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Michael Steele Rips Obama, One Year Too Late
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyWe know that RNC Chairman Michael Steele has had a lot on his plate-- what with losing a reliably Republican seat in upstate New York and feuding with a radio demagogue.But for a man purportedly in charge of the nation's second largest political party, a one-year turnaround time in reacting to news events is simply too long...The Washington Times reports that Steele has sent an RNC mailer attacking [President] Obama for saying in Europe that U.S. foreign policy had shown "an absence of wisdom," then linking this back to how Obama "indicated disdain for small town and working Americans who ...
Can't Win
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe race for the White House has turned increasingly speculative. We've ditched all policy questions at the side of the road in favor of idyll musing as to which candidate has the best, or worst, chance of actually winning. The substantive reasons why John McCain, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton should win or lose have happily been traded in for whatever is handy and effective. Global food shortage? Who cares when we've got lapel pins? What matters, you see, is that we opinionators craft what sounds like a plausible reason why the person we happen to dislike is going to go down in flames. A ...
Hillary on Poor Whites Circa '95: 'Screw 'em!'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Huffington Post is reaching into the way, way-back machine to rehash quotes by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that stand in contrast to her recent courting of blue collar voters:In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach. "Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. ...
Obama's Bitter Aftertaste
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyBarack Obama and his supporters are taking comfort in the Gallup daily tracking poll that seems to suggest his "ill-chosen words" in San Francisco have inflicted little political damage.But the only poll that matters will be held a week from today when voters cast votes in the Pennsylvania primary. Only then will we know whether voters in small towns are "bitter" or mad as hell at Obama.John Judis of the New Republic thinks that Obama will be the one who's bitter when all is said and done:Some liberal commentators have downplayed the effect of Barack Obama's fundraising speech at a San ...
'Pennsylvania' - New Clinton Ad
By Greg McNeilly - Politics DailyHillary Clinton's campaign has released a new :30 TV spot in the Keystone state titled "Pennsylvania." The ad focuses on the "Bitter-gate" set of comments made by her rival and Democrat front runner Barack Obama. ...
'Bitter' Pill Won't Stay Down
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe tide of "BitterGate" is turning faster than a C-130 in a corkscrew landing. I've got to hand it to the people who don't have a dog in this fight, and even some who do. Despite a media firestorm over remarks that Senator Barack Obama made at a fund-raiser in San Francisco, and the campaigns of John McCain and Hillary Clinton pushing an "elitism" narrative to anyone who will listen, lots of people seem to have gotten wise to this game.At an Alliance For American Manufacturing Forum in Pittsburgh today, Hillary Clinton went in armed with talking points, but was greeted by a crowd armored ...
Bitter Effect in PA?
By Dave - Politics DailyIt's ARG, not exactly the gold standard, but maybe a portent of things to come. This is one of those situations where the movement may be more important than the actual numbers. Anyway, ARG's latest poll shows Hillary with a shocking 20 point lead over Barack in Pennsylvania, when a week ago they were tied 45-45. Today's numbers are 57-37. That's either some extremely bad polling data, or one heck of a vote shift. Could Obama's 5-1 on-air advantage be backfiring? 10% of all likely Democratic primary voters say they would never vote for Hillary Clinton in the primary and 24% of likely ...
Obama Dismisses Bitter Foes
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyBarack Obama has been on the defensive over his remarks that Americans who live in small towns are "bitter" and "...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."Obama has since expressed regret:Obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that.But the sniping continues. John McCain and Hillary Clinton are piling on. Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, wrote in an email to supporters:These words are revealing on a number of levels, and ...
Using Bitter in North Carolina
By Dave - Politics DailyThis report seems to indicate that Hillary may already be giving up on Barack's bitter controversy and the gaffe has limited currency in Democratic circles: But the issue doesn't seem to be sticking. Clinton himself has been silent on the issue. But at the first two events of the day, the campaign has sent one of Carolina's hometown boys out to push the issue before Clinton takes the stage. Tom Hendrickson, a Clinton supporter and former Democratic Party chairman, included a reading of Obama's comments in his introduction of Clinton. ... Hendrickson repeated the sentiment at a later stop in ...
Poor, Stupid, Bitter White People
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailySure, what else could Barack Obama have possibly meant by this?You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then 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 ...
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