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Posted at 12:43pm on Jul. 10, 2008 Video from Obama's Unity Gaffe.
Normally I'd just update, but this is prime stuff.
By Moe Lane
Via AoSHQ, via Ed Morrissey, watch this video from the gaffe I mentioned earlier. Remember, this is for a event specifically designed for Unity:
Contra Ed, I'll call the MSNBC coverage a wash: fawning introduction, yes, but they were also kind of mean in their commentary while watching the clip in question. Not that I blame them for not resisting temptation: that was such a dumb error to make. We expect a certain professionalism from our professional politicians, yes?
Moe Lane
PS: Given that Obama is telling his people that fundraising efforts are going a "little slow" right now, and that Clinton's campaign debt needs to go away, just why is he being so sloppy?
Actually, the real question there is whether anybody knows the answer to that.
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Posted at 12:45am on May 30, 2008 Obama in full retreat: 4 issues in 48 hours
By Soren Dayton
Barack Obama is in full retreat. In the last 48 hours, he has retreated in the following areas:
- Iran. Barack Obama, who used to call for unconditional meetings with Ahmedinejad, now wants "preparations"
- Iraq. Before, he wasn't going to go. Now he is.
- Pfleger. Before there was one offensive pastor. Now there are two.
- Auschwitz and the uncle. Except that there was no Auschwitz and no uncle.
This has got to be hugely embarassing for the Obama campaign. And good for the McCain campaign and the RNC for driving the message on all of Obama's ridiculous policies, gaffes and embarrassing connections.
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Posted at 7:10pm on May 27, 2008 Barack Obama's ignorance
By Soren Dayton
Barack Obama argues that his judgement is why he should be elected President. His whole campaign is predicated on a speech that he gave in October of 2002 in which he claims to have demonstrated that judgement. Here's part of that speech:
My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain. I don't oppose all wars.
Like Auschwitz, Treblinka was in Poland and liberated by the Soviets. Obama's staff claims that he misspoke yesterday. Instead, it turns out that one of his stock lines is just false.
And the speech in which Obama claims to have demonstrated his judgement, he instead demonstrated his ignorance.
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Posted at 9:02am on Apr. 16, 2008 O'Bama: I said something that "everybody" knows is true ...
Giving the rest of us a window into the liberal/Democratic worldview ...
By Martin A. Knight
I really didn't have much to say about Barry Henry O'Bama's San Francisco gaffe - but I did notice how similar it was to Michael Weisskopf's little "largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command"? gaffe way back in the early 1990s. And, of course, how it echoes one of the Left's most celebrated political books today; "What's The Matter With Kansas?"
As George Will's very nice article on this points out, this has been a part of the Left's mindset since Adlai Stevenson (Eisenhower's opponent in both '52 and '56). Liberals excel at psychoanalyzing the American electorate and assigning attributes/motives/beliefs to vast swathes of the American people, that, strangely enough, always serve to make them look good in comparison.
Read on ...
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