Letters to the Editor
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Right it is: I AM bitter
The pundits hammering on Obama don't give a hoot about the American people, our fleeing jobs and paltry health care, our shabby schools and insecure future, and our catastrophic war.
Am I bitter? Damn right.
I think this whole episode has showed how out of touch the pundit class is. Obama tells the truth and they all have a fit. Get over it. Get real. The country is in trouble.
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Lies
I have a friend who has family who exactly fit in to the demo in question here...they are laughing hysterically at being called bitter and find Obama's comment absurd on its face and his explanation of his comment even more funny...I and they know of NO ONE who is bitter in PA...they are an optimistic, proud people...they may not be happy about how things are going in the country, but that doesn't affect their outlook on life...Obama may be projecting what HE sees as a life HE would not prefer, and ASSUMES one would be bitter as a result, but in reality, he is dead wrong, and the voters are going to teach him a lesson he won't soon forget about what it means to be bitter...his supporters will be whining non-stop next Wed. morning, demonstrating why they are singlehandedly the reason why he can't be President: for they will be labeling Pennsylvanians as "stupid white trash" for voting for Hillary...you mark my words...so much for him and them being "uniters"--one of the biggest farces in the 2008 race.
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RE: Bullshit
Working class voters will see through Hillary Clinton's opportunistic attempt to "damage" Obama. This whole bitter controversy is going to hurt her in PA. Working class voters don't let pundits muddle their thinking. They know bullshit when they see it.
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I AGREE
Thank you for this fine article. The phenomenon of the Reagan Democrat who votes against his own self interest has long astounded me. Perhaps this may change. I hope so. For anyone who requires more support for what is wrong with our country...where are we right these days? I urge you to view the PBS Front-line Program: Sick Around The World. Even if you think you know everything about the failings of our healthcare system this is a must watch program. I have placed a link to it on my Blog www.deeplyimbedded.com. I urge anyone reading this to view the program. I found the link on the PBS website.
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Of course They're Bitter...
Wouldn't you also be bitter if you had a reduced-wage job with no prospect of advancement and little opportunity for better elsewhere? Our economy has left these folks behind and the Republican AND Democratic party response has been one giant yawn. Now, as we close in on recession, lots of people are equally scared. Perhap not bitter yet, but lose that home and see if bitter doesn't come close to describing the mind frame.
I know me and my middle-class friends are already bitter about the price of gas the cost of food hikes. I'm bitter about my family using perhaps a few hundred dollars of medical services each year and yet watching as my premiums rise regardless of health status or usage of the system.
Frankly, McCain has got his work cut out for him to sway independents if the economy remains on course for the next several months. People are hurting and McCain hasn't a clue hoe to help them. Both Clinton and Obama have the advantage because they at least have been speaking to the very problems that are on everyone's mind, including independents and most Republicans.
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Obama was right
There is a huge class of persons, call them working-class or whatever you want, that have been globalization losers, and have not been represented for 40 years in Washington. These are the "bitter" voters. And Obama was right. They are bitter. I know some of these people. Some are my siblings, who are not in the best jobs in the world. They are VERY unhappy.
And the assholes who support Hillary, and Hillary herself, are trying to use the less-than-artful manner in which Mr. Obama spoke truth to damage him. This is a Republican strategy. Hillary is supposedly a Democrat.
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Dear Salon
Do you notice all the readers who have shown up in droves to tell you they think (rightfully so) that Salon has been blinded by their devotion to the lesser candidate, Clinton? That the articles reflect a pro-Clinton bend and that we are being talked down to?
Picture this. Imagine that Clinton does win the primaries due to negative campaigning, which we will perceive as being partially reflected in your journalism. We will leave Salon in droves, I can promise you that. My enthusiasm for Salon has been on again, off again, but I came here on the hope that this place would be different from other news organizations, that you were interested in promoting the truth. If you can't do that I have a lot of other options that I'd like to pursue.
I think this article was okay. Madden at least found people to quote on the issue. He found real people to reflect upon and some reality based journalism, not the high-flying, sadistic speculation that Lind wrote.
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Nonsense
I love it when "journalist" pick a Limbaugh republican to somehow make their theory correct. Plus the guy picks people who live in a trailer park where they have it harder than others. Most people are bitter about politics in general and the economy. That isn't news. But they don't live their lives that way. They don't attend church each week thinking about it.
Church for those of us who aren't Obama is a spiritual, scared place and not a place where our Priest, Pastors, Rabbis, Reverends spew hatred. It's a calming place of love and to belittle it as some kind of reason for people not to vote for the Obamessiah is elitist...is racial..is a discrace.
The majority of us who do not vote for Obama just don't either think he is qualified, don't see he lives his life as he preaches, and just have different political views. Now he has gone from Happy Happy Joy Joy to blaming those who don't support him? The guy's nuts.