Obama on 'bitter' remark: 'I didn't say it as well as I should have'

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: April 12, 2008
Obama on 'bitter' remark: 'I didn't say it as well as I should have'

MUNCIE, Indiana (CNN) — Barack Obama said Saturday that he didn't word his recent comments at a fundraiser "as well as he should have" but added that the back and forth that developed between Obama and fellow White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton and John McCain is "typical."

At a closed-press event in California Sunday Obama referred to some jobless Pennsylvanians as "bitter" who "cling to guns or religion." Saturday, the Illinois senator sought to douse any further firestorm over the comments. "I didn't say it as well as I should have," Obama told an audience in Muncie, Indiana, the day after he first defended his comments, "because the truth is is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation–those are important."

The campaign added that the "traditions" Obama referred to are those of gun ownership and religion. Obama said those traditions are "what sustains us."

He also labeled the dust up that's developed as "a little typical sort of political flare up" because, as he contends, he said something that "everybody knows is true."

The Democratic candidate maintained –- as he had Friday night after the story first broke -– that people are frustrated because Washington isn't listening to the average American. "There are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois who are bitter. They are angry."

"When you're bitter, you turn to what you can count on," Obama said, adding they then turn to voting "about guns" and "taking comfort" in their faith and family. "That's a natural response."...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/12/obama-on-bitter-comments-i-didnt-say-it-as-well-as-i-should/

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1. Don't we all wish we could have said something better or more clearly ourselves? n/t

[uberblonde]

3. Oh boy!

http://www.correntewire.com/what_obama_really_meant

Yet another round of WORM (What Obama Really Meant). He's not so good when he's not reading a teleprompter, is he?

[elocs]

4. I said we all wish we could have said something better or more clearly,

not that we didn't mean what we said.

I could say that you are ugly and mean it, but on second thought I might say you are unattractive or that you have a huge nose. Those are certainly more tactful ways of meaning what I said, but they do not deny what I really said.

In the end, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Obama may not have said something as well as he might of said it, but at least there is not video to prove that he lied, 4 times--oops, maybe it was a slip of the tongue or what did she really mean in misremembering. If you live in glass houses you are not in a good position to throw rocks. The only people who are now hellbent on destroying Obama are Clinton and McCain.

[jgraz]

2. Obama should just continue to speak the truth. Let the others treat voters like two-year-olds.