I have no problems with Obama's comments about people's anger and bitterness

[rox63]

Hell yeah, people are bitter. Their jobs are going overseas, storefronts are empty in the downtowns, people are packing up and moving to less expensive parts of the country, all because their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods are being ruined or taken away. And this is all in the name of greed, war, and the lust for power. People are bitter, and they have every reason to be so. They want hope, they want answers, and sometimes they want someone to blame for their misery.

Obama is right on the money with his remarks. There is no reason for him to apologize or explain. I'm going back to school in middle age, trying to make a career change to a different field. I'm doing this because jobs in my field are increasingly being sent overseas, and pay scales are going down. Some of my best friends are planning to relocate from New England to rural Indiana, because the cost of living here is getting too high for them to consider staying. And if I didn't have a disabled, elderly mother here to care for, I might be following them. Are we bitter? Hell yes, we are.

[hisownpetard]

1. Yes, we are!

[williesgirl]

2. I agree, but HRC and McSame will jump on the religion and guns bit w/o the context. Most folks won'

bother to find out what he really said. He needs to stop being so intellectual until after the election since most of the Joe Six Packs won't bother to try to understand him. rec'd

[SoonerPride]

10. No. He needs to continue talking to us like we're adults.

The dumbing down of America is over.

[KAZ]

3. Good post K&R.

:thumbsup:

[knixphan]

4. tell the truth, rox!

[TahitiNut]

5. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

It wasn't all that long ago that virtually ALL of DU resonated with that anger and, yes, bitterness. I find it rather stunning that the DLCers are sneering ... yet again. Life must be good for them. :puke:

[rox63]

7. It's not good where I am

And it's one of the more expensive parts of the country to live in. (Eastern MA) I knew things were really getting bad when I went to my bank's web site, and saw that they are sponsoring "Foreclosure Bus Tours" each weekend this month. That's where they load people onto a bus for 3-hour tours to go see a bunch of homes that have been foreclosed on, and are up for sale cheap.

[leftofcool]

6. I guess I am the proverbial optimist

No matter how bad I think things are, I know that somewhere someone else is worse off than I am and this makes me take an attitude of gratitude.

[emilyg]

9. Gratitude is good. I'm with you.

[FightingIrish]

8. I'm very bitter

I am a self-employed professional who had hoped to retire on the money my IRA made in the Clinton years. I'm still working, harder than ever, and getting further behind every month. Maybe I had deluded myself that I was not part of the working class, but now I have all the same concerns as the factory worker whose job left the country. I am now solidly in the working class and I am bitter about a lot things, not just my declining financial well being.

I just got home from my office and my wife said Obama screwed up. She didn't know what he had said, only that Clinton and McSenile were all over him. I log onto to DU and find out that he said we, the working class, are bitter. He was in my town three weeks ago and somehow he picked up on the fact that I, and many like me, are mad as hell. Bitter is an understatement.

[AZBlue]

11. I'm angry and bitter and I don't even live in New England!

[Hieronymus]

12. Nor do I ..