Clinton Plays up Obama’s ‘Bitter’ Quote as ‘Elitist’
April 13, 2008 | 11:31 pm | by t-blender |Rate It:
usa today: SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton kept up her attack Sunday on Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama who has been thrown on the defensive over his remarks about bitter voters in small towns which could hurt his chances in upcoming primaries.
Obama tried to quell the furor Saturday, explaining his remarks while also conceding he had chosen his words poorly.
“If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that,” Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.
But the Clinton campaign fueled the controversy in every place and every way it could, hoping charges that Obama is elitist and arrogant will resonate with the swing voters the candidates are vying for not only in Pennsylvania, but in upcoming primaries in Indiana and North Carolina as well.
Clinton, who knocked on doors in her father’s boyhood hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, tried to portray herself as an ally of the middle class. She said Obama’s words were “elitist and divisive” and warranted further explanation.
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