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Some possible reasons for Obama's recent remarks.
When Hillary pounces on Obama to call him elitist in a political move to change the way things are going in her campaign, I am just pissed off. I'm not pissed off THAT she’ doing it. It’s so obviously a political strategy. But she does it with such adroitness. And she’s playing it to the hilt.
Look, he chose his words poorly. He was trying to make a point, a larger point that was not done very well, I might add.
But why don't we give him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps he was tired.
Perhaps he came under sniper fire on the way to the event.
Perhaps he stayed up all night practicing his bowling or spent an all-nighter learning the lyrics to Bomb, Bomb Iran for an upcoming appearance on American Idol.
Or maybe he really is a big fake, a bamboozler and we’ve all be scammed! And this slip up has totally exposed him to all of us who think he is a man of character.
Will Americans be incapable of sifting through this kind of political hog wash.
Who knows? I only know it makes want to smack something. I’m going to take a Lorazepam and take a bath.
Good night!
Comments (7)
And did anyone give Senator Clinton the benefit of the doubt on any of these examples?
[crickets chirping...]
April 12, 2008 11:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, they did, for about a month, until footage from Tuzla came out.
April 12, 2008 11:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
What do you think it is when the media constantly refers to her misspeaking and exaggerations when she actually told blatant untruths, made up stuff that wasn't there. The original "fish" was completely missing from her supposed fish story. You can only embellish on something if the something was there in the first place.
April 12, 2008 11:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why is it that Obama gets to "choose his words poorly" as you say and denigrate and put down folks from rural parts of the country but if Hillary makes a gaffe its obviously either "meanspirited" or "lies".....I don't get the double standard from the Obamaistas
April 13, 2008 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Because Hillary has the pattern of duplicity, ugly campaign tactics, bringing up the gender and the race issue, going on TV and implying by her "as far as I know" response that Obama is a Muslim when she knows full well he isn't. Must I continue. These things show a pattern. I just don't see the same pattern of duplicity and dissemblance with him!
April 13, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
hmmmmm., your valium must have kicked in 'cuz you are revealing a very relaxed attitude about truthiness.---unless it's Hillary's truthiness.
April 13, 2008 1:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
I knew this looked familiar...
April 13, 2008 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
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