Hillary tries to steal message of hope from Obama.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton managed to co-opt Mr. Obama’s message of hope and optimism, beginning a speech in Valparaiso, Ind., by talking about how positive and “fundamentally optimistic” Americans are.

“We don’t get bogged down and looking back – we’re always looking forward,” she said, as heavy applause nearly drowned out her words. “Whatever obstacle we see, we get over it.
Whatever challenge we have, we meet it. We’re the problem-solvers, we’re the innovators, we’re the people who make the better future.”

For the third time since Mr. Obama’s remarks were made public Friday night, Mrs. Clinton criticized him at length, saying his comments seemed “kind of elitist and out of touch.”

“I disagree with Senator Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration,” she said.

Of course Hillary is totally misrepresenting what Obama said, but that is certainly nothing new for her.

If you want to know what was really said at that fundraiser on April 6th then go here. ( I will warn you ahead of time that the audio is really bad.)

I have to say I am very disappointed that MSNBC, which is often seen as more pro-Obama, is spending hours of air time dealing with this so called "controversy", while CNN essentially swatted it aside as not particularly newsworthy.

I may have to change my viewing habits again.