OBAMA 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to the Clintons and NAFTA, they should be bitter about their job losses. Hillary is playing with words and grasping at straws.

Pennsylvanians can be bitter and still be resilient! And I don't think that Obama was looking down on them. I think he was empathizing with them.

Is HRC so desperate that she has to start a fight over nothing?

She is the one who is bitter!

All is she saying is that "the people are happy to be s c r e w e d"

Well, Hillary he used the wrong freggin word. Let it go.
Please leave. Please

Weak.

I have all about given up on convincing the Obamatons what they are in store for. It matters little now because if Obama gets the nomination there is no way he can beat McCain.

If a war hero John Kerry couldnt beat AWOL George Bush in 2004, then Obama a non military, church American hating goer hasnt a chance against a POW war hero like McCain.

Looks like another 4 years of Republicans. If Hillary gets the nomination then I we as democrats have a realistic chance to win.

Think about it. All of Hillary's demons are known for years. She has a solid record of work and helping the poor. She has been outspent by Obama, attacked by a huge Obama machine and she is still here. If that kind of persistence cant beat McCain than nothing will.

That's right Hillary…cling on to every crumb that you can to maintain a sense of relevance. As someone who has been in the position to which Obama refers to, I have been very bitter. Of course, since your household has made over 100 million these past few years, you have no sense of what real working people actually feel!!!

I'm a little dizzy from that particular spin.
"Bitter" means Obama looks down on them? Gimme a break.

Hillary.. you're just pathetic..
you're holding on to straws.. as far as I'm concerned, you're now bankrupt on the respect front… you should just go away because the longer you drag this on, the more you're showing that all you care about is YOU… you're the only thing that matter in the world..

If you have lost your job and are going into foreclosure, you are bitter. PA people should be very mad. And they should never forget that the Clintons were the ones who supported NAFTA. And what about Columbia and Bill Clinton and their $800,000 gained from it?

Talk about taking something completely out of context…

Honestly, do people not understand politics? I've never heard Clinton say an honest thing. Maybe when you are around politics for a while, like I have been, you garner an appreciation for the subtleness of Obama.

They don't need a lecturing, lying Millionaire like Hillary Clinton.

Unfortunately she did not hear or understand the full comment … maybe she came under sniper fire ? Barack Obama was straight up and real with the people. Confusing for a Clinton but absolutely the way to go !

Quick !!!! Look this way!!! No really LOOK THIS WAY!!!!!

Typical. It is horrible when your name becomes a Verb and guess what …………

Wow, much to do about nothing here. There are times that I am bitter about something and that is just reality. I am sure that there are people who have lost/are losing their jobs that are bitter about it. It isn't negative - it's reality.

Oh please, Hillary is grappling for anything she can get. This attack is pathetic.

It's not elitism! It's the truth.

Obama wasn't talking down to the people of PA or talking negatively about them.

Obama was simply stating the facts…that in lieu of the jobs lost to the people of PA and many other places across the country, when politicians give them scapegoats and distractions - they latch on to them.

Obama was telling the truth.
Truth is something that the Clintons have no idea what that is!

Alright Billary.

Obama could beat the drum on Mark Penn,Bosnia,Bill Clinton.

But he does not. That is why he is the democratic nominee and you are not.

There is no way you will ever win this nomination it is over!!!!! Sorry Billary supporters.

No matter how Hillary tries to spin it, I as a female would vote for any candidate who is a proven liar over and over again. Hillary Clinton can not be trusted and will never get my vote.

they should be bitter

what a dunce hillary

what a dunce.

You're seeing want you want to see Hillary. You don't have the discernment to know if Pennsylvanians are bitter or not because you've never struggled financially. Obama understands.

Obama '08

Obama was simply saying it like it is. Who wouldn't get bitter over politicians promising improvement in the job situation and then never doing anything about it except when they're running for officed?
Trying to put Obama down because of this is desperation indeed. Sort of how to cover up her own glitches and lies (misspeaking, or whatever she calls it.)
Please Pennsylvania, Indiana and N. Carolina. Put an end to all of this and vote for Barama.

Bitterness leads to revenge. Is this his message of hope and change?

Don't know who Hillary talked to - - but some of us Pennsylvanians are bitter over our job losses. I once had a good paying job that got downsized. For the last 5 years I struggle to find any job to try to make my mortgage payment on my small house - while the govt is looking at helping out all the RICH folks who got caught up in the mortgage thing. Yeah, I am bitter. Talk to some more regular folks that are trying to raise a family and keep things going . . . . BTW - diesel is $4.60 a gallon - what is UP with that? Wake up and talk to the 'real' folks.

It would be nice if Hillary would stick to the issues instead of being a petty witch. God help us if she becomes president. We will be in more wars than you can count.

OH LORDIE

She didn't just try to disect a great speakers speech and make a fool of herself AGAIN?? Yes Hillary people ARE Bitter. Of course with HUNDREDS of Millions of Dollars we understand that you just cant understand that.

I think Hillary is the one who is bitter!

Could this woman be any more out of touch with reality?? I've had about all I can take!

Try again!!!!!!!!! This is getting very silly. She has no substance now
everything is inflated.

Just words…
Hillary 08

when will she quit? she is the one who is bitter that her free lunch is now not on the table.

another riduculously weak attempt by Clinton to attack Obama. Anyone who reads what he said, knows he was not talking down on anyone. She is pathetic.

So basically, Hillary and Bill can't get there lies striaght. That's the problem. Bill went on to say that her age is the reason why she can't remember what about the 3:00 AM. This is a house divided with what lies to follow. She is for NAFTA and for Columbia Free Trade.

