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...Bitter-Sweet In '08 Mark Halperin reports from the campaign every day on thepage.time.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...cringe factor would have been less had Obama not been speaking in San Francisco, a regional headquarters for secular condescension, or at a private fund raiser, where the rich and powerful gather for shrimp and special access; or if Obama, a comfortably devout Christian, had not said that "bitter" small-town voters "cling" to their faith, along with their guns and their "antipathy to people who aren't like them." By any measure, it was a graceless move to characterize an entire demographic group--and vital voting bloc--as irrational and bigoted. And it came from a candidate who should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Bitter Lesson | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...guns. I went to church when things were bad, and I went out and I hunted for my family food, where I didn't know whether to put the gun in my mouth or to shoot an animal. So, yeah, he was right on the money. And was I bitter, and am I bitter? Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Bitter Lesson | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...runner off his stride. "I'm sure that Senator Clinton feels like she's doing me a great favor," Obama said, "because she's been deploying most of the arguments that the Republican Party will be using against me in November." Which might be enough to make a guy bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Bitter Lesson | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...surprising that they get bitter," Obama told a group of wealthy Californian donors at a closed San Francisco fund raiser, referring to rural blue-collar workers who have been hard hit by outsourcing and declining wages. "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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Regular Guy Dilemma | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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