are taking more and more money from but who can’t find decent jobs anymore but still pay high taxes of every kind on much less.

Courtesy Comment:

That is the problem as I see it.

The pay scales are inverted.

It was never meant for government workers to set the high end of pay scales for various job skills.

Working for the government was the last resort when there were no civilian jobs available.

Some politicians feel government should compete, salary wise with every major corporation when it comes to hiring the so-called top worker in every field.

California is learning its liberal lesson as have other states about being top heavy with high salaried, look good but do nothing management that is unmanageable.

Maybe it is just my crappy outlook on the current economy but the Eastern business schools over the past 30 years have not done all that good of a job producing management personnel.

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