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From WP:

This morning in Muncie, Indiana, Barack Obama addressed the firestorm caused by his comments about working class Pennsylvania voters being “bitter” about their economic lot, and thus understandably nativistic in their outlook on everything from God to guns to immigrants.

The key line from this morning: “I didn’t say it as well as I should have…”

Hillary Rodham Clinton, during an appearance in Indianapolis this morning, did her part to pour lighter fluid on the growing firestorm ( about.

Noting that she was a child of the Midwest and the “granddaughter of a factory worker,” Clinton said: “Now, like some of you may have been, I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Senator Obama made about people in small town America. Senator Obama’s remarks are elitist and they are out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know — not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York.”

That prompted this response from the Obama campaign: “We won’t be lectured on being out of touch by Senator Clinton, who believes lobbyists represent real people and is awash in their money and who can’t tell a straight story about her lengthy record of supporting trade deals like NAFTA and China that have devastated communities in Pennsylvania and Indiana,” said spokesman Hari Sevugan. “She won’t change the broken Washington system that all too often leaves American workers behind, but Barack Obama will.”

Full Clinton attack after the jump.

Clinton in Indianapolis:

Now, like some of you may have been, I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Sen. Obama made about people in small town America. Sen. Obama’s remarks are elitist, and they are out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know — not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York.

You know, Americans who believe in the Second Amendment believe it¹s a matter of Constitutional rights. Americans who believe in God believe it is a matter of personal faith. Americans who believe in protecting good American jobs believe it is a matter of the American Dream.

When my dad grew up it was in a working class family in Scranton. I grew up in a churchgoing family, a family that believed in the importance of living out and expressing our faith.

The people of faith I know don’t “cling to” religion because they’re bitter.

People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich. Our faith is the faith of our parents and our grandparents. It is a fundamental expression of who we are and what we believe.

I also disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in this country “cling to guns” and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration. People of all walks of life hunt — and they enjoy doing so because it’s an important part of their life, not because they are bitter.

And as I¹ve traveled across Indiana and I¹ve talked to a lot of people what I hear are real concerns about unfair trade practices that cost people jobs.

I think hardworking Americans are right to want to see changes in our trade laws. That¹s what I have said. That¹s what I have fought for.

I would also point out that the vast majority of working Americans reject anti-immigration rhetoric. They want reform so that we remain a nation of immigrants, but also a nation of laws that we enforce and we enforce fairly.

Americans are fair-minded and good-hearted people. We have ups and downs. We face challenges and problems. But our views are rooted in real values, and they should be respected.

Americans out across our country have born the brunt of the Bush administration¹s assault on the middle class. Contrary to what Sen. Obama says, most Americans did much better during the Clinton years than they have done during the Bush years.

If we are striving to bring people together — and I believe we should be — I don’t think it helps to divide our country into one America that is enlightened and one
that is not.

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Obama, working like a Chinese plate spinner this morning, and looking/sounding phonier than ever. He is the devil, because he is only interested in being whoever he needs to be at any given moment. Which means he’s eithter empty or hiding what’s really inside.

Talking to everyone like they’re an idiot and/or 5 years-old, is getting old. Especially here, where it only adds to the sense of dishonest ass-covering: