Not to nit, but Michelle Malkin rates higher than referring to her as 'this woman'. She is an icon for conservatism.
Posted on 02/15/2007 5:58:34 AM PST by DBCJR
I have good news for everyone offended by the description ... Several days after taking flak for his disparaging comments dishonoring such heroism, Obama blubbered about what he really meant.
''I was actually upset with myself when I said that, because I never use that term,'' he told the Des Moines Register. Well, then what dastardly saboteur slipped it into his well-rehearsed stump speech? What supernatural force produced the guttural noise that glided effortlessly from his voicebox through his lips and pronounced the term "wasted"?
"What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn't been honored," Obama told The New York Times and other reporters in Nashua, N.H., "because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed." As opposed to pulling out precipitously?
Obama offered the standard "sorry-if-I-offended-anyone" disclaimer: " . . . I would absolutely apologize if any of them felt that in some ways it had diminished the enormous courage and sacrifice that they'd shown. You know, and if you look at all the other speeches that I've made, that is always the starting point in my view of this war.'' ...
"Even as I said it," Obama claims, "I realized I had misspoken."
So what, one wonders, prevented him from immediately correcting himself there on stage, as thousands cheered the term he now says he immediately regretted?
Words fail.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
So much for his legendary eloquence.
Because he's lying now.... he said exactly what he thought.
Yeah, the crap the Democrats spew about 'supporting our troops' is exposed for the lie it is. Democrats cheer and hope for high body counts to advance their anti-American agenda.
Not to nit, but Michelle Malkin rates higher than referring to her as 'this woman'. She is an icon for conservatism.
"This woman nails it."
Not to nit, but Michelle Malkin rates higher than referring to her as 'this woman'. She is an icon for conservatism.
Would you believe it was a "slip of the tongue"? JK - The phrase meant no disrespect as I, too, am aware of her authorship, viewed her commentary, etc. Why would "this woman" be considered anymore disrespectful than "this man"? Yet we often hear introductions or acclaimations about a man preceded by "This man has done/accomplished/been awarded..." No slight was intended.
''I was actually upset with myself when I said that, because I never use that term,''
Yeah, terms I never use keep slipping past my lips too.
It may be just me, but I just associate 'this woman' with Monica Lewinski.
In all probability, he never will be.
Yes. Michelle Malkin--now she's Ready for Prime Time Anytime!
He can't and won't.
Homey dissin the boyz. Gotta respect da boyz or you don't get to be da man.
"It may be just me, but I just associate 'this woman' with Monica Lewinski."
Indelibly etched in our minds. You are understood. See, even us conservatives can empathize!
It is a shame when sexual harrassment at the highest levels can cast such dispersion upon what should be an honorable term. See what the Dems have done to women!
What was in his script?
By the time, media gets thru with Obama, they will be talking about him like he is the best thing since sliced bread. I am quite concerned about this dude. Hopefully, Hilary will put him in his place
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