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In Pittsburgh, the senator from New York continued to pound away at her rival, although she encountered a flash of resistance. At a manufacturing forum attended by local members of the steelworkers union, Clinton declared: "Many of you, like me, were disappointed by recent remarks he made." Some audience members shouted "No!" When she suggested that voters in Pennsylvania, which holds the next Democratic primary on April 22, might find Obama's remarks "offensive," loud cries of "No!" could be heard again. 

Not everyone wants a bullshit artist in the White House.

Clinton's campaign also released a television ad focusing on the controversy in Pennsylvania in which voters say they are "insulted" by Obama's comments, calling him "out of touch."

"I'm not clinging to my faith out of frustration and bitterness," a woman says in the spot. "I find that my faith is very uplifting."

"The good people of Pennsylvania deserve a lot better than what Barack Obama said," adds a male voter.

They weren't voters speaking their minds, they were actors speaking their lines. Of course there's the people who believed that woman ACTUALLY "met Harold at the Plaaaayboy party!" YOU believed it, right?

No?

McCain Echoes Clinton's Attacks
Obama Talks of November Damage
By Shailagh Murray and Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, April 15, 2008; A01

Sen. John McCain joined in the criticism of Sen. Barack Obama yesterday for Obama's comments about "bitter" victims of small-town economic distress, while Obama's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination weighed in with a tough new ad on the controversy.

Speaking at a gathering of newspaper editors and executives in Washington, McCain echoed the rebuke voiced repeatedly by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, calling Obama's characterization "a contradiction from what I believe America is all about."

"These are the people that produced a generation that made the world safe for democracy," McCain said. "These are the people that have fundamental cultural, spiritual and other values that in my view have very little to do with their economic condition."

Obama, saying he welcomed the controversy as an opportunity to debate McCain on economic issues, declared of the Arizona Republican: "He just doesn't understand this." But Obama also acknowledged the potential political damage that the Democratic candidates' skirmishes could bring.

"I have tried to figure out how to show restraint and make sure that, during this primary contest, we're not damaging each other so badly that it's hard for us to run in November," Obama said at a luncheon sponsored by the Associated Press, speaking several hours after McCain.

The senator from Illinois also slipped in a dig: "Obviously, it's a little easier for me to say that, since, you know, I lead in delegates and states and popular vote. Senator Clinton may not feel that she can afford to be as constrained."

Obama continued: "I'm sure that Senator Clinton feels like she's doing me a great favor, because she's been deploying most of the arguments that the Republican Party will be using against me in November, and so, it's toughening me up. And I'm getting a run through the paces here."

In Pittsburgh, the senator from New York continued to pound away at her rival, although she encountered a flash of resistance. At a manufacturing forum attended by local members of the steelworkers union, Clinton declared: "Many of you, like me, were disappointed by recent remarks he made." Some audience members shouted "No!" When she suggested that voters in Pennsylvania, which holds the next Democratic primary on April 22, might find Obama's remarks "offensive," loud cries of "No!" could be heard again.

Clinton's campaign also released a television ad focusing on the controversy in Pennsylvania in which voters say they are "insulted" by Obama's comments, calling him "out of touch."

"I'm not clinging to my faith out of frustration and bitterness," a woman says in the spot. "I find that my faith is very uplifting."

"The good people of Pennsylvania deserve a lot better than what Barack Obama said," adds a male voter.