Clinton to Hit Obama's "Bitter" Comments In Indiana Speech

(CBS)

From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:


INDIANAPOLIS -- Hillary Clinton is expected to go after Barak Obama at a speech in Indiana today on remarks he made at a San Francisco fundraiser where he said that middle class Americans are "bitter" about the current situation in the economy. A source close to the campaign told reporters Clinton will "hit Obama hard" on his comments, trying to make the point that middle class Americans are not bitter and that they don't "cling to guns or religion" because they are bitter, but rather because they are law abiding citizens who own guns and middle class Americans choose to worship because they believe in their faith.

Obama told a small group of fundraisers this week that "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 as a way to explain their frustrations. You go into 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 going to regenerate and they have not."

Clinton's visit to an industrial plant outside of Indianapolis comes amid a weeklong campaign tour of Pennsylvania. John Cougar Mellencamp's "Small Town" blared on the speakers, which is no surprise as Clinton tries to position herself as the candidate for middle class Americans.

Both Clinton and Obama are making a big push for Indiana, a state that may become a tiebreak situation if Clinton wins Pennsylvania and Obama wins North Carolina. Clinton currently trails Obama in the polls in Indiana by about 6 points.

[ben_c2002]

The truth about Obama in videos:
Obama Lies--In Bed With The Banks:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=teM009QGSZA
Barack Obama Lies Again:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ehRrX7c41U
Obama Lies About Iraq:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FE95BOjcrGI
BARACK OBAMA: LIES, NAFTA, SMALL TOWN GUNS & RELIGION:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1YlTSYVZxuY
Obama lie, lies, and lies some more:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o1MvbBAVTjE
No Obama | Obama Lies - Covering up Rev Wright''s Hate Speech:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DYBRIOAXM48
Obama Lies Again On Today Show:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l8MCtLwIUBI
Obama Lies Again On Today Show About McCain:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WHnVZpA69j0
DEMOCRATS DEBATE - BARACK OBAMA FLAT LIES ON NUCLEAR ENERGY:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L2P0sGcy1LE
Obama Lies On The War:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0XWOD6JgShw
NAFTA-gate Update aka Obama''s Big Lie:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMpbpov-HcA
According to WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore, Obama was caught drinking alcohol.
I am a 23 year old Hillary Supporter and a realist.
Ben

[mkonicov]

It is a sad commnentary on the state of American political theory that a candidate can be pilloried for speaking the truth. Only a victim of historical amnesia could refute Obama''s admittedly veiled reference to the origin of authoritarian and pre-fascist deceptive ideological beliefs among the working class sustained by corporate and militarial elites to prevent the electorate from recognizing the actual sourcs of endemic economic deterioration. Indeed, the success of these elites in maninpulating the hearts and minds of the large segments of the American electorate has led to the most baleful results for 4000 young American lives in this century.
Woe on the media for ignoring this reality!

[balanced3]

Why do we have to do this rediculous over-analyzing of words? The Senator is right. Everyone can be expected to be "bitter" at some level.
Those who have alot want things done their way and those who have nothing feel betrayed by a government that seems to care more about foreign populations.

[dewardbowles]

It is hard to fathom that truth has become a dirty word.

Senator Obama is right on the money.

Just call me angry, bitter and frustrated in Houston, Texas.

48, White, Male, Professional Business Owner.