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Kontroverse in der US-Wahlkampagne Von der Clinton Web-Site am 14.04.2008 After several failed attempts to explain
the comments he made in In his actual remarks (which he stands
by), he grouped faith and guns in with "anti-immigrant sentiment,"
"anti-trade sentiment" and "antipathy to people who aren't
like them." Presumably, Senator Obama doesn't think it appropriate to
cling to antipathy for others. More to the point, the remarks Senator
Obama made in San Francisco suggest Americans in small towns don't have
strength to deal with economic realities so they fall back on what Senator
Obama implied is a culture that is backward and outdated: guns, superficial
spiritual propping up, and emotionalism that stigmatizes people of different
backgrounds. Sen. Obama on April 13: Well, first of all, you know,
Scripture talks about clinging to what's good... What
I was saying is that when economic hardship hits in these communities, what
people have is- they've got family, they've got their faith., they've got the
traditions that have been passed on to them from generation to generation. Those aren't bad things. Sen. Obama's original comments on April
6: Here's how it is:
in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and
Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed
by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being
cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn't buy it. And when
it's delivered by -- it's true that when it's delivered by a 46-year-old
black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of
skepticism (laughter)... But the truth is,
is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded
that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily
lives. You go into some of these small towns in |