Obama was obviously empathizing with the group of Americans who have been left out of the Clinton and Bush administrations. That is why we do not need another Clinton or Bush/McCain administration and we need change so that we can move towards fixing things for average americans.

Funny. Hillary, but it is ok to be "bitter". You might not be able to emphathize with those citizens (seeing that you are wealthy), but people will go through a wide range of feelings—both positive and negative when they lose jobs.

I'm really getting tired of her.
OBAMA 08!

Whats wrong with saying the truth?
The Clintons are so used to lying that anybody who dares say the truth is against them.

HIILARY 08
HILLARY12

Anything to score a point, Hillary.

Please ignore the fact that Obama is telling the truth. Blue collar workers all over the rust belt are frustrated because they will not live as well as their parents without more education and more help. But ignore those facts, Hillary. Ignore that your husband said the same thing while running for president. Ignore your own realities, and your understanding of the effects of NAFTA on these people. Ignore it all when a point can be scored.

Score your point, girl, and remind all of us what we hated about the Clinton political machine (even us democrats). Your quote above is why people like me are leaving you by the truck load. The political opportunism is simply sad and desperate.

What are you talking about Hillary. This is why you have lost your lead in the state of Penn. Get it together, or better yet….get out of the race!

I think I see a straw sticking out of a bush about midway my one acre back yard. Hillary, could you reach for it please?

To all the happy people who are not bitter over losing their jobs to offshore contracts, please send me the happy remedy? Having "Bob" in India answer my benefits questions is really irritating me. Any help would be appreciated.

She is terrible, she is a disaster, she is so bitter that even McCain seems positive.

Get out and let us win this race for the White House!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a stretch and taking things a lot out of context. Everyone's been bitter at government since government's were first established.

Just take a look at Congress and the President's approval ratings and tell me people are not bitter.

Obama tells it like it is. Give me harsh truth over pretty lies any day.

Darn right people are bitter, and they have a right to be. CNN has no problem calling the Clinton/Obama fight "bitter", and Clinton has done her part to make it so. But people are bitter over gas prices, iraq, unemployment, foreclosures, the war debt, the environement, immigration issues, 9/11, etc., and as Obama states, they have a right to be bitter. But he offers hope.

Good lord, do I really see the Clinton and McCain campaigns suggesting that people who have lost their jobs due to economic change in the last 25 years aren't bitter? What kind of idiots do they think we are?

Tough!

Next!!

Clinton…CLInton…CLINTON!!!! Just STOP it!!! Why don't you spend your time cleaning up Bill's mess instead of messing with Barack! Why don't you just continue to under mind the voters of PA as you did us here in Ohio. (I wish I could have my vote back!) They from what I see, seems to like that! I just pray the wake up and realize before April 22nd.

These Clintons need to understand this message loud and clear: whatever you are selling….I ain't buying it.

Obama does not respect the American public!

Manipulation concealed under the cloak of "running a good campaign" isn't what America needs right now. We have too many serious issues.

Obama's campaign is using a "win at all cost" strategy. Ignoring what's bad (negative) in relation the Obama and spinning the opponent’s strengths against them.

There is no way he can win the general election. He's only come this far because of a flawed Democratic caucusing system. There will be no caucuses in the general election.

If he thinks that people that see through him now are going to vote for him anyway in the Fall, he (and the DNC) is truely mistaken.

Sorry Dems, the Republicans will win the Whitehouse yet again!

P.S. Obama’s campaign must really think that voters are stupid! How sad…..maybe they are right…….

Let's talk about real issues like can the American people TRUST the Clintons again? Can we? Who made $800,000 off of speeches to support the Columbian trade agreement?

Go Obama!! Democrats need to get together and support him so he CAN beat McCain. I'm a Republican who changed parties so I can vote for Obama in the Primary - NO WAY can I support McCain. No way will I vote for Hillary -

We need a fresh face - - Obama is it!!

Go Obama!!

So he chose odd words.

So did you, with your comment about people "mixing fresh batches of amphetamines".

Every time you see someone post a comment that says, effectively, "I'd vote for McCain before I vote for Obama"…

Remember that that is a Republican plant trying to screw with our nomination process, or, an uninformed Democrat whose opinion has been swayed by the Republican wolves-in-sheep's-clothing. The Republicans are doing EVERYTHING THEY CAN to keep Obama from getting the nomination because they know McCain doesn't stand a chance against him. In an Obama/McCain primary, Obama would win by a landslide! The only people who don't know that are the closed-minded Clintonistas who are being targeted by Republican interference schemes. Don't be fooled!

G R A S P I N G F O R S T R A W S ! ! ! !

its over Hillary go down with grace!

She is such a manipulator a fake and a hack. My lord, what do people see in her I'll never understand. its easy to role up your sleaves whe your hubby are engaged in shady deals to make 110 million but it is a bitter pill to swallow when the average working man gets laid off.

Now she is going to "mis speak" his words .
She will do anything to distract people from her imploding campaign .
Come on Penn . Don't let negative kitchen sink tactics fool you , DON'T GIVE INTO FEAR .

Obama 08 !!!

YES YOU CAN !!!

WOW…………..That isn't even a STRAW she is graping at that is simply AIR!!!

I must say I am Surprised that McBush ALSO jumped on that one. Obama MUST be the one if this is the best these professional mudslingers can come up with!

Obama Has it Made.

Clintons really need to shut up……….Barack Obama is the one who can bring change and will……….if democrats loose its going to be because of Hillary………….She voted in FAVOR for the war……she is a irresponsible candidate………she lied about the sniper fire…..what makes you think that she wont lie to us when she is a president…….who cares if she claimed the responsibilty for lying….the point is she lied and voted in favor of the war…..
HILLARY CLINTON IS IRRESPONSIBLE AND A LIER….she needs to step down…..
BARACK OBAMA ALL THE WAY………..

