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OBAMA LACKS EXPERIENCE IN CONNING THE PUBLIC
AP - Obama began by recalling a moment in Tuesday night's debate when he
and his rivals were asked to name their biggest weakness. Obama answered
first, saying he has a messy desk and needs help managing paperwork -
something his opponents have since used to suggest he's not up to
managing the country. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards said his
biggest weakness is that he has a powerful response to seeing pain in
others, and Clinton said she gets impatient to bring change to America.
"Because I'm an ordinary person, I thought that they meant, 'What's your
biggest weakness?'" Obama said to laughter from a packed house at Rancho
High School. "If I had gone last I would have known what the game was.
And then I could have said, 'Well, ya know, I like to help old ladies
across the street. Sometimes they don't want to be helped. It's
terrible.'"
"Folks, they don't tell you what they mean!" he said. Obama chuckled at
his own joke before riffing on another Clinton answer in the debate,
when she said that she is happy that the bankruptcy bill she voted for
in 2001 never became law.
"She says, 'I voted for it but I was glad to see that it didn't pass.'
What does that mean?" he asked, again drawing laughter from the crowd
and himself. "No seriously, what does that mean? If you didn't want to
see it passed, then you can vote against it! People don't say what they
mean. . .
He continued by responding to a new Clinton radio ad that accused him of
having financial ties to supporters of the proposed Yucca Mountain
nuclear waste site that most Nevadans are loath to come to their state.
"I have said over and over again I'm against Yucca," Obama said. "I'm
against Yucca Mountain. I think the science is not there. I've never,
I've never been for Yucca. Never been for it. Never said I was for it.
"Suddenly you've got the Clinton camp out there saying, 'He's for
Yucca.' What part of I'm not for Yucca do you not understand?" he said,
then laughed along with his audience. . .
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080118/D8U87NUO0.html
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OBAMA LACKS EXPERIENCE IN CONNING THE PUBLIC
AP - Obama began by recalling a moment in Tuesday night's debate when he
and his rivals were asked to name their biggest weakness. Obama answered
first, saying he has a messy desk and needs help managing paperwork -
something his opponents have since used to suggest he's not up to
managing the country. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards said his
biggest weakness is that he has a powerful response to seeing pain in
others, and Clinton said she gets impatient to bring change to America.
"Because I'm an ordinary person, I thought that they meant, 'What's your
biggest weakness?'" Obama said to laughter from a packed house at Rancho
High School. "If I had gone last I would have known what the game was.
And then I could have said, 'Well, ya know, I like to help old ladies
across the street. Sometimes they don't want to be helped. It's
terrible.'"
"Folks, they don't tell you what they mean!" he said. Obama chuckled at
his own joke before riffing on another Clinton answer in the debate,
when she said that she is happy that the bankruptcy bill she voted for
in 2001 never became law.
"She says, 'I voted for it but I was glad to see that it didn't pass.'
What does that mean?" he asked, again drawing laughter from the crowd
and himself. "No seriously, what does that mean? If you didn't want to
see it passed, then you can vote against it! People don't say what they
mean. . .
He continued by responding to a new Clinton radio ad that accused him of
having financial ties to supporters of the proposed Yucca Mountain
nuclear waste site that most Nevadans are loath to come to their state.
"I have said over and over again I'm against Yucca," Obama said. "I'm
against Yucca Mountain. I think the science is not there. I've never,
I've never been for Yucca. Never been for it. Never said I was for it.
"Suddenly you've got the Clinton camp out there saying, 'He's for
Yucca.' What part of I'm not for Yucca do you not understand?" he said,
then laughed along with his audience. . .
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080118/D8U87NUO0.html
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