Bill Clinton Claims To See Nonexistent "I'm Not Bitter" Signs

Political Radar:

Former president Bill Clinton's campaign rally this morning at the junior high gym in Corydon, Indiana was a wealth of Hillary Clinton surrogates, among them many who had their own thoughts about Sen. Barack Obama's recent comments about small town voters....

Over seven stops in North Carolina, Clinton said "Everywhere I go there are all these people with signs, saying I'm not bitter - I'm not bitter."

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[atienne]

Am I bitter my mother's cancer wasn't diagnosed in time due to improper healthcare? YES!

Am I bitter that I played by the rules, went to college and earned a degree but still have to decide between bouncing a check and paying bills? You BET

Many years ago, if my husband and I had the same careers we have now, we would have been middle to upper class in this area. Now, we are the working poor. Struggling to pay everyone and keep food on the table the house in our names.

I don't understand why Pennsylvanians would want more of this life or why anyone would!

Please note that Obama's comments were directed at what many people in these areas focus on politically. People worry about their right to have guns-they should be worried if they can afford to buy one. They worry about immigrants being their neighbor-they should be worrying if they can keep their house! Where is the offense in finding refuge in the church? While many of us go to church regardless, when times are tough, even the faithless tend to ask God and the church for help or solace. These are truths and if people can't accept these truths, then how are they going to accept the harder times to come if the wrong candidate is chosen?

These are my thoughts from 'small town Pa'

[benwha]

Good post. I am a small towner too and I got it.

[ErikW65]

Your post is more newsworthy than the reports that John McCain also found Obama's comments to be "elitist," and that he thought the people of PA were "disparaged" by them. Thanks for proving McCain and Clinton wrong.

[terragazelle]

What Obama was saying is that when people do not feel that their government listens to them, that when over the years of Dems and Repubs...j­obs go and the young people leave...th­at all the people can do is vote on what they have...rel­igion, guns, immigration. They are lost in the world with what they have known leaving...­their jobs their kids, their hope.

Obama didn't say it well..but he said the same thing in 2004 on the Charley Rose show...he was on for an hour and it is very good.
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2004/11/23/1/an-hour-with-illinois-senator-barack-obama

[1differentdrummer]

Did someone say the McBushes have eight houses? And someone else is elitist?

[rojo7449]

Our ability to live comfortably began it's deterioration under Reagan. We were given a good start toward recovery during the Clinton years, but Bush was able to wipe that out and cut twice as deep into our financial classes as his father had.

I'd like to have our recovery term managed by someone who has more experience than Obama does. All politicians are liars, and give us a pack of rhetoric. But, we have a history of 8 years with the Clinton's, and the economy did a remarkable turn. The Clinton's truly have dedicated their lives to helping the middle and lower classes. No one trashes the Kennedy's for being rich, so I'm at a loss for why the extreme level of hatred for the Clintons.

I'm thinking most of the people who post here as Obama supporters are really Republicans trying to make sure Clinton supporters don't vote for him should he be the one who gets the nomination.

[victoriajubilee]

They are not bitter ? wait until tommorow when they have to fork over $100 to fill up their pick-up truck.

[KimberlyKay]

Former President Bill Clinton is simply angry (and bitter) that Senator Obama again pointed out that President Bill Clinton's trade policies (which lacked what President Clinton promised while campaigning the trade deals would include -- specifically real labor enforcement provisions) caused devastation in many places in America. He is alluding to "stickers" Senator Clinton's own campaign distributed in North Carolina, that the good people there rejected in mass. I still wish that former President Bill Clinton had remained above this fray and retained his dignity, but he didn't and there is nothing anyone can do about it now.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/12/882730.aspx

Specifically, here is the relevant excerpt:

"In Goldsboro, close observers noticed a (light) smattering of stickers being worn by attendees. "I'm not bitter!" read the simple rectangular label on the lapels of a couple dozen in the crowd. The campaign says that the stickers are evidence of outrage at the grassroots level.

Yet it's unclear how spontaneous the sentiment was. A boxful of the stickers was spotted at Clinton's first event of the day -- being whisked backstage.­"

[b2008]

One lady even said she didn't know what the stickers meant. She was clueless. Boy what a low blow to have stickers made up saying something like that.

[b2008]

And then the Clinton campaign said the stickers were an idea from one of their volunteers. There they go passing the buck again.

So did the volunteer have the stickers made up or what?

[tandrmcdonald]

Note to KimberlyKay;
What dignity? Former president Clinton squandered what little he had left when he horned in on his wife's campaign. Bill Clinton has what I call the Kahunna Complex; he wants to be the only big cheese in the fridge. From Day One it's been one classic example of passive/agressive sabotage after another. He opens his mouth and her numbers plummet. He's done more damage to Hillary Clinton's political career than she has with her "embellished" resume and rewritten history. Someone at the honcho level in the DNC should sit the two Clintons down and explain how easy they're making the McBush job of stealing the Oval Office again. .
Gramma Rose

[Steverino46]

Obviously he wants to make it so.

[JiminNC]

Clintons are crummy people - its as simple as that.

[Scottiedog]

This guy has lost his mind. I regret voting for this tool twice.

[MoreCowBellNowPlease]

The critism of Bill over this comment is ridiculous. He said nothing wrong. This is silly season for sure.

