Barack Obama's Bitter Remarks Will Cost Him the Pennsylvania Primary

Barack Obama is clearly not from a small town, as his recent comments about people living in the economically depressed small towns of the Keystone State indicate. They also showed his bias against religious people and the exchange or remarks between the Illinois senator only heighten the comedy inherent in this situation.

Barack Obama is not the first politician ever to stick his foot in his mouth, but making comments like "anti-immigration" settlement does not understand what is going on. The murder of a Milton, Pennsylvania, woman, Carly Snyder, in 2005 only further serves to highlight why the government needs to crackdown on undocumented aliens.

The anti-immigrant statement is not as likely to hurt Barack Obama as much as describing people in small towns as becoming bitter and being backward and religious. Many people outside of small-towns are religious and most of the guns the senator referenced are in fact used for hunting, not for protection against the government or held by paranoid government-hating militia man.

Barak Obama had been rising in the polls in Pennsylvania before issuing his confused comments about guns, religion, and anti-immigration sentiment. Now he has started to slip back down. If the people in the small towns that make up most of Pennsylvania were not bitter before, Obama has made them such.

At least the comedic value eases some of the tension. If Hillary Clinton does not see that she herself as perceived as elitist, she should. She also failed to completely disagree with Barack Obama in her response.

Instead, her wording implies that the Illinois senator should have chosen his words more carefully. If she wishes to distance herself or show disagreement with the remarks made by her opponent, a wise move considering the Pennsylvania primaries next week, she must use more forceful language.