An e-mail from the campaign says:
We’re poised to reach a major milestone tomorrow.
When the votes are counted in Oregon and Kentucky, we could secure a majority of delegates elected by the voters.
A clear majority of elected delegates will send an unmistakable message — the people have spoken, and they are ready for change.
Then it goes on to complain that “Last week, President Bush used a speech before the Israeli parliament to launch an unprecedented partisan attack.”
Newsflash Mr. Obama. You might as well gird your loins now. You’ve entered a partisan race to be elected the commanding officer of the greatest power in the free world. You can expect to have one or two things pop up that you don’t like.
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To be honest, Obama is starting to scare me. His Oregon rallies were said to have had 75,000 to 76,000 people. Now I remember that estimates are sometimes doubled and the an angle of a photograph can say more than a thousand words, but Obama’s crowds are still something to consider.
More on that later today.
11 responses so far ↓
1 BrkfldDad // May 19, 2008 at 12:49 pm
There you go again ‘infiltraiting’ the Obama camp! Did you see the note this weekend that the White House says Bush was speaking of Carter not Obama when he made those remarks at the Knesset? Obama wishes he were the focus of the attack on that one.
2 Cindy Kilkenny // May 19, 2008 at 1:15 pm
No, I didn’t, and oh, boy, that’s really, really funny!
Of course those comments could be used for Carter, too.
Does that mean Obama is just a wee bit sensitive about the subject?
Obama Quixote.
3 Kathryn // May 19, 2008 at 1:48 pm
The President’s remark was tacky no matter what spin his folks put on it–and there have been a few iterations. American leaders don’t trash American leaders on foreign soil, especially when the subject might be the next president. That’s an argument that should be kept at home and in the family.
4 BrkfldDad // May 19, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I disagree. If the focus of the attack was Carter, well Jimmy himself chose to attack the current President while in the Palestinian territories. And, given that members of Congress see it fit to trash the current administration while they are in Iraq, I don’t think it oversteps any of today’s boundaries of etiquette.
That being said, I do find it somewhat shameful that we’ve digressed to this point. Heck, it wasn’t all that long ago that you didn’t even comment on a sitting President without raising some significant angst amongst all good natured Americans. Now, it’s fine to degrade the highest office with just about anything you can throw at it.
5 Dan Harland // May 19, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Kathryn – did you care to read the entire Bush speech or did you bite hook, line, and STINKER on what the MSM was dangling in front of you? How do you read that entire speech and call it tacky? No where did he indicate Obama, or Carter, or even Democrats… Obama made a mistake by taking offense to the comments and no one wants to admit it. Step back out of the political sphere for a moment and try to look at the situation through normal human eyes. Say Im in the kitchen and notice someone left the fridge open. So later Im talking to a group of friends about how somebody left the fridge open, running up my energy bill and spoiling the milk. Suddenly someone from next door shows up in the room and defiantly states, “I was NOT in your kitchen, nor did I open your Fridge and I would certainly never touch your milk…Im disgusted that you would accuse me of such a thing and if you want to debate my stance on refrigerators, their energy consumption, and the spoiling of milk, I would be happy to do so because I’ve got a thing or two to teach you about refrigeration!”
Absurd comparison aside, maybe some will realize here the fact that Obama’s reaction did nothing more than convince people that he is soft on this issue and is prone to rookie mistakes. So does Barack really know anything about refrigerators?
6 Cindy Kilkenny // May 19, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Sorry bdad, you got caught in the spam filter.
I wonder if you’re my male alter ego that I’ve never met. We sure think alike sometimes.
I thought the speech was right on target. Carter, Gore, even B. Clinton have overstepped the boundaries on many occasions. It’s certainly not what you would have seen from Truman, Johnson or Reagan.
7 Kathryn // May 19, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Dan, I believe you know my children. They never leave the fridge open either.
To be perfectly fair, I didn’t read the whole speech. I didn’t hear Obama respond. (I’m not even on the mailing list anymore, Cindy; how do you rate?) I caught a sound bite here and a news show there. I heard some commentators respond, and even the conservatives thought it was aimed at Obama (some of them claimed to have heard from White House media aids that it was aimed at Obama). None of them thought the appeasement remark was appropriate in that venue. I don’t either.
If the former president and congressmen are attacking the president abroad, then those remarks are tacky also. If they are making such remarks to foreign leaders all the worse. It is unbecoming.
8 Dan Harland // May 19, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I know your children?
9 Dan Harland // May 19, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Oh I get it. Im dumb. I thought you were being serious – eh nevermind.
10 Kathryn // May 19, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I smiled all the way through your analogy. It was so familiar, right down to the person you didn’t know was there announcing that they certainly didn’t do it.
11 BrkfldDad // May 19, 2008 at 6:36 pm
CK – maybe we are fraternal twins of different mothers!
Dan, I love the “prone to rookie mistakes”, that’s just what scares me about Obama (besides the Svengali draw he seems to have).
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