Posted on 05/28/2008 5:05:06 AM PDT by LonesomeHawk
The Drudge effect on the campaign Pittsburgh Tribune Review By Salena Zito Barack Obama's first mistake on Memorial Day was giving a speech that said his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz concentration camp. Since his mother, Stanley, was an only child that story was not going to hold water with reporters for long.
Obama's campaign said Tuesday the candidate meant to say that his great-Uncle, Charlie Payne, was the liberator.
And unless great-Uncle Charlie was a Russian that wasn’t true either. The Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945, not American forces.
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton stepped in to fix that gaffe and said that Obama had mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald while telling his personal experience of a family soldier who served heroically.
When you are running on empty after over a year of hard-core campaigning, gaffes happen; they happen more often when you are putting in 18 hour barnstorms.
Hillary Clinton took hits last week for what some perceived as ‘inappropriate Kennedy’ remarks when she was making a point of why the campaign should go on into the summer.
Clinton’s ‘gaffe’ earned her top billing on The Drudge Report in blood-red print, with capital letters and bold type, with bells and music playing when you clicked on. (OK, just kidding about the bells and whistles, but you get the picture).
Obama's gaffe? Not so much. In fact, it is pretty much buried in The Drudge Report equivalent of A-13.
John McCain fares no better than Clinton on Drudge whether he is having a gaffe-day or a good day.
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There is most likely a lot more to the story. Next we’ll hear that he shot down Kamakazies (sp) in Iceland too!
Yes he does, Ive noticed that as well. Wonder why? lol
I believe that the "love affair" will end shortly after the official nomination.
I do not think this will end at the nomination. I think that he does not like McCain and that it will be all Obama all of the time. The quesion becomes if or when Republicans start buying into this.
I think it’s less Obama-loving and more Clinton-hating. And loving every minute of her demise...
Actually I think he is HOT for Obama.
In a man-love kind of way.
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