[b2008]

He did nothing wrong by making up stickers that the people didn't even know what they meant and then blame the stickers on a volunteer. Well, tell me, what did he do right?

[MoreCowBellNowPlease]

Okay, do you believe everything you read? Do you use critical thinking skills that you are blessed with? Unless I missed something, I don't see any proof that these signs didn't exist. And who cares anyway? The Indiana people will decide for themselves whether they take offense of Obama's remarks or not in the way they vote.

Silly silly silly.

[chinaskee]

If they didn't know what the stickers referred to then haven't been paying attention the last couple of days.

[tandrmcdonald]

Note to b2008;
What did he do right?
Zipadeedoodah.

[bailey2006]

So, you think it is not ok to cover a story where one of the Clinton's is caught in yet another lie?

Tell me, just where do you draw the line between moral and immoral, between honest and dishonest, between reality and the Clinton's make believe world?

[MoreCowBellNowPlease]

How was he caught in a lie. Be specific.

[SoulSistah]

Silly like Sillariness and McCoo-Coo-ness . . .

Don't Vote McBushCain or ClinBushton in '08

[KimberlyKay]

Former President Bill Clinton fibbed about the stickers. The truth is Senator Clinton's campaign made the "I am not bitter" stickers and attempted to distribute them in North Carolina where few people wanted one. Perhaps no-one from Senator Clinton's campaign told him that "sticker" gate failed miserably and he thought he was telling the truth, but really this is hardly an excuse.
If Senator Clinton cannot run her campaign any better than this miserable excuse that she has put on, why would you think she could run the Executive Branch?

[leftcoastliberal]

Gee whiz, I can't wait for Hillary to get elected so we can have four, maybe eight years of watching Bill turn beet red while wagging his finger like an angry schoolmarm while lying, spinning, and smearing anyone who stands between him and his millions of dollars of direct corporate bribe money. He makes me embarrassed to be a Democrat.

[LittleSanityLeft]

Lying doesn't get you in trouble in America only the truth can do that. This is the democracy America is peddling to the world as the gold standard? It's a 3 ring circus of lies, misdirection, and spin.

The rest of the world wouldn't care so much if it wasn't for America unbalancing the middle east.

[JohnnyCanuck99]

whaaaa...? Come on!

Weird what has happened to Bill Clinton in my perception in the last... 6 mos. I wonder what it will be in 2 years?

[Moose49]

No, they're not bitter about having good jobs disappear south of the border thanks to the trade deals Bill negotiated. They're not bitter about having their standard of living decline thanks to economic policies dictated by Wall Street, not only over the past eight years, but the eight years previous under the Bill Clinton/Robert Rubin machine. They're not bitter about not having health insurance or being a hair's breadth away from joining the ranks of the uninsured. They're not bitter about not having guaranteed benefit pensions and seeing the meager savings of the lucky ones with 401(k)s dry up due to the crashing stock market. They're not bitter about the price of essentials, from food to gasoline, going through the roof. They're not bitter about the rash of foreclosures threatening their neighbors and perhaps themselves. They're not bitter about seeing millionaires getting five- and six-figure tax cuts larger than their entire family incomes. They're not bitter about being an illness or a divorce away from bankruptcy and then facing real destitution thanks to the bankruptcy bill Hillary voted for. They're not bitter about seeing their sons and daughters risk their lives for a failed policy in Iraq that Hillary voted for and for which no one else is being asked to sacrifice.

No, in Bill and Hillary Clinton's Orwellian world, we're all masochists and gluttons for punishment. We're all getting screwed and everything's hunky-dory. Working class America is happy happy!!!!

[Plowboy]

Bill, I'm not bitter, because I'm not one of the people who got stiffed when Hillary wouldn't pay her bills in Ohio and Californiaa and perhaps a few other places. But I would say that a Clinton is a bad risk.

[civitat]

Classically, classically Clinton. Hillary imagines sniper fire, Bill imagines signs. Hillary claims that she never supported NAFTA, Bill claims that he never...we­ll, never mind. Must be a few more of those late night moments that happened, um, in the morning.

[ErnestineBass]

You really need to take a vacation, Bubba. A LONG vacation.

Oh, and take Hillary with you, please.

Her campaign is over.

[ErikW65]

Well put.

[SoulSistah]

RIP HRC's Presidential Aspirations

[b2008]

Anybody watching Larry King? He looks totally blasted! His eyes are as red as cherries :)

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

Saint Hillary. Rich Bill.

Good for our country.

Are we out of our flubbing minds?

[SethBLiNK]

If people aren't bitter, then things must be pretty good. Everybody is okay with the war in Iraq, the state of the economy, and Bush's tax breaks for the rich.

Great, everything is fine the way it is. That's not the line Hillary's been campaigning on, but if she can twist it to make Barack look bad, all's fair.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the one thing that can confound both Hillary and Bill is, the truth.

[b2008]

Well, here's the twist. Bill saying everywhere he went he saw signs saying "I'm not bitter" but his comments were not entirely accurate. During Clinton's seven stops in North Carolina on Saturday there were no "I'm not bitter" signs. There was a small assortment of people at his later events wearing stickers with the slogan, but many of those sporting the stickers weren't even sure what they meant. Clinton also was a bit confused about his encounter in Pennsylvania.

He's not only a habitual LIAR and DRAMA KING, he sets up his LIES with stickers and supposedly signs. HE IS SEEING DEAD PEOPLE or something that ain't there.