Political Insider

I don't know why you think Hillary does not connect with the average small town voter. She does to me and when the press tries to paint her as an elite they do the voters a disservice. Sure she is a millionaire now but untilt she left the White House she made enough money to do somethings. She was not rich - her background and Bill's background paints a picture of in touch people with all of Americans values. Sorry I think you are way off base!

I can see that she could easily think that this is her last chance but I think it is so patently phony that it doesn't work. If she had stayed away from trying to be what she is not, it might have worked. What worries me is that Obama is much more vulnerable to McCain who has a plausible basis for claiming that he does share many of those rural and "manly" values.

I don't think Mr. Goddard proves his point. A single link to Mr. Obama's criticism of Mrs. Clinton's ability to connect with the "small-town voter" doesn't in itself prove that Mrs. Clinton can't connect with the "small-town voter."

Also, Mr. Obama's "cling to guns and religion" remark would look bad in a match-up with Mr. McCain if the election were tomorrow. But it's only April now, and Mr. Obama still has time to press his thesis further -- for example, he may be building up to a claim that Republicans exploit the guns-and-religion crowd in order to continue policies that hurt the guns-and-religion crowd in the pocketbook. He may have decided not to unveil that meme too early.

The author apparently doesn't understand how Americans are feeling this year. We didn't think that Obama was demeaning or elitist, we thought he got how we feel. "We're Bitter" might well become the campaign slogan of the week. Mrs. Clinton missed the boat when she went after this one so "bitterly".

Obama tried albeit somewhat unsuccessfully to answer a question in a heartfelt way that like Negros of slavery time who also turned to Religion & Music due to oppression and hard times and that small town America has very little to look forward to and so too turned to religion and hunting as a normal outlet and sometimes blamed their plight on immigrants! This excercise in "honest" judgment has been blown out of all proportions and taken up by Hillary & McCain and some in the Media to exploit for political gain, albeit with dishonesty and distorted statements to demean Obama for being honest. We have to asks ourselves as Americans "would we rather have politicians that lie to us or ones that tell us the truth no matter what?" Hillary's current assertion that her father taught her to "shoot ducks" behind the cottage that her grandfather built on Lake Winona as a little girl smells alot like "Bosnian Sniper Fire!" And, now we have Bill Clinton going around with his current False take on "bitterness" as another example of another -- excuse my blatantness -- "lying politician", with the following performance...

B. Clinton "[s]ays at campaign railly in Corydon, Indiana that throughout seven stops in North Carolina, 'Everywhere I go there are all these people with signs, saying I’m not bitter - I’m not bitter.' ABC’s Sarah Amos says his comments were well-received but 'not entirely accurate.' For instance, she says there were no signs at his rallies saying 'I’m not bitter,' as he claimed." -- This political couple has No Shame!

However, in light of the current fire storm and questionning and psychoanalyzing about the "bitterness" of small town America, maybe Obama has done us some good and we can finally bring or shed some light on just how bitter (or not) we really are and better yet -- the "Root Cause"!

I think you are off base on your comments about Clinton & I detect from you the same sort of cowtowing to obama that all the media is doing, why are you people so worried that his big mouth might prove you wrong on giving him a free pass?

Yet another example of the desperation of the Clinton campaign, her attacks of "elitism" against Obama for his "bitter" comments. She just cannot grip the fact that she is not wanted by a majority of Democrats, she who thought that she would waltz away with the nomination.
Prior to his ungenerous and racist-tinged SC primary remarks, I was a Clinton supporter; I liked Obama and thought he'd be a good Veep under Hillary Clinton. But, as this campaign has progressed, Hillary Clinton has morphed from supercilious nominee-presumptive to screeding liar (ducking sniper fire at Tuzla airport, Irish peace settlement, etc., ad nauseum), and always aiming at Obama's kneecaps with her nasty, churlish remarks.
And now, yet another reincarnation of Hillary - a gun-totin' mama gettin' down with the reg'lar folks. I'm just waiting for the tobacco spitting contests....
Frankly, I wish that both Clintons would recede from national politics; their brand is a day late and a dollar short. Moreover, if a campaign is any indication of how the White House will be run, no thanks - we've already had seven years of that management style.