Word: bitters
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...Full disclosure: Yes, I am a Yankees fan. Yes, Boston’s recent run of success coupled with New York’s seven-season championship drought has left me somewhat bitter. Yes, the opportunity to rip the Sox in print gives me a sense of twisted, spite-filled pleasure. Moving...
...been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "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. And 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...
...primary next Tuesday. Polls have shown that in nearly every state save for Wisconsin Clinton has won the white working-class vote, moderate swing voters sometimes called Reagan Democrats; her advantage in that demographic helped Clinton win Ohio by 10.5 percentage points. "Obama used the word 'bitter' when he should have said 'frustrated,'" said Donna Brazile, an undecided Super Delegate who ran Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000. "Clearly Obama's comments were 'unartful,' but not inaccurate. Polls show most voters are dissatisfied with the current direction of the country. And politicians have always played on their fears...
After the last few days he has endured over his controversial comments about "bitter" small-town America, Barack Obama can only hope that the Pope's arrival in Washington on Tuesday steals some of the spotlight. But given the hits he took from both the Clinton and McCain campaigns over his questionable choice of words, that may be too much of a miracle...
...Shiekhly's is a rare recognition of Obama's appeal in American politics. Most Iraqis can't see much difference. And some argued that America would never elect a black man with Muslim roots. A retired police officer, who declined to be named, is quite bitter: "This American talk of democracy and freedom brought nothing but disaster to our country. We believed American promises and we dreamed of a better future. Now I wish we had Saddam back so we could live in peace." Sana Abdul Rahman, a middle school teacher, is a little more hopeful, but desperately so: "Republican...