Humor – A new poll released today hints that Sen. Barack Obama's controversial remarks in which he called Pennsylvania voters "bitter" may actually be helping him with a key constituency: bitter voters.
"Bittersweet Pill" is a popular saying. Thousands of Americans have lost their jobs, their houses and getting in to debts to pay for gas, food and medicines. All this out of no fault of theirs. So if someone says they are "bitter" meaning enduring all this and miserable, how can the saying make the person "elitist".
If baseball and basketball millionaires call their fans "bitter" it is questionable. If someone trying to get elected to "help" resolve the crisis says it, it is not that he is not saying they are jealous of him!!!!!!!!!!
"If baseball and basketball millionaires call their fans
nikkibabe
"bitter" it is questionable."
Oh so so close. Good analogy. See when Obama made his "bitter" Statement he was not making it to "the people" he was making it to his "campaign workers" his "team", like the basketball millionaires telling his "team" the fans are "bitter".
He was whining to his team that the small town PA folks were a bunch of "bitter" bible thumping gun-toting bigots, and that is why he was not doing well in PA.
Get it?
someone figured it out.
nikkibabe...we dont want someone to resolve the crisis because the crisis is what happens after the govt tries to help.
mrbs--
I came from PA originally; my parents and some of my family are still back there. It was a great place to grow up.
Not sure whether the govt could have helped--or should have. Too much of the industrial base left, for various and complicated reasons, while certain officials pontificated about "free enterprise." Some of it was probably inevitable.
Seems like what's there now is a very unrobust, service-oriented economy in which people try to live off each other. A poor model IMHO, but it's where we're headed as a country. I know it's considered old-fashioned to think so; but I think that in some ways the old industrial-based model served us better.
within 20min drive of my home i can think of 5 plants all with over 500 employees one is a paper mill that has over 3500 on the floor.open that to 45min and that puts 3 IPs in range and a second paper mill that employs around 2500 .the jobs are there if someone wants them.the industry is still there you just need some computer skills to get the jobs because the machines do more of the work.the things that left pa left for 2 reasons.unions and fed govt interference.our steel mills couldnt compete any more because unions made it to costly then the fed came in with epa regs that were impossible to adhere to.
The truth is a bitter pill to swallow when you've been OD'ing on lies!
The repugnicons can't handle the truth. Hillary and McCain can't handle the truth! Barack Obama and nothing BUT the truth!
Obama 08
cushi
"Barack Obama and nothing BUT the truth!"
Dude no one is questioning Obamas honesty concerning small town people. We understand he believes that small town people are bible thumping gun-toting bigots.
And were not questioning the genuine, heartfelt beliefs of his supporters, such as your self who agree with Obama that small town people are bible thumping gun-toting bigots.
And that, cushi, is the bitter truth.
Have a nice day!
Obama screwing the Democrat Party.
He and his campfollowers contend that the Bush and the Clinton administration are the same. His insistence that he thinks that the job creation, lowering the national debt, strengthening the dollar and maintain low oil pricing is not important and equivalent to the Bush administration pushes the Clinton Democrats and the GOP into a singular camp.
Does he thing he can win the Whitehouse with 25% of the population solidly behind him?
Reaching across the Isles? He can't even reach across the divide he has created within the democratic party.
"Does he thing he can win the Whitehouse with 25% of the population solidly behind him"?
Why not? That would be roughly 75 million votes compared to the 62 million Bush won with in 2004.
"Does he thing he can win the Whitehouse with 25% of the population solidly behind him"?
"Why not? That would be roughly 75 million votes compared to the 62 million Bush won with in 2004"
We know Osama's counting on the youth vote, but someone needs to tell him 1 to 17 year olds can't vote.
And while their at it, need to remind Dems as to how the Electoral College works.
