So what Obama is right...The only thing he forgot to mention was Nascar and Red White and Blue beer.

Looks like "American Woman" is a paid by the Obama campaign!

What kind of person would change candidates because they said they are more in touch with the American people.

Sorry "American Woman" we are not buying it!

I guess to say what I realy mean is... sounds better than what I said was true but I don't want to say I am lying to you now. Confused as I am? You bitter voters need to go to Harvard so you can have enough intelligence as Obama to understand what he means.

Sam. Yes, that does sound like what he said. Isn't it true? He was trying to be sympathetic, but the anti-elitism in this country seems to always blind people into voting against the candidates that would actually do them the most good. And so they get the likes of Bush to screw them over some more.

How many times is Obama going to call white people bigots and get away with it?

He is projecting his own hatred for other races.

"they cling to ... antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment"

He says typical white people have no sympathy for people who are not like them... Why is it okay for him to talk like this?

Hillary is the only person who can unify this country.

No Obama, Guns are the guarantee we have that our rights are not trampled on.

Stop explaining yourself. I'm tired of your excuses and explanations. If a presidential candidate has to explain that yes they are patriotic and yes they do love America they are not going to be elected. Period. Be it a democrat or a Republican. Pride in America should eminate from a candidate naturally, no questions about it. It should not have to be packaged and sold to the voters. We can get plastic idols in Hollywood. Hillary or McCain for POTUS.

PEOPLE PLEASE READ WHAT OBAMA SAID.NOW THINK FOR YOUR SELVES.AND IF YOU ARE HONEST WITH YOUR SELVES YOU KNOW HE DID'NT MEAN WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SPIN THIS THING INTO.

Obama, you always try to defend yourself even if you said something wrong. Give me a break. You think you can fool the rest of the Americans, not me.

He's a piece of work. That's all this country needs, a president who more often than not looks to the more experienced for direction and who more often than not puts his foot in his mouth and later scrambles to cover up. Scary times for America.

Obama is just trying to make an excuse for another 10 point loss headed his way in another swing state. Saying the people of Pennsylvania are dumb and bitter. If that is true, wouldn't they be flocking to his campaign? The so called "outsider" and "Change man". Maybe the people of Pennsylvania recognize this man as a unaccomplished career political charlatan!

Joe - It would not be OK for him to talk like that. But fortunately he didn't.

It still sounds like he is looking down on small towns lie they're backwards hicks because they believe in prayer as a comfort. He doesn't have a clue

Morris Evans,

That's right Obama did not mean exactly what he said. He only meant what he himself is trying to spin it to, not what other people are trying to spin it to.
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Now is not the time to give up on Obama!
Maybe he can fix this!
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Obama has committed another "bone-headed" mistake which once again shows his arrogance and contempt for the Americans he wants to lead. If people don't buy his message, (Ohio, PA)there's something wrong with them. That's what Samantha Power said, that's what he's saying. It's just about time for another major address, a dazzling blast of puffery from Obama on "The Bitterness of Middle America". Chris Matthews will get the tingling feeling down his leg again, and we'll all be healed.

What the hell are Clinton and McCain and the media all in a huff about, what the heck are they talking about? OBAMA IS ABSOLUTELY ONE THOUSAND PERCENT CORRECT! They're just angry, jealous, that they didn't say it first. I live in Pennsylvania. Just yesterday a long time Pennsylvania stopped by and started talking about the Dixie Cup plant that closed, about how those jobs went to Mexico and about how the plants are closed and the mills, and the outsourcing of jobs that were once here, and it's ironic because he started talking about his guns and how angry he was about the lack of jobs here and the frustrations of the people. So I can't for the life of me figure out what Hillary and McCain and everyone else is yakking about over what Obama said. He is absolutely correct. He is telling the truth. He has the pulse of the American people here. We are very frustrated about Iraq too and feel that Iraq is the big reason the gas is so high, why the economy is in the toilet. So it is not Obama who is the elitest and out of touch, IT IS CLINTON AND MCCAIN WHO ARE THE ELITESTS AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH US! Go Obama, and thank you!!!

Being at one time a young, gay student at a small college in Elkins, WVA, I did not hide on campus. This was the early seventies and black students at the school[mostly from the D.C area] were involved in this new religious theology that had no need for urban or rural whites. I didn't isolate like the blacks, but went and got a job at the local A&P. It was a wonderful experience and removed any notion that the "locals" were bitter, angry, gun-totting, bible preaching, racists as Obama has explained them. The store in Parsons catered to locals, miners{about every two weeks when they were in town, their families, and the mountain people. They were dirt poor yet we all enjoyed the day God gave us and enjoyed a good story or the latest talk. Proud and feeling like we were almost in Heaven like the song said. Today Obama does not get it just like the black students and never really got to know the people I learned to love. So please BO don't try to change your words because myself and many others know how you really think. YOU JUST DON'T GET IT!

Just keep diggin that hole.

Obama Supporters, think for a second.
If Hillary had made these insensitive statements, she would have been raked over the coals immediately! Tee shirts would have been printed slamming her....she would have been asked to step down....more Tanya Harding type pictures would have surfaced. You all hold him to a totally different standard. How could this man make such a "bonehead" comment at this point in the game?! And you all want him as president? I agree....I see now that he doesn't even qualify to be a senator. He is just a good talker with rich connections. I used to drink the Obama koolaid....not any more!
Sign me.....Recovered Obama addict

Obama didn't tell the people at the fundraiser that "people take comfort in their faith." He said, "they cling to guns and religion and antipathy . . ." He spoke about religion in a manner that he thought was acceptable to his audience. Obama is a two-faced person and knows nothing about religion or small-town people. Religion is about union with God, union with Jesus, eternal life, morality, and much more. Obama is a fake.