I think I hear Obama’s spin cycle coming on. How come when he makes a mistake it is never his fault? What happened last night, Barack, did the dog eat your homework? No? It was those nasty reporters and that bad lady who is just running against you to mess with your messianic mission. In his words, to North Carolina voters, about why he sucked–and how if the Republicans do this he’ll get’em!
“Last night I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people. Took us 45 min. 45 minutes before we heard about health care, 45 minutes before we heard about Iraq, 45 minutes before we heard about jobs, 45 minutes before we heard about gas prices. Now, I don’t blame Washington for this because that’s just how Washington is. They like stirring up controversy and they like playing gotcha games, and getting us to attack each other,” he said.
Just minutes after his campaign ended a conference call on how Senator Clinton has gone too negative over the past couple of weeks, Obama noted, “I have to say, Senator Clinton looked in her element. She was taking every opportunity to get a dig in there. Ya know? That’s alright. That’s her right. That’s her right to kind of twist the knife a little bit,” he said while making a twisting gesture with his hand.
He then scolded, “That’s the lesson that she learned when the Republicans were doing that same thing to her back in the 1990s, so I understand it, and when you’re running for the presidency then you’ve gotta expect it and ya know you’ve just gotta kinda let it, ya know..” As he trailed off, he brushed off his shoulders and laughed.
Obama later told the North Carolina crowd that the debate was good practice for the general election. “If the Republicans come at me I will come right back at them. You know – I’ll be honest with you – I’ll be honest with you – it’s a little harder to do with a fellow Democrat because you know I’m trying to you know, show some restraint. You know I won’t have this much restraint with the Republicans.”
Tags: Barack Obama, Culture, Democrats, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Media, North Carolina, Politics, Whining
April 19, 2008 at 3:33 pm
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April 20, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Horror of horrors. Imagine expecting real issues to be discussed in a debate. Obama is so terrible for wanting things that matter in our lives discussed. Clinton is so right to demand that the debates focus on trivia.
April 21, 2008 at 1:54 pm
libhomo, I don’t see that Hillary Clinton had any control over that debate. Obama just looked bad. There were some stupid questions asked of her too. I just think if you are running for president you should be ready even for stupid questions like the flag pin thing. I mean, the guy has no problem flying 10 flags behind him when he gave his speech on race, but he can’t put one on his lapel when he is running for president. OK, it’s stupid. But I have to wonder why not. It’s a small thing. And he took one from the AmVets. People are being told he’s not a patriot so they are looking for ways to identify him as one. Some people are going to go read his books and some people are going to look at his lapel. His getting mad about this tells me he really doesn’t understand that he has to try to reach everybody and not everybody has a great education or political savvy.