were badly phrased but accurate . Watch Obama try to clarify his comments '' On Sunday , Clinton called the comments `` elitist , out of touch and frankly , patronizing , '' and added , `` You know , the Democratic Party , to be very blunt about it , has been viewed as a party that did n't understand and respect the values and the way of life of so many of our fellow Americans . '' Obama opened his remarks to the AP making light of what is being called `` bitter-gate . '' `` I know I kept a lot of you guys busy this weekend with the comments I made last week . Some of you might even be a little bitter about that , '' he said to soft laughter . But his offensive began Sunday night when he mocked Clinton for acting like `` Annie Oakley ... packin ' a six-shooter '' in her attempts to connect with gun owners . He was referring to Clinton 's efforts over the weekend to appeal to Second Amendment supporters by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers . `` I disagree
PITTSBURGH , Pennsylvania -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- After a weekend of playing defense about his `` bitter '' comments , Sen. Barack Obama went on offense Monday against his Democratic rival and the presumptive Republican nominee . Sen. Barack Obama participates Sunday in the Compassion Forum at Pennsylvania 's Messiah College . Obama mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton for throwing back a shot of whiskey in front of TV crews over the weekend and said she must think she 's `` doing me a favor '' by attacking him and toughening him up for a fall race against Republican Sen. John McCain . `` I 'm sure that Sen. Clinton feels like she 's doing me a favor because she 's been deploying most of the arguments the Republican Party will be using against me in November and so it 's toughening me up . I 'm getting run through the paces here , '' Obama told The Associated Press ' annual meeting . Clinton has been hitting Obama hard after he referred to some small-town Pennsylvanians as `` bitter '' people who `` cling to guns and religion '' at a fund-raiser last week . Obama later said the remarks