Obama Takes a Shot at Judd Gregg During Lincoln Banquet

The Obama Report ^ | 2/12/09

[Frankusa]

While speaking at the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial in Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, Barack Obama took a shot at Rep. Judd Gregg, who withdrew himself earlier in the day from consideration as the President's secretary of commerce:

"Here in Springfield," Obama said, "it's easier.. to reflect on Lincoln the man, rather than the marble giant, before Gettysburg..., before emancipation was proclaimed.... In 1854 Lincoln was simply a Springfield lawyer who served just a single term in congress, possibly in his law office, his feet on a cluttered desk, his sons playing around him, his clothes a bit too small to fit his uncommon frame -- maybe wondering if somebody might call him up and ask him to be commerce secretary..... Video Clip

[pabianice]

Ol’ Glass Jaw whines again...

[Sudetenland]

I think I would have preferred it if Gregg had taken the office and then raised a massive stink over the corruption of the census procedure when it was actually being done.

He would have had far more credibility with voters...either that or he should have had the guts to raise holy Hell over that issue specifying that as the only reason for his withdrawal.

Republicans never seem capable of causing a sufficient stir in the press and in public. He should have taken to the White House lawn or the steps of the Capital Building and made a withering statement against this unconstitutional action of politicizing the census.

Republicans are still too concerned with the niceties of the Marques of Kingsbury Rules while Democrats continue to sucker-punch them.

[mad_as_he$$]

A Commerce Secretary raising he$$ with all those Clinton people around? the last one that did that wound up in a fatal plane crash with a 45 caliber hole in the back of his head.

[Sudetenland]

He could walk...:)

[shaft29]

“I’ll just say Obama is 50% White Trash”

The new politically correct term is Person of Color trash.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Ohhhh! Secretary of Commerce?

I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it!

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NOT!