Clinton Says Obama "Looks Down" on Pennsylvanians
PHILADELPHIA -- Hillary Clinton said Friday that Pennsylvanians "don't need a president who looks down on them" referring to comments Barack Obama made at a fund-raiser earlier this week.
Obama reportedly told a group of supporters in San Francisco on Sunday that people in small towns in Pennsylvania are "bitter" about the current economic situation and 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 gonna regenerate and they have not," Obama said, according to the Huffington Post.
At a rally in downtown Philadelphia today, Clinton ripped Obama for his remarks.
"I saw in the media that its being reported that my opponent said the people of Pennsylvania who faced hard times are 'bitter.' Well, that's not my experience as I travel around Pennsylvania I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic who are positive who are rolling up their sleeves. They are working hard everyday for a better future for themselves and their children. Pennsylvanians don't need a president who looks on them they need a president who stands up for them."