What Obama Means By Vindicate ...Morng Joe

[rsmith6621]

He is drawing the contrast where the USA was and where it is now.....he is simply stating the fact that we have come a long ways in finally learning to live together and appreciate each other.....in other words JOE many of us Americans are now seeing past COLOR and just seeing the person unlike your racist Florida ASS.


It wasn't an anti American statement.

[nygrl224]

1. Joe is a POS

When someone from the Obama campaign comes on I wish they would say something about that. More than that I wish they would smack Joe down about these polls he's hanging onto.

[elkston]

2. His meaning was even more basic than that

Though I do believe what you wrote is accurate (and Obama thinks this way), Obama's "vindication" was very simple: He continued to believe that the majority of people in Iowa would decide based on "hope" and the issues rather than superficial qualities of the candidate. He trusted in them even when the naysayers claimed that lily-white Iowa would not vote for a black man. The fact that they DID was his vindication. He didn't suddenly change his mind about them when he WON, he had faith they would do the right thing all along.

This is where Scarborough, McCain, and anyone else who wants to sting Obama about this are so outrageously wrong.

[votetastic]

3. McCain is misleading people who don't understand the meaning of "vindicated"

He is hoping that enough people will think that Obama's statement means that "his faith in the American people was renewed".

"Vindicated" is entirely different from "renewed".

[elkston]

7. Exactly. His original beliefs were verified, simple as that. (n/t)

[goclark]

4. Mourning Joe is scum of the earth

He needs to worry about someone finally outing him on the dead intern.
I did a google of Joe and the intern - wow!

[Clio the Leo]

5. And guess what! Sometimes we're WRONG!!!

I realize they're on the campaign stump, but I'm so sick of this "I have never been ashamed of this country" BS.

Well guess what? I'm ashamed that we interred Japanese during WWII, I'm ashamed that the Fed. gvt allowed Jim Crow to reign for so long. I'm ashamed that some of our otherwise WONDERFUL service men and women debased their fellow human beings at Abu Ghraib. And MOST importantly, I am ASHAMED of Guantanamo!!!!

We are the GREATEST country in the world .... but we a long way from being perfect.

Preach on Jeremiah.

[Orangepeel]

6. Joe doesn't know what "vindicated" means

In "quoting" Obama, he actually changed the word to "restored."

The real meaning was obvious. Lots of people said he couldn't win ... because he's black, because of his middle name, etc. He believed that people would look past the superficial and that belief was vindicated.

It's not controversial at all, to someone who understands what the words mean.