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By Mark Silva
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It didn’t take long for the Clinton campaign to take Sen. Barack Obama’s remarks about middle-class voters and bitterness to the air in Pennyslvania, where the senator from New York hopes to seal a victory over the senator from Illinois in a primary election eight days away.
The ad opens with an announcer reminding viewers of what they have been hearing for three days on the news, yet doesn’t open with the central noun that Obama used in describing the disaffection of small-town voters with their government — bitterness — but rather heads straight to more power-packed words for this audience: guns and religion: “Barack Obama said that people in small towns ‘cling to guns or religion…as a way to explain their frustrations.'”
Obama, admitting that he chose “clumsy” words, insists that voters indeed harbor bitterness about government not listening to them. Religion, he says, is a “bulwark” in tough times, and hunting is a cherished tradition. But this is an opponent’s ad, not a debate:
“I was very insulted by Barack Obama,” a woman in Clinton’s new ad, called “Pennsylvania,” states. “It just shows how out of touch Barack Obama is,” says a man outside what seems to be a church voicing words Clinton uses about Obama’s remarks on the stump.
“I’m not clinging to my faith out of frustration and bitterness. I find that my faith is very uplifting,” says another woman. “The good people of Pennsylvania deserve a lot better than what Barack Obama said,” says another man, supported by the woman again: “Hillary does understand the citizens of Pennsylvania better,” and a third woman: “Hillary Clinton has been fighting for people like us her whole life.”
Obama has been outspending Clinton by three-to-one in TV ads in Pennsylvania — with nearly $10 million invested there between them. But these words may well resonate two to three times more loudly than that message of ‘”change” and “hope” Obama has delivered.