DID OBAMA SLIP UP IN SCHOOL SPEECH?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32723625/ns/politics-white_house/ ^

[Burr5isME]

I hate to sound like one of those crazy "birthers", but something Barry Soeto said today in his (mostly commendable) suck-up to tomorrow's voters caught my attention. It's just that the "Kenyan" birth certificate now the subject of legal action, the claim, on U.S. radio by the Kenyan ambassador to the U.S. that Barry was born in Kenya, and now this friendly, off-hand comment a minute or so into his speech, have me wondering..... My mother couldn't afford to send me to the school where all the AMERICAN kids went.

[Burr5isME]

I know, I know. Anyone might say that. And it proves nothing. Unless the birthers are RIGHT. In which case it's a case of letting down your guard. Look at it this way: If I said to you "I was there last night... everyone there was a COMMUNIST!" You'd assume my emphasis was meant to distinguish myself from them. If I said "I was there last night... everyone THERE was a communist!" you might assume I was in that group.

Does Obama sound like he considered himself one of the "Americans?" Just wondering.

[screaminsunshine]

They were Americans..He was not.

[Brandonmark]

From the text:
“When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school.”

Not “where all the OTHER American kids went to school.”

[TornadoAlley3]

The American kids probably went to a private school, his mom could not afford it, had to send him to public schools, Obama could not speak the language so she got him up at 4:30 to try to teach him Indo language?

[Perdogg]

Did he really say that?

[SonOfDarkSkies]

You’re reaching, IMO.

[SandWMan]

Not “the other Americans”...

[rwfromkansas]

Oh this is truly one of the most idiotic things I have ever read.

How stupid can you be?

They couldn’t afford to go where the American kids went, so he, an American, had to be educated at home. Duh!

I wish there was something to the birther stuff, but there isn’t. He is NOT slipping up here, just saying he couldn’t go where the other American kids did.

Moron.

[Texas Fossil]

He never has been “one of US” and he never will be, by his own choice.

[BlueNgold]

Hmmm - didn’t he go to a private school while in Indonesia?

[ntnychik]

I don’t think you’re paranoid, at least not without good reason. I caught this “slip” when the advance copy of the speech came out over the weekend, and was surprised nobody in the conservative media picked up on it. I also think his speech today, so full of conservative notions, was intended to anesthetize us so he can use future speeches and school communications to plant his little red/green seeds.

[End Times Sentinel]

[supermop]

And just where did his mother learn the language that fast to be conversant???

[kenavi]

If he wasn’t born in America, his sainted mother was the world’s whiz at getting him in and out of the country illegally.

[American Constitutionalist]

You mean just like his unintended mis speak “ my Muslim faith “ ?

[Sherman Logan]

Agreed. Much ado over nothing much at all.

[rwfromkansas]

And don’t reply that he doesn’t say “other” because that’s just asinine.

The lack of “other” doesn’t mean anything. If you read the context and hear him say it, he clearly is saying he couldn’t afford to go where the other Americans did go.

[MrB]

Similar to “my Muslim faith”...

[Voter62vb]

I had the same reaction when I heard that!!!!! After life beats one up for a few scores, one realizes some smoke does come from fire...don’t one?

[Choose Ye This Day]

Stretching.