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I’ve read a few posts here postulating that this is a pro-Obama article. I beg to differ. While it is not the absurd slanted tripe we’ve been subjected to for the past two days, it is not really quite yet what I would call really Obama leaning. At best… it’s neutral. But I think there are several sly slants that still tip the scales toward HRC while posturing as candidate neutral.
“Folks agree with Barack Obama in at least one Pennsylvania trailer park. But will angry voters help or hurt Democrats in swing states this fall?”
Trailer park? Now that seems an elitist descriptive. Also the headline calls into question weather Obama getting the ‘angry voters’ all riled up will help Democrats. Not exactly pro is it?
“he'd be happy to go for Obama in November. (Or Hillary Clinton, for that matter.)”
Ah he’d go for Hillary too… nice to know that.
“If Clinton holds on to a big share of the blue-collar Democratic vote, as she did in Ohio last month, she'll win, as polls show she's on track to do.”
Ah good to know HRC is still winning… just like Ohio folks.
“So while Obama and Clinton fight on…”
Oh haven’t you heard? It’s over. She can’t win. The contest is finished.
“McCain's campaign is already planning to remind people, again and again, of this week's controversy. McCain also sent out a fundraising e-mail about Obama's remarks -- as did Obama, defending himself against attacks from his rivals. Clinton, for her part, has an ad about it on Pennsylvania TV stations.”
Well… there you go again…calling it a controversy. What controversy. HRC and McCain played politics and twisted what Obama said to hurt him. When Obama clarifies his point and voters nod in agreement the McClinton’s are the ones who look out of touch and elitist.
“he voted for Bush in 2000 but supports Clinton this time”
What… they couldn’t find ONE angry voter that supports Obama? They’ve been all over these threads the past few days.
“A lifelong Democrat, White says she'll vote for Obama next week. "It's a bad time in the world," she said. "People are bitter."”
Whew… finally in the last sentence an unabashedly pro-Obama supporter. Was that so hard?
Now what doesn’t this article say? It doesn’t say that HRC aligned herself with Republican talking points and methods to try to hurt Obama. It doesn’t say that his honest response is resonating with voters yet again (see latest national poll after this silly dust up), and it seems the whole falsely created controversy has backfired once more.
So Salon… nice try… I do give you a few points for this article not being in league with the bizzaro- world screeds of the past few days. Yet… try harder.
