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Obama's "bitter" clarification - is this really better?
The following quote from the BBC is their description of Obama's clarification of his remarks on small-town life: 'He said he believed many voters were indeed bitter about the economy and that he had meant to say that "when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on".' So now he's saying "antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment" are good things? Things you can count on to solve your problems?
Maybe he should have gone with "OK, maybe I am elitist sometimes. None of us are perfect. That's why it's important to surround yourself with advisors who are willing to call you on something like that and not a bunch of yes-men (like in the current administration). That's what I've done and I only wish one of them had vetted my statement."
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- Eric HLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
It seems to me he was only making an observation. I am a conservative and I disagree with his politics, but Obama is getting a bad rap on this one. I don't agree with the people complaining about the economy and "outsourcing", but I hear plenty of people who are very bitter (angry, frustrated, choose your adjective) every day. I think they're misguided, but they make themselves heard and many do express nativist sentiments and embrace a more intolerant brand of religion in reaction to what they perceive as a threatening, uncertain political and economic environment.
- Psycho MagnetLv 61 decade ago
LOL Well look at his his association with Wright and that church, how he attempted to clarify it without answering any of the questions it raised and ends up making a "typical white person" comment that hammers home what people worried about in the first place.
Now he gets busted making an elitist stereotypical assessment of middle America, attempts to clarify it without answering any of the questions it raised and ends up making it sound like hatred is good which hammers home what people worried about in the first place.
Noticing a trend?
What kills me is the people who ask "what did he say that was wrong?" -- How many times have you have to clarify and alter what you've said when it was accurate and well said the first time?
- margaret hLv 71 decade ago
His foot is so far in his mouth that he's sitting on it.
Saves somebody from giving him a well-deserved kick in the as$.
Every time he speaks without reading prepared remarks from a teleprompter he says something that betrays his TRUE BELIEFS about Americans that he has never had any experience with.
His "explanation" of his remarks makes it WORSE because he says that it's TRUE that they're a bunch of "bitter" people "clinging" to their guns and faith.
He's just explaining his DARK VIEW of a TERRIBLE AMERICA.
Does Obama LIVE in the country he want to be President of?
- KaineLv 41 decade ago
Why clarify the truth?
So people in small towns of Pennsylvannia aren't bitter. I know people in LA who are bitter and when you turn bitter you say and do things out of character. It's funny how McCain and Clinton have teamed up to smear him, with a little help from the media.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
yeah, he says he Misspoke!
Isnt that what people keep saying hillary does only they call it a lie!
tomorrow the obama supporters will totally forget the "misspoke" he did and be back on talking about Hillarys misspokes!
- 1 decade ago
The only thing he did wrong was back away from his earlier statements, which were perceptive and valid.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
He is still swallowing his foot.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
no. he is showing his true colors.
