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US Elections

I was not privileged, Obama

Posted on: May 01, 2008

With the May 6 primary in Indiana and North Carolina just round the corner, Senator Barack Obama is clearing everything that comes into his way to the White House.

His latest way of getting back his voters came in an interview with NBC in which he said that the privileges his two rivals for Democratic nomination grew were a distant dream for him.

“The irony is, I think it is fair to say that both Michelle and I grew up in much less privileged circumstances than either of my two potential opponents,” Obama said in an interview with his wife, Michelle, at his side.

Obama, whose Kenyan father and American mother separated when he was two, was raised by his mother and grand father and spend half of his life outside America.

Obama was clearly trying to send the message to some of his voters who viewed him as “elitist” and “out of touch” after the formers comments during last month’s campaign. Obama went on to saying during a private fund raiser that the people from small town “cling” to guns and religion. Though he didn’t acknowledged that the comments were wrong but he said that the comments were “very poorly phrased”.

Obama’s problems were also increased by his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who appeared three times before media alleging the U.S. government’s role in 9/11 and spread of AIDS among blacks. But Obama didn’t took much time to reply the pastors comments angrily as “outrageous”.

However, Obama got a little respite on Thursday as a former Democratic leader, Joe Andrew, shifted his support towards the Illinois Senator, Barack Obama. Joe also urged fellow Democrats to support Obama during the May 6 primary that’s viewed as the most crucial contest for the presidential nomination.

As the interview went on, Obama in a round about way said that there are people who don’t want a person who is African-American, who has not spend much time in America, and who doesn’t know his voters, to become a president. He said that the criticism is inevitable but he is prepared to face anything.