Wow! That was rather well put and true. I’m still amazed that Obama would have stumbled so badly over an issue of religion. How could a Christian accuse people of “clinging” to their faith because they are bitter? I don’t “cling” to my faith, I embrace it! It’s who I am.

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s flagging campaign has been given new life in Pennsylvania and beyond after Barack Obama was forced into a second day of damage control Saturday for calling small-town Americans “bitter.”

Clearly sensing the opening, Clinton pounced on Obama’s comments in some of the harshest language of the campaign Saturday, blasting her rival as “elitist” and “out of touch.”
For his part, Obama opened the day by acknowledging only that he chose his words poorly. But by midday — and his fourth attempt to clarify his statement — the senator had moved closer to contrition, expressing “regret” for the words even as he stood by their substance.
“If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that,” Obama told the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal. “The underlying truth of what I said remains.”
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“The people of faith I know don’t ‘cling to’ religion because they’re bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich,” she said.
For Obama, some political analysts say, the comments raise larger questions about whether a candidate who has made authenticity and frank talk a part of his campaign can stave off perceptions he is one person in front of regular folks, but has an elitist side.

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Key to Obama’s everyman narrative is his work as a community organizer in a Chicago housing project in the mid-1980s. But Democratic media consultant Larry Ceisler said the remarks would hurt Obama in the general election if he gets that far.
“He may have blown his credibility because he is supposed to be building bridges, not just be another member of the elite,” he said. But Ceisler recalled the “elitist” tag hung on the party’s 2004 nominee and said of Obama, “He may as well have gone windsurfing with John Kerry.”

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And those of you who come here and say it’s true don’t really get religion, even you people who say you’re a Christian and you believe what he says is true. Is he describing you? Are you bitter and clinging to your religion? If so, you need to repent and cling to Jesus in love and thankfulness not bitterness.