Any people from PA responding to this?

Im failing to see the big deal Hillary

I think you're taking his words out of context and making mountains out of mole hills because you have told 3 LIES in a row and are trying to deflect attention

At last maybe Obamas facard will break open and we will see him for what he is, an inexperieced fool.

HILLARY PLEASE LEAVE

OBAMA 08

There she goes AGAIN, twisting and turning. How is saying someone is "bitter" construed to be looking down at someone? Give it a rest, Hillary, you and your staff are so lame…..

She gets slimier by the minute.

Obama has lied to you from the beginning he has lobbyists working for him. He lied about NAFTA and said there was no meeting and then the following week said there was. He lied about his father and JFK. He lied about Rev. Wright. The difference is the media is trying to destroy Clinton. So they never tell you the facts about Obama.

Good lord, when will this woman be done already?

Super Delegates, Gore, Edwards, Buellor, anyone? Please inform her that she has lost this primary bid.

12 more days of this crap will be the death of the Democratic party…

This is a response to the last post (comments closed), but….

If Bill Clinton secretly wanted Hillary to lose, would he do anything different from what he has done? IOW, without making it too obvious, could have done more to HARM her campaign?

Interesting…

Well, people are bitter, when people lose jobs, not because of them, but because of our economic policies which reward companies that took their jobs to China and India.

At the same time you have freaks on TV and radio telling you "free market" and "free trade" are good things and illegal immigrants are taking your jobs, you do get upset and bitter, but you get upset at the wrong things, and turn to things you wouldn't otherwise turn to.

What Obama has said is absolutely 100% CORRECT.

Way to take it out of context you corporatist.

When you lose Pennsylvania will you please drop out?

How weak of an argument is this against Obama. This is a big deal? You have got to be freaking kidding me. lol

So Obama says that he understands why Pennsylvanians are upset about losing their jobs… and Hillary tries to spin that as a bad thing? This is really getting ridiculous. For the millionth time, I would have no problem with Hillary if she campaigned on her strengths, as Obama is doing, but she just keeps attacking. And she's not attacking about anything worthwhile! This isn't about positions or ideas! It's about a candidate who will do anything to win… even when she can't win, even when it doesn't make any sense! Big thumbs down on this one, Hillary.

Obama says, "…the jobs are gone and nothing has replaced them."

Has anyone ever considered WHY nothing has replaced them? It's because of INSANE taxes in the midwest and the bitter, hostile workforce of former unionized workers who managed to "strike" themselves out of a job and run their employers out of the state to greener pastures.

I did not know that Anglosaxons require English lessons, I thought the word bitter means exactly bitter. Let me try a spin, Clintons comments leave a bitter taste in my mouth. Get a grip lady and drop out of this race.

What else did he say?

Was there a follow up comment where he had a proposal to offer these communities in order for them to pull themselves up?

Come on. Can we get the whole entire statement instead of "hearsay" without the full context?

This is weak reporting…. to not provide the full context of the story and simply take it from, what was probably a memo floating around by the Clinton campaign.

She seems to never run out of sinks.

yeah she's not bitter!
this is what you do when you got nothing …

I would expect that Hillary Clinton, who was to WIN in this State, and the Gap is closing, she will say and do anything to create doubt, regarding Barack Obama, But Hillary Clinton, need to clean her own back yard, and watch her own words which are coming out of her mouth. John McCain, is in another world, and time frame, I do not believe it is because of his age, but some people like to stay in the Past.

Dorothy
OK

Do you know the story of BILLY THE LIEAR (the same goes with HILLARY THE LIAR) - he missed the train…………………………..

This lady is pulling down American politics. She'll stop at nothing to get elected. Perhaps, they are looking for power to do more shady deals

Pander, pander, pander… Yep, I'm sure everyone in Pennsylvania is perfect and no one has any hard feelings about losing their livelihoods…. I'll take Obama's truth telling over this crooks lies any day

clintons are famous to twist the words.of course she is desparate

This is getting so tiring. It is really just pathetic. I'm looking forward to it being over. I don't want to have to hear about or see Hillary for a long time…

Hillary can't understand poor people, of course she cannot, she made 109 million, if you make that kind of money, you just move out of reality of day to day life, basic expenses.

Umm.. Who cares? Hillary is bashing Obama over this? This seems petty to me. I'd might be bitter too if I lost my job.

looks to me like he was empathizing with the people, not looking down on them

He can do that because he has grown up poor, see you cant empathize because you did not. With your Summer Cottage in Pennsylvania. Ha Ha

Oh' come on, Obama, is that the best you could do!

Don't forget, Mr. Obama, we had a wonderful 8 years with Bill Clinton, no war, no foreclosure issues, no economic issues, no gasoline issues, our stocks skyrocketed, plus we had a surplus and no deficit! Yes, in President Clinton's presidency! Are you loosing it, (dimentia)!

Smart Dems vote for HILLARY

Obama's true colors are finally coming out

People have lost jobs in Pennsylvania, healthcare, food, gas and the mortgage situation has everyone. So, yes people are bitter. Obama just got finished paying student loans and only made millions from two recent books. I think he understands the struggle a little better. Hillary and Bill support NAFTA and make millions a year doing.

Out of touch is someone capitalizing on their previous contacts and government service to earn $109 million.

Out of touch is failing to understand how $800,000 in your JOINT bank account, earned by lobbying on behalf of the Columbians is a conflict of interest.

