No need to feel bewildered. The Clinton campaign is deliberately misconstruing everything they can, as they know that the window is closing fast, and they are becoming ever more desperate.

Clinton's Republican past is becoming more and more apparent in her chronic distortions.

It makes me nearly ill to admit the Republicans were right all along back int the 90's when they said that the Clintons had problems telling the truth.

Maybe she'd appoint better Supreme Court justices than McCain. Maybe. It's about the last possible rationale I can manage for holding my nose and checking Clinton's name in November should the near-impossible come to pass.

John, Thanks so much for this post. It is great to see some confirmation, from someone who was actually in the room, that this whole thing has been completely distorted and twisted by the HRC people and their minions in the MSM. And if you are in contact with Myrna, please thank her for linking to my Daily Kos piece (at the end of her email). I hope that this makes it way to Obama's people so that they know that he has touched on a profound undercurrent here in PA.

Great e-mail. She's completely clueless about rural Midwesterners, but I'm sure she's dead-on about inner-city issues.

Oh well. Can't win 'em all.

Beautiful - thank you so much. This is how out of touch Hillary is at this point - this is on the front page:

The distribution of "we're not bitter" stickers to her campaign rallies is the height of over-the-top crudity, and the reports are that very few audience members seem to have much enthusiasm for this nonsense. Not surprisingly, people cannot see the reasons for so much fuss.

can you get much more Rovian? Remember the purple heart bandaids?

Scranton newspaper endorsed Obama today even as she was out walking in the neighborhoods there. Called her a polarizing lightning rod.

John, thanks for posting this. I took the liberty of posting the email (crediting you) over at Kos, in the thread that's linked in Melgar's email. I also sent it to the Obama campaign. Like Liberal Elite, I'm hoping that both will receive wider attention.

Good e-mail. Clinton's distortion of this is just so freakin' cynical. She knows exactly what Obama was saying, and she'd be a lousy politician if she didn't understand it was accurate. She knows, but she's deliberately distorting it for the sake of a slow news cycle and some cheap political points. It doesn't speak well of her campaign, to say the least.

All this Obama-believing is fine and good, but keep in mind - it's not going to be enough just to believe. It's not going to be enough just to get him and Michelle and the girls in that White House. It's not going to be enough to elect the people into Congress who will smooth the way for his early efforts. It's not going to be enough to listen to the weekly Fireside Chats.

We comfortable, educated, employed suburban white folks are going to have make a lot of changes and many of them are not going to be pleasant. Just paying 3 times as much for solar shingles on the roof, and getting rid of that Subaru Forester trading it in for a Corolla wagon are going to have a big impact on our white suburban lifestyles. And that's just the beginning.

Actually working to change opinions of resistant white suburbanites next door is going to be much harder. And no real change is going to happen until we change our whole standard of living.

I have to study, so this will be quick...

I am aslo confused by Hillary.

A while ago, it was all about Barack only being about words and speeches. He needed to be a "do'er" not a "talker."

Jump ahead to this week. Now it's all about his speech and what he said. He said the wrong thing.

Even though he is now trying do things.

I mean which one is it?

You said, "My father dragged me out into the Minnesota fields in August when I was a kid (maybe age 10?)."

I have the feeling that your claim is about as accurate as Hillary's. In other words it is BS. No hunting seasons are open in Minnesota in August.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/smallgame/index.html

I think most single moms are elitist, living lives of luxury while living off the government. Obama is obviously an elitist, too, as most community organizers are.

Some of the people who most respect small town people are people who serve on boards of socially responsible companies, like Wal-Mart. Hillary Clinton has learned a lot about the value of the little people through her time as a Wal-Mart Board Director, because it's a company that helps the economies of America's small towns by letting them do one-stop shopping, instead of having to go from small business after small business.

People who live in Wal-Mart towns are not bitter, but resilient and fulfilled, even though they have minimal benefits and poor health care. They realize that they and their children haven't deserved to share in the economic prosperity that some Americans have had in the past thirty years. They just accept it because they're good Americans and they know their place.

Wal-Mart, always looking out for the little guy, also sells guns. That way, people in small, Wal-Mart towns can hunt so they'll have something to eat for dinner.

Amen to that!!!

Here's a good example of elitist thought. Check the comments, too.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/my-letter-to-josh.php

Imagine if Obama said something like that about the reason people join the military. Remember John Kerry? Can you imagine what Jim Webb would think of Obama if he thought that letter reflected Obama's attitudes. Are we sure they don't?

Hypocrisy abounds. I myself have said many times that the "value voters" vote against their own interests. It's a Democratic Party article of faith.

But don't expect me to back a candidate who gets caught on record calling the Republican base stupid. What a waste.