As a blue-collar worker and former Obama supporter I am entirely disenfranchised, appalled and taken aback from his denegrating remarks about blue-collar workers in general. Obama needs to wake up to reality and address this class of people more respectfully and step down and join the Repub Party where he belongs!

Obama is one heck of a snob.

I’m trying hard to understand how Obama’s comments are denigrating to anybody - they are truthful and I don’t see how they are elitist. Anybody who claims they aren’t bitter over the politics of the last 25 years and don’t vote based on issues like guns or religion have been living in a closet for quite some time.

As an Illinois native, I’m frustrated and bitter of politics and have been guilty of voting based upon issues that I value rather than the whole candidate.

I just don’t understand where a politician stating the truth is denigrating. Isn’t that what we’ve been asking them to do?

Also, I seriously doubt a Obama supporter would let a statement like this disenfranchise him/her.

Obama still hasn’t figured out that in seeking to be all things to all people, you end up talking out of both sides of your mouth. That, of course, is the polar opposite of straight talk.

Why do religious zealots and NRA Republicans applaud Bill Cosby when he speaks the truth about black America, but these same white suburbanites are appalled when Barak Obama speaks the truth about them?

I’m guessing Joe #1…. was [about] as much an Obama supporter before this incident, as I was a Dan Quayle supporter before we learned he couldn’t spell potato.

Why is Obama criticized for comments we’ve heard or said ourselves every election. Why do these working class people, usually union members, refuse to vote their pocketbooks. They really are alienated by the powers that be in business and in the political world and resort to focusing on the wedge issues like gay marriage and guns that really really do not effect their everyday life, but can get them at least worked up about something.
I applaud Obama for saying it and for not backing down from it. He speaks the truth.

#4 you cannot even spell your Presidential candidate’s first name…and I doubt you ever supported Quayle.

I hope all the blue-collareds wise up and not vote for Obama whose anti-American and calling people losing their jobs ‘bitter’.

So white-collared workers are not bitter?

Yeah, bitter is too strong…PISSED OFF might be more appropriate.

I am bitter and I am angry. I am also curious. Was there the same uproar when the republicans were courting the ANGRY WHITE MALES? There was an entire voting bloc of AWM’s in the early to mid ninties. It was fashionable then to point out that the opposing party (democrats) had abandoned the white male in favor of the femi-nazis and lovers of the ACLU.

Now when it is correctly pointed out that there again exists a bloc of angry voters people want to cry foul.

I’m with Darren01 angry and bitter are not too gentle of words.

Just goes to show, so many people HATE truth. So many LOVE lies. Pretty sick.

#2, #4, #5 - YOU HAVE WRITTEN ABSOLUTE TRUTHS.

I meant that they are too gentle of words. I’m very angry about the state of this nation.

#5 according to the AFL-CIO polling more approximately 67% of union households voted democrat in the 2006 elections up from 60% in the 2004 elections.

I find myself wondering how bad will things have to get before people wake up and realize what has been happening? How high will gas prices go before people get angry? How high will health care costs go before people get angry?

From a headline on CNN world “(CNN) — Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world’s attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.”

We need strong leadership and I am not so sure any of the candidates offer the solutions needed to make things right. What I do know is the anger at the current state of affairs is not limited to small town Pa/

Will Obama’s ‘bitter’ comments hurt his chances to be president?
46% Yes, they made him sound elitist
41% No, he just misspoke, no big deal
6% What ‘bitter’ comments? I haven’t heard them
7% None of these
1,599,448 responses, not scientifically valid, results updated every minute.

Dennis Yezulinas, another Clinton supporter in Shenandoah, said he is more offended by the rhetorical fight that followed Obama’s comment than by the remark itself.

“Not just for the good of the Democratic Party, but for the good of the country, they need to make it less contentious,” said Yezulinas, a former state prison guard who has been laid off from a plant that manufactures doors in a neighboring town.

In the southeastern Pennsylvania community of Coatesville — a once booming steel city outside of Philadelphia that now has empty storefronts downtown — two Clinton supporters sharing a meal at a Coatesville restaurant said they felt Obama was wrong to stereotype small-town voters.

“It’s like we’re not smart enough to understand what the politicians are saying. It’s an insult to our intelligence,” said Susan Kamerdze, 50.

Mike Zemacke, 57, said that, while Coatesville has seen better days, he’s not bitter. He said he used to work as a press operator before a disability led him to retirement.

“I’m just frustrated,” he said. “I used to live a lot better than this.”

while we are dissecting Obama’s words to see how we can use these words to drive a wedge between the dems we forget that Clinton sat on the board of directors of the vehemently anti-union pro China Wal-Mart.

We forget that McCain is offering more “free trade”. The same type of free trade that has given us the biggest trade deficit in the history of our nation.

One man’s bitterness is another’s frustration.

Steve #6…..Good hit. I can’t believe my typing error. I left out the “c” in Barack’s name.
Any other contributions you want to make to this convesation?

By the way…What’s a collered?

blue-collared. Describing someone as being a blue-collar employee, an hourly worker. … Retrieved from “http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue-collared” …

Do I have to do everything for you, Garrison?

My mistake Timmy….I thought Steve was referring to colored.