Out of touch is taking every single stupid little word out of context and twisting it. Of course there are some "bitter" people in PA as a result of loosing jobs to NAFTA. Would a more "in-touch" word be disappointed, bankrupt, disillusioned?

Obama a JOKE!!! Thats all there is to it.

Everyone who is being hurt by life will be bitter, until someone changes their situation. Clintons are responsible for what these people feel. I sympathesize with them.

Of course she leeped on this remark and she is mostly likely lying in her response and the McCain campaign having the nerve to comment after they have no domestic agenda is shameful. Both McCain and Clinton are part of the multimillion dollar club and have no real idea of what real change is.

All I can say it the truth hurts and sometimes will set you free if you follow your heart.

Obama 08!!!

If Obama spent as much time rehashing every screw up and lie that the Clintons have made JUST IN THIS SEASON ALONE it would be all he got to talk about.

He doesn't
He doesn't NEED to.
We KNOW!
He KNOWS we know because he KNOWS we are INTELLIGENT!

Hillary treats us like Idiots.

Well Hillary, that's not what I heard. People are still losing their jobs because of the NAFTA trade if you haven't been observing the news media.

Yes there people bitter because their jobs are about to move out of the United States to Mexico.

Thanks for acknowledging that.

Obama is a millionaire too! He has always lead a privileged life, went to the best schools. He's anti-american and hates white people too.

Of course you would be bitter, why wouldn't you?

Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law at the urging of George Bush senior. Then did nothing to ensure regular American's get the updated education and training to compete and startup new non-manufacturing, non-industrial jobs. Of George W. Bush junior hasn't done anything to improve education and training and attract new industries.

So, you bet, Americans like PA are bitter at the same old same old.

Only a complete FOOL would believe that the Clintons are for ordinary people. By their own admission, they are worth over 100 MILLION dollars, live in mansions and fly around on private jets. For them to say that Obama is the elitist is laughable at best.

They know NOTHING about what it is like to struggle for a living and only adopt this "we are for the regular people" stance to get elected. The Clintons are the most disingenuous people running for office.

He (Obama) was telling the truth, theres no us trying to sugar coat it People are bitter when they lose their jobs

Nice try Hillary, but the Columbian problem and Bosnia aren't going away.

Try more ducking

If anybody celebrates loosing their jobs to capital with, I am one worker who will be very bitter if I have to live on food stamps because my job was shipped abroad. If anybody feels anything other than bitterness over the greed of the corporations that move jobs overseas then tey must be seeing sniper fire.

Mike -> "Looks like another 4 years of Republicans. If Hillary gets the nomination then I we as democrats have a realistic chance to win.

Think about it. All of Hillary's demons are known for years. She has a solid record of work and helping the poor. She has been outspent by Obama, attacked by a huge Obama machine and she is still here. If that kind of persistence cant beat McCain than nothing will."

-if she is such a better and stronger candidate why is she losing in delegates, popular vote and states won? and dont go bring in MI and FL…even if those were counted (althoguh he wasnt on the MI ballot) he'd still be up.

-Hillary's "demons are known for years," so its better we know how dirty the Clintons are, while we only know one real dirty spot on Obama?

-she started the negative attacks…if anyone denies that, look in the mirror, say it out loud, then listen to how ridiculous you sound. she is only still in there because her last name is Clinton…it is over it is waning.

-people who wont vote for Obama because Clinton lost are simply cutting off their nose to spite there face! Hillary and Obama are 95% ideologically the same…McCain is on the other side of the planet.

anwhat u all and see whatch how they miss spoke with out knowing thew full story again her and mccain no they can no bet this guy and they both woth a shout at the prize philly she has bad judgement and she was a part of nafta and full of lies. She is a lier and i hjave lost all respect for her she will try anything to win. buy the way he might be stating the truth that why he wonts to help the world not just philly. we as amercian need to get use to the new america go obama08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama was totally honest and telling it like it is.

Apparently for the media and Hillary, honesty is a problem

She would know something about being bitter. Is she really going to mis-represent another well put statement by Barack? If she cherry picks the right words from all the right speeches she might be able to come up with something almost as negative as her campaign.

Rolling up your sleeves doesn't get jobs back and saying you'll fight hard for everyone's jobs is what every politician says. Understanding an evolving job market and being able to listen to all sides of the issue and help find a consensus is what prepares a community to be prosperous in the future. Addressing the issues, and yes, "bitterness" that can come out of being neglected by the federal government for the last two decades, is opening the door for positive discussion about real issues rather than just promising to get jobs back.

Once again the Clinton and McCain campaigns ratchet up the rhetoric and parse words. It is true that when people are suffering as a result of this miserable economy and they can't find their way, they will reach into their despair and cling to ideas that make them feel better or to cast blame.

To recognize that truth and to speak to it does not mean that Barack Obama is casting them aside. Because he understands this dispair means that he will change how our government works so that people in despair can look forward to a better day.

These two campaigns will resort to any bait and switch and ugly tactic to defeat Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton is afraid of losing and she will latch on any word to win. John McCain is so tied to the "guns and ammo" crowd, he should say nothing. Because of his love of war, this county has had two billion dollars per day sucked out of our economy for this miserable war in Iraq.

I pray for this campaign to be over and Barack Obama will move into the White House, after it is fumigated.

Obama Supporter

Isn't it interesting how a "blogger" managed to relate Senator Obama's statement at this fund raiser. However, what I would like to know from this "blogger", was Sen. Obama responding to a particular question?

If such a "blogger" is going to report things, why not write it properly and stop the slanting. Some of these annoying "bloggers" really get me.

Does such a "blogger" know anything about honesty. If you must "blog" do it right. Be fair!

Another true statement……….? Many people are bitter.

