Day Two of Bitter-gate, and Hillary is going full bore:
Yesterday, Clinton hit Obama for calling Pennsylvanians “bitter,” ground on which he fairly ably engaged.
Today, she’s onto the other half of his San Francisco remarks, in which he linked economic frustration to clinging to religion and guns (the part he sought to walk back this morning in Muncie, Ind.).
“Sen. Obama’s remarks are elitist, and they are out of touch,” Clinton said. “The people of faith I know don’t ‘cling to’ religion because they’re bitter. … I also disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in this country ‘cling to guns’ and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration. People of all walks of life hunt — and they enjoy doing so because it’s an important part of their life, not because they are bitter.”
Now, this is more a general election wedge than a Democratic primary one, and Hillary Clinton may not be the world’s best messenger on the Second Amendment. But it’s a preview of things to come.
Stuff like this, I think, is going to play well in Central and Western Pennsylvania; the very “small towns” that Barack Obama was talking about in his speech in the City by the Bay.
