Posted on 04/15/2008 8:30:23 AM PDT by indcons
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday that he "mangled" his words when he described small town Americans as "bitter" at a private San Francisco fundraiser.
Obama spoke to the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board last night, after a long weekend spent clarifying his statement that many small town voters had grown "bitter" over their economic status and "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, has hammered Obama for days over the remarks, saying that he is out of touch with voters. She began running a TV ad in Pennsylvania yesterday in which voters criticize the statement.
Presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain also decried the remarks for being elitist, but declined to label Obama an elitist.
Obama yesterday told the Daily News that he "conflated" two points - the first being that people who have felt abandoned by political leadership turn to their faith, family or traditions like hunting. His second point was that politicians have tried to distract those voters with wedge issues like homosexuality or immigration.
"My syntax was poor," Obama said. "But as a wise older woman I was talking to the other day said: 'You misspoke, but you didn't lie.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Admiral Kennedy misspoke when he called Obama “Osama”, but he didn’t lie.
Joe Eloquent blames his vocabulary. Yeah, we buy that.
As Ann Coulters says, “Obama is a lie”!
elitist and arrogant, prone to stereotyping the “little people” who aren’t as elite and educated as he is.
I’ll take common sense over elite and educated every time. Our forefathers weren’t all well educated but I would rather them running our country than the bunch of knuckleheaded so called “I know what’s best for you” politicians in charge today IMHO.
“Fully understandable and forgiven. He was translating from his native tongue Arabic.”
LMAO - funny
"Indeed, understanding Hofstadter is desperately needed. And not just by historians. By pundits, politicians, bloggers and citizens. Because failing to understand Hofstadter’s analysis causes us to fail as analysts, historians, pundits and, most importantly, as politicians, especially politicians like Barack Obama."
"Hofstadter understood what was liberalism’s triumphs and how they were achieved and how they could be defeated. Hofstadter would have understood so well that the Republican triumphs since Goldwater are not ideological “ideas” victories but rather victories of the psychological paranoid style - the “What Is The Matter With Kansas” question.
FDR governed as a liberal but politicked like a populist. When LBJ rightly and to his everlasting credit removed one of the Dem pillars of paranoia - racism, the GOP co-opted populist racism, added the Jeffersonian notion of government and institutional hatred, throw in a dash of paranoid Red scare, now terrorism scare, and you get political victories.
The lesson of Hofstadter is to embrace liberal governance and understand populist politics. It may sound cynical, but you must get through the door to govern. Lincoln knew this. FDR knew this. Hofstadter knew this. I hope Obama can learn this."
What Barack Obama Needs To Learn From Richard Hofstadter, Abraham Lincoln and FDR: Jul 13, 2006
So did Obama read this and participate in related discussions?
How does “poor syntax” explain the references to guns, religion, antipathy, etc.?
Finally glad to see a lib caught up in his own words.
Liberals never give conservatives the benefit of rephrasing their words, so as Rev. Wright would say, “chickens have come home to roost”!
Very good!
He newness is also wearing off.
Where is that story ?
Lines from an old "I Love Lucy" episode.
Fred: "Gee, Ricky, maybe you misunderstood what I said because the language."
Ricky: "Look Fred, I may speak with an accent but I don't listen with one."
Has anyone accused him of LYING in his statement at the San Fran fund raiser? I thought the problem was that he was acondescening, anti-religious, anti-gun, anti-small town bigot. Those are bad things. Now he's defending himself by saying "I wasn't lying".
I guess I'll accept that. That's how he feels.
i think what he meant to say was: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need...
Hey, he’s mainstream, clean and bright. Leave him alone.
What is wrong with this man? Poor syntax? Bull! He simply has John Kerry syndrome. Condescending arrogant ass. He believes what he believes so much that it must have been poor syntax since the rest of us didn't get it. If only the masses were bright enough to understand what he was saying, we'd all agree with him. This guy reminds me of a word that begins with a P and end with rick.
OBAMA TRANSLATION: FAKE BUT ACCURATE!
More of the same is change
Ignorance is strencth
slavery to governement is freedom
Big Brother Loves You
Speaking is all OBama has and the only thing he has. If he doesn’t have that, he has nothing.
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