It appears that Hillary & McCain are way out of touch !

America Is Ready
Obama 08

Regardless, it's typical for Clinton to cling on to pathetic little distractions like this. They're desperate for anything they can get.

Why is this being reported? It's gossip that hasn't been verified. Do you have journalistic standards?

We do not trust Obama! He is great about talking change and hope when it is only more of the same. The best he has been offering is new idea, but he has not have the courage to do what is necessary to make it happen. He is on the senator floor for three years now so what has he accomplished? Words are just words America! Obama - clean up inner city Chicago first then you can preach.

Obama will say anything to get votes as he couldn't run on experience because he doesn't have any. We will definitely not vote for Obama who has a spiritual mentor that hates white people and the U.S, we dislike Obama not because of his color but because of the man he is NOT. We do not think Obama is ready for this job. Hillary or McCain should be the President and Obama should keep learning the ropes, get the experience he needs to run this Country. Obama will not win, because we will make sure he doesn't.

If not Hillary, then McCain! There is NO other option!

Do you know the story of BILLY THE LIAR (the same goes with HILLARY THE LIAR) - he/she missed the train…………………

The donors, nations and others who gave the Clintons 109Milion dollars in personal wealth and 500M to the Clinton Library will OWN THIS COUNTRY if she is elected. Plain and simple.

Billary true colors are finally-HERE! OBAMA/08 of course.

Obama supporters - don't be sorry for Hillary supporters - Hillary might not become the nominee (that is yet to be seen), but Obama's chances of becoming President are next to none - soooooo - sorry Obama supporters!!

If I didn't want Hillary to be President I would love for Obama to be the nominee and watch the Republicans take him to task - he has got it coming.

I'm bitter, that Hillary is stil in this race. She is a non-issue.

Send her to the enemy, she will wear them out just by talking.

O/08

He said some of the people are bitter since they are experiencing huge problems everyday, isn't it true?

Obama 2008

Hillary is the worst of the three options left. She is the most divisive…most disliked and distrusted by Americans.

What America needs is to move beyond the absurd partisanship of the last 15 years. We're just all tired of everyone listening to their respective extreme talk radio stations and hating on 50% of America (or more).

America does not need a President Clinton and 4 years of bickering.

President Obama or President McCain at least offer a possibility and opportunity for some semblance of national unity. A President Clinton rules that possibility out.

Here we go again from Kitchen sink to the trash can!

You're right Sam in Indiana. people are angry and mad if they have lost a job but that says absolutely nothing about what their personality is like. Just leave it up to Miss Hillary to turn this comment into something negative, just like she is. Give it up Hillary. Go Obama!!!

I hope my fellow Pennsylvania Democrats do the right thing and end the miserable Clinton campaign so Barrack can take on McCain without further distractions. Yes, many people are indeed quite bitter after all these years of Bush and friends running the country and the economy into the ditch. They are bitter about tax cuts for the rich (like the Clintons). They are bitter about an insane and unwinnable war perpetrated under false pretenses of WMD's. They are bitter about unemployment and poor prospects for the future. They are bitter about corporate greed, out-sourcing, plants moving abroad, and many other things. To suggest that Obama's recognition this is 'condescension' is just the last desparate throws of an overly ambitious politician who does not seem to read the writing on the wall at which she keeps throwing things, hoping something will stick. Let's hope the Clintons read it better soon and just get out of the way.

BO has NO idea what small town America is like…..he AND his wife both look down on all of us…….an elitist will never make it to the white house, never…….

Your Royal Highness…Bill is geting mad when you tell him to quit lying for you. Like you said i have 35 years of my own experience.

Geez, she's really trying to find "something" to pounce on.

Can't people be bitter while trying to move on in a positive fashion? I know that I can. Get real, Hillary, they're bitter! You need to move on yourself and not be so bitter.

How "bitter" are the Clintons because they are losing and will she be relilient and optimistic when she loses?? McCain's comments are also pathetic…these two are old aged politics that didn't and won't work.

This campaign is too long and is getting petty both with the media digging for fodder as well as the candidates…Clinton is doing the same thing as before Ohio…keep throwing things, hoping one will stick.

A real pathetic role model for a nation and young girls!

OBAMA 08

Obama will win Pennsylvania and this will all be over soon.

Okay..let me get this straight: so when you've lost your job, your house, and you're working more hours for less money.. you're not bitter?.. I need to know how to do this.. I'll be happy!

I am bitter. I'm seeing so many people losing what they have worked for. But to say Obama is condensending is ridiculous!! Lots of us are bitter, but Hillary takes the cake.

She needs to take a long walk off a short pier.

Would you be a litter bitter too. The American people can not continue to live off the promises that were made in broken by the Bush & Clinton families. Hillary's just reaching for anything to boost her failing campaign.

CLINTON & MCCAIN = MORE OF THE SAME.

OBAMA 08!

Obama is bitter because he listened to Pastor Wright and like his pastor so much. The rest of us just work harder to make ends meet.

how many republicans are blogging here as Obama or Hillary's fake supporters?

Disgusting !!!!

Go Democrats - let's show them in November

bitter=anger toward a system of trade than has let us down?…..yes. Losing your job and future does not equal optimism, Hillary. Resilient perhaps with a tiny sliver of HOPE that somebody NEW can turn things around….and that is not you.

why won't the Superdelegates intervene at this point and end this thing? Hillbillary have this week sealed their fate…let's get on with it.

si se puede!!!

Perhaps he 'Misspoke', Hillary!…like really misspoke, instead of creating this fantasy story about sniper fire.

Obama '08

well, I would be bitter too. wouldn't anyone? Hope for the future is a wonderful thing. Hillary can talk and spin all she wants, but when it all falls together, where didi those jobs go??

