New Clinton Ad Addresses Obama's "Bitter" Comments

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Hillary Clinton

The Clinton campaign today released an ad hitting Barack Obama over comments he made about small town voters who "get 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."

In the new 30-second spot, "Pennsylvania," an announcer references Obama's comments. A woman says, "I was very insulted by Barack Obama." A man then calls him "out of touch."

Then another woman says, "I'm not clinging to my faith out of frustration and bitterness. I find that my faith is very uplifting." A second man follows with this comment: "The good people of Pennsylvania deserve a lot better than what Barack Obama said."

The last two comments paint Clinton in a positive light – one woman says "Hillary does understand the citizens of Pennsylvania better," and another says "Hillary Clinton has been fighting for people like us her whole life." Watch it:

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by nanging3 April 16, 2008 7:51 PM EDT: OBAMA HAS FAKE ENDORSEMENTS !!!
I WAS CHECKING POLITICS ON THE HUFFINGTON POST WHEN IT SHOWED A EAT YOUR HEART OUT HILLARY..
"OBAMA ENDORSED BY THE AHSA (AMERICAN HUNTERS AND SHOOTERS)"

WELL I NEVER HEARD OF THEM SO WHEN I CHECKED FURTHER THIS IS WHAT I FOUND !!

AHSA is actually the latest in a long line of anti-gun groups camouflaging themselves as pro-hunting and pro-conservation in order to split our community. Before you give AHSA any creed %u2013 beware the wolf in sheep%u2019s clothing, and see for yourself:

http://nssf.com/share/pdf/AHSA_Fact_Sheet.pdf

OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS PLANS TO DISARM AMERICA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs; Reply to this comment


by illinoisvote April 16, 2008 4:11 AM EDT: Senator Obama on the Run from Rezko Story
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jOFT8jtuVpo

Obama Campaign Finance Chair Involved in Superior Bank S&L Scandal
http://www.bostonnow.com/blogs/oldmole/2008/02/12/obama-campaign-involved-in-super

Obama Missing in Action as Chair of Senate Subcommittee on Europe to Strengthen NATO Troops in Afghanistan http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4355006&page=2

Barack %u201CI-didn%u2019t-know%u201D Obama http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/03/24/barack-i-didnt-know-obama/#comment-178392

Barack Obama and *** Morris in Kenya http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/31/obamas-african-hubris-2/

http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/The_Obama_Craze_Count_Me_Out_5413.html

Obama Knows His Way around a Ballot by David Jackson & Ray Long, Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070403obama-ballot,0,1843097.story?,page=1

Obama Very Cozy with Nuclear-power and Coal Industries

/by/ Enviro http://Enviro.mydd.com/ , Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 10:57:46 AM EST

Obama Connection to Terrorists Revealed by Talk Show Host
By Jim Kouri
MichNews.com http://www.MichNews.com
Mar 24, 2008

There is a far-reaching scandal brewing for presidential hopeful Sen.
Barack Obama, thanks to a radio talk show host based in Oregon.
Syndicated talk host Laurie Roth''s revelations make the news story about
Obama''s relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor look like
child''s play.; Reply to this comment


by omaar-101 April 16, 2008 12:31 AM EDT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBO137t7
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H. Clinton, Titled Liar, Watch her Squirm when Tim Russert Bust Her A!! on Lie after Lie !!

Yeah...Inexperienced at Fleecing the U.S. People, while they get Rich and become Vacationing Family Friends with the Bush Family...Fact

Its Simple...Noone wants another Lying Clinton in the Oval Office and they know Clintons are Notorious LIARS !!

Bill Clintons Saudi Arabian & United Arab Emirates (Dubai Ports Dealing)

Bills Many Communist Chinese Ties (Norman Hsu & other Communist China Deals)

The (Elitist) Offshore Cayman Island Account.

The (500 Million Dollar Arab Chaired, Financed & Supported) Bill Clinton Library !!

Bill & Hillary (109 Million Dollar Bank Roll) Elitist Money.

Bill Clintons: Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Business Partnership, that Bills says he will End or Dissolve ONLY(IF) Hillary Wins the Presidency...

Only then, will Bill Dissolve this Dubai (United Arab Emirates Partnership)

Note Saudi Arabia & United Arab Emirates Countrymen Piloted the (911 Attacks) on American soil...

If Barack Obama had such Business Dealings with such people, the Mass Media & The Whites Only in the White House Racist, would be having a Field Day !!

