Obama just made a Freudian slip while talking about the health care bill

[Maraya1969]

He was saying that is was good blah blah blah and then he said, "What I told my former colleagues"


Operative word: FORMER.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Well, he's no longer a Senator, he's a FORMER Senator. They're not his colleagues anymore.

[dionysus]

12. yup. reaching for straws FAIL...

:rofl:

[Buzz Clik]

2. Former colleges?

:shrug:

[hisownpetard]

3. Colleges?

[Maraya1969]

10. I FIXED IT!

[Salviati]

4. Former... because he USED to be in the senate, but is no longer

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

[kitkat65]

5. Perhaps he meant when he was in the Senate as a former Senator?

Not sure what you're implying, really. Not a criticism, just confused.

[Forkboy]

6. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[lame54]

24. tell that to Clinton

[xultar]

7. no sllip. Obama was a senator...remember? Gosh, people sure do read into shit.

[HuckleB]

9. +1

The hatred is purely based on emotion any more, as this thread can attest.

[dionysus]

13. i can just see it "HE WAVED WITH HIS *RIGHT HAND* OH DENNIS SAVE US"

[bigwillq]

8. And what do you want Obama to call them?

:shrug:

[Maraya1969]

11. My colleagues?

But I supposed everyone is right so let them know up thread to stop bashing me.

[snooper2]

15. you could ask for the thread to be deleted

:P

[MineralMan]

18. Or, treat it as a teachable moment and stop posting anything

you think might be negative about President Obama. That'd be my advice.

[Maraya1969]

25. I have been an ardent supporter of President Obama. I mentioned this because

I thought it seemed as if he was not happy with what the Senate did and that is why he said that.

[MineralMan]

17. Nobody's bashing you. They're just pointing out that your eagerness

to find something negative to say about Obama is showing.

[Maraya1969]

26. Again it was not meant to be negative about Obama. It was meant to be negative

about what the Senate did - or rather did not do - today.

I am really disgusted with Lieberman and think he should be removed from any chairman positions he hold. I don't know what they are but I think he does not deserve anything but freshman status in the Senate.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. The President and the Senate are not colleagues by definition.

[bigwillq]

30. I wasn't bashing.

I was just curious as to what you would want him to call them. You answered my question. Thank you.

[goldcanyonaz]

14. self delete.

[MineralMan]

16. How was that a slip? He was a Senator. Now he's President.

Senators are his former colleagues. He spoke truth.

You're trying to make something negative of this truth. Why? What is your motive?

[Maraya1969]

27. Read up thread please.

[MineralMan]

31. What is now upthread was not upthread when I wrote that.

Time tends to move along. You can't go back in time...at least not yet.

You misunderstood because you didn't stop and think about what Obama said. A little thought would have prevented the embarrassment you suffered in this thread. As I said, it's a teaching moment. You can learn or get angry. That's up to you.

[WilliamPitt]

19. He was a senator

So...

[WI_DEM]

20. I don't get it? he was talking to senators and he's a former senator so they are his

former collegues.

[Ikonoklast]

21. Sad you are.

FAIL.

[Maraya1969]

28. Oh fuck off! I was making a statement about Lieberman and the senate ok?

Geeze you used to be able to say things and if they didn't make sense or if they were mis-interpreted people just were nice and let it go as a mistake. Now you are fucking crucified for being a fucking fallible human being.

Maybe you're the one who doesn't get it.

[MineralMan]

32. Very nice. You made a mistake, and now you're telling other

DUers to "Fuck off." Lovely.

[Maraya1969]

33. No You made a mistake.

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. Psychoanalysis FAIL

[MineralMan]

23. DU is sometimes FAIL GENERAL when it comes to Obama,

it seems.