GAFFE-O-MATIC
Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
Er, all those other presidents? Isn't there just one President on the dollar bill?
And have you noticed that it's always Obama who's actually injecting race into the campaign, under the guise of warning about what those Evil Republicans will do? And is itreallylikely that John McCain would be out there saying "don't vote for Obama, he's black?
Follow the link to see a bunch of other gaffes in that statement. It's an amazing collection of ignorance, arrogance, racism, and fear-mongering.
Also consider this part of the quote. "I know that I don't look like the other Americans who've previously spoken in this great city[Berlin]."
There's another gaffe in that statement too. Broadly, racially, speaking I would think the current and previous Sec State would count. Or is Obama limiting himself to just other presidents again?
Glen Reynolds: When the press is in the tank for you, you get sloppy.
And Glen ends with a preduction: Just wait. It'll get worse between now and November.
I wish he were wrong, but I'm sure he's right.
More on the Dollar Bill Statement by Peter Kirsanow
Amy Holmes nails the Obama spokesperson's transparent attempt to clean up the Dollar Bill quote. So we're to believe the statement had nothing to do with race, rather it referred to Obama not having spent decades in Washington? I suppose that last week when Obama — in terms similar to the Dollar Bill quote— told the crowd in Berlin, "I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city," he was referring to the fact that JFK wasn't as tall.
Not content with mere insinuations of racism, the Obama campaign publically signals their belief that we're galactically stupid.
Yes, because George Washington spent decades in Washington DC....
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