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Hippiekinkster -> RE: McCain's Charm (7/31/2008 9:57:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Thadius
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Barack Obama met with House Democrats in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening where he reportedly described his recent trip to Europe at length and concluded, “This is the moment, as (House Speaker) Nancy (Pelosi) noted, that the world is waiting for.”
the presumptive Democratic nominee , according to The Washington Post, told the standing-room only audience of Democratic House representatives, “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
Huberous is such a great trait in a potential leader. Very charming indeed.
Gosh, wouldn't it be nice if the righties stopped repeating the Milbank Lie and actually got the quote right:
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But Weisman reportedly did hear from people at the event: House leadership aides who disputed interpretations -- like Weisman's and Milbank's -- of the comment as self-aggrandizing. Weisman wrote in an update:
[O]ne leadership aide said the full quote put it into a different context. According to that aide, Obama said, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign -- that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have just become a symbol."
Moreover, if accurate, the version of Obama's remarks recounted by the leadership aide would not represent the first time that Obama expressed the view that the enthusiasm he generates "is not about" him or that he specifically stated he has become a "symbol" for something greater going on across America:"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200807300009?f=h_top
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