For someone that doesn't think words matter all that much she sure has a fun time twisting them…..

It is a politically unpopular statement, no doubt. At least when it is taken out of context.

However, it's also a statement that is completely true and based on the way things actually are. I mean…come on people, can we really not accept the fact that people go one way or another — self-destruct with guns or self-affirm with god — when they are in times of despair?

Give me a break…

I believe he can acually see things that Hillary with her Millions does not see. And Senator Obama is not looking down on them he sees they need to be lifted up! Hillary wake up and look at reality already; not everyone is as comfortable as you!

HILLARY, IS ALWAYS TRING TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING AND IT REALLY MAKES HER LOOK BAD. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT OBAMA WOULD BE A BETTER PRESIDENT, HE WOULD BE FOR THE PEOPLE BECAUSE HE CAN RELATE TO THE PEOPLE. HILLARY, IS TRING AND SHE CAN'T RELATE TO HARD TIMES AND STRUGGLES.

Obama's statement sounds about right to me, but it's hard to speak the truth in American politics without someone, or a lot of people, rounding on you for speaking the truth.

Is ironic because WE also do not need a president pointing everyone using silly arguments. Where the intelect go to?

He misspoke? SO we can say the same thing about the sniper fire? She just used the wrong word?

Looks like the 'kitchen sink' is about empty, eh Hillary?

I read the full statement and he is absoultely right about bitterness setting in when you are told your job is going away with a promise of re-building…and then it doesn't happen..,..and then the next Pres says the same…and it still doesn't happen.
It happened to me 10 years ago…and I was bitter too. Spin it how you will, but he just connected with me again.
Its not condescension or elitism……its empathy…and its the truth

Obama 08′

I'd be bitter if I lost my job to a foreign plant and my Government wasn't doing anything to help prevent it. I'd be bitter if they were giving tax breaks to my old employer. I don't see this as condescending at all. I do however see McCain going after Obama a lot more than he is Hillary despite them having very similar proposals. Seems he knows who the real threat is.

I lived in New York every day in which Mrs. Clinton was a U.S. Senator and the only person that she has worked hard for from day one was herself and her run for president.

I try not to be too critical of Clinton, but I cannot believe that she expects anyone to take her latest gambit seriously. There's nothing objectionable about Obama's comment.

If those comments are accurate, they are also TRUE! What part of it are we unwilling to admit or acknowledge? When faced with our own personal economic challenges, as humans, right or wrong, we DO & HAVE looked for sources to blame, embraced "bad for us" practices, in frustration and anger. Americans, the Obama job and real message is getting us all PAST that, having our goverment accountable for giving tax breaks to corporations long gone to Mexico or overseas while robbing Americans of much needed jobs, not denying mindsets that each one of us has likely practiced at one time or another under the Republican regime. Focus on the issues!

This is what happens when you have nothing really to criticize the guy about and will say and do anything for power.

I don't get it………If I lost my job and my field of work didn't come back for several years, I would be BITTER!!

Is this the best you can do Hillary? Are you hoping that he "misspoke"?

I used to support Hillary, until she became a giant lie machine. Now, I'm BITTER!!

Thank you Hillary, for dragging the best Democratic Nominee for President through the mud, and destroying the integrity of the Democratic Party with it.

You have shown your true colors with the lies, deceit, and utter hatred that has come from your Campaign.

If McCain wins, you are the RALPH NADER of 2008.

The Clintons overpayed their taxes by 10% in line with Hillary's stance on reducing tax breaks for the rich. Obama took advantage of every tax break even though he claims he is for removing this tax break too.

The Clintons gave 10% of their income to charities like the Nelson Mandella fund. Obama gave $20k a year to his church under Rev. Wright that visits Lybia with Farakhan and preaches America is at fault for 9/11.

We see where Obama puts his money.

i am bitter over iraq, bitter over so many good people without jobs, bitter that when i see the coffins of our soldiers that bush/mccain/clinton are not there to greet every family. one should look up the word bitter in webster and you will find that 80% of the people are bitter about this administration. hello

The hardworking workers who have lost jobs, houses and hope have a right to be "bitter". Do you expect them to be jumping for joy? Obama is saying it like it is.

Hillary and Bill will never understand how the workers who have lost jobs due to NAFTA truly feel as they (the Clintons) have made MILLIONS out of the trade deals, including $800,000 just for Bill speaking on behalf of the Columbian trade deal.

Poor Hillary, she just wants to be relevant. Two words–she lost.

Obama 08

Are CNN's ratings still going down for being subjective with it's Pro-Obama Campaign? Just wondered. So far I have yet to get a comment on here but it's okay…the surge to veiw selective shows on CNN is working and all the Pro-Obama reporters and advisors on this network is to blame.
Articles of this nature are far and few between. Shame on CNN and Msnbc for their Pro-Obama coverage and reporting.

It finally makes sense to me. I have finally figured out her campaign strategy.

She believes she is married to the American people.. Like my wife at times, she is going to bicker, and argue, and drag this out until all of us simply throw our hands in the air and go, "Ok Hillary, you know, you're right, you win…." Even though she has already clearly lost, and has no basis to her argument. It's no wonder to me why so many women support her, they're the only ones who understand her.

You can't argue argue with crazy people. Please CNN can we get back to the issues at hand instead of this tabloid journalism you've been "reporting" since Ohio.

Bitter? Oh Yes…bitter and frustrated and angry and desperate. The Clintons have no idea what it is like to live close to the edge, paycheck to paycheck, and then have Washington insiders with corporate connections come along and undermine your very existence.

This arrogance just plain infuriates me.

