Republicans seize on Obama comments to House Democrats; Attack "audacity"

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republicans are attacking the "audacity" of recent comments Barack Obama reportedly made to Democratic congressional leaders Tuesday night in a closed-door meeting.

In comments first reported by the Washington Post and confirmed to CNN by a senior Democratic aide, while discussing his recent trip to Europe, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said, "This is the moment, as Nancy (Pelosi) noted, that the world has been waiting for.” The Illinois senator, on Capitol Hill to give House Democrats a pep talk ahead of the November elections, also said he had "become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

The Democratic aide told CNN that comment was made in the context of "Americans struggling and demanding change." A House Democratic leadership aide who was in the room also told CNN Obama's point was the campaign is "NOT about him." "The (Washington) Post left out the important first half of the sentence, which was something along the lines of: '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…,'" the aide said.

The Republican National Committee circulated the comments to reporters under the banner, "Barack Obama audacity watch." John McCain's presidential campaign also forwarded the comments with the subject line, "wow."...

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/30/republicans-seize-on-obama-comments-to-house-democrats/

[golddigger]

1. .

:popcorn:

[ixion]

2. yep, we're seeing it again... McCain gets a pass and Obama gets the woodshed

you watch... it'll be this way until the election.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. And we're seeing Rove's Greatest Hits again. Determine a candidate's greatest strength --

in this case, Obama's ability to excite and inspire -- and, taking his words out of context -- turn that gift into a negative (call it "audacity," a word Obama has used in a positive context). Vile. I hope they can figure out how to fight this stuff.

[Overseas]

16. Yes I agree that we've seen a lot of ROVE'S GREATEST HITS.

I like that terminology. It really is just the tired old Rovian playbook and I wish the TV pundits had any sense of shame left and they'd feel like idiots for falling for it and parroting exactly what it wants them to.

[AndyTiedye]

10. The Mighty Slime Machine LOVES McAin't

so he gets the "Odie" treatment by the press:


While Obama gets the attack dogs every day:

[Robbien]

3. GOP set up a new web site called "Audacity Watch"

cut and paste link:

gop.com/images/audacitywatch/audacitywatch.html

[Diane R]

5. Yep. This is the meme. The fix is in, the media is on board. Totally disgusting.

[Norrin Radd]

6. Whatever. That's really weak. Is that the best they got? Yikes!

They'd be annihilated on a political discussion board on the web. Next...

How about we set up a "Fascism Watch" or "Alzheimer's Watch" in response?

[CaptParagon]

7. Audacity???? Give me a break

The problem here is that the McCain camp is secretly using this new theme to stir the bigotry pot. What the American people need to ask themselves is would the McCain camp accuse Obama of being presumptive, audacious, or full of himself if he were a white man. They are seizing the possibility that there is still enough bigotry in this country and that a strong, proud black man should now his place. Unfortunately the media gives McCain and his boot licker's a pass on this.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. My fear is that racism is behind so much that we're hearing.

All those people who refuse to accept the truth that refutes e-mail rumors about Obama, for example. I see that as very possibly a search, conscious or unconscious, to find a reason not to vote for him.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Just noticed you're new, CaptParagon -- welcome to DU!

[6000eliot]

11. This is racism plain and simple.

They're just calling him "uppity." The right has been doing this in various ways for a long time now, and the media should be calling them on it instead of helping them.

[kay1864]

12. The pukes have discovered a thesaurus, it seems!

"Audacious"..."arrogant"..."self-absorbed"...

all code words for "uppity".

Look for them in LTTE's near you! (since they have to copy each other, due to lack of original thought)

[gratuitous]

13. Oh, just call him "uppity," Straight Talking Republicans

You KNOW you want to.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Republicans:

Hypocrisy is thy name.

Do they plan on apologizing for/repudiating Bush/Cheney's many examples of breathtaking "audacity" during the past 7 years?

Nope. Didn't think so. Just another case of IOKIYAR.


:eyes:

[TankLV]

15. but the LIES, WAR CRIMES, INTENTIONAL POLITICAL CRIMINAL NEGLECT and RAMPANT CRIMINALITY of the past

8 years are JUST FINE to them, aparently, and, more to the point, DEMOCRATS "HAVE" to APOLOGIZE whenever we EVEN REMOTELY SUGGEST such FACTS...

[DeepModem Mom]

17. Ain't that the truth!!! An incomprehensible double standard.

On edit: I saw on cable yesterday a discussion of whether Oliver Stone "went too far" with his movie, "W." That burned me up. The Right and the GOP apparently just can't ever go too far. Our side, however....

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

18. Audacious? Perhaps. True? Absolutely. n/t

[TankLV]

19. So they don't like an "uppity black man" - but obama's the one using racism?

and the media whores don't even SEE this?!?!?

[colonel odis]

20. that's exactly what it is. he's being uppity and not knowing his place and it's

driving the wingnuts absolutely crazy.

though not as crazy as it will drive them once he wins.

[cap]

21. absolutely...

I think that Obama should start framing the negative himself.... So, you're calling Obama, arrogant and self-centered? or is that another way of saying uppity?

The other thing is that Obama should start playing ads of McCain with his Bangladeshi daughter in the South and ask what is he hiding.