Sparks Fly at Black Caucus Meeting ( Barack Obama )

ABC News ^ | June 20, 2008 | JAKE TAPPER and KATE SNOW

[george76]

A Thursday afternoon meeting between Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus grew tense and emotional for a moment -- perhaps illustrating that weeks after Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., suspended her presidential campaign, some nerves remain frayed.

Sources at the meeting said that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a Clinton supporter, expressed the desire that Obama and his campaign would reach out the millions of women still aggrieved about what happened in the campaign and still disappointed that Clinton lost.

Obama then said, "However, I need to make a decision in the next few months as to how I manage that since I'm running against John McCain, which takes a lot of time. If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it."

Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., a longtime Clinton supporter, did not like those last three words -- "Get over it." She found them dismissive, off-putting.

"Don't use that terminology," Watson told Obama.

[AndyJackson]

Video: OBAMA GIRL ROCKS 2008 CAMPAIGN “you can Barack me tonight” and “up in the Oval Office you’ll get your head of state.”

It's a hoot!

[johnny7]

“f women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it.”

The women I know... wouldn't want to hear this(boldface) type of dismissive, authoritarian directive. But then again, the women I know aren't in Obama's corner.

[Mark]

I’m sure that the next meeting of the Congressional White Caucus will go much better........oh, wait.. never mind.

[mkmensinger]

At least he didn’t say: ‘You might want to put some ice on that’, although in effect he did.

[PAR35]

Reminds me a bit of what one of the Black Panthers said at an SDS meeting about the place of women in the revolution.

[HIDEK6]

This black caucus stuff really sets me off.

Where's the white caucus?

[Sacajaweau]

Wanta bump me?

[Shermy]

“Though he is clearly a product of the Chicago machine, I sometimes believe he really did start this journey idealistically (though that itself seems more left-leaning, perhaps.)”

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I think so too. But I think Michelle had a big hand in guiding him into it. Michelle’s father was an operative in the Daley machine, and very political.

[smedley64]

"...His dismissive treatment of women in general, wonder where that comes from?"

Dan 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all...

The prophet Daniel, on the anti-christ. ;>)

[buccaneer81]

LOL!!

[taxesareforever]

Sources at the meeting said that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a Clinton supporter, expressed the desire that Obama and his campaign would reach out the millions of women

Fat chance. We know how muslims consider women.

[HerrBlucher]

LOL! Now there is Hope I can believe in!

[FlyVet]

All qualifications aside,

"Vote for me because I'm a woman."

"Vote for me because I'm 'black'."

Denver: NOW, the Anarchists, Sharpton, Jackson, the other Usual Suspects.....

"No justice, no peace!"

It's gonna be interesting.

[SJSAMPLE]

“Better put some ice on that.”

[Fido969]

"Get over it." She found them dismissive, off-putting.

It's a leftie trademark expression.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it."

[C210N]

his campaign would reach out the millions of women still aggrieved...

perhaps still a few million strong, fighting the PUMA fight...

[Cacique]

btt

[Osage Orange]

Looks like a snake coiled around her wrist........

Fitting.....

[freekitty]

The women participants are going to love hearing that one.