The Pot Calling The Kettle Black
May 19th, 2008 at 01:03pm Matt Margolis
Oh, I almost fell off my chair laughing when I read this quote from Barack Obama.
“The GOP, should I be the nominee, I think can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record,” Obama said. “I’ve been in public life for 20 years. I expect them to pore through everything that I’ve said, every utterance, every statement. And to paint it in the most undesirable light possible. That’s what they do.”
Sounds exactly like what Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have done with John McCain… of course, they’ve gone further, deliberately twisting McCain’s words, evening splicing sentences together to alter the meaning.
Obama praised his wife’s patriotism and said that for Republicans “to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her I think is just low class … and especially for people who purport to be promoters of family values, who claim that they are protectors of the values and ideals and the decency of the American people to start attacking my wife in a political campaign I think is detestable.”
I guess Obama finds himself and his own party detestable.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Advice to Mrs. Obama - if you don’t want to catch any political flack, then don’t make any political statements outside of generalised support for your husband. You want to be in the political kitchen? Then get used to the heat…
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1. John McCain » The P&hellip | May 19th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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2. Timothy Horrigan | May 19th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Let me say it again: unpopular candidates can win. As long as more people vote against John McCain than against Obama, Obama can win.
We found that out in 2004… the war was already clearly not a Mission Accomplished, the economy was already collapsing… and yet Bush won even though many were already calling for his impeachment. Basically, thanks to the Swiftboaters, more voters ended up voting against Kerry than for Bush.
In 2000, even Matt will agree that Gore was more popular. He got more votes nationwide. Yeah, I know that is of absolutely no significance because it is electoral votes which matter. But it’s still a fact: Gore got a lot more votes nationwide. And he lost the electoral vote because he lost Florida by a few dozen punchcard ballots which were counted under the most chaotic conditions imaginable.
Even in Florida, more voters intended to vote for Gore…. although many of them were too senile and just plain too stupid to figure out a Butterfly Ballot (and in any case, the Butterfly Ballot was in no way shape or form the Republicans’ fault.)
3. Pain | May 19th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
And Mr Margolis when was the last time you saw a clip of Reverend Jeremiah Wright on TV?
4. phnx | May 19th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Pain…why show him now and lessen the impact. I say September /October will be a good time to bring back the good Rev. that’s when the electorate pays attention. Up until noe political junkies are the ones focused on the election.
5. phnx | May 19th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
“Even in Florida, more voters intended to vote for Gore….” Tiny Tim
Still perpetuating this myth Timmy? Get over it.
6. Kahn | May 19th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
phnx - no, I agree thats possible. The senile and stupid were clearly in Gore’s camp.
7. phnx | May 19th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
True enough, and there were reports of votes cast in error. But sufficient votes to have changed the election???? Where is the proof? This is wishful thinking on the part of the tinfoil hat moonbat crowd.
I recall that during the recount in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, all Dem strongholds, the counters were trying to “devine” the intentions of the voters. The only thinks missing were a Ouija board and a crystal ball.
8. neocon | May 19th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
“Let me say it again: unpopular candidates can win. As long as more people vote against John McCain than against Obama, Obama can win.” - Timothy Horrigan
Doesn’t exactly sound like they’re real optimistic about Obama’s chances anymore, does it?