Obama tells the truth, media, HRC, and McCain jump on it. Could he have said it better? Perhaps, but take a look at these other quotes.
"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." - Hillary Clinton
If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." G.W. Bush
"You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." John McCain
"Make it a hundred...That would be fine with me." to a questioner who asked if he supported President Bush's vision for keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for 50 years John McCain
"The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway." —explaining why high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy, Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004 - G.W. Bush
"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father." John McCain
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." G.W. Bush
"You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things – millions of words a day – so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement," - HRC
"My answer is bring them on." - GW Bush
"Go fuck yourself." Dick Cheyney to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during an angry exchange on the Senate floor about profiteering by Halliburton, June 25, 2004
The response to several of these quotes from the MSM? Outrage? Anger?
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Feel free to add more quotes in the comments. Sorry about the lack of links, but it's easy to find the sources for these and many more quotes that "Could have been said better"