Obama Says Some Voters Are Angry, Bitter »

Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 6 months ago in News

In the midst of an assault from his rivals, a defensive Barack Obama said Friday that many working-class Americans are angry and bitter over economic inequalities and have lost faith in Washingtonââ;¬"and, as a result, vote on the basis of other issues such as gun protections or gay marriage.

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    rumple4skin1 year, 6 months ago

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    You have, along with Fox 'news' experts, latched onto a conversation and taken it totally out of context. Funny things about words. You can spin them to satisfy any agenda. This is another attempt to smear Obama. That's all. I would suggest to the Obama machine to search out the person who spirited comments recorded at this event and, if they are on his staff, fire that individual. I am very suspicious about the source of this recording. I believe what he said is true. Nothing racist, elitist, or condecending ... just a true statement of reality.

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    Georgia501 year, 6 months ago

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    So explain the context:

    "People don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody is going to help them," Obama said in Terre Haute, Indiana. "So people end up voting on issues like guns and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. They take refuge in their faith and their community, and their family, and the things they can count on. But they don't believe they can count on Washington."

    The Huffington Post Web site reported that Obama, speaking of some Pennsylvanians' economic anxieties, told supporters at the San Francisco fundraiser: "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 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."

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    Georgia501 year, 6 months ago

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    In Obama's defense, it's probably not healthy to bottle up all that Rev. Wright-inspired hatred, superiority, arrogance, and hatred. He needs to vent....you know, show his true colors.

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    rumple4skin1 year, 6 months ago

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    You spin his context. I don't have the time or intrest. Keep on beating the Rev. Wright dead horse if it pleases you and gives you comfort. "he would like all of us to attend a church like his." This is silly! Get as grip, please, and take a cleansing breath.

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    walden31 year, 6 months ago

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    It seems pretty obvious to me what he said and what he meant. To me it demonstrates that he knows nothing about small towns and that he thinks he is better then people that live in small towns and knows better than small town folks.

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    doppich1 year, 6 months ago

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    The "context" - as I see it - is that he was explaining to some California bankrollers just who is responsible for his coming loss in the PA primary. It's not his fault, he says, it's the fault of those white, xenophobic, religious gun nuts in small town PA.

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      cowboygrandpa1 year, 6 months ago

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      I don't trust any of them. They are all snooty upper cruster's looking to control the greatest nation in the world.

      btw. I love my freedoms and gun ownership. I also love my freedom of choice in religious beliefs which I will vote for.

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        jrlecato1 year, 6 months ago

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        This is the problem in this country. WHITES are racist and anytime a BLACK leader tell them so they cry FOUL!!! OH, we know it's the truth ,but you can't tell us!! WHAT the ******!! The only people that have a problem with what OBAMA said are RASICT and WHITES(or more RACIST)!!

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        bluenote15221 year, 6 months ago

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        Obama should stop talking. There is a time to pedal and a time to coast. He will be in trouble once he gets the nomination but for now he should coast. He is a wild card rookie and out of his league but for gosh sakes shut up.

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          mmrhe1 year, 6 months ago

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          He's correct to say such voters are bitter. He is wrong to say those voters are then apt to be distracted by political tactics. These people are probably the least likely to be distracted. It's the so called Christian Conservatives who I would argue have been "distracted" the most!

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          rumple4skin1 year, 6 months ago

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          Further to that ... I am angry, and bitter about the mess America is finally realising: discovering that the results of this presidency, congress, and the senate are beating their incomes into the ground. I'm angry because, even though gas prices are through-the-roof, I must pay the piper and go to work to pay for an increasing bite of my income. I am very bitter and angry and I do not live in PA! (I endorse my comment.)

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          most_reasonable1 year, 6 months ago

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          CNN and MSNBC are not doing the coverage this deserves. Obama didn't use a Poor choice of words, he simply let his true feels out, the kind that he and Michelle and Rev. Wright feel.

          Obama a uniter, like Bush is uniter. Everyone in the country now hates Bush; but the country has time to avoid another mistake like Omaba bin Bush.

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          most_reasonable1 year, 6 months ago

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          Obama you are ruining the Democrat party, drop out now before you do more damage.

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          most_reasonable1 year, 6 months ago

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          He should just get on TV and explain that the voters in rural Pennsylvania are simply TYPICAL white trash, the kind he would let into his black only church.

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          most_reasonable1 year, 6 months ago

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          Because I am.

          It's time that the networks took off their cloves and gave Obama what he was asking for. I watched MSNBC and the anchorwoman complained how t was unnecessary for everyone to examine every statement with a fine tooth comb, while she spent all of the past two weeks playing and replaying the attacks on Hillary.

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          Will13131 year, 6 months ago

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          Really if you're NOT BITTER about what the government.. all government has done to the country since WWII.. then you simply are NOT PAYING ATTENTION..

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          motivator9111 year, 6 months ago

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          obama thinks people are dumm just so happens when he came to pa we called him on his own intelligence and he got a failing grade he cant handle the heat its time he got out

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          motivator9111 year, 6 months ago

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          ok who is editing my posts someone with some it privelages likes obama hussien

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