But Bill & Hillary are White & Christian, they can F--K You and this Great Country, their White !!; Reply to this comment


by moblou April 15, 2008 7:06 PM EDT: Good for you, Hillary. Typical "Snob-ama", makes a %u201Cbitter%u201D mistake and then blames someone else (Hillary and/or McCain) and everybody wants this to stop!!! I am outraged and the protection of Mr. Teflon has to stop. Now even worse, he''s on the attack of the other Democrat in the race for calling him on his own elitism. Let me see, it was just last night that he condemned Hillary for attacking him, wasn%u2019t it? What a two-faced hypocrite and used her words too, %u201Cshame on you%u201D. Also folks, let us not forget folks where Obama''s money is coming from, in his battle for President. His bid for the Whitehouse is being bought and paid for just like Bush by the elitist. I thought Obama was supposed to be different? Of course, there are also the fundraisers on the web that represent the far left, (Huffington Post, Move-On, etc.) who are also collecting for him from their membership (2 Million plus members) for Obama. I used to support Move-On on some of their causes until they endorsed Obama. I know they are raising money for him because they continue to send me e-mails for donations for Obama. Wake-up America, you are being hoodwinked and now being called names as he looks down his nose at %u201CUS%u201D, by this arrogant and elitist jerk trying to buy his way into the Whitehouse!; Reply to this comment


by vmcneal2 April 15, 2008 5:54 PM EDT: People are bitter. If anyone is out of touch it''s Hillary. I always said if Obama lost to Hillary I would support her. Now I''m not so sure. God help me, I might vote for Mccain.; Reply to this comment


by jockh April 15, 2008 3:54 PM EDT: Sen. Clinton has run an incompetent campaign, half truths, outright lies, imaginary heroism, take-no prisoners politics, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don%u2019t go right. Her campaign has failed spectacularly despite being the Partys obvious favorite from the beginning.

She knows she cannot win the pledged delegates or popular vote; and she knows superdelegates will not destroy the party by backing her, so she is simply hanging around with a begging bowl asking for the nomination in case Obama makes a fatal mistake.

What kind of a leader would prefer to win a Presidential Election on account of her opponents mistakes rather than her ability? How can Sen. Clinton manage the United States when she can%u2019t even run her own campaign.; Reply to this comment


by jockh April 15, 2008 3:53 PM EDT: As a gun owner and hunter, I have trouble welcoming pistol packing mama Hillary Clinton into the gun fraternity.

And, as someone who used to toss down more than his share of shots, I have even more trouble imagining an evening at the local bar tossing back shots and beer with the Democratic Presidential pretender.

Yet claims of a hunting heritage and downing shots of Crown Royal and chasing it with a beer is part of Clinton''s pathetic attempt to prove she''s just one of us.

Memo to Hillary: You ain''t one of us, especially not with 109 million dollars in the pockets of your solid gold pant suits; so drop the charade, you are looking like a fool. We''re not looking for one of us. We''re looking for a leader.

Besides, if the phone rings at the White House at 3 a.m. and Hillary is spreadeagled across the bed, passed out in an alcohol-induced stupor, no one is available to answer the phone.; Reply to this comment


by jockh April 15, 2008 3:52 PM EDT: Hillary is grasping at any and every straw, because of the depth of her desperation.
I have this vision of Hillary tumbling down a cliff and grabbing the little tree stumps on her way down, hoping that one of them will stop the fall, and keep her from crashing%u2026.can you smell the desperation wafting from Camp Clinton?

They know they have to beat Obama by over 20 points to give themselves even the most remote chance of catching him in the rest of the few remaining primary states. So they mount another desperate ploy from their hanging by a fingernail campaign, but ultimately this is much ado about nothing. ? It may cost Obama a few votes in Pennsylvania and it looks likely that Clinton will have her last hurrah by winning that state, but unless the superdelegates have a death wish for their party, he will still win the nomination; and finally Hillary will go home and take her terrible pant suits with her.; Reply to this comment


by jockh April 15, 2008 3:51 PM EDT: John McCain Should Go on Vacation, Hillary Clinton is Doing His Job for Him
By cynically twisting Obama''s comments about small town voters in a way that confirms every right-wing demagogic caricature of her own Party, Hillary Clinton has adopted the frames, lies, stereotypes and destructive clichis long embraced by the likes of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. She has clearly decided that the road to victory runs through scorched earth. The question is, if she succeeds, what kind of Party will she be left to lead? She''s burning down the village to save it -- or to prove that she would make the best fire chief. But the village won''t be saved; only one house will be left standing. A house with room for just two occupants: Hill and Bill.; Reply to this comment


by jockh April 15, 2008 3:50 PM EDT: Obama recently paid back is school loans. Hillary turned $1000 into a magical $100,000 through illegal insider trading and is sitting on 109 million dollars. Obama worked the streets in poverty and crime ridden areas of Chicago, seeing first hand the hopeless and the damage they have suffered. Hillary''s family had a summer cottage where she spent her summers.

Instead of a Wall street firm (easy to do for a Harvard Law Review editor) Obama worked for a small local firm. With her husband as governor, Hillary worked for the Rose Firm, the biggest corporate firm in that region. Obama donated his time, Hillary sat on the Wallmart Board of Directors, making anti-union and anti-worker decisions. Obama writes books, Hillary hires others to write them for her.

It just begs the question: JUST WHO THE HELL IS ELITE HERE.; Reply to this comment