Then the "bitter" comments came out from Barack Obama and the weekend turned into a Political Storm.

First, let's give the entire Obama quote. You can figure it out for yourself.

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Whether the entirety of that is "true" or not really isn't the point.

Obama gave the Clintons something to seize on. Ironically, it came in a closed door fundraising event in California. This should be a major reminder to Obama that he must keep his guard up everywhere.

Anything you say can and will be used against you. Kudos to the Huffington Post for breaking this story.

Now why do I say whether this quote is "true" isn't "the point?"

Earlier in this campaign, the Governor of Pennsylvania was roundly attacked by the Obama campaign for his answer to a question about whites voting for Obama in Pennsylvania.

"You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," said Rendell, who is a big supporter of Hillary.

The Governor caught a lot of flak for that, even though I would think we could probably establish that it is a fairly "true" statement. (Just look at Hillary's support in many states. She is winning in rural areas that have no business voting for her.)

As for Obama's remarks, he is catching a lot of flak for what he said, but it is something that we could have an honest argument about in terms of whether it is "true" or not.

The problem is this: the statement feeds into a long standing belief of many people outside the big cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, that the Democrats are a bunch of limousine liberal elitists, who feel they are superior to the Bible Belt, Second Amendment supporters, those who shop at Wal-Mart, etc., etc.

I am reminded of a dustup that Howard Dean caused when he was running for the Democratic nomination four years ago. He said his party needed to get the votes of more people driving pickup trucks with confederate flags on them.

I know what Dean was trying to say. He could have said it better. Obama knows what he was trying to say, but he could have said it better.

Will it make him damaged goods in Pennsylvania? Watch the polls that come out late this week.