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  • Obama defends comments about bitterness in small towns

    04/11/2008 7:54:25 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 174 replies · 452+ views
    The Chicago Tribune ^ | April 11, 2008 | John McCormick
    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Sen. Barack Obama was criticized Friday by his two fellow presidential candidates for statements he made recently at a San Francisco fundraiser that could be viewed as derogatory toward rural America. "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 Sunday, according to the Huffington Post web site. "And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate...