Posted on 06/19/2007 2:05:00 AM PDT by Squidpup
NEWTON, Iowa — Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Monday said his campaign made a "dumb mistake" when it circulated a memo criticizing rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's financial ties to India. In an interview with The Associated Press, Obama disavowed the memo which carried the headline — "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab) — and referred to Bill and Hillary Clintons' investments in India; her fundraising among Indian-Americans; and the former president's $300,000 in speech fees from Cisco, a company that has moved U.S. jobs to India. "It was a dumb mistake on our campaign's part and I made it clear to my staff in no uncertain terms that it was a mistake," Obama told the AP in a brief interview in which he referred to the memo as "unnecessarily caustic." Last Thursday, Obama's campaign sent the memo to reporters, demanding that it not be attributed to their campaign. The Clinton campaign obtained the document and sent it to journalists. Since then, it has created a furor in the Indian-American community and raised questions about Obama's claims that he is above attack politics. "It is not reflective of the long-standing relationship I have had with the Indian-American community," Obama said in the interview. "The issue of outsourcing is a genuine and important issue but to refer to one particular country was, I think, an error and I let all of us know that we've got to be more careful about how we communicate," he said. ...
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What do you expect from a silly macaca?
Gee, I missed the initial press release and the subsequent AP story. But I did catch the third round of Obama's sincere apology, wherein he reiterated the fact that his opponent a sell-out to foreign interests.
Funny how that worked out...
where is the lib/dem msm....after all if a republican would have said this...it would have been front page news 24/7 vis a vis ....allen & macacca!!!!
Obama has been bitch slapped by Hillary!
BIG MISTAKE. Obama Crowd. Hillary has fangs.
“It was a dumb mistake on our campaign’s part and I made it clear to my staff in no uncertain terms that it was a mistake,” Obama told the AP
Translation: They caught us this time, don’t get caught again.
Obama would be better served confining his snide references to only Caucasians, Catholics, Mormons, Generals, pro-lifers... and traditional-marriage supporters.
He should have blamed it on Hillary’s friend. You know, the little guy who runs the gas station in downtown Chicago. I think his first name is Mahatma.
This was news to me, also. Maybe if he ‘apologises’ some more, everyone will get the ‘message’.
Osoma Obama must have had a visit by one of her goons...
Normally, a politician would only be sorry for getting caught, but on this little ditty, Obama has gotten to remind voters at least three times in his apologies that Hillary is investing in India and not the US.
“Oh, pleeze, Mizz Hillary, don’t throw me into that briar patch!!”
;^)
Ken Lay was over-nighting in the WH with the Clintons--not Bush.
He made a Dumbo Mistake.
hahahahaha! my first laugh of the day...
Mark my words, Obama is going to end up being Hillary’s VP. A “first woman/black” ticket is going to be hard to beat because every criticism will be painted as predjudiced and racist. She may be attacking Dumbo now, but she is shrewd enough to pick him later.
Watergate tactics, perhaps?
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