Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now I think have seen everything. I was reading the New York Times, when I got whip lash. Here is what I saw.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/us/politics/13campaign.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1208070551-lt2S8FQSgBRIGB/1QqRRLg Mr. Gray also said Mr. Obama was right that voters were bitter, although he said he would have used the word angry. He pointed to a recent poll that found 81 percent of voters believed the country was on the wrong track. He said Mrs. Clinton sounded like “a Pollyanna” in saying that workers were optimistic.
“I don’t know who she’s been talking to,” Mr. Gray said.
Thinking maybe I had misremembered, the way Hillary misremembered that sniper fire, I turned and asked my husband. "Who is the hope candidate?"
"Obama," he replied.
"Not anymore. Now, Hillary is the "Pollyanna". That must make Obama the Despair candidate. Or at least the harsh cruel reality candidate. Those don't usually do so well in American politics."
After all these months of trying so hard not to look angry or scary, why would Sen. Obama want to go and spoil it now? Especially after the Republicans have tried so hard to paint him as the spiritual successor of Elijah Mohamed. See my journal about the Right Wing Media smears against Obama here:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/163 I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it any more is cute when it's Peter Finch on a movie screen. It's a little scary when it's the man with his finger on the red button. They called Hillary "Sybil" because she got pissed off about some health care flyers. My advise. Don't. Go. There.
Just apologize. Say the words got taken out of context. Say you feel their pain and you are going to bring happy days again. That was FDR's theme song. If you give it up to Hillary, she is never going to let it go.
PS I don't believe this. While I was writing this another thread was posted by our beloved Skinner recommending that Obama chuck out
Hope and embrace
Bitterness in hopes that people will forget the last part of what he said. That way when Hillary seizes hope for herself, the press can laugh at her and play her (and McCain) as being out of touch with America which is obviously poised on the edge of disaster and in desperate need of a violent social upheaval. Naw. He didn't actually say that. I am projecting how this is going to start sounding once FOX gets ahold of the new improved politicized fightin' Obama.
Oh yeah, when Obama talks about bitterness, they are going to forget that he said people in small town Pennsylvania wouldn't vote for him, because they didn't like strangers. They are going to forget all about it.
I can just hear Hillary singing
Happy Days Are Here Again on the nomination floor at Denver. FDR won on the 3rd ballot. It could happen again. Just keep telling Obama to stop doing what has made him a winner.