Presidential candidate Barack Obama answered the critic remarks made by his rival in the race for the Democratic Party nomination Hillary Clinton. On Sunday, the Illinois senator called Clinton’s remarks outrageous.

"She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her," were Obama’s most striking words about the New York Senator who attacked him over some remarks about the citizens of the small town of Pennsylvania.

During the union rally speech in the Harrisburg suburb of Steelton, Obama said he was very surprised to hear Clinton attack him over the fact that he is elitist and argued that she has no right to make such remarks considering her past.

"This is the same person who took money from financial folks on Wall Street and then voted for a bankruptcy bill that makes it harder for folks right here in Pennsylvania to get a fair shake," Obama said.

"Who do you think is out of touch?" he added.

The criticism over Obama’s alleged elitism started with some remarks he made during a San Francisco fund raiser. Obama said that the working class people are “bitter” about the economic situation they are dealing with right now and their "cling to guns and religion"-reaction is not a surprising result.

The 46-year-old senator said he regrets some of his comments, but underlined that they had been twisted and mischaracterized by his rivals.

“I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he explained.

Obama also said that he was expecting GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain to pick on these remarks, but he was surprised and "a little disappointed" to see Clinton, his democrat “colleague”, do the same.

Obama continued his speech by suggesting that Clinton’s interest in guns appears to have increased since he made those remarks.

"She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley," Obama said.

“Come on, she knows better. That's some politics being played by Hillary Clinton," he added.