"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
- The Huffington Post, Mayhill Fowler - April 11, 2008
"She knows better, she knows better shame on her. Shame on her, she knows better shame on her. Ha."
"Dr King’s dream began to be realised when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done."
TimesOnline, The Times - January 12, 2008 (Time Reid in Washington) Hillary Clinton MLK Jr. Comment
"I am baffled by that statement by the senator, she made an ill advised statement about Dr King suggesting that Lyndon Johnson had more to do with the civil rights act... I did not make the statement, I haven't commented on the statement. And for them somehow to suggesting were interjecting race as a consequence of a statement she made that we haven't commented on is pretty hard to figure out."
Barack in Nevada on CNN responding to MLK comment
My Words -
- First... He said he hasn't commented on the statement but didn't he just make a statement and this wasn't the first comment he made referencing her speech.
- Second... Wouldn't this of been the perfect time to roll out your Politics being played and win points by saying that Washington is at it again playing politics with simple statements that were misinterpreted?
He's a smart, well educated man and I'm sure he knew what she meant why wouldn't he acknowledge that?