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Shocker! Dems think folks may see them as out of touch elitists!

Wow!  Ya think?  Barry O’s latest gaffe is funny, but just as much of a nugget of comedy gold is Hilldawg’s response.  From MSNBC:

A political tempest over Barack Obama’s comments about bitter voters in small towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening to court working class Democrats 10 days before Pennsylvanians hold a primary that she must win to keep her presidential campaign alive.

Clinton, who knocked on doors Sunday in her father’s boyhood hometown of Scranton, Pa., said people want an explantion from her rival.

Obama has been on the defensive for saying economically frustrated people in small towns get bitter and “cling to guns or religion” to explain their feelings. Obama later said he regretted offending anyone.

Clinton and other Democrats have expressed concern that Obama’s comments make the party look out of touch.

Clinton was campaigning in Scranton to emphasize her middle-class roots. While there, she also planned to visit the grave of her father, Hugh Rodham.

Obama tried to quell the furor Saturday, explaining his remarks while also conceding he had chosen his words poorly.

“If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that,” Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.

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At issue are comments he made privately at a fundraiser in San Francisco last Sunday. He was trying to explain his troubles winning over some working-class voters, saying they have become frustrated with economic conditions:

“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.”

Typical: a non-apology apology.  “If I offended you rednecks incapable of deciphering my doublespeak and nuance, then I’m sorry you’re too stupid to understand me.”  Nice.  Fellow IL Senator Dick “the troops are like Nazis and Pol Pot” Durbin would be proud.  By the way, was anyone else aware that gun ownership and religious faith were signs of bitterness?  Me neither.

No, I didn’t forget about Her Highness’ retort:

Clinton hit all those themes in lengthy comments to manufacturing workers in Indianapolis.

“The people of faith I know (all three of them – Ed.) don’t ‘cling’ to religion because they’re bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich,” she said.

“I also disagree with Senator Obama’s assertion that people in this country ‘cling to guns’ and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration,” Clinton added.

“People don’t need a president who looks down on them,” she said. “They need a president who stands up for them.”

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At a campaign rally in Wilson, N.C., former state Democratic Party chairman and current Clinton adviser Tom Hendrickson said rural voters don’t need “liberal elites” telling them what to believe.  (Then why is he working for The Hildebeast? – Ed.)

I actually agree with Shrillary on this point: “People don’t need a president who looks down on them.”  That’s why we don’t need Barry O or her in the Oval Office.  Pots and kettles and whatnot, Hilldawg.

Support for gay marriage, abortion-on-demand (including partial birth AND teens not notifying parents), tax increases on the producers to fund the lifestyle of lethargy chosen by the non-producers, amnesty for criminal aliens; hostility to gun rights, family values, and God;…aside from things like this, I don’t have a clue why Dems would fear they’d be perceived as elitist snobs!

Exit question: Considering his condescending remarks were given in San Fransicko, and considering that such condescension echoes sentiments made by that batty broad to whom he’s married, does it behoove the imagination that he may actually be an anti-American effete leftist that we all suspect him to be?

Courtesy of Malkin commenter Tennyson

April 13, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Hillary, hypocrisy, Obama, shameful