Posted on 06/10/2008 10:53:43 AM PDT by wsjreader
On the campaign trail Obama has railed against Countrywide Financial Corp. and its executives -- blaming the firm for "infecting the economy and helping to create a home foreclosure crisis":
That was then. Today, ABC News' Sunlen Miller caught Obama away from his remote controller teleprompter, and asked him how he could "rail against Countrywide Financial Corp. as an example of insiders and today's economy while your VP search is headed by someone who got questionable loans from Countrywide?"
Obama didn't know how to respond:
"Well, look," Obama said, "the, the, I mean - first of all I am not vetting my VP search committee for their mortgages, so youre gong to have to direct -- "
"But shouldnt you?" asked Miller.
"Well, no," Obama said. "It becomes sort of a, um, I mean, this is a game that can be played - everybody, you know, who is tangentially related to our campaign, I think, is going to have a whole host of relationships -- I would have to hire the vetter to vet the vetters. I mean, at some point, you know, we just asked people to do their assignments.
someone should vet him. As in get a copy of his birth certificate to prove he is who he says he is, and that he meets the legal requirements to hold the office of POTUS.
How dare they question the Messiah?!!
Any citizen of the US could sue to get a copy as they can prove that you have an interest in it and would suffer damage if Obama isn’t who he says he is.
umm umm uh the, the ummh uh
I love it.
Obama won’t release his birth certificate because it will show that he wasn’t born in Bethlehem of a virgin.
She's also NOT guilty.
Well, they could trying suing Obama to get a copy released but states have their own privacy rules for birth certificates, all the more tighter since id theft became common. In California, for example, you need to have permission of the person, or be the parent or the child of the person on the certificate, or be the law firm handling the person’s estate in probate. It’s a pretty narrow right these days. I can’t even get the death certificate for the second wife of a decedent because our client, the third wife, is no blood relation.
I actually agree with Obama here. Democrats have been pulling this crap on Republicans for ages.
Halliburton!! Halliburton!! Halliburton!!
But then again, turnabout is fair play. And I’m all about playing “fair.” :)
He won’t let us see his birth certificate because it says, Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama, Religion: Muslim
He won’t let us see his birth certificate because it says, Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama, Religion: Muslim
“This is not the Jim that I have known........
You can’t MAKE THIS STUFF UP- Obama THEN said “these aren’t folks who are working for me”........
FINAL UPDATE: It is rather striking that the honest-to-God Obama defense on this, when finally asked a pretty tough question from a reporter is, “these aren’t folks who are working for me.”
Let me get this straight: The team searching for a running mate for Barack Obama doesn’t work for Barack Obama. Uh... okay. Who, pray tell, do they work for?
06/10 11:53 AM
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com
He seems a bit of a dullard, no? (Albeit a very loquacious dullard).
Obama is helpless with out a prepared script or a few memorized platitudes. I’m starting to think he’s a Bill Clinton-grade con artist without the slick wit.
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