Obama raises money using his 'bitter' remarks, but leaves out the controversial 'cling to' part [View All]

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from the Clinton campaign: http://facts.hillaryhub.com/archive/?id=7092


Obama Campaign Fundraising Email Mischaracterizes Sen. Obama's Controversial Remarks


The Obama campaign is trying to raise money off Sen. Obama's controversial remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser. From a fundraising email sent by the campaign today:

A few days ago, Barack spoke about the frustrations that working people in this country are feeling and said what we all know is true: that many people are bitter and angry because they believe their government isn't listening to them… our opponents have been spinning the media and peddling fake outrage around the clock.

But the letter sent by the campaign manager David Plouffe omits the portion of his remarks that are causing the most controversy. Specifically, Sen. Obama didn't just say that people in small town America were "bitter." Sen. Obama said that because they were 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."

ABC's Jake Tapper reported yesterday (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/obama-allies-av.html) that "As Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his allies have locked into damage control mode and attempted to explain his controversial remarks about small-town Pennsylvanians, they've attempted to focus their pushback away from the most controversial part of his remarks to an elite crowd at a San Francisco fundraiser." It's all part of the Obama campaign's frenzied effort to spin his remarks. (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/obama-spin-leve.html)



my own take: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5501815&mesg_id=5501815