Hillary would have made more political hay if she had agreed with Obama

[panader0]

Saying that people are bitter is a true statement, a call for change, something that makes us against bushco. This flap over a word is already backfiring on Hillary. People ARE bitter and should be if they have been awake part of the last 7 years. She is desperate and it shows in this poorly thought plan to jump on Obama for a real statement.

[GarbagemanLB]

1. I'm sorry, but that would require actual class and character, and Hillary lacks both.

[Catherina]

2. I can't believe how monumentally stupid Hillary has turned out to be n/t

[flor de jasmim]

Considering how politically savvy she and Bill are supposed to be, I agree!

I don't know whether they have just "lost it", or maybe I gave Bill, at least, more credit than he deserved, but maybe it's just that blind ambition has completely taken over. Their strategic thinking is way off, and she/they/Penn or whoever is misfiring over and over. The sniper fire she was feeling is coming due, I guess.

[flor de jasmim]

16. duplicate (sorry!)

[Cha]

3. That's not what tone deaf, tin ear,

desperate hangers on, do.

[merwin]

4. For the last time, nobody is taking issue with Obama saying people are bitter.

It's the part about people clinging to religion only because they are bitter.

Some of us actually do have faith and aren't religious out of bitterness.

[MercutioATC]

10. Clinton is.

She made a point of drawing the difference between them by saying that, in her extensive travels, she has not seen bitterness.

[KittyWampus]

12. he didn't say that either, Merwin.

[merwin]

27. Sure sounds to me like he did

He said: “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. 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.”

[Bensthename]

13. You have it wrong.. Obama is also religious,, All he was saying

is people are frustrated after 25 years of lay offs, in these small towns these issues are all that you are left with.. And if he would have known he was being recorded he would have said "angered" instead of bitter (as if bitter was a bad word). And would have said "values" instead of "clings too".

This has been blown way out of context by Hillary.

[merwin]

34. It hasn't been blown out of proportion by Hillary.

Well, maybe it has, but she wasn't the one to start it. The media clung on to it as quickly as it was said and ran with it.

Aside from Faux News, the media generally doesn't care about any candidate. They will cling on to whatever gets ratings.

[Bensthename]

5. We can now understand why Bill prefers Monica,

[Mags]

14. How low will you go to trash her? Can you get any lower?

[Bensthename]

17. Yes, she is a false dem working for the GOP.. Another true statement.

[Mags]

19. That is about the most ignorant defense I have ever heard on DU.

Obama folks always claim that if someone doesn't support their man, that they are a racists or a Republican. I just can't believe how so many have been hoodwinked or bamboozled by this man from Ill.

[Jim Sagle]

26. Classic projection.

[Catherina]

20. Nobody can get as low as Hillary and some of her supporters have gotten n/t

[Mags]

23. I think you need to take a break, open your eyes and look at the Obama supporters

on this board. they will say anything to trash another democrat. Is that what you call hope, change and unity. If so I want not part of these people.

[Catherina]

24. It's reciprocal Mags. I want no part of Hillary supporters anymore

You're all either paricipating or deliberately blind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5482451

[Mags]

25. Don't worry Catherina, I'm sure Obama will get even less of Hillary supporters then you think.

[Catherina]

28. Don't count your chickies until they've hatched on Primary day

Here's another thread I think you missed since I don't see you in it.

jgraz posted it this afternoon and it should interest you considering it directly contradicts what you just wrote

White women begin to turn away from Clinton

LEVITTOWN, Pa. — Like many women over 50, Paula Houwen was eager to vote for Hillary Clinton for president.

"I was impressed when she was first lady. She wasn't the country's trophy wife," the 56-year-old suburban Philadelphia pharmacist recalled.

Today, though, Houwen's no longer a Clinton fan.

"I do not like the way Hillary Clinton has run her campaign," she said.

Clinton's strongest core of support — white women — is beginning to erode in Pennsylvania, the site of the critical April 22 Democratic presidential primary, and a loss here could effectively end her White House run.

A Quinnipiac University survey taken April 3-6 in Pennsylvania found that Clinton's support fell 6 percentage points in a week among white women. Nationally, a Lifetime Networks poll of women found that 26 percent said they liked Clinton less now than in January, while only 15 percent said they liked her more.



More at http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/33411.html

[dkf]

6. Not only that, she could have phrased it more artfully and made a connection with the people of PA

while earning goodwill points in the party.

Instead she takes the cheap shot that will hurt all Dems in the end.

[Nitrogenica]

7. Damn stright she would have. I'm sick of this bullcrap.

[Mags]

8. Does the fact that Barack made the bitter statement and the fact that

Clinton took political advantage of his mistake make you Obama folks scared or what? I don't get it. That is what opponents do, they try to bring out the opponents faults. This is an election. They do not try to sell their opponents.

[Life Long Dem]

9. Hillary said Obama is out of touch with people.

Really.:shrug:

[BooScout]

11. What planet do you live on?

Obama's statement showed his inexperience. He alienated Middle America. You can spin it all you want, but Obama fucked up. He fucks up a lot with his judgement.

[GarbagemanLB]

15. You see, when it comes to an argument over 'judgement', Hillary 'IWR' Clinton has no standing.

[Bensthename]

18. Bull shit. He spoke the truth. You think some PA workers arent bitter? Read this.

http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?pagetitle=Manufacturing%20job%20losses%20cripple%20growth%20in%20Pennsylvania&articleid=11398

[suston96]

21. Hillary didn't have to say anything. Obama did the damage to himself all by himself...nt

[last_texas_dem]

22. A number of tactics employed by Clinton in this campaign

seem to indicate that enabling unity on the Democratic side is close to being the last thing on her mind.

[PBS Poll-435]

29. Bitter doesn't get the job done.

Bitter is kicking the wall because it is raining.

[stillcool]

30. bitter is most definitely getting..

the job done. It's why there have been record turn-outs of voters in state after state. Bitter works really well, if someone knows how to tap into that anger and stir people into action. Whatever...

[PBS Poll-435]

31. Bitter does not equal Anger

Anger can be useful. Bitterness is bitching about something rather than doing something to fix it.

[stillcool]

32. ah please...

you are so bitter.

[PBS Poll-435]

33. NO...

I believe that I have specfically said that I am not bitter.

I even have a picture to prove it!


:P