Posted on 07/01/2008 3:50:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Day three of the Clark controversy, and things keep getting more and more interesting.
Today, Barack Obama is apparently denying that his own speech yesterday in Ohio -- where we all assumed he was specifically repudiating Clark's comments -- was, in fact, aimed at Gen. Clark.
Here is what Obama had to say today:
"... I notice that I think in at least one publication it was reported that my comments yesterday about Senator McCain were in a response to General Clark. I think my staff will confirm that was in a draft of that speech that I had written two months ago."
... Aside from the fact that this is now very, very odd and confusing, today, Obama also seemed to not understand why these comments caused such an uproar in the first place:
REPORTER: "Do you not feel that General Clark owes John McCain an apology?"
BARACK OBAMA: "I guess my question is why, given all the vast numbers of things that we got to work on, that that would be a top priority of mine ...?
“Can I just, uh, finish muh waffle?”
Michael Moore to Wesley Clark: Run!
A Citizen's Appeal to a General in a Time of War (at Home)
Dear General Wesley Clark,
I've been meaning to write to you for some time. Two days after the Oscars, when I felt very alone and somewhat frightened by the level of hatred toward me for daring to suggest that we were being led into war for "fictitious reasons," one person stuck his neck out and came to my defense on national television.
And that person was you.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2003-09-12
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This next one is also from Michael Moore's website...
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?
[actual quote from Michael Moore (2004). It still appears on his website]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14
So let me get this straight. Obama is repudiating his repudiation?
“Obama is repudiating his repudiation?”
Wes and grandmother, that makes two people thrown under the bus then put back on board.
So the followup question should have been “well if you don’t repudiate Wesley Clark’s comments - that means you agree with them?”
Obama: I was for the repudiation before I was against it....
[actually he seems to be saying he could not care less and don’t bother him with such petty details]
Do we really think Obama was going to apologize?
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