Senator Barack Obama continues to take heavy incoming fire for his remarks on small town voters, and has attempted to clarify those remarks in light of the political criticism. From the Washington Post:
“I didn’t say it as well as I could have,” Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd in Muncie. Later, in an interview with a North Carolina newspaper, he said, “Obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that.”
Obama’s comments were obviously not well thought out, and give some political cover to the notion that these voters will not make a connection with him in the general election. The Clinton team, (as well as John McCain) have pounced.
“I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Senator Obama made about people in small-town America,” Clinton (D-N.Y.) told several hundred voters at a factory here. “Senator Obama’s remarks are elitist and out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans, certainly not the Americans that I know. . . . Americans who believe in the Second Amendment believe it’s a matter of a constitutional right, Americans who believe in God believe it’s a matter of personal faith.”
Obama has managed to take the focus away from the remarks of President Clinton on Hillary’s trip to Bosnia, and refocus attention on his own poorly worded statement. The Clinton folks get a two-fer. No video is yet available of the specific remarks, although the event was taped. I have posted the available video here. The audio is at the Huffington Post website. Did Obama trip and fall, or did he just trip? The Clinton’s are great at the attack, and with the PA primary coming they will drive this ruthlessly. Read the Washington Post story here.
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This whole election cycle is getting overwhelmingly sickening for me. It’s as if a candidate isn’t able to run on the merits of what they have to offer, so much as what another candidate might have said that they can instead pounce on, twist, add a little fake sincerity, and turn around in their favor. Out of touch w/Iraq and the economy, Senile…ooops, Senator McCain will never get my vote, and Clinton in all her pompous arrogance is proving herself to be less and less deserving of anybody’s vote. In fact, I’ve lost any respect I used to have for her husband as well. Bitter?! Me?! You bet I am!!
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Jim,
The luster is coming off Obama’s halo. There is plenty of time for him to to show himself for what he is, a Trojan Horse. I do not know what this guys feels or believes.
Jules
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Heh, either I’m very naive Jules, or he’s the only one of the three that strikes me as having even a modicum of integrity… unfortunately, as we’ve seen time and again, even a minute amount of a good attribute isn’t enough to win against entrenched dirty money. While Obama/Clinton duke it out, McCain hopes that their headline bluster is enough to hide his daily gaffes…we have indeed become a very sorry country when it comes to out political parties.
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Jim,
I see Obama as a man who has a history that we nothing about. I believe he has been influenced by his minister. His wife sure has. 20 years of listening to this anti-semitic race bater has to influence him somewhat or else he would have left him years ago.
He’s a smooth talker, but I fear him.
I see no one I would be satisfied to vote for.
Next time we must limit the primary to a reasonable time span.
I don’t buy the “daily gaffes” issue you brought out. He makes some like all of them. The longer this thing drags out the more all these people embarrass themselves.
Have a good day
Jules
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Jules, Perhaps I exaggerate. It only seems like he does it every day. I’ll just focus on a few:
Take his foreign policy ‘experience’: Mixing up who Iran is allegedly training (he claims Al Qaeda when they are allegedly training Iraqi extremists). He did that multiple times over a series of days even correcting himself in between (perhaps he’s getting ready to pick up on Iran where Georgie leaves off…). Or his claim that there are safe neighborhoods to walk through in Iraq as he’s accompanied by troops, helicopters, humvees and wearing a helmet/bulletproof vest. Or his willingness to commit troops to Iraq for 100 years (talk about paying for the sins of our fathers). Or paraphrasing the Beach Boys song on a campaign stop (by singing bomb Iran).
Religion? His own minister John Hagee (whose support he is proud to have) is certainly no saint: “Hagee has called the Catholic Church the “Great Whore,” an “apostate church,” the “Antichrist” and a “false cult system.” And let’s not even get into what he has said about Jews.” I wonder if they’re planning on meeting the pope together while he’s visiting…
Or his claim that he doesn’t take campaign cash from ‘special interests’ and yet he has taken more money from the telecom companies than any other candidate. Oh, and those are the same companies he believes should get retroactive immunity from spying on Americans.
Perhaps his own economic stimulus plan of extending the same bush tax cuts that he opposed in 2001 and 2003. Apparently he can’t see the dire financial straits this country is in with his eyes wide shut. And he claims to know less about economic issues than military or foreign policy issues?!
Man, if he gets elected, we are in some deep doodoo!!
Regards.
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Jim,
As a conservative I think;
If Hillary is elected we are in some deep doodoo.
If Obama is elected we are in some real deep doodoo.
If John Mcain is elected…..well, read above.
The three of them don’t add up to a hill of beans.
If you read some history you will learn something quite interesting; you cannot predict the candidates success in office from their resume.
As for whether Iran is training al-Qaeda or any other terrorist group it doesn’t matter. Collectively they want to kill us. THAT is what the issue is.
To top that, this Iran will, in my opinion, get an atomic bomb over here. And if he does develop one he will use it. No protection from “mutually assured destruction”. They are willing to die.
And that, Jim, is the issue.
I’ll trade you Hagee with Wright. But, McCain’s wife loves this country unlike Mrs. Obama. She’ll make some first lady.
THE TELECOM COMPANIES SHOULD GET IMMUNITY, PERIOD. THE WORK THEY DO WOULD HAVE PROTECTED YOU ALONG WITH YOUR FAMILY. NOW THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TURNED the COUNTRY DEAF BY A NOTCH.
If the Democrats take over and kill the Bush tax cuts that would make economic matters worse.
Jim, in a country of more that 300 million we seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for candidates.
These is my take in the matter.
Jules
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