Barack Obama Bitter

Defining Obama

Dylan Loewe | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics


Dylan Loewe

Obama is being described as unelectable, as incapable of connecting with working class voters, and as someone who might be uncomfortable with patriotism. Obama is being defined by others. It's time for him to do the defining.

Bitter? Moi?

Kate Clinton | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics


Kate Clinton

Could our darling Dems please hold their fire at each other and set their sights on John McCain, who each day girds himself in more media-made Reagan Teflon than any Iraqi soldier was ever issued.

It Matters Which Mistake You Make in Washington, DC

Richard Klass | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics


Richard Klass

Barack Obama committed a greater offense than Hillary's sniper fire lies by Washington, DC standards. He committed truth.

Bitter Popcorn, or My Friend Joe

Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics


Evan Eisenberg

My friend Joe said, "on this screen of yours all anyone talks about is some guy who ordered orange juice instead of coffee, and was bad at knocking things over with a heavy ball, and said something about people in small towns being bitter."

The Obama Campaign: Consent of, or Contempt for, the People

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics


Joseph C. Wilson

Like his comments about small town Americans, Obama has demonstrated a cavalier disregard for the work of Foreign Service and CIA Officers serving overseas.

Hill, You've Got $100 Million; Show Some Class

Trey Ellis | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics


Trey Ellis

Yes, Obama's gaffe was a big one and as his opponent she has every right to go after him but she never coupled that with an even more devastating critique of McCain.

The Wrong Playbook

Dylan Loewe | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics


Dylan Loewe

McCain and the RNC expect to brand Obama with the same iron that bested Kerry and Gore. But there are substantial differences between Obama's candidacy and those of his predecessors.

Jason Linkins

Debate Over Obama's 'Bitter' Remark Swamped By Media Distortion

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


If you cast your mind back to your childhood, you might recall playing a game with your friends called "Chinese Whispers" or the less ethnocentric var...

President Whatshisname

Will Durst | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


Will Durst

Like everyone else, most Americans were too busy watching the angry white woman and the serene black guy going at it with claw hammers to listen to anything that Bush has to say.

Obama: "Hope And Anger Go Hand And Hand"

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON, Pa. — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed a voter's suggestion that when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called him elitis...

Pat Buchanan Misquotes Barack Obama's "Bitter" Line

Huffington Post | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics


Speaking on Dan Abrams' Verdict on MSNBC tonight, Pat Buchanan misquoted Sen. Barack Obama's now infamous "bitter" line from a closed-door San Francis...

Unforced Error: Obama as San Fran Liberal Elitist

David Paul Kuhn | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics


David Paul Kuhn

Obama has stood by his "bitter" remark, stating there are "a whole bunch of folks in small towns" who "feel like they have been left behind." That is true. But that's not the issue now haunting his bid for the presidency.