I think the whole bitter thing has to do with context. How about the portion of that speech just prior where Obama was talking about how government has not been paying attention to us, WE, the PEOPLE. And he's right. And when government fails you, what do you do. Some people get bitter and place their faith in the things they know. Me, I get freakin pi$$ed that the government seems to care not a whit about the PEOPLE. Except at election time. Then I've got robo-calls up the wazoo and crapola printed matter cramming my mail box. But not a one of them TALKS to ME. Or ASKS ME what I think. Nor do they ask any of my friends. I write them letters, send them e-mails and make an attempt to communicate and every response I get is just more of the same old pap. Disgusting.
And Shrillery's five Jell-o shots were LEMON!
bitter, not so sure about bitter. I am bitter about the big 5 oil companies being allowed to fleece the American people, Bush's relationship with the Saudis and the fact that it costs them a buck to get a barrel of oil out of the ground and I am spending 600 bucks a month just to go to work so I can pay my taxes, which under Hillary or Obama will go through the roof. I am a bitter Republican who is so disenchanted by this administration it's not funny. I want my party back, the one that favors less government spending, lower taxes, not the one that licks the boots of every fortune 500 company with deep lobbying pockets.
Maybe some of these "bitter people" would be a whole lot happier, working in good jobs, if they were willing to spend some time in classes improving their job skills. Times are changing, it's takes education to get and keep good jobs now.
I'm not bitter - I spent 5 years in college, and now have a good technical job building circuit boards and computers.
My neighbor, an old school machinist sits in his home "bitter", complaining about all the jobs going over seas. He refuses to take a couple of simple classes in CNC, and has had to take a big cut in pay. He's living in the past. He'll stay bitter until he figures out that times change, and always will.
Most bitter people haven't figured out how to survive in a changing world.
My company's best customer is China. Nafta sure worked for my boss. Nafta goes BOTH ways. There are so many business chances for US firms overseas.
It's time for these "bitter people" to take responsibility for their own survival. They can't, and shouldn't depend on ANY politician, Republican or Democrat, to keep them in a good living. They need to go out, with initiative and do what it takes to get that job back that they have lost.
Oh by the way, unemployment is at 5.1%. Bitter? People should be happy that we have a low unemployment. It's just that the jobs in the US are going to go to the "geeks" with the brains. That's what we should be able to sell - brain power, not trying to get thousands of people paid 40 dollars an hour to work on a factory floor.
As a typical white person I am glad to finally be an American in that I'm bitter and better for it.
As I rummage through my closet looking for my BB gun to 'cling to' & trying to remember if I was christened Methodist or baptised Baptist so I'll know which version of God to 'cling to' and all the while being ******ed off at my ex girl friend that took off with Pedro the Gardner from Mexico along with my stash of primo Tequila; one reason, I guess, to hate so called illegal immigrants (Really he did me a favor; she was and is totally psycho. not only does she hear voices no one else hears, she actually translates and that ain't good.);
I feel good that Comrade OBama can feel my pain and fully, and omnipotently understand why I'm, clinging to 'guns', religion, and fear and loathing of illegal immigrants to assuage my bitterness.
a sign that voters who describe themselves as bitter are ready to mobilize in support of Sen. Obama's presidential bid, over a million bitter voters took to the streets of Philadelphia today in support of the Illinois senator.
-FTA
ummm, actually, those were just the citizens of Philadelphia going about their life. not a march. we're a very bitter people. you would be too if your sports teams' excuse for not having won a championship since 1985 was "the curse of William Penn's hat".
so now that we have no good sports teams we cling to politics. and our bitterness. (mmm, bitteeeer)
Well, I just thought it was funny.
ind06..it was..for the most part this is us making fun of ourselves.we do it with a str8 face and it confuses people till we tell them its a joke..and then they yell at us and tell us its not funny..to which we have our real laugh..some elite getting all red in the face because they just realized that a bunch of bitter ,ignorant ,bible thumping,gun toting bigoted,hayseed hicks just made him the ,guy that wants to save us from ourselves,the butt of the joke.
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This damages the powerful "Sweet And Sour" lobby, once thought to represent the majority.
HA!! McCain has the definite support of Salty Voters. I'm thinking Hillary would probably have strong backing from the Sour Voters.
The Sweet Voters are staying home in protest come November.
LOL!!!
Are we now part of the VBWC formally known as the VRWC?