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Friday, April 18, 2008 --- 98 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eyesontrade/~3/268979263/bitter.html
| New York Times is reporting about a recent comment by Obama: At the fund-raiser in San Francisco last Sunday, Mr. Obama outlined
challenges facing his presidential candidacy in the coming primaries in
Pennsylvania and Indiana, particularly persuading white working-class
voters who, he said, fell through the cracks during the Bush and
Clinton administrations.
“So it’s not surprising then that 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,” Mr. Obama said, according to a
transcript on the Huffington Post Web site, which on Friday published
the comments. A while back, Eric Alterman reported on a similar comment from former Obama advisor Samantha Powers, made at the same time as the infamous monster remark: ABC News's Jake Tapper... explained, "But I thought what was even more revealing from
that interview was the elitism, the disdain that she talked about,
Ohioans concerned about job losses, and they're obsessed with NAFTA.
That just kind of betrayed--and that was on the record. That betrayed a
sort of university elitism that we have seen before in the Obama
campaign." UPDATE: And the LA Times reports on Hillary's trade vote record . Since 2001, Clinton has backed pacts with Jordan, Chile, Singapore,
Australia, Morocco and Oman that were opposed by numerous labor,
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