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sfam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:14 AM
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Clinton Supporters: You were outraged by the bitter comment but are shocked at the "hard working"..
Edited on Fri May-09-08 09:17 AM by sfam
response from the MSM? So you really believe that Barack thinks everyone without a college degree is bitter, clinging to their guns and Jesus statue and beer bottle, but are outraged by the MSM response to Hillary's mistatement that only white people without college degrees are hard working, and that they all support her? With the implication that hard working white folk just won't vote for Barack?

Wow, no incongruency there, right? How 'bout we just agree that it was a misstatement, JUST LIKE the bitter comment was? Interestingly, I don't see Barack changing his entire image (similar to Hillary totin guns, swillin beer, campaigning from a pickup truck, etc), nor do I see him harping this comment up every second of the day, but that's a separate issue.

Don't you agree that Hillary should just come out and apologize for the misstatement and then clarify what she intended to say?

And um, don't you think she went a bit overboard on the Bitter misstatement?
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leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:16 AM
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1. Personally, I don't care about either statement
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:17 AM
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2. Obama was being sympathetic to the downtrodden. Hillary was insulting
an entire race. There is a HUUUGGEE difference.
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4themind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:25 AM
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4. Obama was talking about what economic class
Edited on Fri May-09-08 09:27 AM by 4themind
can lead to, which isn't to say that others who aren't in those circumstances can't turn to it as well. Nor that its necessarily a bad thing, just perhaps that people shouldn't be in the situation where they do it reactively out of something that government can help prevent. Her remarks can be interpreted (she needs to clear the ambiguity here otherwise it's only going to let those questions linger on) as assigning traits INHERENTLY based on race , not just caused by government-ignoring their fiscal needs (now the extent to which he's correct about that is debatable but these two are not the same thing, in the sense that the reasons for bringing up these issues, the causes of these "issues" and potential "solutions" are far different, and these differences may be more important to some than to others, but the voters will ultimately judge that for themselves)
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sfam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:28 AM
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5. Point is, both statements could be interpreted poorly. Hillary needs to clarify, but her supporters
need to recognize that Hillary jumping all over the "bitter" comment was opportunistic and nasty. Barack has NOT done that with the White working folk comment.
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DemzRock Donating Member (824 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:21 AM
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Sorry duplicate post.
Edited on Fri May-09-08 09:21 AM by glenhappy
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DemzRock Donating Member (824 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:21 AM
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3. I don't really care about either comment that much either. I just want to vote Dem over GOP. n/t
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