Maybe they should try living on MY salary for a bit…aaarrrgggh

wow..talk about twisting words around…oh My poor little Hill..

Yes! they are bitter and it's because of NAFTA. Hillary was a cheerleader for NAFTA until it lost popularity and she started running for president. She'll get my vote only if I have to choose from two evils (Hillary vs McCain), and if I don't get upset by the fact that the superdelegates might take the nomination away from Obama and hand it over to her. However, the fact remains that McCain is the worst thing that can happen to this country.

PA Democrats are not stupid. They know that the Clinton Democrats were the ones behind NAFTA and the Democrats also want a One world Government. That is why George Soros is giving tons of money to the Obama campaign. The goal of the multimillionairs that take our jobs to India and China is to control not only theUnited States but all the countries. World trade is good, but we are always on the short end of the stick.

Latin America and Mexico are not our problem. The problem is China and India with their cheap labor and poor working conditions in their manufacturing companies, most of whom are owned by American and British investors. Where do you think that George Soros makes his money. Not in the United States of America.

His insurance policy is named Barak Obama.

WOW!!!

so much spin this should be a ride at six flags

i gotta think even Hillary supporters think this is a bit breathless

Did CNN decided to give a free ride to Hillary Clinton? You guys have been covering her campaign, and her remarks over and over for the last few days. But of course no talk about Penn her lobbyist chief of staff…. Or her millions, or her Bosnias' lies.
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She is incapable to have a staff that works together with a team spirit. It is just a reflection of what she is, a calculating woman who will do anything for her ambition.
She had a lobbyist as her head of staff, and she knew that he was lobbying for the Columbian trade way before he quit her campaign.
Now, she is attaking Obama for some stupid stuff that you are going to repeat over and over…
I am going to vote for Obama, because he was against the war from the beginning, not because of calculation!!!!

Well thats just stupid…is she suggesting people who lose their jobs are happy go lucky? Maybe she can ask her campaign workers after she loses.

This is why people are turned off by the Clintons. They will run with anything. Obama has yet to slam them on how they differ on free trade or how they lie and joke about sniper fire.

Honest, Fair, and True.

Nice way to spine BO's disgusting remarks onto Hillary….It isn't her fault he's such an elitist……his "words" are belittling and he should be ashamed, he owe's PA an apology!
GO HILLARY…..someone who will fight for small town America and ALL Americans!

First of all, lets all just take a pill and chill out until we find out what context this was said in, if it was really said at all. And if it was, I am from Pennsylvania, and I agree with him. Even if this is the exact context of the statement. I know a heck of a lot of people who are bitter about a lot of things from lack of jobs, low salaries, poor or no health care. Yes, some of us are bitter thanks to George W. Bush. And I know some people who have turned bitter enough to have done things they later regretted in frustration. Truck drivers in PA are thinking about throwing in the towel and leaving their trucks sitting right where they are. I don't know about you but that sounds a bit on the bitter side to me. So if you aren't from Pennsylvania, shut your pie hole because you have no right to speak for us. And if you are from Pennsylvania and you don't agree with Senator Obama, then you must be a doctor or lawyer pulling in $100,000 a year or more.

He was giving milk to a calf. He was bowling. He was having a beer at a bar. He was just trying to find something that he was good at.

Clinton can be the most bitter. Afterall she's the one who made a mess out of a campaign that otherwise would have carried her to the most important job in the world.

hillary is right, Pennsylvanians need somebody to lift their moral not laughing at them like Obama is doing.

Okay, then I'm happy about losing my job, I'm happy because of NAFTA, I'm happy because I've lost my home, I'm happy because I don't have health care, I'm happy the war is costing billions and John McCain wants to stay there for 100 years, I'm happy because Bill and Hillary make $109 million dollars, I'm happy because the country is on the wrong course. I'm happy to say Obama spoke the truth and didn't misspeak.

CALIFORNINA GIRL

1. fyi; Bill Clinton is not running for president, so why do you think things with Hillary will be like the 1990's? You make no sense.

2. learn to spell. its dementia, not "dimentia"

you sure don't sound like a Smart democrat.

I would be bitter too…and maybe have some negativity in my heart if I lost my job and see no relief in sight. Please Clinton stop trying to create drama!!!!

Please tell me again how jobs "fell through the Clinton Administration"? The job market and the economy could not have been better in the 90's. That's why it was called "the Roaring 90's" Obama…..

Mike, What solid history of work does Hillary have. Barely 6 years in the Senate, otherwise she has been Bill's cheerleader. What helping the poor has Hillary done, NOTHING, a failed healthcare plan. An Obama machine is attacking her? What are you smoking. She has hammered away at him so that if she isn't the nominee, no democrat will win, she is a spoiled brat. Bill needs to put her over his knee…wait she isn't an intern. Vote Hillary either 4 more years of Bush via McCain or 4 more years of investigations (Whitewater, Travelgate, theft from teh WH when laving)

Love the clinging to guns comment…what is he thinking.???

I am sorry but I agree with Obama, I am bitter about the coast of gas, food, the war. Thank GOD I still have my job or I would be really bitter. I think anyone who has lost their job would be and has the right to be bitter.

Totally out of context. Hillary is desperate and is drawing on straws. She is hitting Bill Clinton on her missstatement on Bosnia, and Barack Obama and every and any one in her line of fire……what is the difference between missspoke, missinform and lying…….can some one help me, please!! Lake Hart, a Native American Writer.

At least he does not seem to have a consistant lying problem.
hillary drop out. You were a republican in 1964 and you still are.
That is why you want to help McCain!!!!

