On nytimes.com today Sen. John McCain was quoted as saying that comments by Sen. Barrack Obama about blue collar Pennsylvanian voters were “fundamental contradiction of what I believe America is all about,” joining Sen. Hillary Clinton in the fray over Obama’s words.McCain had refrained from commenting on Obama’s remarks on April 6 about small-town voters as being “bitter” and that they deal with frustration by a, “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
The strategy by McCain is clear: show that Obama doesn’t relate to everyday Americans, in particular the working-class white voters, a line of attack that Clinton had previously decided to approach.
McCain’s response came at an annual meeting of the Associated Press and when asked about Obama being an elitist he said, “I don’t know, because I don’t know him very well.”
Obama’s response to McCain came shortly thereafter.
“If John McCain wants to turn this election into a contest about which party is out of touch with the struggles and the hopes of working American, that’s a debate I’m happy to have,” Obama said later at the A.P.
“If I had to carry the banner for eight years of George Bush’s failures,” he said, “I’d be looking for something else to talk about too.”
This was the fourth day in a row that Obama found himself explaining his “bitter” remark.
Obama acknowledged that he had a poor choice of words, but that policies that “they” (Republicans) have used are more damaging.
The Clinton campaign has furthered its response to Obama’s words with a television commercial n which comments of Pennsylvanians are shown.
“I was very insulted by Barack Obama,” one woman says.
Away from the Obama controversy, McCain said he “narrowly” backed a federal shield law to protect journalist’s unnamed sources.
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