Obama's verbal slip fuels his critics

Washington Times ^ | September 7, 2008 | Christina Bellantoni

[Vision Thing]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."

The three words - immediately corrected - were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on This Week, when he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim.

But illustrating the difficulty of preventing false rumors about his faith from spreading, anti-Obama groups within one hour of the interview had sliced it out of context and were sending it around via email. They also were blogging about it.

[bushsupporter30]

This is the best way to get it out. Let the McCain camp be “above the fray” and let the blogs get it out.

The youtube video is going to be seen by thousands if not more.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Obama needs to come right out and admit it. The teleprompter hung.

[Eye of Unk]

[henkster]

What would Freud say?

[Vision Thing]

LOL! That picture shows how barack unibama is truly a citizen of the world.

[badpacifist]

Trip wire has been tripped.......be wary of traps

[indcons]

Ping

[goldstategop]

You can't really hide who you are! The American people are catching on.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Texas Eagle]

The three words - immediately corrected - were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on This Week

LOL. Yeah the three words were immediately corrected...by Snuffy Snuffanopolous.

Yo, Boy George, why don't you follow your fellow "journalist" Linda Douglass's lead and make it official. Become part of the Obama campaign.

[McBuff]

The three words - immediately corrected - were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos

The three words - immediately corrected BY GEORGE SNUFFYPOOPOOLUS -

There corrected it!

[Danae]

It has 1723 Views so far..... lets see what that number gets up to here in a little bit....... that Youtube Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw
In case you missed it..... IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME IN SEPTEMBER!!!!

[dr_who]

Ain’t going to be any word of this in the Washington Post. Only reaction to it.

[VOA]

bump

[syriacus]

The three words - immediately corrected -

The three words - immediately corrected by George Stephanopoulos.

[McBuff]

Hey Tex.. .great minds think alike!!!!

[Pagey]

If the situations were reversed, there is no possible way I would never mis-speak about my Catholic faith. I can’t believe he actually mis-spoke and said “My Muslim Faith”. That is much more than a slip, you can be assured of this. You don’t mis-speak about such personal things, under any circumstances, national TV or not.

[syriacus]

Obama seems to be his own worst enemy.

[eyedigress]

Barack Hussein Obama IS a trip wire.

[Will88]

“The three words - immediately corrected...”

But how often would anyone make a mistake of this sort. How often would anyone say, give the wrong home town, or give the wrong place of birth, or give the wrong college from which they graduated, or give the wrong religious faith they follow?

There are some things that people almost never slip up on and give an incorrect answer, because the correct answer is so ingrained and automatic.