What the heck? Obama uses the word "bitter" and it starts a controversy?

[TAWS]

Obama said this during his race speech,

"In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time."


And he says the same exact thing and it causes a controversy,

“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.”

What the heck??????

[BeatleBoot]

1. Yeah, he just can't get a break from the Media

:rofl:

[Poll_Blind]

2. Well, the Clinton campaign is running out of rope and instead of....

...tying it around some issue that might/will resonate with the voters, they are trying to tie it to Obama in hopes of pulling him down to the point they can get ahead or, failing that, to just pull him down, period.

  I can't recollect a Democratic primary campaign quite like this.

PB

[2rth2pwr]

5. Obama did this one all by himself.

[BeatleBoot]

6. No shit.

[ima_sinnic]

13. um, did what, exactly?

spoke the truth?

please keep drawing attention to the fact that We The People have been screwed by the Bushes and the Clintons and the rest of the DLCers and corporate plunderers and outsourcers and tax dodgers and, yes, we ARE bitter.

repukes and fake "democrats" just don't get it: any mud you sling at Obama will be turned to his advantage. That is his brilliance. He did it with the Wright "scandal" and he will do it with the "bitter" "debacle," and he will do it all the way to the White House--so just keep bringing on these non-issues that point up Hillary's desperation, complicity, and lack of imagination.

[mrcheerful]

3. Didn't you hear? White people aren't bitter, they are just aware that everything outside of their

control is blamed on everyone and everything they can't control, they are angry, but not bitter. Really its amazing how dumb peoples thinking gets.

[2rth2pwr]

4. This won't make sense to people who think like Obama.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. The GOP panties are in a...

...condescension/elitist wad.

Remember, this is happening as Old Man McSame is trying to "define" himself.

Old Man "I can imagine America in the Middle East for 100 years, yet cannot imagine Social Security surviving more than 40 years" McSame is trying to say he is the one to have a beer with.

He is nothing but a vain rich old man, who is so out of touch his ideas are not his own.


The "common man" celebrating his birthday with a legacy oil man as New Orleans drowns.

[GoldieAZ49]

8. he should look at the angry bitter religion he has clung to

guess he thinks he can insult votes out of PA

bet not

[TAWS]

9. Sort of like how Hillary insulted the voters of Mississippi?

"I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress. There has got to be something at work here," she said, theorizing it may be the risk-averse nature of a state built around agriculture.

"I think not only do I have to bring people to me, I have to maybe reassure people here maybe more than I do in New Hampshire, which has had a woman governor," she said.

"I think Iowa poses a special burden, or a special obstacle to me because when you look at the numbers, how can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not what I see. That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa."

[burythehatchet]

11. you're a creep of the highest order. I hope you're not old enough to vote

and if you are I'm sorry for you

[ima_sinnic]

14. you got that one's number

one of the few that has escaped my Ignore net because she's like the court jester, a total buffoon.

[sniffa]

16. Ignored is the most creepy member here

:puke:

[NEDem]

24. Yeah, they are everywhere.

[shadowknows69]

17. Christianity?

[Connie_Corleone]

10. He also used the words guns and religion.

Apparently it's a bad omen to mention the obvious.

[GoldieAZ49]

12. also, not everyone was impressed by his 'race' speech

We really didn't need a speech on race relations of the past, present an future from Obama.

Tweety got all aquiver over it but most didn't.

[ima_sinnic]

15. yes, especially the KKKers and aryan nations white supremacist creeps

who for some reason have come to feel that DU is some kind of hangout lately.

btw, who's "we" anyway?

[GoldieAZ49]

20. you can stuff your race card, Obama has spent 20 years in a race baiting hateful

church, neither he nor you have any room to talk

[ima_sinnic]

26. your ignorance is pathetic

you have absolutely no idea of where Rev. Wright is coming from. YOu have heard 10 seconds out of 20 years of sermons. You wouldn't know a "race baiting hateful church" if it crawled out of your ass and bit you.

[JeffR]

28. I can't see the poster you're talking to, but I can only hope

a "race baiting hateful church" does crawl out of his/her ass and bites him/her.

[ima_sinnic]

30. heh--I finally did pull the plug on it, just something that dwells under a rock somewhere

[Dr Fate]

21. For instance- Trusted Everyman Brit Hume called it "clever & deceptive"

n/t

[GoldieAZ49]

25. I call it trying to change the subject by playing the race card

all the way back to slavery and the civil war, but didn't address why he would spend 20 yrs listening to Wright

[Dr Fate]

27. Brit Hume (R) , McCain (R) & Hillary agrees with you 100%.

I dont.

[LisaM]

18. One especially annoying facet (to me) of his speeches

is the way he seems to talk down to his audience, to say the most basic things, stuff that people already know, as if he's talking to a bunch of wide-eyed idiots who don't know how to cross the street by themselves. He always sounds as if he's lecturing, puts in unnecessary background information, and so on. I find it extremely patronizing. I know that a lot of people disagree with this. I'm just saying this is how he affects ME.

[GoldieAZ49]

23. I agree, his arrogance is apparent

middle class voters are not impressed, add in the insults to their religion and their right to own guns and it isn't a 'winning' combination

[stillcool]

32. Obviously you have not understood...

a word he has said. But I wouldn't try to listen to anything he has to say ever again if I were you. Might send you off the deep end. Just watch Fox, and CNN. You'll be alright.

[anonymous171]

19. He needs to attack Clinton on her disconnection with the working class.

[Miss Chybil]

22. I'm bitter.

From living under this Republican Regime for the last 7+ years. Think I'll make the news?

[backscatter712]

29. Is harping on that statement the worst the Hill-Shrills can come up with?

Weak.

Even with playing the worst kind of gotcha politics and parsing all his statements to look for something to make him look bad, is this the worst all her consultants and staffers could find?

What a sorry excuse for an attack.

[stillcool]

31. Of course! Bill made another stupid comment...

so they had to hurry up and jump on something Obama said. They're getting pissed.. Wright didn't work, scary black dude is not working..so now he's an 'elitist'! I remember a while back he was a Washington 'Insider'..:rofl: