Posted on 04/22/2008 12:49:42 AM PDT by Red Steel
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Democratic White House contender Barack Obama could not hide his irritation Monday when asked by a reporter what he thought about former president Jimmy Carter's meeting with Hamas last week.
"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" the Illinois senator said as he ate breakfast in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to MSNBC television pictures.
Pressed again for an answer, he replied: "Just let me eat my waffle."
Obama, who is battling Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, criticized Carter last week for seeking to meet with leaders of the Islamist movement, which he said was "a terrorist organization."
He told a synagogue in Philadelphia that while it was legitimate to meet with the leaders of states such as Syria or Iran, even if they were hostile to Israel, "Hamas is not a state" and did not warrant such a move.
At a public meeting Sunday, Obama also noted the difficulty of negotiating a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians where one group representing Palestinians -- Hamas, who run the Gaza Strip -- refused to recognize Israel.
Carter said Monday that Hamas had told him it would recognize Israel's right to live in peace if a deal is reached and approved by a Palestinian vote, after two meetings in Damascus with exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal.
But hours after he spoke, Meshaal told a press conference in Damascus that Hamas would not recognize the Jewish state and would insist on the right of some 4.5 million Palestinian refugees to return to Israel.
Sounds like Obomba wants to have his waffle and eat it too.
Or not, since it IS a waffle.
This year it's Obama's - "Let me eat my waffle."
I hope the media has a field day with this, though I doubt the Obama loving networks will bother. Unless it had been said by McCain or any Republican.
Excellent...LOL!
“Actually, I voted for eating my waffle before I voted against it.”
Sounds like Obama is bitter, and clinging to his waffles.
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Somehow I can picture him out in the water clinging to the side of a waffle life raft.
we used to hav ‘nero fiddled while rome burned’
now we have
‘obama waffles while the ME goes nuclear’
Barack pours Mrs. Bitterworth’s syrup all over his waffles.
He's waffling!
Waffles? We don’t need no stinkin’ waffles.
The real question is
was he havin any BACON with that waffle?
You should be... he is one.
LLS
Jimmie is endorsing him...so Obama has backed off his criticism of the flagrant communist...In fact, CArter is a throw back to your democrat communists that were teeming in the FDR and Truman era...
They’re saying on TV that Obama has spent 9 million on TV ads in PA, and he’s gonna lose. Seems to me the last Dem candidate that did something similar was what’s his name..oh, yeah..Dean..another guy with a big cult following..and we all know what happened to him, don’t we?
LOL! I wish I had thought of that!
I know he doesn’t like chocolate, but he probably should start carrying a Twix bar for such a moment.
“Need a moment? Chew it over with Twix.”
We will have him eat his waffles big or small. We will have him eat his waffles one and all.
We want to watch him eat his waffles, that's the plan.
Americans can make him eat his waffles. Oh Yes we can!
Waffles sound good right now.
just dont start a war when he is at IHOP, (we know he cant get a seat at Denny’s)
No syrup jokes, please. ;’)
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