Posted on 02/12/2007 10:11:24 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois said Monday that he had misspoken when he suggested that the lives of more than 3,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq had been “wasted.”
As he arrived in New Hampshire, Mr. Obama said he would “absolutely apologize” to military families if they were offended by a remark he made in Iowa while criticizing the Bush administration’s Iraq policy.
“What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn’t been honored,” Mr. Obama told 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.”
A New Hampshire reporter asked Mr. Obama whether he regretted the remark, made at a rally on Sunday that “we ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”
“Even as I said it,” Mr. Obama said Monday, “I realized I had misspoken.”
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Screw you Obama
The guy who's supposed to be the Great Liberal Hope is coming across as incredibly ameteurish just days out into his campaign.
Blowback and focus-grouping.
Too late.
He said what he thought.
We heard it.
'Nuff said.
This fool shouldn't be elected elementary class school President. Kim Jong-Il would give him a mean face and he'll wet his britches.
Duuuuuude
You just had ur Jon Cary moment.
And we know EXACTLY what you meant.
Stick a fork in him, the blogs will give him no rest, the MSM OTOH.......
And the new statement is no better. Give this guy a shovel. He's gonna need it soon if he keeps piling this stuff on.
Is it possible the Iraqi's keep hearing statements like this from the democrats and find it difficult to trust them to help if another democrat is elected?
He meant what he said the first time.
In less than 3 days he causes an international incident by attacking one of our most loyal allies, John Howard and the the amazing Aussie military. Now this. Obama, you are a lightweight and not ready for prime time. There will many more incidents of you sticking your foot in your mouth in the next two years. You can't fill the president's shoes.
The best is how the NYT blew sandwiched the comment between doting paragraphs.
It wasn't a real clean or articulate statement.
So much for being "articulate" i guess. LOL
"The best is how the NYT blew sandwiched the comment between doting paragraphs"
Freudian slip. Delete the "blew".
It reminds me of Kerry's testimony before Congress in 1971, "How do you ask someone to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Remarks like Obama's undermine the morale of our military and hinder recruitment and retention. Writing off the lives of more than 3000 Americans who liberated a country of 25 million as "wasted" is just stupid. I wonder how he feels about the lives lost in Afghanistan.
Quayle was chastised endlessly for a spelling blunder but Obama will get a pass for this?
Ooops..... I forgot the media did not create Quayle.
LOL
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