Posted on 07/13/2008 1:42:12 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Yet another major policy reversal for Barack Obama, and again he’s blaming it on “poor phrasing.”
He’s very obviously giving in to the enormous pressure from pro-Palestinian groups.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said on Sunday he used “poor phrasing” in a speech supporting Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
“You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given,” he said in an interview aired on Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria — GPS.”
“The point we were simply making was, is that we don’t want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the ‘67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent,” Obama said.
Obama’s campaign has issued similar clarifications since the candidate’s speech to pro-Israel lobby group after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination early last month.
In the speech, Obama told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that if elected president in November, he would work for peace with a Palestinian state alongside Israel. “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,” the Illinois senator said. Palestinian leaders reacted with anger and dismay. [And so, under the bus with you, Jerusalem! – ed.]
The bottom line here is that Barack Obama tried to pander to AIPAC with one of the most important issues for Israel, telling them exactly what they wanted to hear. Then he basked in the applause.
And now he’s weaseling out of it.
The list grows,refining,poor phrasing,misunderstood, clarification etc etc
Wow, he’s coming full circle. Is this a flip-flop-flip?
Obambi is a complete phony, yet one half of America will support him no matter what. Appalling.
Can't change the C.H.A.N.G.E. the Main Stream Media says the American People want. BUT do Americans really want this C.H.A.N.G.E. --> only time will tell...
As for me, Osama/Obama is a two-faced, forked tongue, lying maggot...
Is Jerusalem is the capitol of all 57 states?
Any agreement brokered with this man will be repudiated before the ink is dry.
I'm sure it inspires our allies with confidence...
Apparently, we weren’t listening to anything he said. If we were, we’d know that he said, “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” ;)
So what is the history of this 360 degree change of course?
Barry changed the defintion of bilingual, that's all. That's the kind of change he will bring to the White House.
And all along, I thought that Obama was supposed to be a great speechifier.
As he said himself, he’s a blank slate onto which people hungry for change can paint their own picture. Those are his words, not mine. We are about to elect a dedicated socialist whose loyalties extend far beyond the Presidential oath. And we are doing so because the haoled one, with the total backing of the media, can convince any audience that he is their champion, even if those audiences are completely at odds politically. This guy is a more convincing salesman than any Kirby vacuum salesman, and a more accomplished con man than any character played by Stuart Margolin on The Rockford Files.
You’d think this would put the final nail in the coffin of any chance he would get the Jewish vote, but somehow I am not so sure.
Obama tries to tell people whatever he thinks that they want to hear, and he often gets his wires crossed. He lies.
Details aren’t important, it’s the spirit of what he says. Don’t worry about facts. Open your mind to the alternate reality of the Obamassiah. /sarcasm of course
Dammit, he is NOT flip-flopping. Republicans flip-flop. Democrats “refine their position”.
DEMOCRATS CANNOT COMPETE ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD!!
—PP
‘Which lies do you want me to believe, Senator — the ones before, or after, the primary?’
He’s done so much “refining” he could single-handedly force the price of gas down $2.
Anyone who says Obama is an honest man is using poor phrasing.
Hey, if this guy is so articulate, why is he always using poor phrasing?
Someone suggested he was trying to say "forty-seven states and , uh that leaves one left to go."
But that doesn't make sense either. A Hawaiian, talking about 48 states???
Islam demands that the believer deceive the unbeliever. -Obama knows best. /sarc/
Ping!!!
Please see my post # 23.
The people of Israel know that the Black Messiah is not their friend. Osama Obama, IMO, is nothing but an enemy of the Jewish people just like his Muslim brothers and the terrorists that endorse him, e.g., Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda; add his Liberal cohorts in the US Congress who also have no love for Israel.
He said that because the Obama staff wouldn’t let him go to Hawaii and Alaska for some strange reason ... distance ... timing, whatever.
Either way, I submit the 57 states was Freudian and quite telling. Schoolchildren don’t even make that mistake.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
Snobama-messiah was for Jerusalem before he was against it......or is that Snobama-messiah was against Jerusalem before he was for it.........er.......forget it, if Snobama-messiah is remotely in favor if Israel and Jerusalem in any genuine way, than Santa’s sled is pulled by six purple hippos.
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Very unartful of him.
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