Hendrickson is right. HE is not bitter. The folks he, as a Clinton Democrat, left behind are.

Hillary will apparently do anything to win, including smearing the likely Democratic nominee. For her, of all people, to suggest that Barack Obama is somehow elitist is beyond ridiculous. (Wasn't last week's smear that he was a scary black man from the ghetto?) Time to start treating us like grown-ups!

Brilliant tactic. Keep this scandal front and center. Excellent. Obama is going down with a thud.

Then he'll be the bitter one.

Tom Hendrickson is not a gifted speaker and had a hard with his speech reading and delivery. So Obama Zombies don't read to much in the crowds response. He's Country and American voters got his message! Remember Rev. Wright said "God Damn America", and Small Town Americans says not in our house!

The allegedly “tepid” reaction may well have been because some people at the rally hadn’t heard the news yet. After sitting on the story for a week, the reporter from Huffington deliberately released the story this weekend because she knew a lot of people wouldn't be focused on the news.

Hillary said "america" or "americans" 4 times in 18 minutes. she's grasping

you have to be an elitist to NOT be bitter. gas prices, jobs, war

if you're not bitter, you're not middle class or poor.

Hillary, the more you lie about Obama being 'elite' -while he's talking about how we really feel and you're releasing 109 Million dollar tax returns- the more stupid you look.

Many people in these crowds wouldn't have known about the comments yet.

It will take a few days to see what the response will be.

Besides its the undecideds who probably arent at a Clinton rally and might have voted Obama before they heard this who could make a difference.

The people at these rallies were already Clinton supporters.

The people who are out of touch are the ones going around and pretending there is not a deep well of bitterness in the American electorate. Wake up, folks! Surveys indicate over 80% of the people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Why is HRC getting mad at Obama for commenting on the obvious?

funny how the Obama youth defend him no matter what.

If you paid much attention through the whole primaries, You would have seen, Obama to be The major candidate to start the mudslinging, to Point the fingers, to cast Blame on everyone. To Plant stories, to twist facts, to tell mis-truths.

His vast lies surpass anyone else's. He was low enough to lie on and about his best friends, his family.

He is the first to cry woe is me, Look they are picking on me, and Whine about everything.

He was the first and only one to talk down to, put down and use and abuse the American public.

His campaign consist of trying to make everyone else look bad, since he has nothing to stand on.

He was the first to name call, and continues to do so.

He was the first to divide into races and groups.

He is a scam artist, he has used, abused, and manipulated the American people. He does not care for you. He only cares for you vote.

He put himself on a pedestal, thinking he is high above all else. His arogance
has him thinking he is free to do or say anything he wants to, and get away with it.

He beleives no one will call him out or challenge him for fear of being called a racist. He hold that above all heads, and ready to cast it upon anyone if they speak ill of him, disagree with him or challenge him.

He is worthless as a person and as a senator. So he does not deserve to be The President of the United States of America.

He refuses to show a support for our troops. He refuses to place his hand on his heart for the national Anthem.

So what makes you think He would lay down his life to Defend or Protect The United States of America. He would not, he is the type that would sell us out. or run crying and hide.

Obama beleives in Obama

The change Obama wants is a change of Address to the White House.

He's the one to pull the wool over your eyes.

The "we" he keeps talking about is Him, Michelle and Rev Wright and his Friends.
Not you and me. (he wants us to stay out of corporate American and take the jobs as nurses and teachers and factory work, that is what he needs"

He is the weakest link and the worst candidate.

I am bitter but I have hope.

Obama 08!

B man deserves some real respect. He could have tired to blow the whole Bosnia thing out of proportion but he didn't.

Me and my blue collar wife and kids... white as can be in PA are voting for Obama.

take that.

New Obama slogan:

BITTERNESS WE CAN BELIEVE IN

Housing Values going down, Investments losing value in 1st quarter of 2008 -401K/403B, Eduation 529 plan, etc.. and at least 19 dead U.S. soliders in Iraq already in April and all anyone can talk about is how Sen Obama hurt our feelings. I would rather have hurt feelings than dead soliders, I would rather be called bitter and have investments which are in the Black and I would rather have an Elitist in the White House if my personal housing value would rise and foreclosures wouldn't dot my neighborhood... God Bless America and Politican's who can prey on our racial, religious and class divisions.

Obama's comments were not that the general population is bitter but that small town people resort to hunting and church to deal with their bitterness (rather than hunting as a tradition and religion as devotion to god). He stereotyped them and described them as though they were some kind of anthropologic experiment.

You can't even own up to what Obama really said. I guess you are so bitter and clinging to your guns to the point that you cannot read! typical i guess.

Yes, I am a bitter American fed up with the Economy as it is - I blame it on The Old Way thinking of Washington. And Hillary is part of that. I am voting for Barack Obama right now, he is right.

BTW.. to all of you who are foolishly not bitter...

Both Gore and Carter will be endorsing Obama, not Clinton alas.

Why? Because they are bitter but have hope OBAMA 08.

For all Americans... white..black...bitter...happy...sad...hopeful.

Hillary is pathetic. Won't someone please wish her into the cornfield already?!!

Obama is unelectable. All the hysteria in the world won't change that. Please obama people, no violence.

I applaud Senator Obama for running a campaign that at least tries to deal with reality and to appeal to me and every other American as an adult. What is wrong with this political climate that a candidate cannot clarify a statement without the other candidate(s) being adults and gentlemen and women and allowing him to speak? He has shown this courtesy to HRC. And if HRC is so sure she is the only one fit (entitled) to be president, what should she fear? Where is the faith that she so stalwartly defended (bragged about)? And did you ever think you would see her get behind guns?!? She will stop at nothing and is behaving foolishly.
Thank you, Obama, for trying to speak directly to us. I pray that my fellow-Americans can be as reasonable as our fore-fathers and mothers thought people could be. I, a blue collar American feel bitterness not only for our current state of affairs, but also for HRC's deplorable greed and mudslinging. I can barely watch anymore.
God bless you, Obama!