Oh shut up Hillary!!!! Pay your bills!!!! Make sure your campaign workers have health insurance PAID FOR!!! Reign Bill in!!
There. Now you have enough on your plate to occupy you instead of these shallow juvenile attempts at "gotcha" politics. Pathetic.

I am surprised at the interpretation of the comment. James Hoffa said they were dissaponted and frustrated that nothing is being done to help blue collar workers when he was visiting with Obama yesterday. That is why the Teamsters are backing Obama - they don't feel that the past 20 years have done much to change the condition of the unionized workers in Pennsylvania.

Maybe this is why the Clintons are so upset as it reflects on their years in the White House as well.

Well I don't know about you, but if I lost my job over something your husband did that you were in support of and then you tell me today that you are against it although you spoke in favor of it publicly then I think I would be bitter as well. Resiliance comes after you get over being bitter. But, when you loose your livelyhood bitter definetly is in the picture.

Obama 08!!!!

This is so boring…I really can't see how that statement can be called condescending. He's speaking on behalf of these people, advocating FOR them. I think Hill should worry less about words found in Barack's senteces, and more about the falsehoods and embellishments regularly leaving her campaign. NEXT.

I WOULD HOPE THEY WOULD BE BITTER. YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT THAT COMPENSATES COMPANIES TO TAKE YOUR JOBS AWAY TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND ANOTHER PEOPLE. HECK, I WOULD BE BETTER.

THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE THERE TO INSTIL PRIDE IN US WITH OUR HARD WORK NOT DEPRIVE US OF OUR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD. IT IS BY NO MEANS ELITIST. RATHER IT IS REALIST.

McCAIN SHOULD TALK TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THE MEANS TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIRS. HE SHOULD LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATIONS ON DINNER TABLES ACROSS THE COUNTRY NOT BLAST THOSE THAT DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO $100 MILLION THROUGH MARRAIGE OR $109 MILLION FROM "DEALS."

OBAMA understands working people. When the mines closed down in Kellogg, Idaho, you can bet there was a lot of bitter people. My husband went to work one day at Bunker Hill and they were met at the portal and told. "The Mine is closed."

Hillary is getting very annoying.Why doesn't she pack up and go away?

So , what they are Bitter!!!

OBAMA 08

I can't think of anybody more "elitist" than Hillary Clinton, or anybody more "out of touch" than John McCain. And if I have to hear Hillary say "roll up their sleeves" one more time I think I'm going to scream.

Please vote for Barack Obama, who appears to have integrity and honesty.

This Obama man just makes my skin crawl and scares me. This comment is so like him - "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," I guess these people from Penn. didn't go to Harvard for free and are having a little trouble accepting that he understands anything.

What is elitist?

He told the truth. Those small towns and their people have every right to be bitter. They have been promised and promised and promised by candidate after candidate after candidate.

There NOTHING negative about what he said. Some people just can't handle the truth.

Hillary stands up to Obama snide comments. "bitter" doesn't fit with "hope". It is high time people start calling Obama on his negative comments and attacks. I suppose he will say he wasn't there when he said it! Does he ever take responsibility for what he says or gets someone to say for him?

Go Hillary - expose him for what he is: a condescending, slick, rich, devious, lawyer politician.

Before all you Obama-haters start overreacting and overposting, someone needs to confirm the statements allegedly made by Obama. A blogger (who is a Clinton supporter) from Huffingtonpost.com is claiming that this was said.

If Obama is misquoted or didn't say these things, both Hillary and McCain will look like fools.

Obama in 08!

Boy, Hillary put quite a bit of spin on that word! She'll do anything to take the heat off of her and Bill. Bill and Hillary both supported NAFTA, it's obvious from her schedule that was released. Now, Bill and her campaign strategist are working with the Columbian government to push through a trade deal that she supposedly is against???? The people of Pennsylvania have every right to be "bitter", but it's because of people like the Clintons who have cost them their jobs. The Columbians have paid Bill $800,000 for his work to promote the trade agreement…if you expect people to actually believe you don't suport the agreement, why would you be okay taking the $800,000. And if that $800,000 is in your joint account, and you've "loaned" your campaign $5 million, how can people be sure that the Columbians aren't paying for her campaign. I live in New York State, where Hillary made promises to upstate NY that if she was elected to the Senate, she would bring thousands of jobs here. Well, no jobs ever came, and when she was questioned about it at the MSN debate, her lame response was that when she made those promises, she thought Al Gore would be elected President!!!! Take my word for it Pennsylvania Voters, she could care less…she's telling you what you want to hear so that you'll vote for her, then you can forget any lame promises she makes. Jobs are still leaving Upstate at an alarming rate. She can't even handle one State, how in the world can she think she can run an entire country. Please Pennsylvania…don't let her scam you like she did NY voters (for the Senate) and OH and TX with lies about NAFTA.

I think the people in Pennsylvania have a right to be bitter about the results of NAFTA. Many jobs left, and will not be back soon, if ever.

The Clinton campaign seems to be completely out of control. Hopefully, this will be over soon.

Well Sandra, you are entilted to your opinion, however Obama will not be the next president. We will have 4 more years of a republician in charge. Whether you like it or not, people will hold Rev. Wright against him big time. Which I might add he lied about, as well as other things he has lied about. So, I guess you will vote for McCain? It is real hard to find a politician who doesn't lie, we just have to determine which are the worst. Embelishing about Bosnia is better then Obamas' whoopers. At least she was in a war zone. She has always oppose NAFTA. She has spent her whole adult life being proud of this country. She has fought for human rights all over the world. She has fought for the less fortunate and will continue to do so.

Think how bitter she's going to be when Obama nails down the nomination, wrecking Hillary's inevitable coronation! LOLF!

Obama '08!