A little help... Where the hell does the "Obama wants to talk to terrorists" meme come from?

[The Doctor.]

I've been looking for the quote that could be construed that way and I just can't find it.

Anyone know what quote was twisted into that? I'm sure there are some Clinton folks that can help me out here.

[displacedtexan]

1. I think it was his answer to a debate question.

Try Googling the debate transcripts.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. That one debate...

...when he said he would consider talking to Castro and North Korea's hairball during his first year in office.

Then it went from there...

[UALRBSofL]

5. I believe that may be it

And from what I understand the Cuban-Americans here in the Miami area wasn't real happy when Obama made that statement.

[LaurenG]

3. Heh - that was the same thing they (republicans) said about Kerry

Some people only want to use bombs to get their points across. Dialog is anathema to them.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Was open to direct discussions with Iran. A debate answer.

[C_U_L8R]

6. If some one says that to you, feel free to call them a liar.

These scoundrels and scallywags are everywhere... like cockroaches

[Bigleaf]

7. This from his speech today...

Once again, Senator Clinton, Senator McCain, and President Bush have made the same arguments against my position on diplomacy, as if reading from the same political playbook. They say I'll be penciling the world's dictators on to my social calendar. But just as they are misrepresenting my position, they are mistaken in standing up for a policy of not talking that is not working. What I've said is that we cannot seize opportunities to resolve our problems unless we create them. That is what Kennedy did with Khrushchev; what Nixon did with Mao; what Reagan did with Gorbachev. And that is what I will do as President of the United States.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBFrl

[LSparkle]

8. In Bushspeak (which others have adopted), diplomacy = talking to terraists

Don't talk to 'em ... BOMB 'em ...

[The Doctor.]

9. Thanks DUers! So basically he never said he would talk to terrorists...

but in the tiny twisted minds of the bushfuckers dictator=terrorist (because Fox told me so), therefore Obama want to 'talk to terrorists.

I can't imagine being such an idiot.

[Oilwellian]

10. I can't imagine who twisted it into meaning terrorists

Obama said he would talk to the leaders of countries like Iran & North Korea. Hillary's been a flip flopper...sometimes you hear her say she wouldn't talk to them and goes even further by parroting Bush & Cheney's warmongering towards Iran. Other times she says she would talk to Iran.

[TwilightGardener]

11. He doesn't want to "talk to terrorists"--he wants to engage STATES, not

terrorists--that's why he won't talk to Hamas, for example. Sheesh.