TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Senator Barack Obama forcefully criticized his rivals here Friday evening for suggesting he was out-of-touch with the American middle-class, after Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain accused Mr. Obama of belittling voters by calling them “bitter.”
A fresh controversy over electability emerged from comments Mr. Obama had made at a private fundraiser in California on Sunday. Mr. Obama outlined challenges facing his presidential candidacy in the upcoming primaries of Pennsylvania and Indiana, particularly winning over white working-class voters who have fallen through the cracks of the last two presidential administrations.
“So it’s not surprising then that 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,” Mr. Obama said, according to a transcript that appeared Friday on the Hufington Post Web site.
The remarks touched off a torrent of criticism from Mrs. Clinton, Mr. McCain and a string of Republican activists and party officials, all of whom accused Mr. Obama of elitism and belittling the working class. At a rally here Friday evening, Mr. Obama drawing a standing ovation in a crowded gymnasium as he rebutted those charges and painted both of his rivals as entrenched Washington insiders. Obama going have to be on the defensive for the rest of his campaign. He has said to much, and has made it easy to paint him more in line with Wright. Obama has basically call rural America bigots. McCain and Clinton will hound him on this, and say that this is more proof that he did hear Wright's comments and agree with him. P.S. I had to take time off due to illness in the family. My mom had cancer and my dad had a major heart attack all in a week. Thank you for your prayers. Therefore---- I AM BACK AND ON THE ATTACK!!!
A fresh controversy over electability emerged from comments Mr. Obama had made at a private fundraiser in California on Sunday. Mr. Obama outlined challenges facing his presidential candidacy in the upcoming primaries of Pennsylvania and Indiana, particularly winning over white working-class voters who have fallen through the cracks of the last two presidential administrations.
“So it’s not surprising then that 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,” Mr. Obama said, according to a transcript that appeared Friday on the Hufington Post Web site.
The remarks touched off a torrent of criticism from Mrs. Clinton, Mr. McCain and a string of Republican activists and party officials, all of whom accused Mr. Obama of elitism and belittling the working class. At a rally here Friday evening, Mr. Obama drawing a standing ovation in a crowded gymnasium as he rebutted those charges and painted both of his rivals as entrenched Washington insiders. Obama going have to be on the defensive for the rest of his campaign. He has said to much, and has made it easy to paint him more in line with Wright. Obama has basically call rural America bigots. McCain and Clinton will hound him on this, and say that this is more proof that he did hear Wright's comments and agree with him. P.S. I had to take time off due to illness in the family. My mom had cancer and my dad had a major heart attack all in a week. Thank you for your prayers. Therefore---- I AM BACK AND ON THE ATTACK!!!
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