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Obama: I Pushed The Wrong Button On Votes

By Big Tent Democrat

Now this is a silly story. Buuut, just for a moment imagine if Hillary Clinton had said this:

I was not aware that I had voted no," [Obama] said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he "intended to vote yes." . . . Obama cast more than 4,000 votes. Of those, according to transcripts of the proceedings in Springfield, he hit the wrong button at least six times. . . . "I pressed the wrong button on that," he said.

Does anyone doubt it would be the top news for the next couple of days? The Media's hatred of the Clintons is outrageous and the way the so called progressive blogs have rolled over on this is awful. Consider this headline in the NYTimes:

Bill Clinton Accuses Obama Camp of Stirring Race Issue

Actually he accused the MEDIA of stirring the race issue. Why? Because they ran to him with Obama supporter Dick Hartpootlian's outrageous and false smear accusing Bill Clinton of playing the race and gender card and comparing him to Lee Atwater. You know where that part of the story appears in the NYTimes story? Graf 19!! I kid you not. What a ridiculous piece of journalism. So can we expect some Dem leaders to call Barack Obama to complain about Dick Hartpootlian? Will Jim Clyburn publicly scold the Obama campaign for this? Personally, I am disgusted by these double standards. From the Media. From the blogs. And from so called Dem leaders. They are transparently phony in their "concern."

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).