Barack Obama: Gaffe Machine
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 07:12PM
On the one hand, Senator Obama's carelessness will alienate scores of female voters who will interpret his statement as a cheap smear of Senator Palin. On the other hand, Senator Obama will need to spend time defending himself, something a candidate running for the presidency doesn't want to do. Especially when he defends himself by saying the following in reference to Governor Palin:
"Look, she's new, she hasn't been on the scene, she's got five kids. And my hat goes off to anybody whose looking after five. I've got two and they tire Michelle and me out," he said.
So now, by inference, he's joining in with those suggesting that her family obligations are too taxing for the vice presidency? Doh!
The train wreck continues as the Obama campaign is now questioning Senator McCain's honor. Wow!
Joe
Joe Biden didn't have a very good day either with his suggestion that the McCain-Palin ticket doesn't really care about developmentally disabled children even though Governor Palin's son has Down's Syndrome:
Speaking to voters in Columbia, Mo., Biden said: “I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there’s joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?”
Biden aides deny that the Delaware senator was talking about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who has an infant son with Down syndrome, but McCain aides say Biden’s latest remark scrapes bottom.
Ooofff.
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