Posted on 10/30/2008 9:03:41 AM PDT by thethird
“My fellow ...uh uh... Americans....I...um.. apologize that I was not present during the ah ah....”incident”, but ...uh...I’ve read about it and I um hope that those of you who are left will ummmm........”
So what? Clinton was habitually late for all 8 years of his administration. The MSM doesn’t care about trivialities.
BTW in Clinton’s case it was a form of power-tripping, the message: “You’re unimportant. I’m important. Therefore you will wait for me.”
“I’ve found that it is difficult to rely on people who are habitually late. They’re not trustworthy.”
Habitual lateness is rude, arrogant, unprofessional and disrespectful of other people’s time.
No private business with anything on the ball tolerates this kind of chronic tardiness in the workplace. Obama is a typical affirmative action slug.
No wonder the man can’t respect hard-working Americans! He holds a job for 143 days is late innumberable times and, when he DOES manage to show up, the best he can do is to vote “present”?
Crap, my kindergarten teacher expected more than that.
Barry reminds me of the kid whose family accepted any excuse he made for his bad behavior. He did the same nonsense in the Illinois senate....made votes, wanted to change them, didn’t mean to vote that way...excuses, excuses...
Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed.
May 20, 2008
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/05/20/obama-had-a-ready-explanation-he-goofed/
(from LA times) Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago’s West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed. “I was not aware that I had voted no,” he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he “intended to vote yes.”
Some lawmakers say the practice also offers a relatively painless way to placate both sides of a difficult issue. Even if a lawmaker admits an error, the actual vote stands and the official record merely shows the senator’s “intent.”
On March 19, 1997, he announced he had fumbled an election-reform vote the day before, on a measure that passed 51 to 6: “I was trying to vote yes on this, and I was recorded as a no,” he said. The next day, he acknowledged voting “present” on a key telecommunications vote.
He stood on March 11, 1999, to take back his vote against legislation to end good-behavior credits for certain felons in county jails. “I pressed the wrong button on that,” he said.
Obama was the lone dissenter on Feb. 24, 2000, against 57 yeas for a ban on human cloning. “I pressed the wrong button by accident,” he said.
But two of Obama’s bumbles came on more-sensitive topics. On Nov. 14, 1997, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside.
The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking, passed with two “yeas” to spare — including Obama’s. Moments after its passage he rose to say, “I’d like to be recorded as a no vote,” explaining that he had mistakenly voted for it.
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