Posted on 04/12/2008 11:48:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
MUNCIE, Ind. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's flagging campaign has been given new life in Pennsylvania and beyond after Barack Obama was forced into a second day of damage control Saturday for calling small-town Americans "bitter."
Clearly sensing the opening, Clinton pounced on Obama's comments in some of the harshest language of the campaign Saturday, blasting her rival as "elitist" and "out of touch."
For his part, Obama opened the day by acknowledging only that he chose his words poorly. But by midday -- and his fourth attempt to clarify his statement -- the senator had moved closer to contrition, expressing "regret" for the words even as he stood by their substance.
"If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that," Obama told the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal. "The underlying truth of what I said remains."
The remarks came at an April 6 fundraiser in San Francisco, when Obama said workers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere who have seen factories shut down "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."
They surfaced at a particularly bad time for Obama, as he battles Sen. Clinton for the same blue-collar, economically stressed voters he was talking about. They're a key voting bloc in Pennsylvania on April 22, but also in upcoming primaries in North Carolina, Indiana and West Virginia.
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I’ve given digg a long run-out but it is hopeless - populated by pedantic unreconstructed socialists who bash others for their lack of ‘knowledge’ while placing stock in every conspiracy theory known to man.
It’s a cliche by now to say digg posters haven’t spent much time in the company of women but no other conclusion can be drawn.
IMO, he wouldn’t be spinning if he didn’t need “their” votes.He just thought he was in a safe place among his peers and “they” would never know about it.Bad judgment,O.
What he was sayin was that they should be like him, an empty suit who will do and say ANYTHING to get elected.
What a POS.
I think you mean "bible-thumping" not bashing.
Then you don't disagree with me at all - we are definitely in agreement.
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