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Old 05-01-2008, 11:28 PM   #31
epistrophy
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Those people's concerns are beneath him.
Only in Hillaryland, where being greeted on a runway by an 8-year-old girl is portrayed as landing amidst sniper fire, could Obama's "bitter" comment, taken in context, be interpreted as showing a lack of concern; if anything, it demonstrated just the opposite.

Here's what immediately led into the "bitter" line, which idad, reading from the Hillary camp's talking points, has distorted beyond recognition (sniper fire, anyone?):

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You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter . . . .
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