For a couple of reasons: 1) people expect Republicans to say mean-spirited stuff. They’ve been doing it for the past three decades! and 2) the media loves John McCain.

Whoever ends up being the Dem nominee will face stiff competition in the general election. They will be running against McCain AND the media.

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Probably because it doesn’t provide any additional useful context.

Why is that, matt?

but I have to give respect for a campaign that thinks big.

I mean, if you’re going to shoot yourself in the foot, why not use an RPG?

As fafaroo rightly points out, it is hard to use an RPG on yourself.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

Here’s what a reporter for Frontline said when “reporting” the comment:

Never mind that Clinton went on to say feminism means the right to choose work, or home, or both; the damage had been done. She’d been tagged an elitist and an ultra – feminist.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/03261992.html

For Clinton supporters to slam Obama for his comments about small towns is beyond hypocritical. The very same tactics that conservatives used to attack the Clintons during his presidency, are the same tactics Clinton supporters are now using to attack Obama. They are, in actuality, running the conservative media play book against a liberal progressive Democratic. They are, in effect, writing John McCain’s general election campaign ads for him. If, by some miracle, Clinton wins the nomination, what are her supporters going to do when conservatives trot out the cookie quote all over again? How could they possibly hope to deflect it? Quite simply, they wouldn’t be able to because they’ve now validated the reactionary premises on which such tactics are based. Way to go.

When matt61 writes something like this: “I mean, if you’re going to shoot yourself in the foot, why not use an RPG?” he has no idea of the true magnitude of the disaster these kinds of attacks are for all democrats at every level of the political spectrum.

Obama’s comments are what they are and I think they are accurate in the way that religion or guns or anti-trade sentiment can play in the lives of people, whether they live in small towns or big cities. When fellow democrats turn around and attack Obama on the same grounds that Hillary was attacked by conservatives when she was just First Lady, they are taking and RPG to the democratic party and the progressive ideals and policies it claims to represent. That’s a much bigger problem. It reveals the shortsighted focus of the Clinton campaign and its supporters. They aren’t just hurting Obama, they are hurting the party as a whole and the very agenda they claim to support.

Way to go, folks. Way to go.

I mean, if you’re going to shoot yourself in the foot, why not use an RPG?

He’s saying something that is true. It always confuses folks when a politician does that.

And yet pointing that out is elitist? I don’t understand. This is the complexity of Obama’s speeches; maybe you disagree with what he says, but there is an element of truth that is undeniable.

Color me surprised.

(H/T to MemeOrandum)
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As someone who has lived all over the US, it isn’t just this way in the rural communities. You can find the same mind set in cities and suburbs, in states like KY, GA, VA, IL, CA,and UT. Obama wasn’t just talking about rural people he was talking about all people, EXCEPT for the rich elitist everyone claims he is.