Snobama Bataan gaffe

[anamnua]

http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/bill-richardson-should-have-told-obama-about-the-bataan-death-march/

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. I can easily see the Hill campaign in the role of the japanese.

No regard for their opponents, insulting, lying, cheating, making shit up, and starting wars that end up damaging both sides.

I see the attack of the Hillaryous employees is on again, what with the low post numbers, idiotic postings, and perfectly tuned attack threads, using the current campaign lies.

[izzie]

2. What was said? I missed it.

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[Hissyspit]

3. I wouldn't have used that analogy, but it's hardly a gaffe

or if it is, it's not a very damaging one. And yes, I know quite a lot about the Bataan Death March. My mother's friend who survived it is in New Mexico right now.

http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-for-thursday-obama-new-york-city-fundraiser

Pool Report for Thursday Obama New York City Fundraiser

At a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser Thursday afternoon at the Credit Suisse building in Manhattan, Sen. Barack Obama echoed the themes he’d discussed in a speech about the economy earlier in the day.

“We have an economy that is out of balance,” Obama told the audience of about 300 supporters. “It’s one in which most of the people in this room have benefited enormously over the last decade - and I include myself in that group…but it is an economy that has left millions and millions of Americans behind.”

Restoring the economy, he said, “means putting in place a regulatory framework that’s up to the task of dealing with a global financial system and a new set of financial instruments…but more than anything, what’s important is restoring a sense that this is not a ‘you’re on your own’ society, that we’re a ‘we’re in this together’ society.”

The Illinois senator began his remarks with a barely-veiled shot at his primary opponent, Sen. Hillary Clinton.

“I decided to run not because of some long-held ambitions or because I thought it was somehow owed to me - and certainly I wasn’t presumptuous enough to think it was my turn,” Obama said.

He dismissed concerns that the bruising Democratic primary would hurt the party’s chance of taking back the White House in November.

The Democratic primary “has gotten people engaged in politics who were never engaged before or who had forgotten what it’s like to be passionate about politics,” he said.

“I am absolutely confident that by the time this thing is over, the Democratic party will be completely unified.”
“For those of you who are just weary of the primary, and feeling kind of ground down or that it’s like a Bataan death march, I just want everybody to know that the future is bright.”

[Larkspur]

5. I agree with Obama and I think I'm on the verge of donating to his campaign

I've been a lukewarm supporter of Obama, actaully an Anybody but Hillary And Republican voter, but I agree with Obama about the economy. He was echoing Thomas Franks' book "What's the matter with Kansas?" in his remarks about "bitter PA citizens". He could have phrased it better or referenced Franks' book to give him cover, but Obama is right about how many Americans feel about the economy. I won't vote for Hillary because she is in bed with companies that support outsourcing my job to India. Also Obama's response to the shallow and shoddy criticism he has gotten over those remarks was on target.

[izzie]

10. Who would get up tight about that?

I think they are trying anything to get at this man. I still think he is a man for our times and I sure do not want any more Clinton's in the WH or Bush either. If the US likes wars I am sure they will vote for McCain. I wish the GD race was over. Lets put Obama out their and see if he can win over McCain. Just as many will not vote for on old man, or women or a black man. I would bet my life on it. And they will do that before they know what any one stands for, I think.

[anamnua]

4. More info

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27392

[Larkspur]

6. Get over it! Obama didn't equate the primary to the Bataan death march

He was saying to people who FEEL LIKE its the Bataan death march that it's not.
Clintonistas are so desperate. They're like drowning people who will take down their rescuers too.

[JimGinPA]

7. Do You Have Any Original Thoughts?

Or do you just rely on the hit pieces of others?

[OzarkDem]

8. Obama has a penchant for insulting people

It makes you wonder why he wants to be president when he holds so many Americans in such great contempt.

[Larkspur]

9. It's Hillary who holds ordinary Americans in contempt

She's a corporate whore who profits off of the class warfare that Big Business has been waging since the New Deal.