Obama: Presumptuous or Taken Out of Context?
From CBS News' Steve Chaggaris:
A quote in today's Washington Post has Barack Obama's opponents salivating at the prospect of using it against him while Democrats are insisting it's taken completely out of context.
While speaking to a closed door meeting with House Democrats yesterday, the Post quoted him as saying, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for... I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
The Republican National Committee sent around the quote first thing this morning as part of its "Audacity Watch," where they've been hitting Obama for acting presidential before he's even elected.
A House Democratic staffer, however, tells CBS News that this quote is taken way out of context.
"The Post left out the important first half of the sentence," the staffer said, adding that the quote was more like, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol...”
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., who was in the room, pointed out to Fox News that the line was taken completely out of context.
"It was not about him," Clyburn said.
A quote in today's Washington Post has Barack Obama's opponents salivating at the prospect of using it against him while Democrats are insisting it's taken completely out of context.
While speaking to a closed door meeting with House Democrats yesterday, the Post quoted him as saying, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for... I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
The Republican National Committee sent around the quote first thing this morning as part of its "Audacity Watch," where they've been hitting Obama for acting presidential before he's even elected.
A House Democratic staffer, however, tells CBS News that this quote is taken way out of context.
"The Post left out the important first half of the sentence," the staffer said, adding that the quote was more like, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol...”
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., who was in the room, pointed out to Fox News that the line was taken completely out of context.
"It was not about him," Clyburn said.
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See all 69 CommentsThat is the true sign of a dictator in the making.
And the usual scum trot out their smears.
What does Obama have to do with it, nothing.
They have no defendable positions and they are reduced to squeals of piggish outrage.
They are so used to the mainstream media merely accepting and repeating lies that the shock of actual fact-checking has undone them.
McCain was then stationed in A-1 Skyraider squadrons, on the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise, in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. The planes he was flying crashed twice and once collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries.
McCain requested a combat assignment, and in December 1966 was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal flying A-4 Skyhawks. McCain''s combat duty began when he was 30 years old, in summer 1967, when Forrestal was assigned to a bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain. He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery. Further injuries led to the beginning of a suicide attempt, which was stopped by guards. After four days, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession". He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he would later write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."
Also in the minds of the networks and NY Times.
Much has been made of allegations of possible youthful use of illegal drugs by Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush. Meanwhile, his chief GOP opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, has admitted that his wife not only illegally used drugs but walked away from criminal charges. The McCains have worked to make Cindy McCain''s addiction into a political asset--despite the fact that she stole the drugs from a charity she directed and used them while mothering four young children.
In 1994, Mrs. McCain admitted that she had solicited prescriptions for painkillers from physicians who worked for an international charity that she founded, the American Voluntary Medical Team. She then filled the prescriptions in the names of her staff.
Posted by suzyku at 11:12 AM : Jul 30, 200
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With this post you are not only showing YOUR stupidity but you short temper as well. By the way, I am not a Republican but I do NOT like Obama.
Obama is doing exactly what he did during the primary with the media''s help. Acting as if he is it.
Posted by suzyku
AMEN!! Wake up for God''s sake. McCain is another "proud of my lackluster performance in school" politician. Let''s give brains a shot.
A question I urge you to ask yourself is why the exploiters of power who started this lie don%u2019t have the integrity to be honest with the American people? The vast majority of Americans know that the economy is not working and the country is going in the wrong direction. But a few are profiting like never before at our expense and they are afraid of policies that would respect and value the efforts of hard-working Americans. Rather than challenge such policies head on, they prefer to use us to spread their propaganda.
Smears like this are meant to draw our attention to some moral failing in our leaders. The real moral failing is in the people who concocted this smear in the first place and thought so little of us when they sought to hijack the democratic process that makes America great.
Posted by OneOpinion at 11:22 AM
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You had your chance to do that, but you all voted for Obama!
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Posted by gurv07728
Really? Like the Democrats didn''t completely misquote McCain when they said he said he would stay 100 years in Iraq? Did you ever bother to read what he really said? The Dems cut out almost a whole sentence in between Iraq and 100 years.
This is the nature of campaigns. Both sides missquote the other. Don''t ever be fooled into thinking one side is better than the other.
IT''S TRUE!!!
And, do we really need a president?
(satire)
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Posted by smiley676 at 11:29 AM : Jul 30, 2008
Yes they do both use misquotes, doesn''t make it right though. As an observer, it does appear to be more frequently used by the McCain supporters, but your overall statement, I agree with.
Fox calls itself "Fair and Balanced". A much better description is "Unfair and Unbalanced".
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of affirmative-action special treatment and righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago learning all from the Prophet God D@#! America Jeremiah and the Elders. And they went forth singing the praises of Hope-Change, Change-Hope, Hope-able Change, Change-able Hope and similar droppings from the massive bull.
In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the proficient Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.
And so it was the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world, and he was declared "TheOne".
Rejoice America, the callow Child savior from the loony-left is here. Forget the vote ye bitter non-believers clinging to thy guns and false religions, for the liberal media hath already anointed TheOne president. Also behold that Sarkozy (The Flamboyant) and al-Maliki (The Wayward Puppet) have acknowledged him as divine ruler of all mankind.
[Posted by Credibility2 at 12:00
PM : Jul 30, 2008]
so you weren''t nauseated by gwb talking about being talked to by god ... about being told this was his calling ... his time ... his purpose?
why don''t you just say that you would be nauseated by anything obama does or says ... cause you see the world one way ... and he sees it another ... and you just can''t understand why.
2) Having a presidential candidate act presidential... how awful. It is so much better to have a president who acts like an unprofessional dufus/moron, like Bush. (Sarcasm, for those unable to recognize it)
A question I urge you to ask yourself is why the exploiters of power who started this lie don%u2019t have the integrity to be honest with the American people? The vast majority of Americans know that the economy is not working and the country is going in the wrong direction. But a few are profiting like never before at our expense and they are afraid of policies that would respect and value the efforts of hard-working Americans. Rather than challenge such policies head on, they prefer to use us to spread their propaganda.
Smears like this are meant to draw our attention to some moral failing in our leaders. The real moral failing is in the people who concocted this smear in the first place and thought so little of us when they sought to hijack the democratic process that makes America great.
Fox calls itself "Fair and Balanced". A much better description is "Unfair and Unbalanced".
Posted by ramos937 at 12:12 PM : Jul 30, 2008
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Don''t worry. the only people left regularly watching (or believing) FOX Fake News are the true believers and the other 5% of Americans with an IQ less than 80.
Practically everyone on earth who is not a member of the Republican
Party realizes that we''ll be better off when they''re out of power.
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