If he were a republican it would be a "bad screwup," but I think his comments mostly riled up those who wouldn't have supported him anyway, so it's a minor problem.
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"Bitter," is much worse than "angry." Bitter paints the American people as a seething, beaten down population. Angry suggests that Americans are not happy, but are tough and ready to do something about it.
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But he wasn't blaming them for their bitterness, he was saying it was because of an incompetent government. When people lose their homes in a mortgage crisis and other symptoms of economic downturn, sometimes all they have left is their religion. I don't think he was implying this is a bad thing to be blamed on those people.
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Then Obama went and pissed the majority of Americans off by saying that their ideological beliefs are based on their embittered temperament.
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While 56% of Americans (3/4 of republicans, 1/3 of democrats, ~1/2 independents) disagree with Obama's "bitter" statement, 45% consider the comments elitist. To me, this suggests that fewer than 45% were enraged by the statement, though a majority disagree with it. Of course most of them don't really understand what Obama meant by it and only hear a pundit's interpretation of it, which is often politically motivated.
http://http://www.rasmussenreports.c...l_town_america