Bitter Voters For Barack Obama: Bittergate Round Up

BARACK Obama says:

“You got 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 they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. 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.”

And the bloggers say:

Bitter Pills

For Clinton, the odds are the incident is too late to save her candidacy. But more Bittergates would increase her chances…

The Underside of Hope

Will the Democrats nominate yet another out-of-touch elitist?

Dissecting ‘Bittergate’

The Democrats are doing a fine job of helping McCain get to the White House.

In Darkest Pennsylvania

It was said behind closed doors to the chablis-and-brie set of San Francisco, in response to a question as to why he was not doing better in that benighted and barbarous land they call Pennsylvania.

Woe Is He

Barack Obama’s going to be the bitter one at the end of this.

The Rubes and the Elites

By calling small-town Americans “bitter,” Obama has deepened a long-standing rift in the Democratic base. The party’s success in November depends on healing it.

Obama Nation

Is Barack Obama’s small-town America really a land of bitter gun-toting, Bible-thumping racists? Or are they just God-fearing American patriots? Maybe we should ask his “typical white” grandmother.

Obama’s Projections of Bitterness

Democrats—all but committed to this fresh, charismatic figure—are forced to deny or downplay the almost daily revelations about Obama that would have derailed less promising candidates already.

Off Limits

What’s a lot more interesting is the question of how Obama’s “bitter” comments made it into the public domain in the first place. As you may know, the  Huffington Post blogger who broke the story was a paying guest at the $1,000-a-head fundraiser. Most conventional journalists would have treated the remarks as off-the-record and thus off-limitsBig Snob or Little Snob?

There are so many problems with Barack Obama’s comments about small-town America, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Some Perspective on ‘Bitter’

Barack Obama should be advised to meet as often as possible with skeptical, and even hostile, working people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Deep Inside ‘Bittergate’

The secret story of how Obama’s gaffe made its way to the Huffington Post, of all places, and how it might affect campaign coverage from now on.
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