Obama is fighting back against Hillary nauseating pandering and opportunism. She tried to take advantage of the criticism of Obama over his "bitter" remark. Now Barack is turning the tables on her. These remarks were made yesterday in Steelton,Pennsylvania:
Obama, who still holds a nine-point advantage over Clinton in the nationwide Gallup Poll, is battling back fiercely against Clinton, trying to regain the offensive after the disclosure of remarks he made at a San Francisco fundraiser that suggested working-class people are bitter about their economic circumstances and "cling to guns and religion" as a result.
On Sunday, Obama reiterated his regret for his choice of words at the fundraiser but suggested they had been twisted and mischaracterized.
He said he had expected an assault from Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain, but had been "a little disappointed" to be criticized by Clinton, mocking her vocal support for gun rights and saying her record in the Senate did not match her words on the campaign trail. The issue is likely to arise again Monday when both men address the annual meeting of the board of directors of The Associated Press in Washington.
"She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her," Obama told an audience at a union hall here Sunday.
Obama noted that Clinton seemed much more interested in guns since he made his comments than she had in the past.
"She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment," Obama said, referring to the U.S. Constitution amendment that covers gun ownership rights.
"Hillary Clinton is out there like she's on the duck blind every Sunday. She's packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That's some politics being played by Hillary Clinton," he said.
Clinton has told campaign audiences that she supports the rights of hunters. Saturday, she reminisced about learning to shoot on family vacations in Scranton, where her father grew up. She's also said she once shot a duck in Arkansas, where she served as first lady.
More from his speech yesterday:
"I just have to remind people of the track record," Obama said, noting Clinton accepted campaign contributions from PACs and drug and insurance industry lobbyists, which he does not.
"This is the same person who took money from financial folks on Wall Street and then voted for bankruptcy bill that makes it harder for folks right here in Pennsylvania to get a fair shake. Who do you think is out of touch?" Obama said.
"This is the same person who spent a decade with her husband campaigning for NAFTA, and now goes around saying she's opposed to NAFTA," Obama said, referring to the North American Free Trade Agreement that is widely unpopular in blue collar communities.
Obama is a victim of his atypical politician plain talk. Unlike Hillary, he doesn't depend on talking points. This is (as a talk show pundit pointed out this weekend) politicians always mince words. You get in trouble for speaking your mind honestly. The media jumps all over it every time. This from Alternet:
So now, Barack Obama tells the truth about conditions as we know them -- that the countryside and the small towns are dying in many places in our country, and that the corporatocracy doesn't care enough to do a thing about it. He points out that immigrant-baiting, gay-baiting, gun-baiting, and religious pandering have helped to destroy those towns and that countryside, that those being destroyed have been cynically enlisted by their very own destroyers to provide the votes that help accomplish the destruction. And this is what Senator Hillary Clinton says about it: "Senator Obama's remarks were elitist and out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans."
From Senator Clinton's remarks, I infer that to actually see what has gone on in the US in the last 20 years is unAmerican. It doesn't matter who you are, where you were born, what you pay in taxes, what else you might have contributed to the culture, how you vote, who you support. If you don't support fundamentalist religion, job outsourcing, and free access to guns, then you are not even American.
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