What Obama Should Say...

[YvonneCa]

...NOW.

This is JUST how they took Kerry out of 2008 with the 'botched joke.' MSNBC is reporting that Hillary is campaigning today with a "spring in her step", because she knows this is an opening for her to take Obama down. Democrats need to take this VERY seriously.

I am bitter. I am also frustrated and more than a little bit cynical that our politics will improve enough to make the changes that our country needs. But I DO have hope...abd that's because of Obama and Kerry and the Kennedys and the movement that is being built. I am VERY hopeful that we can overcome the politics of 'fear and smear.'

I just heard Hillary on MSNBC saying that Obama needed to 'explain' his remarks. Listening to her reminded me of the day I listened after the joke while she stabbed John Kerry in the back. I wasn't sure it it was on purpose, for political reasons. I now think it definitely was.

So...here's what I would like to hear Barack Obama say:


I DO NOT want him to backtrack or apologize (any more than he already has). I want him to say that people ARE bitter, frustrated and at their wits' end about politics designed to tear the country apart and prevent average (middle-class, working Americans) from having their needs met and their voices heard. I want him to say that he was NOT denigrating their deeply held values of the Second Amendment, religion, etc....or any 'liberal' values (list them) either.

What he WAS saying (as we here know) is that this 'bitterness' and frustration makes us SUSCEPTIBLE to having our values USED against our interests by POLITICIANS. George Bush (with Karl Rove's help) did that to us in 2000 and 2004. They used 'guns, god and gays" to manipulate the system. They used the traditional family values of the religious right for their own selfish political plans. The badly needed and enlightened leadership we needed from Al Gore and John Kerry was denied the country...and look at where we are now! John McCain and Hillary Clinton are using that same brand of politics in 2008. They denied us John Kerry (again) and are aiming at denying us Barack Obama...for their own self interest...over the interests of average, middle-class, working Americans.

To me, that is the very definition of elitist. What Gore and Kerry and Obama stand for is anything BUT. So, American people...a question. What do YOU stand for?

That's what I want to hear Obama say...with all the super delegates (Gore, Kerry, Kennedy, Dodd, Richardson, Carter, etc.) at his side.:patriot:

[Nitrogenica]

1. Kicked.

[YvonneCa]

2. Thanks. n/t

[gateley]

3. I hope Hillary gets her wish

and he DOES "explain his remarks", and he should kick ass when he does it.

If someone isn't bitter about our current circumstances in this country, it's only because they haven't been affected. Yet.

And even those who are financially comfortable at this point, have still been losing many of their civil rights and been lied to. I'm bitter about THAT, too.

[YvonneCa]

4. I hope he does explain...

...his remarks...because, just like the religion speech, it will be CLASSIC. :) Thanks, gateley.

[nichomachus]

5. I don't think Obama needs any advice

Every time he's attacked, he responds with something that makes him look better and makes the attackers look mean and petty.

I'm still uncommitted at this point, but he's looking better all the time. He's taken everything Bill and Hillary could throw at him and he's come out better for it, while they're just looking smarmier and smarmier.

[YvonneCa]

6. I agree with you...

...and apologize if my post came off that way. :)

[Voice for Peace]

7. Your post was fine.

[gateley]

8. Agree - great post! nt

[YvonneCa]

12. Thanks...

....and I like your bumper sticker. :7

[YvonneCa]

18. Kicking my own thread...

...for more feedback. :7 PLEEEEAASE???

[nichomachus]

10. Sorry -- I wasn't criticizing your post

Sorry you took it that way. Good thing I'm not running for president. Boy, the attack dogs would be all over me for that.

[YvonneCa]

11. No apologies necessary...

...nichomachus. We completely agree. :)

[Voice for Peace]

14. You were DEMEANING and CONDESCENDING and BITTER everybodyknowzit

[YvonneCa]

16. ...

... :7

[loyalsister]

9. Excellent post

I would only add that he should point out that hope and bitterness are not mutually exclusive.

[YvonneCa]

13. That is VERY true. n/t

[NC_Nurse]

15. K&R. Excellent post and suggestions. I hope his aids read this.

:-)

[YvonneCa]

17. Thank you. n/t