Obama knocks press on 'made-up controversy'

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_knocks_press_on_madeup_controversy.html

Quote :

"Speaking at a high school in Norfolk, Obama took a few moments to address what he calls "the made-up controversy" of the day, Amie Parnes reports. Obama said the McCain campaign moved to "seize an innocent remark and take it out of context because they knew it's catnip for the news media." "See, it would be funny, but the news media decided that would be the lead story yesterday. This happens every election cycle. Every four years, this is what we do. This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about...Enough!" he said. Obama called the attacks "lies, outrage and swift boat politics." "These are serious times and they call for a serious debate...spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change," he said. UPDATE: McCain spokesman Brian Rogers responds: “Barack Obama can’t campaign with schoolyard insults and then try to claim outrage at the tone of the campaign. His talk of new politics is as empty as his campaign trail promises, and his record of bucking his party and reaching across the aisle simply doesn’t exist.”"

I love that last quote.

9/10/2008 6:22:04 PM

First: Soap Box much?
Second: It was McCain's camp doing the grade school whining about this whole deal in the first place...they tried to link a phrase McCain himself has used often in the past (ie: lipstick/pig) and say that Obama meant Palin....cry me freakin' river....sounds like the far righties are gettin' mighty desperate...oh and how long can they keep Palin from talking to the media and what is she hiding from? I mean if she wants the 2nd highest job in the land you gotta be able to stand on your own two feet and handle the media by yourself...

9/10/2008 6:33:11 PM

I was going to do the soap box, but I couldn't tell if there was a thread to put it in, make a new thread, I dunno. Shit's weird in there

Plus, chit chat threads are always funner

9/10/2008 6:36:01 PM

can't cut it in the soap box?

9/10/2008 6:36:40 PM

^^^ The feigned-victim is a common cowardly republican tactic.

It's comical that the party that's held power in all 3 branches for most of the past 8 years think they are being victimized.

9/10/2008 6:57:35 PM

CC IS NO LONGER TSB V2.0

9/10/2008 6:58:39 PM

it was decided yesterday to reduce the amount of new obama/mccain/palin/etc threads in here because they were getting as numerous and ridiculous as the miley cyrus stuff

feel free to hop back in one of the giant older threads in here

or visit

message_topic.aspx?topic=539332&page=15

they've been talking about lipstick pigs all day

and soap box is as silly as chit chat at this point \

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 7:07 PM. Reason : engrish]

9/10/2008 7:03:02 PM