Why can't people keep their traps shut until after the election?
Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York put his foot in it on Sunday.
Nadler, at a synagogue in Boca Raton, Fla., on Sunday, criticized Obama's decision to remain at the church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright despite the pastor's controversial sermons.
"My guess, knowing how politics works, what I'm about to say is not particularly complimentary towards Sen. Obama," Nadler says, according to the YouTube video posted by Atlas Shrugs, a conservative blog.
This is what President Obama may be up against. Members of Congress overstate their own importance. Hopefully he'll have a strong liaison to work with Congress.
Nadler went on:
Nadler then said of Obama: "He didn't have the political courage to make the statement of walking out... Now, what does it tell me? It tells me that he wasn't terribly political courageous. Does it tell me that he agreed with the reverend in any way? No. It tells me he didn't want to walk out of a church in his district."
ABC News's Jake Tapper noted that Nadler, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) during the Democratic presidential primaries, has been skeptical of Obama as a national candidate. Nadler called him a "novice candidate" in December 2006.
With friends like these, who needs enemies!