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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (25418)	4/12/2008 6:35:56 PM
From: tonto	Respond to of 224729

Polls are all over the board. The only poll I read is that Obama lost 10 points to McCain...that he is sliding.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (25418)	4/12/2008 9:39:35 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224729

Time for bed. This old man has a job in dirty little town called Newark at 4am. ;)

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (25418)	4/12/2008 11:30:06 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224729

Obama, on Defensive, Says His Remarks on Voters Weren’t Artful By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JEFF ZELENY Published: April 13, 2008 Senator Barack Obama fought back Saturday against accusations from his rivals that he had displayed a profound misunderstanding of small-town values, in a flare-up that left him on the defensive before a series of primaries that could test his ability to win over white voters in economically distressed communities. For a second day, Mr. Obama sought to explain his remarks at a recent San Francisco fund-raiser that small-town Pennsylvania voters, bitter over their economic circumstances, “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” as a way to explain their frustrations. Acknowledging Saturday that “I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he explained his remarks by focusing on his characterization of those voters’ economic woes. He meant, he said, that voters in places that had been losing jobs for years expressed their anxiety at the polls by focusing on cultural and social issues like gun laws and immigration. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton activated her entire campaign apparatus to portray Mr. Obama’s remarks as reflective of an elitist view of faith and community. His comments, she said, were “not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans.” Mrs. Clinton suggested that Mr. Obama saw religious commitment, hunting and concern about immigration as emotional responses to economic strain rather than as deeply embedded values.